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"The iMac proved that consumers crave high design within economic reach. Architect Michael Graves achieved household-name status selling teakettles at Target. So when Robert Humble, AIA, and Joel Egan, Associate AIA, insist that prefab is about to take off because the public is demanding design sophistication in their housing as well as their shoes and MP3 players, it's hard to argue. “We see an opportunity to potentially influence design for the next century, and we mean to do it right,'' says Egan."
(cargotecture)
Yet through conversations with people familiar with the circumstances—including a student who witnessed the original incident—a picture emerges of a crisis that began on November 29, when in the course of a performance for a class taught by visiting instructor Ron Athey, a graduate student entered a classroom at UCLA's Warner building where roughly thirty other students were gathered. The student, wearing a coat and tie, produced either a gun or a convincing replica of one, put what looked like a bullet into the weapon, spun the cylinder, and held it to his head, Russian-roulette style. He pulled the trigger, but the gun did not fire. The student then left the room; while he was out of view, a shot was heard, at which point he returned, now apparently unarmed. A short discussion ensued between what the witness described as the "freaked-out" performer and a room full of people who were "a little frozen and a little scared," and then the class broke up for the day. This version of events expands upon but is basically corroborated by UCLA's official statement made by assistant vice chancellor Lawrence Lokman, who said that the performance "raised a number of important issues and concerns for faculty, staff, and students with regard to artistic freedom, safety, and the boundaries of performance art within an academic setting." He added that the dean of students office and the University of California Police Department were investigating to determine whether the student had used "an actual gun, or a replica."
bjork's new spike jones vid triumph of a heart
the physical appeal consumers quickly associate with design could "become more invisible, more transparent." In other words, you look through the design rather than at it and, it is hoped, register a product's appeal on a less conscious level.
hope my little trees survive
spaceface
"Recent archaeological excavations bring into focus a civilization that arose more than 5,000 years ago in three small valleys 100 miles north of Lima. Over more than a millennium, it spurred the development of more than 20 separate major residential centers. They are characterized by monumental architecture, large circular ceremonial structures, irrigated agriculture and housing."
h*ly-m*th*rf*ck*n'-sh*t!!!: brian reports the post report:
ROCK snobs, rejoice! Proto-punk legends the MC5 are joining forces with the eclectic Sun Ra Arkestra for a European tour. MC5 members Michael Davis, Wayne Kramer and Dennis Thompson will perform for the first time in nearly four decades with the Ar kestra, directed by Mar shall Allen. The su pergroup's special guest performers will include East Vil lage bar owner "Handsome" Dick Manitoba (The Dictators), Gilbey Clarke (Guns N' Roses), David Thomas (Pere Ubu, Rocket from the Tombs) and Lisa Kekaula (Basement Jaxx) [ not Basement Jaxx should read Belllrays]. The tour kicks off at Lon don's Royal Festival Hall on Feb. 25.
more DKT/MC5 details : here
north miami beach aqua: architectural kool-aid, just add water
"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)