Schwarz
View current page
...more recent posts
"Keep the sofa; sell the Schnabel."
the high line
It pays to be a well-known webmaster with great connections! Not only do you get impressive offers from Nigerian royalty to help them move large amounts of cash into the US on a daily basis, but your friends from other web sites will often share hot and steamy pictures from old travel trailer brochures with you, because they know you are oh so lonely like to laugh at that sort of thing. When Dan from THE IMAGINARY WORLD sent me this brochure from Komfort Travel Trailers, I began to get "Komfortable" indeed, if you know what I mean. Back in the day, they liked to add a bit of a saucy side to their trailer buying clientele.
via zoller
the pan am building
There has long been a tendency in architecture to erect straw figures only to knock them down. In his article “'Criticality' and its Discontents,” published in the Fall 2004/Winter 2005 issue of Harvard Design Magazine dedicated to “Realism and Utopianism,” George Baird admirably—and, I think, accurately—summarizes recent efforts to do just that.(1) These entail the identification of and subsequent assault on something called “the critical” or “critical architecture,” usually accompanied by a collateral assault on something called “theory.” At the risk of erecting yet another straw figure that tramples on the subtleties of Baird's analysis, it might be fair to characterize such practices, variously named “post-critical” or “projective,” as sharing a commitment to an affect-driven, nonoppositional, nonresistant, nondissenting, and therefore nonutopian form of architectural production. But as Baird notes, these efforts have thus far failed to deliver an actual, affirmative project, settling instead for vague adjectives like “easy,” “relaxed,” and—perish the thought—“cool.” Baird therefore concludes his article by asking (with critical overtones?) what they expect to yield in the form of discourse or what he calls “critical assessment.” In other words, by what criteria is the “post-critical” asking to be judged, beyond mere acceptance and accommodation of existing societal, economic, or cultural norms?
hdm spr/sum 2005
kevin landers bicycle and signpost at elizabeth dee
lipstick and dynamite
dymaxion passenger
via zoller
the importance of being ernst, max ernst
EVERYWHERE=CITY DESIGN=HOPE
mau vs the people of torronto
lake michigan shipping container cottage
all time worst nyt style magazine low points include AZ quoted here in it's entirety:
Andrea Zittel | Artist: ''I love that design, as opposed to art, can get at the fundamental issues of being alive in this culture,'' says Andrea Zittel, whose work redefines conventional notions of home. She turned a 1940's cabin in Joshua Tree, Calif., into her own Case Study-style house, designing everything, including the living room's carved foam furniture. She also created transportable living pods (like the one here, customized by the designer Jonas Hauptman). For her coming show at the Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York, she is doing more hand-rendered work, like crocheted wall hangings. ''I am getting tired of clean modernism,'' she says. ''I love this whole baroque thing happening in design.''philip johnson thought that was a good idea too. he was also wrong.
why i hate venturi (sucks) and other shit about sheds
dot dot dot
bambi mod fonts
rudolph de harak
well that was just great Tom. thanks. I think that worked out great. lets do it again soon.
University of Michigan student Madonna in a supporting role with eggs in this short artfilm. --Thom
Hello Dad, I'm in jail!
Hello Dad, I'm in jail!
Hi Dad, I'm calling you from jail!
Hi Dad, Happy birthday. I'm in jail! Jail! Jail!
Hi Dad.
After all those years, I'm in jail now!
I'm in jail! I'm in jail! I'm in jail!
I like it here. It's nice!
I like it!
Hello Dad, I'm in jail!
Hello! Hello Dad! Hi, I'm in jail!
Say hi to Mom, from jail!
I'm in jail!
I'm gonna stay here!
I like it here!
Ha ha-ha ha-ha-ha!
I like it!
Yeah, throw away the key!
I'm in jail!
Hello Dad, I'm in jail!
Hello Dad. Hi Dad, I'm in jail! Jail! Jail! Jail! Jail!
Haaaaaahhhhhh!
dirty rotten sell-outs
enjoy!!! --Thom
Some pretty impressive special effects in this music video. Not sure where I stand on the content though, kind of red-state. No? Btw, I was thinking of changing may name to the Canadian spelling, Thom. Feedback welcome.
---Tom
Me, Tom Moody - I'm starting off my stay over here at schwarz with some selfless, I mean shameless, self promotion. This is a shot of me and Kevin and Les and Steve and Kerry. That was before the toxic reaction to turpentine incident and I had to switch from oil paint to a xerox machine as my primary creative medium. --Tom Moody
ps: I hope Bill doesn't loom around all the time making comments about how I'm doing as todays guest blogger. Yeah thats right, its just for one day. I couldn't give up control of my page for any longer than that with out adding a few more guidelines and conditions for "terms of use." Bill on the other hand is letting me do pretty much anything I want, except log in under my real DMT member's name.
starting tomorrow schwarz will be having a guest blogger. its tom moody. that will be taking up most of his time, so ill be guest blogging over at tom moody. be sure to let us know if you can tell the difference.