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Fifty People, One Question: Brooklyn

"Take 5 minutes out of your day and WATCH THIS BEAUTIFUL VIDEO! really.
Fifty People, One Question: Brooklyn from Crush + Lovely on Vimeo.

Una Noche en La Chiva

I can't look away! If you need any explanation, head over to: http://lachivany.com/site/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnBY-Yfm2Z4

Art Newspaper TV launches

Just heard about this today, The Art Newspaper is launching a webTV channel. Hopefully we'll be seeing more of this on the net, but until then, good luck to Art Newspaper TV

From the press release:

The Art Newspaper is proud to announce the launch of a web TV channel for the art world. It features interviews with key collectors, curators, dealers, artists, and art world luminaries.

The Art Newspaper TV aims to further the success of The Art Newspaper and continue to provide breaking news, art market analysis and insight for the art world, online.

Pecha Kucha Night at CoCA, Seattle. Thursday 7pm

Just found out about this one and won't be able to make it because I'll be in San Jose covering West Coast Green. But you all should go! These are great...

Please join CoCA as we play host to Pecha Kucha Night. This month's theme is "Trouble". You've got some, we got some - let's share. We’ve assembled an incredible roster of writers, visual artists, race car drivers, actors and other creative luminaries. Share ideas, see great work - we'd love to see you there!

Top 10 Architects who are not Architects

Got this email this morning; 'Arthur Erickson...Canada's most famous architect and the first to put Canadian architecture on the world map.' is no longer allowed to call himself an architect because he will not take the 18 required hours of continuing ed. every year to certify him as such. Hilarious, if it wasn't so absurd and it made me think of all the influential 'architects' in modern history who had no formal architectural training. Here is my first-pass at a top ten list. I'm sure I missed many more so shout-out your favorite non-architects and we'll get a top 100 list going...

1. Tadao Ando, Japan

2. Charles Eames, United States

3. Buckminster Fuller, United States

4. Carlo Scarpa, Italy

5. Luis Barragan, Mexico

6. Bruce Goff, United States

7. Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Great Brittan

8. William Morris, Great Brittan

9. Gerrit Th. Rietveld, The Netherlands

10. Mary Jane Colter, United States

Of course, this list could go the other way too, as in the 'Top 10 Architects who became Something Else...' Beginning with Sergei M. Eisenstein and moving on from there...

"Love of bustle is not industry"

—Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger) (c. 4 BC - 65 AD)

Philippe Stark's Rooftop Windmill is Beautiful, of course

Yes, he's a pain in the a**, but at least he's starting to walk the 'green' talk. Have a look at this rooftop wind turbine for residential use. If he can pull it off, even half of it, it will be his best work to-date:

From IHT:

"Take Starck's claim to have "invented a concept called Democratic Design," which, he says, gives everyone high quality products at affordable prices. Sounds great, but didn't the modern movement try to do that for most of the 20th century? And how can he claim to have "won the battle" by designing "a chair that sells for less than €100," or $157, when that's still too expensive for most people? Let alone the 90 percent of the world's population who are too poor to afford the basics? What has Democratic Design done for them? "Oh please, I'm not God," pleads Starck. "I'm just a designer, and I'm doing my best.""

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Cool Obama Schwag; t-shirts, mugs and more

Hey, I just posted these. Buy some and spread the word!

OBAMA SCHWAG by Daniel

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Editta Sherman, photographer, in her apt. for 58 yrs!

Jill over at New York Mag sent me this this morning. A great article 'romancing the city'...

"The high-ceilinged, light-filled studios on top of Carnegie Hall have housed artists, musicians, and writers for more than a century; now, the remaining tenants are fighting to stay."

read the rest here

[UPDATE: CNN reports that Ms. Sherman is holding firm! Way to go Editta!]

"They can pay me $10 million. I'm part of history," she said. "You want to tell me they don't have enough rooms? They have a building of rooms. This place is history, and I think Carnegie, the people running it, I don't think they think about that."

Read the rest here

Building A Yurt Kazakh Style

Found this while Stumbling around this morning...Can't wait to try one of my own.

TrailerWrap by Michael Hughes

Love this idea, though the economic model does not seem to work. Trailer parks exist to fill a gap in the market. Anyone who can afford to will buy a stick-built house. Not to mention the fact that trailers actually depreciate in value rather than appreciate. But this one does look good:

"To Hughes, trailer parks offer an architectural opportunity to address questions of affordable housing. And he believes that trailers simply make sense as high-density alternatives to suburban sprawl. But first, they need to be made into attractive living spaces. "This is refabricated housing," Hughes says. "What does it mean to have light pouring into your home, with nine-foot instead of seven-foot ceilings? We wanted to highlight what’s possible even on a small house."

Read the rest here

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Bamboestoel by Tejo Remy and Rene VeenHuizen

Regular readers are already well aware of our preoccupation with the chair. This one comes from Dutch design duo Tejo Remy and Rene VeenHuizen. Tejo Remy spoke at the Inhabitat's 'Reclaiming Design' on the issues of reclaimed materials in design.

I love it when the design is more impactful than the 'green'-ness. Nice work!

via Inhabitat

Project7ten: NOW in Venice!

Gonna miss this one, but let me know what y'all think...

Los Angelenos looking to continue their environmental education can head to Venice to take a tour of the recently completed LEED® Platinum certified Project7ten house, before it goes on sale to the highest bidder. Real estate developer Tom Schey (in conjunction with the A+D Museum’s “Enlightened Development” exhibition) is opening the doors of his environmentally conscious home to the public to raise awareness about simple everyday choices and green products that can lead to a healthier living environment. Throughout the month of October, locals and tourists alike are invited to tour the cutting-edge structure and catch a glimpse of the future of sustainable building—which in this case includes solar paneling, recycled materials and certified lumber for building, as well as reusable rain water irrigation systems, lower gas emissions, and more. Proceeds from the tours and the sale of the home will be donated to Healthy Child Healthy World, an organization dedicated to educating the public about environmental toxins that effect children’s health.

Project7ten
710 Milwood Avenue
Venice, CA
ph: 310.454.0290

Joan Didion and "Alienation from Self"

"If we do not respect ourselves … we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out — since our self-image is untenable — their false notions of us. We flatter ourselves by thinking this compulsion to please others an attractive trait: a gist for imaginative empathy, evidence of our willingness to give. Of course I will play Francesca to your Paolo, Hellen Keller to anyone’s Annie Sullivan: no expectation is too misplaced, no role too ludicrous…

It is the phenomenon sometimes called “alienation from self.” In its advanced stages, we no longer answer the telephone, because someone might want something; that we could say no without drowning in self-reproach is an idea alien to this game. Every encounter demands too much, tears the nerves, drains the will, and the specter of something so small as an unanswered letter arouses such disproportionate guilt that answering it becomes out of the question. To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves — their lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home."

--Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

via the excellent Maud Newton

Richard Barnes at the Hosfelt Gallery, New York, 9/15/07

Unabomber Ted Kazinski has been a regular interest of ours here at (incli)NATION and Alec Soth has a great post on Richard Barns and his role in documenting Kazinski over on his blog. It's a wonderful introduction to his work just as Barns' show is opening in NYC.. Be sure to check it out if you are in the city this month:

As regular readers know, I have a fascination with ‘the sentence’ – the shorthand summation everyone uses to describe a particular person. Some are easy (“He’s the guy that photographs Weimaraners). But Barnes is a tricky case. I doubt people would remember ‘He’s an architectural photographer who’s done fine art projects on birds, museums and the Unabomber.’ Whatever the phrase is, Barnes was able to sum up his achievements with a remarkably elegant sentence: “My work is all about containment.” He went on to say that he’d only made this connection in the last few years.

For me this was the ultimate lesson that Barnes brought to the class. While it may not always be great marketing, artists should be free to explore whatever quickens their pulse. Over the long haul they will inevitable find a thread that unifies their vision. Finding this revelatory thread (and not the stupid ‘sentence’) seems to be one of the most meaningful experiences to come from a life making art.

• An exhibition of Richard Barnes’ work will open on this Saturday, September 15th, at the Hosfelt Gallery in New York. "

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