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Insanely great, or just good enough?
Apple are pursuing perfection, but should they be?
via core77
the day after tomorrow
"When Gehry pulled the covering off the [World Cup of Hockey championship] trophy, it was like someone had tugged the burlap bag off the Elephant Man."
"When the trophy was unveiled, the reaction was dead silence."
designboom
model homes from the modernist movement
Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Hans Scharoun and Le Corbusier are just a few of the architects who designed parts of a model housing settlement for a 1927 exhibition called "The Dwelling," which aimed to be a platform for the nascent New Construction movement.
godsell on hotseat
celebrities at their worst
nyc-rv
kenny g via cheater slicks
ab-pre-fab time
end of the century
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's records, thou shalt instead obtain thy own at THE WFMU CD AND RECORD FAIR, which is just days away! Yes, it's time once again to surrender all hope of ever casting off your material posessions by loading up on the most obscure and amazing records and CDs in all the land -- The kind that are ONLY heard on WFMU and ONLY found at our semi-annual Record Fairs, as presented by 200+ dealers from the farthest corners of the globe. The party starts on Friday, April 30th and runs through Sunday May 2nd at the Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 W. 18th Street in NYC. Confirmed performers include psychedelic soulman Brother JT, absurdist composer and electronic musician Dan Deacon, the homespun, tripped out songs and beats of Ill Ease, and the always crowd-pleasin' Super Karaoke Fun Time Band! Check out the full schedule of confirmed performers and events, and also visit our Record Fair Webspace for an updated list of attending dealers. In the meantime, get ready for Freeform Radio's biggest and best public throwdown!
learning from koenig
green projects brown fields
green tent
design corps
besmirching the vessel
LAST SEPTEMBER Dan Brady, 24, your average architecture student, was minding his own business, having a nice walk in the park, when he got a phone call telling him that Britain’s most infamous art collector would like to buy his student project “for an undisclosed sum”. Could the collector put it in his next prestigious exhibition at County Hall? And did Brady take cash or cheque? But no, Brady wasn’t daydreaming. It happened. “Only my phone battery was going dead,” he says with a chuckle. “I could only make out this garbledkksshhh someone’s bought kksshhh the piece. It’skksshhh.”