vision

what a brilliant damn idea.

peter castellucci’s garbage lamp

water cube doesn’t have anything on this

if corbusier [edit: now having taken an actual class on modernist era architects like corb, I'm not so sure about this comparison] had ever designed an aquatic center, it might have looked something like this.  where the water cube is a splashy (hurr), in-your-face brandishing of technological might and capital, Pritzker-awarded architecht Jean Nouvel’s Les [...]

you know the author and his editor…

got a huge kick out of this sentance:
“As the police gathered the mounds of bikes, they also found cocaine, crack cocaine, about 15 pounds of marijuana and a stolen bronze sculpture of a centaur and a snake in battle.”
the rest of the article is pretty good too, kind of a 101 dalmations kinda thing except [...]

darling of nyc

david byrne seems to be having a pretty excellent year—“playing the building” was well-recieved, and is still open until the 24th of this month, and now, through a serindipitous series of events, he designed a number of metal sculptures that double as, “accidentally very useful” art: bike racks.
[nytimes]
(image from flickr)

“If you can’t have the perfect family, at least you can Photoshop it.”

self-deception for the digital age, I guess the impulses have always been there but this is taking it to a level that I find kind of disquieting.
[I was there, just ask photoshop.]

man on wire

it was probably 2 or 3 in the morning when I first stumbled across the wikipedia article on the french wirewalker phillipe petit, whose fame was crystallized in 1974 when he strung a wire between the two towers of the world trade center and spent upwards of 45 minutes walking, laying, bouncing, and dancing between [...]

mall squatting

Fascinating article on a couple in Rhode Island who responded to a megamall (or “Lifestyle Center”) built in their (former) neighborhood by creating a guerilla apartment within it and living there regularly and for long periods of time over a span of  four years.  I love the fact that they took the motivating factors behind [...]

weather report

cloudy with a 60% chance of destructive airborne dogshit

The inflatable sculpture, “escaped from its moorings at the Zentrum Paul Klee last week and brought down a power line and broke a window before landing on the grounds of a children’s home 200 meters away”
[via artinfo]

impossible to miss

stereoscopic signage in a australian parking garage, such a great idea because the vast majority of people are going to be in automobiles and so will share similar vantage points…

[more from ridelust]

sim city

flickr stream of “rich people rooftops” in New York City.  the isometric angles remind me strongly of simcity, and there’s a pretty wide variety of styles evident…