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nowottny sighting barely nearly
You were one of the first modernists who talked about the preservation of older buildings. Now we're in a different era where we're discussing modern preservation. What are your thoughts on this campaign?
If there's anything that really excises me, it's the lack of knowledge, the lack of standards, being applied indiscriminately across the board to modern buildings. I get so upset about it. You know how I feel about 2 Columbus Circle? This was an example of how you had to balance good against bad, past against future, reuse against what would happen to the building. The preservationists proved not only incapable of discussing it, but went into paranoia mode. I think the whole movement seems to be doing that. Of course it was a complex issue but they should have been able to sort it out. And then to compare--you always get one crazy directing these things who has the quality of leadership--Ed Stone's poor little lollipop building to the loss of Penn Station! They were really doing this! Although I did write in specific terms about 2 Columbus Circle, I haven't gotten myself down out of the emotional response enough to write in general terms about modern preservation.
progrock timeline
this and the last three via zoller
visual laser keyboard
floating homes
big brother W and our orwellian life
What a year it's been here at Beware of the Blog - 1.7 million hits, 1,130 articles, 35 authors and two cease and desist letters (both fake). For those who joined us late, here's a list of the posts that were stuffed with chewy MP3 goodness.
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After the WFMU staff walkout in 1969, Upsala College closed the station for 10 months, until they hired a new station manager to run the station with "a more professional effort".
Troubles soon arose between Alan Fritch, the new station manager, and the staff at the station. This issue of the Upsala Gazette from March 12, 1971 (PDF file, 1.27MB) details a full-blown controversy surrounding the dismissal of two staffers by Fritch, a list of grievances against Fritch brought before the WFMU Radio Board by the station staff, and the subsequent vote to dissolve the Radio Board.
Apparently, as quoted by one Upsala student, Fritch didn't "get along with the kids". The list of 15 grievances included complaints about Fritch acting as a "policeman" and "stifling dissent". He dismissed two staffers after they broke into the station after-hours. Whether he was a power-mad dictator or merely doing his job was a matter of opinion. Some staff members believed that Fritch was "slowly getting rid of the long-hairs", while Fritch claims to have been "merely going by policy". Lots of interesting details about the controversy surrounding Fritch's management and about the station in general (like how one of the dismissed DJs was cut loose after an on-air "marathon.. reading of Lord of the Rings") are all available.
elektronik supersonik
from fmu message board
"It's mostly murals and mosaics," says Dwayne Jones, executive director of Preservation Dallas. Except for the original c. 1942 clock-tower structure, the bank buildings, vacant since 1992, are being torn down for a $250 million apartment complex and park development project by Cleveland-based Forest City Enterprises. Forest City, which is donating $20,000 towards the removal of the art, says no one should be concerned about the art's fate.
john zoller (fuzzy balls with a message)
highline update
dumb angel number four
a return to unique perspectives on surf instrumental music, Wall-of-Sound productions, Hawaiiana, post-war fashion/graphic design and Modernist Los Angeles architecture. Drawing inspiration from a beatnik surf aesthetic, the magazine has taken on a new look drawn from the vision of surfing’s ’50s and ’60s iconographers. We offer thought provoking pieces from talented writers such as Domenic Priore (author of Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece), Brad Elliot (Surf's UP! The Beach Boys on Record), Otto von Stroheim (Tiki News), Harvey Kubernik (co-writer of Hollywood Rocks the Movies, Part 1 & 2 and oft-published journalist in MOJO, The Los Angeles Times and Goldmine magazine), and Mark A. Moore (Jan Berry / Jan & Dean historian). Great artists and photographers like Shag and Peter Frame (Rock Family Trees) also add their unique talents to what we're trying to achieve.
outdoor steel cabinets per request matty mccaslin
the original bore
“There will be nothing new in what I say, but maybe it will have a new twist”Robert Venturi comes to modernist shrine Crown Hall to out Mies van der Rohe as a closet symbolist and attempt to define the architecture of our time. (Originally published in abbreviated and far better edited form under the title, Live by the I Beam, Die by the I Beam in the December 16th Chicago Reader.)
found footage fest preview
via zoller
steve parrino
in the 2006 whitney biennial
elegant design
new use for used shipping container
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as you may have noticed ive located gif icons for shipping container and the wtc (thanks wsj) posts. i have no idea what a katrina or nola gif should look like. upfront i'd say musical notes, trolly cars and noah references are out. any suggestions welcome.
