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Saturday, August 8, 2009

Today: Happy, Happy, Happy.

kept time for crit yesterday and had a lot of fun doing it. Keith forbade me from calling my project a pirate ship treehouse and I wonder if he thinks that I designed this project to be artsy and conceptual and if I had known he wanted conceptual I would've done something along the lines of floating steel ribbon a la Richard Serra or some other useless boring thing.

Obviously my treehouse will never be built - it's the most structurally unsound contraption ever. I just designed it because I've always wanted a pirate ship treehouse with stairs to nowhere and a drawbridge (and a rope ladder but I didn't put that in because it would tip it past ridiculous right into h

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Yesterday: Manpris

Yesterday:
Alison: Did you check the forecast for today, Adam? Did it say it would be manpri weather?

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Personality Test

Interesting to see which of my friends chose pirate ship treehouse and which chose stairs to nowhere. I

Pirate ship tree house: IIII
Stairs to nowhere: II
Disqualified: I

Pirate ship treehouse/stairs to nowhere

are not turning out as I hoped. So I made a stop motion video of the bird/crane thing that resulted instead.

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There could be an architecture project in this outfit.

HAHAHAH.

I'm tired. Been working on this project for too long. And posting to the wrong blog. But I'm not taking it back. Sorry suckas.

Artist: Mark Wallinger

I don't know if I'd compare him to Caravaggio, but dressing up in a bear suit does look fun. Titled Sleeper.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Today's mood: Khaaaaaan!

muahahah

Friday, July 31, 2009

Writer: Edward Abbey

Today I like Edward Abbey.

"Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and aesthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one."

Artist: Bas Jan Ader

I'm not usually a fan of video work but I find his story compelling.

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Artist, thinker, maker: Duncan Wilson

I think the faceted psp statue covers are great. More work here.

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Musical (?????): Spiderman, Turn Off the Dark

Julie Taymor is directing a Spiderman musical???? My mind is blown on so many levels. Number 1, I love Julie Taymor but...Spiderman? Number 2, what will he sing about?

from Wired.

Music and lyrics by Bono! What?

official site

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Things I am working on: Symbols for a map

Article: Now and then: Sex still sells

I really liked this article about sex being used in the media since...well, forever. It's a point that has been made many times before but it's well-written, clear and has some great examples from the media past.

from idsgn blog.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Things that make me happy:

Karl Lagerfeld's Twitter feed.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Article: How to Disappear

from here.

There are three key steps to disappearing. First, destroy old information about yourself. Call your video store or electricity company and replace your old, correct phone number with a new, invented one. Introduce spelling mistakes into your utility bills. Create a PO Box for your mail. Don’t use your credit cards and the like.

Then, create bogus information to fool private investigators who might be looking for you. Go to one city and apply for an apartment. Rent a car in another one.

The next, final step is the most important one. Move from point A to point B. Create a dummy company to pay your bills. Only use prepaid mobile phones and change them every month. It is nearly impossible to find out where you are unless you make a mistake.