Category: words

  • who-wore-it-better: Gerhard Richter 4900  ::  Tauba Auerbach Half Times a Half Times a Half

  • nevver: Tear this up

  • thesochillnetwork: The day graphic design died

  • These writers function more like programmers than traditional writers, taking Sol Lewitt’s dictum to heart: “When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art,” and raising new…

  • hautepop: via cibelle: Transparent Business Coffee Shop #newtrend?! #hunt;darton cafe on Lower Clapton road I like this. There’s lots of talk about “transparency” vis-a-vis the “social business”, which is mostly just jargon but here it is in action. I also think it’s likely to be good business sense – it brings the customer into the…

  • cyberpunkculture: William Gibson, Google Glass

  • What About Denise Scott Brown?

    What About Denise Scott Brown? When Venturi got the Pritzker phone call, though, his surprised reaction was to ask: What about Denise? “Denise” is Denise Scott Brown, who had been Venturi’s intellectual collaborator since the early nineteen-sixties, and a partner in the firm since 1969, deeply involved in everything it had done. Scott Brown was…

  • alexainslie: Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.  Didn’t Foucault also say something similar in describing the specific intellectual?

  • cristinabrioschi: AllYouNeedisLove(Bleu)07

  • Victor Carranza shown in this July 2, 2010 photo. (Jaime Garcia / CEET ) Victor Carranza, Emerald Czar of Colombia, Dies Apr 20, 2013 4:45 AM EDT A strongman who kept order in Colombia’s wild emerald industry, Victor Carranza lived through two assassination attempts and lots of violence. Toby Muse on the kingpin’s crazy life.…