October 2010
4 posts
Bilbao: Saturday, May 29th
Berlin: Wednesday, June 16th -- New York
Marseille: Monday, June 7th
Marseille: Tuesday, June 8th
September 2010
11 posts
INTERVIEWER: So what made you write your first novel, Whatever, about a computer programmer and his sexually frustrated friend?
HOUELLEBECQ: I hadn’t seen any novel make the statement that entering the workforce was like entering the grave. That from then on, nothing happens and you have to pretend to be interested in your work. And, furthermore, that some people have a sex life and others...
I like to discern an unstated, but illustrated, argument in a novel. I mean, I like to become aware of an embodied view of a particular moral-slash-philosophical problem or circumstance. With my novels, I want readers to argue about my argument, at least in their heads. While writing I am very conscious of it.
-Norman Rush
On Games: Part II
Card Players, by Paul Cezanne, c. 1893.
A hit, a very palpable hit. —William Shakespeare, c. 1600 Children’s Games, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1560. The gods play games with men as balls. —Plautus, c. 200 BC Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838
There are...
Today it is not the city but rather the camp that is the fundamental biopolitical paradigm of the west.
-George Agamben (1998)
Lysergic Acid
It is a Ghost Trap, woven by priest in Sikkim or Tibet a crossframe on which a thousand threads of differing color are strung, a spiritual tennis racket in which then I look I see aethereal lightwaves radiate bright energy passing round on the threads as for billions of years the thread-bands magically changing hues one transformed to another as if the Ghost Trap were an image of the...
The unit of survival is organism plus the environment.
-Gregory Bateson
The city historically constructed is no longer lived and is no longer understood practically. It is only an object of cultural consumption for tourists, for aestheticism, avid for spectacles and the picturesque. Even for those who seek to understand it with warmth, it is gone. Yet, the urban remains in a state of dispersed...
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Lisbon: Tuesday, May 25th
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The city is so vast and we have so much to say to each other.
-Francois Perier to Guilietta Masina in Federico Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Ecological Urbanism - is that not an oxymoron in the same way that a hybrid SUV is an oxymoron? How can the city, with all its mechanisms of consumption - its devouring of energy, its insatiable demand for food - ever be ecological? In one sense...
Kaddish
Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. Downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I’ve been up all night, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph. The rhythm the rhythm - and your memory in my head three years after - and read Adonais’ last triumphant...
L'Espace Indicible
To take possession of space is the first gesture of the living; men and beasts, plants and clouds, the fundamental manifestation of equilibrium and permanence. The first proof of existence is to occupy space.
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San Sebastian: Tuesday, June 1st
August 2010
4 posts
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On Games: Part I
Dare to err and dream; A higher meaning often lies in childish play. -Friedrich Schiller, 1802
The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom. -Eugene Rosenstock-Huessy
It has been my good luck to kill every kind of game properly belonging to the United States. -Teddy Roosevelt
Roger...
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Bilbao: Friday, May 28th
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Prague: Friday, June 11th
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Berlin - Tuesday, June 15th
July 2010
2 posts
Remarkably two forks in the road have opened up for architecture at this millennial moment. One is marked by the difference (as perhaps a culmination of the Modern in the maturity of the Postmodern) between the traditionally authored and automatic, or the (tragic pursuit of the) fixed and the (lazy preference for the the) variable, manifested in the distance interpolated between the author and...
Branches
May 2010
1 post
Dymaxion Projection
March 2010
1 post
Square
February 2010
2 posts
Le Modulor
Better Living Through Chemistry
January 2010
1 post
All The Critics Love You In New York
December 2009
2 posts
Graze
Demons
November 2009
3 posts
Brackett, WI
De Architectura
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Born: 80 BC
Basilica at Fado (Only true structure of his in existence)
“The architect must not only understand drawing, but music” It is not just the composition; it is the melody that is important. A single entity in line with nature. A craftsman who gave us wonders of engineered greatness. This is the Vitruvian Man.
Reverse Over-Shot Water-Wheel ...
Basic Space
October 2009
3 posts
Mykonos
Daniel De Barros - Front Smith Thando Beschta - Bs Wallride Matthew Mooney - Front Crook to Fakie From Roosevelt Island
Bloomsday
“I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.”
Trieste-Zurich-Paris 1914-1921
10 Months and It’s Finally Over
Sans Soleil
September 2009
2 posts
On The Esplanade
House of Flying Daggers
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August 2009
2 posts
Your Retro Career Melted
This song puts me in a great mood
July 2009
4 posts
Recommend: Brazil
Director: Terry Gilliam Year:...
Tiger By My Side
E(A)R
Swordfish Hotkiss Night
10,000 Words In A Cardboard Box
June 2009
4 posts
Blue Condition
Ty Lyons FS 50-50
Spitting Venom
Hey Young World
Frank Lloyd Wright
“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization”
From Within Outward New exhibit at the Guggenheim
May 2009
2 posts
Come Home With Me
