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rcm upper mez 3rd row from the back waiting for wilco (vote for kerry) to come on via julies cell phone and sprint picture mail sm, one sprint, many solutions. and i forgot to thank mercedes-benz.
(figure 3) Vernacular farm building from Tras-os-Montes region of Portugal
"Paulo Varela Gomes, in his brief but excellent synopsis of Portuguese architecture, has called the thinking reflected in this book a "metaphysic of the relation between work and life. The vernacular is seen as the unmediated and, shall we say, prelinguistic product of life and its conditions. I would again bring to mind Rosenberg's idea of "American action painters" whose work did not represent the being of the artist so much as it was an unmediated trace, or record of the artist's life in action. These buildings are like tools, transparent to their human task (figure 3). They bear the logic that brought them into being: the task to be performed, the hand that will need to grip them, and indirectly that aspect of the society reflected by the very existence of the need to perform that task to which the tool is dedicated. The sign is not yet broken into the arbitrary relationship between the signifier and the signified. "
alvaro siza
ralph lauren one of a kind vintage airstreams Clerance Sale
McDonalds to Claim Ownership of Letter M
DRE: I spoke to Tom when the show was just starting and he mentioned there might be a couple of episodes of Viva Variety going on the first Reno 911 DVD set. What happened with that?
BG: We talked about it. We wanted to put Viva Variety on the air again like at 3 in the morning instead of one of those weird Bill Maher movies where he’s fighting jungle women. They don’t want to do it and we don’t know why. We love that show. We think we could edit together a best of Viva Variety video and it would really blow people away. We had such good bands on that show like Ween, Fishbone, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Shonen Knife and G Love and Special Sauce. We got drunk with Fishbone after the show. We had weird guest stars like Adam West and Charles Durning. We want them to put out DVDs of the show and we’re working on it but for some reason they are really dragging their feet. We don’t make any money when they sell it; they own it lock stock and barrel so I don’t know what’s holding them back. We just want people to see it.
ezra stoller architectural photography
Cadillac Ranch: The Restoration, 1974/2002. Installation view, Amarillo, TX. Photo: Wyatt.
ant farm 1968 - 1978 ICAP
"Long before Santiago Calatrava unveiled his architectural allegory for flight that will become the downtown PATH station, Eero Saarinen gave New York City a symbol that captured the grace and excitement of the jet age by mimicking the shape of a soaring bird. Since its completion in 1962, the TWA Terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport has served as an icon of both modern air travel and modern design. But its daring gull-winged construction—a reinforced concrete sculpture that tested the limits of its material and of what modernism could be—was the source of its distinction as well as downfall. The building’s stand-alone, sinewy form made it difficult to adapt it to the rapidly modernizing airline industry. Larger airplanes, increased passenger flow and automobile traffic, computerized ticketing, handicapped accessibility, and security screening are just a few of the challenges that Terminal 5 (as it’s officially known) could not meet without serious alteration. When the terminal closed in 2001 (in the wake of TWA’s demise in 1999), no other airline stepped up to take over the space."
fabprefab news letter no. 8
biennale of architecture venice 2004 // german pavilion
project 90 // 09.09.2004 // residential building with studio gleissenberg
"In Gleissenberg, a village in the Bavarian Forest with a population of 1000, a house with a transparent plastic envelope comes as a surprise in the new development area. The simpe shape of this low-cost project makes reference to traditional methods of housebuilding in the countryside but re-interprets these methods by using new materials. In spite of the tight budget, the Munich architect Florian Nagler designed a large, light-filled house with a studio for the clients in the form of a prefabricated wooden building, enclosed in high-quality polycarbonate grouser plates."
look through any window
teardrop park 1.9 acre downtown greenspace
"Castaing is widely described as legendary and a cult figure, so it might come as a surprise that she created rave-review rooms with undistinguished objects, often of dodgy condition."
"Amassed over 30 years, the collection was stored first in a barn in Hertfordshire, England, and later in warehouses in London and Geneva. It is uncatalogued in any computer file and the only record of its holdings have until now been in Mr. Danowski's mind. He said that he could envision the library, virtually volume by volume, though he had never seen it all assembled. It was shipped to Atlanta in about 1,500 cardboard boxes and tea crates that filled two 40-foot-long and two 20-foot-long cargo containers."
"Record companies are taking such a large cut from tracks sold online that many of the burgeoning online music stores will go out of business, experts warned yesterday."
"There's a chain store on Queen Street with signs in the windows advertising "brand-free" clothing. Welcome to the brand new era of the brand-free brand.
It sounds confusing — oxymoronic even — but we have to admit it seems a novel marketing approach.
Well, it might not be so brand new, after all. As philosphy teachers Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter argue in The Rebel Sell: Why The Culture Can't Be Jammed, this trend has a long, rich heritage, one that can be traced back to the first days of '60s counterculture."
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the fugs live at the knit oct seven
carving a garden into the woods