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charlie harper prints

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i wonder who designed the distinctive (ominous) super graphic on the fukushima reactors shells.


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hoof boots

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moondog


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1971 Ford Ranchero GT. H code, 351 2V, automatic, Wimbledon White with Red and Black interior.


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Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist


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Green Tunnel - A six month journey along the 2,200 mile long Appalachian Trail, condensed and reinterpreted into five minutes of stop-motion.


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the new small house

home and environment


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Godard’s Intertitles


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the field lab / container living in noname texas


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Why are conceptual artists painting again? Because they think it’s a good idea.

One intuition motivating this series of talks has been the feeling that there is something deeply problematic about an approach that narrows the possibilities of engaging with art down to the procedures of decoding and encoding its inscription onto the symbolic order. That is: the idea that the primary task of art, as a strategical operation, was to provide conceptual legitimations (to satisfy or lay down the law, among other things) by constructing references that situate the work within an established economy of meaning. No matter how critical this approach may intially have intended to be, it has effectively proven to be coextensive with—and an involuntary ideological support of—an attitude towards art production that is indeed merely strategical and solely about plotting ways of inscribing a practice into the symbolic order, be it through the suicidal heroic mode of bringing the game of art to its logical conclusion by explicating its rules (old-school modernist conceptual) or through the somewhat more versatile mode of implicating a work within its given economies of referentiality as rarified secrets.

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Bolefloor offers floorboards, cut using custom algorithms, that follow the natural warp and weft of trees.

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how highs the (deleware) river?


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moondog


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billy gibbons hat


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collecting / and //

Only Collect: ‘Benjamin’s “Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Book Collecting” may explain the architect’s obsessions with books, but in the post-print era, what do we hoard?’. Mimi Zeiger in Domus on the state of the contemporary collector and the outlet for their obsession. Collecting has evolved: ‘But given the spate of books, exhibitions, Tumblrs, and websites that document and compile material appearing within the discipline and beyond, I suggest that the archive itself has become not a mode of collection, but the thing in itself to be collected.’

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There’s an emerging consensus about what digital collections mean; i.e., it’s much more than simply assembling a set of objects. Increasingly, it appears to be about presentation, a form of composition. In many respects this presentation seems no different from the assemblages of objects that characterised the Victorian treasure houses and private museums, where typologies and materials trumped more complex data like location, function and date. It also feels related to Benjamin’s statement about possession of the thing: ‘For inside him there are spirits, or at least little genii, which have seen to it that for a collector – and I mean a real collector, a collector as he ought to be – ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects’.

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bhts


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Before 1990, ads in Hemmings or other magazines described unrestored cars in many ways (original, unrestored, authentic, genuine, stock, preserved, etc.) but the term “Survivor” cars was never used. Then things began to change. David Burroughs, who created Gold Certification in 1978, created the standards and process for judging original unrestored Corvettes in 1989. Bloomington Gold then immediately registered SURVIVOR® (and BENCHMARK®) with the United States Patent and Trademark Office as the brand names for Authenticating Certain Collectible Automobiles.

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Bates Masi’s update of Harry Bates’s 1967 design salvaged much of the home’s original cypress decking and incorporated subtle additions to the exterior. Because cypress quickly develops a patina, it was only a matter of weeks before the new facade matched the color of the original wood siding.


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your own handwriting font

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QuaDror

new structural joint design / video / website

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rattan weave


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Stop Fracking / Anti-fracing film "Gasland" leaves Oscars empty-handed

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