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"The lower parts of the mosque's walls are made of stone, with mud bricks above. Almost square in plan, the mosque has a flat roof, making it cubic in shape. Inside are six columns, four of stone dating from pre-Islamic times and two of brick. The columns divide the interior into four rows, leading towards the mihrab wall.
An elaborate coffered ceiling contrasts with the building's modest exterior. Most of it has survived intact since its original construction 800 years ago. The ceiling's twenty-two caissons are covered with intricate decoration carved, gilded, and painted in tempera. No speculative elements were inserted during the restoration. All new elements can be traced back to original examples in both their form and their location."
ownership society
Warhol had latched on to Basquiat as a career-freshening protégé and collaborator, and Warholian cunning informed the ultra-smart inventions of Neo-Geo, the milieu’s one launched movement that attained exit velocity, preoccupying the wider art world for a couple of seasons. Jeff Koons, the magus of an aesthetic that transforms commodities into art, which is then presented as the ultimate commodity, was overqualified for the East Village on arrival.
censorship and the golden age of animation
WFRR
(krys o)
ulm school section one section two
William Eggleston in the Real World. 2005. USA. Directed by Michael Almereyda. An intimate portrait of William Eggleston, who revolutionized color photography in the mid-1970s and who continues to conjure spellbinding images from the ordinariness of everyday life. "Peter Schjeldahl has written that Edward Hopper was ‘excited by the unguarded moment, the exposed innocence, of a person, a building, a place.' If you equate ‘innocence' with ‘mystery,' I think you can apply this to Eggleston, and to this movie about him" (Almereyda). 87 min.
at MOMA - Monday, January 17, 7:30. T2; Wednesday, January 19, 6:00. T1 (both introduced by Faggioni and Almereyda)
kiefer the seven heavenly places
(designboom-blog)
"In a meticulously planned mission that depended on clearing roadside trees by inches and covered more than 100 miles at a clip or a crawl from San Diego to a snowy, wind-battered mountain near Idyllwild, the oval-eyed, flying saucer-shaped structure has a new home."
miami lot house
KLH model eight
#BO.01: REBRAUN
MP3 JUKEBOX AND SERVER, 2002-2003
Vintage case, digital data, mixed multimedia, aluminium, acrylic, steel, liquid
crystal. CNC-milled, welded, thermoformed, lacquered, anodized.
Programmed with the VVVV MULTIPURPOSE TOOLKIT.
DIMENSIONS (WxHxD): 650x120x280mm
Designed in 1962 by Dieter Rams, the “Audio 1 Kompaktanlage” is a milestone of german post-war design. It embodies, even more than its predecessor, the famous “snow-white’s coffin”, the design ideals of the rationalist “Ulm School”. These sober paradigms of utility and matter-of-factness are playfully remodelled in the “ReBraun”: Two TFT-Displays take the place of the radio scales, the lettering on the anodised front plate ironically quotes the lingo of the radio era. A randomly positioned button, labelled “Zufall” (Randomness) stands for the freedom from mechanical constraints. The antenna does not receive any FM radio, but is used to connect the system to the internet via Wireless LAN. The case and acrylic hood were lowered by several centimetres for sporty reasons (think: hot rod!), and the window that formerly contained a signal strength readout now becomes a tabernacle for the old Braun nameplate.
victor papanek design for the real world
(tree hugger)
it seams like the last ten people i've talked to have all been watching allot of old movies on cable lately. AMC & TCM. almost all of them had just re-watched dr strangelove. me too. last night i watched fahrenheit 451 with the sound off and music on. now i have to check the schedule and watch it all over again with the sound on.
"The Fountainhead was published as a comic strip series in 1945 by King Features. The series included thirty comic strips illustrated by renowned illustrator Frank Godwin. The entire production of the original project was supervised by Ayn Rand, who also wrote most of the copy for the thirty installments."
Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer
bill owens: leisure
miami (wynwood) florida
"For a long time, Mayne ferociously resisted what he calls the ''con-tamination'' of his profession. He terrorized and alienated clients in his struggle to avoid the compromises that occur when drawings are converted into buildings. At 60, this former bad boy now finds that his firm, Morphosis, is winning some of the most prestigious commissions in the country. Even more surprising, he appears to have become the first-choice architect of the U.S. government, which, under the ''design excellence'' program of the General Services Administration, has retained Morphosis to build a federal office building in San Francisco, a courthouse in Eugene, Ore., and the satellite facility for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration outside of Washington. All three projects are currently under construction. In New York, Morphosis recently won two important competitions: for the Olympic Village in Queens, which is a mixed-use waterfront development that is scheduled to go up whether or not the Olympic Games come to New York in 2012, and the art studio and engineering building of Cooper Union. ''It's really been a kick,'' he says. ''The last two major competitions in New York, I've gotten both of them.''
"On one side of the wall, a fresco of three birds hovers over the harsh fluorescent light of an emergency exit at the Institute for Military Geography. On the other side, a larger, ruined fresco sits at the foot of a Renaissance staircase in a 14th-century monastery."
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TPB -vs- SP video game
(episode guide)(the TPB board)