January 2009
31 posts
Faces on the One Train
New Flickr Set: http://tinyurl.com/c5x33d
We see them everyday. They ride with us for a few months, then their gone… We recognize some, others are harder to place. All with selling smiles and knowing eyes. The impetuous for this series of iPhotographs was that horrible horrible Subway, Eat Fresh ad of the Chinese-dragon-head thing growling away at the breezy guy who ordered his...
One of Those... Go Take a Walk Kind of Afternoons
One of my favorite things about New York is what you can find when you open your door and your mind. This afternoon begged a walk around the block. Here’s a little (Quad-Cam) taste of what I found:
Erik van Lieshout at the Maccarone Gallery, New York City. http://www.maccarone.net
On the Move? via Gothamist →
SEEING & WRITING 3 › Exercise 1: Observing the...
Part of my interest in writing here is that I like to express throughts through the written word… And with pictures, videos, and sounds (I think the Internet mole-people are working on how to deliver information to our remaining three senses as we type).
Another part of my interest in writing here is that it will be read (Sense #3) by upstanding creative people like yourself. I’m...
Current Issue: New York magazine
http://nymag.com/nymag/toc/20090119
Every once in awhile a magazine arrives (rolled and stuffed) in our mail slot and I’m complelled to immediately open ‘er up and see what’s inside—find out what that hypothetical “ticking” noise is that’s eminanting from just beneath the cover. It happens when the new Interview arrives. It happens when the new GOOD arrives....
From an Archive: "Rebuilding New York"
http://designarchives.aiga.org/index.html?s1=2|s2=1|eid=511
An AIGA Editorial Design Award winning piece From the New York Times magazine, that re-imagined the future of the LowerWestside following the September 11, 2001. This was back when the “fantasies of new buildings became a form of recovery,” where now these spirited debates only deepen our disdain for community meetings and...
Quite a List
Happily stumbled upon Andrew Howard’s “Personal Views” site. Anything that happens at a place called “Escola Superior de Artes e Design” you know has to be good. From the Introduction:
“It is an attempt to explore where the boundries of contemporary practice lie, to discuss what we might expect of ourselves, and to examine what social and cultural objectives we...
Sol LeWitt at Mass Moca
A quick 1.5 hour drive from Saratoga, New York, through curving Adirondack mountain roads, brought us to the gates of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. The building was the type of industrial campus that felt custom-made for stories to be told. Ashley put it best: “If this building were anywhere else they would have turned it into something like a J. Crew by now.”
Three...
It's Official!
Best Blog of 2009! http://twitter.com/jcapdesign