Article: Interview with Francisco Costa

He loves gray. I was born in the 80s. Francisco Costa's work reminds me of the Calvin Klein I first knew.

Today: Duckie

Today I feel like:

Duckie Dancing in Pretty In Pink
by RetroCafe

Article: After Brain Injury, Fighting to Recall of Sense of Family and of Self

Researchers who have taken images of the brain as it processes information related to personal identity have noticed that several areas are particularly active. Called cortical midline structures, they run like an apple core from the frontal lobes near the forehead through the center of the brain. These frontal and midline areas communicate with regions of the brain that process memory and emotion, in the medial temporal lobe, buried deep beneath each ear. And studies strongly suggest that in delusions of identity, these emotion centers are either not well connected to frontal midline areas or not providing good information. Mom looks and sounds exactly like Mom, but the sensation of her presence is lost. She seems somehow unreal.

After my dad's stroke (the first one), he accused us of trying to kill him. I wonder if this is somehow related.
from the NY Times

Today.

Me: Why did I add the spinach first? I should've sauteed the mushrooms and the tomatoes first.
O: Because you're on crack.
Me: You don't even know what crack is.
O: Yes, I do. It's a drug that makes you dizzy.

Article: The John Hughes Touch

By A. O. SCOTT
Published: August 7, 2009

But I don’t think I’m alone among my cohort in the belief that John Hughes was our Godard, the filmmaker who crystallized our attitudes and anxieties with just the right blend of teasing and sympathy.

from the NYTimes

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

Yesterday: Manpris

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

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.

Today's mood: Khaaaaaan!

muahahah

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.

Artist, thinker, maker: Duncan Wilson

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

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

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.

Things that make me happy:

Karl Lagerfeld's Twitter feed.

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.