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There will never be another surfer like Miki "Da Cat" Dora.via vz
All for a Few Perfect Waves is the story of Miki "Da Cat" Dora, the dashing and enigmatic rebel who, for twenty years, was the king of Malibu surfers. He dominated the waves, ruled his peers' imaginations, and—to this day—inspires the fantasies of decades of Dora wannabes who began to swarm his pristine paradise after the movie Gidget helped surfing explode into the mainstream and changed it forever—many say for the worse.
Disenchanted, Dora railed against the ruination; angry that the waves were no longer his own, he fought back—or found better things to do. Dora was also an avid sportsman, raconteur, philosopher, traveler—and scam artist of wide repute. When, in 1973, he finally ran afoul of the law, he soon abandoned America and led the FBI and Interpol on a seven-year chase around the globe. At the same time, he never gave up searching for (and occasionally finding) the empty waves and spirit of the Malibu he'd lost. From homes in New Zealand to South Africa to France, he continued to personify the rebel heart of surfing and has been widely acknowledged as "the most relentlessly committed surfer of all time."
The New York Times named him "the most renegade spirit the sport has yet to produce." Vanity Fair called him "a dark prince of the beach." The Times (London) wrote, "A hero to a generation of beach bums. He was tanned . . . good-looking . . . trouble."
On par with auteurs like Walt Disney, Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, and Art Spiegelman, Ralph Bakshi redefined animation and became a hero to countless generations of fans and filmmakers. If Disney’s life and work evoke images of chaste princesses in gleaming castles, Bakshi’s is a lady of ill repute camped out in a dim back alley. His name is synonymous with the great tradition of American cartooning. Bakshi is responsible for such memorable films and television shows such as: Fritz the Cat, the first x-rated animated feature film, The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse, Spider-man, Heavy Traffic, Cool World, and The Lord of the Rings, which celebrates its thirtieth anniversary in 2008.This is the only book chronicling the career of one of the pioneers of animation. Unfiltered highlights Bakshi’s early years, as well as each of his groundbreaking films, TV shows, and other projects. Unfiltered contains hundreds of pieces of pre-production art, animation cells, and never-before-seen rough sketches, line drawings, and doodles, all culled from Bakshi’s personal archives containing more than thirty years of his life’s work.With contributions from animators, producers, and directors who have been influenced by his work, this is a book like no other, about a man like no other.via vz
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though not frequently updated rambling oaks blends container, farm and slab timber furniture with excellent results
and yep, im up to the r's on justins links page
So, Frank Lloyd Wright And Marcel Duchamp Walk Into A Meeting...
No, it isn't the beginning to a joke, this really happened! Much thanks to The New Modernist, Edward Lifson, who provided some photos and a link to a 7.5 hour recording of a meeting called "The Western Round Table on Modern Art" which took place in San Francisco in April, 1949. As Lifson points out on his blog:
The artists and critics opine on art in a changing culture, degeneracy, science, communication, the public, the critic, and other topics, including my favorite - the beautiful.
Check out the post on Edward's site and follow the link to download the entire recording to hear it for yourself. Beautiful!
adaptive reuse ditty at toh
faux cracked plaster
adaptivereuse does robin hood gardens
playmobile security checkpoint
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lost roadside america
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lloyd kahn is previewing shelter publication's new book on independent builders of the pacific north west
life without buildings does death stars, bunkers and giant women
de madera y adobe - house in Arruda dos Vinhos Portugal
moving stairs at wtc
A 50-year-old pre-fab house designed by Jean Prouvé for French colonials in Africa is currently residing in the front garden of Tate Modern. The building, a sheet steel prototype, is one of only three built between 1949 and 1951. It was recovered from the Tropics, dismantled, restored to near mint condition and bought by American hotelier Andre Balazs. Shipped into London last month, it is about to be officially unveiled. Watch the video here to see it being built.
London-based architects Hawkins\Brown have added two new structures to a cluster of farm buildings at Wysing Arts Centre in Bourn, Cambridgeshire. The courtyard now includes an artists’ studio block and reception area alongside an existing converted storage barn and former cow sheds.
The main studio block at the front of the site provides nine studios over two floors. The alternating rhythm of the full-height glazing and timber louvres on the front elevation replicates the timber structure of the adjacent building, a 17-century farmhouse.
cali roadside photographer DS
wine bottle lampshades
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old town / hand made work wear from the uk
via archival clothing
modern design 901 is a design blog with special emphasis on george nelson clocks and clock designers irving harper and howard miller.