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Here is a house I have been wanting to post for a while. Its called the Yarra House by Leeton Pointon architects and Susi Leeton architects. The fluidity of the house, the beautiful manner in which the architects used wood and the beauty of the central staircase are what attracted me to this project, a home I would definitely like to live in. Check out the post by way of The Cool Hunter.
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Here is a cool post by way of the Contemporist: Facebook’s new office designed by Studio O+A. Pretty nice office if you ask me…
As reported back in May of 08, Aby Rosen and Sir Norman Foster have been having quite a tough time getting passed the Upper East Side’s community board. Well their fight is finally won as they have just gotten approved for their latest design…a nice looking one at that. For more:
The Dogmatic Store Front in NYC I From the EFGH Website
Dogmatic is my favorite place for lunch in NYC, hands down! So how happy do you think I was to see that their architecture got a review. Rock on! Architecture by EFGH Architects. Have a read at the Contemporist.
Toyo Ito & Associates Architects / Tama Art University Library from 0300TV on Vimeo.
Here is a cool vid by way of Curated Magazine of the Tama Art University Library in Tokyo designed by Toyo Ito & Associates Architects. Enjoy!
Woody Allen as Charlie Chaplin
Today is a sad day and it seems that recently there have been too many. I’m not the type of person who has idols, but if I were to idolize anyone in the world of photography it would be Robert Frank and Irving Penn. When I got my first job after college my biggest reward to myself was finding a copy of Passages. That was easier said then done. I finally found a copy on ebay and got it for 100 and change. Today, it is one of my most prized photography books.
Irving Penn was a master. He was one of those photographers who changed the way we looked at photography and challenged the manner in which fashion was depicted in the press. My favorite are his portraits. Amongst his most famous subjects are Pablo Picasso, Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Arthur Miller, Yves Saint Laurent, Simone de Beauvoir, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns and Spencer Tracy. (to name a few)
There are a number of well written obituaries. Here are a couple:
NYT: Irving Penn, Fashion Photographer, Is Dead at 92
“Leo Lerman, former editor in chief of Vanity Fair, wrote in his since-published diary on June 10, 1977 about being photographed by Penn, who also shot for the magazine. ‘It was intercourse on the highest level of being,’ he wrote. ‘He nourishes, unlike Dick Avedon, who consumes. Irving brings out the finest in his subject. This was like a two-man meditation.’” (from WWD)
Truman Capote by Irving Penn
I thought this was a nice story. The artist Guillermo Kuitca created a new work which will be displayed as the curtain for the AT&T Performing Arts Center Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House in Dallas. The work, which is printed directly onto the permanent stage curtain of the opera house, depicts a deconstructed view of the audience and hall from the stage. For more: NYT A Curtain as Ambitious as Its Stage
A couple of evenings ago Thom Yorke performed in Los Angeles with his new band which includes Flee, bassist for Red Hot Chili Peppers. The Times covered the concert and I found a ton of You Tube videos. For more: NYT: Thom Yorke’s New Band, From Many Angles
Here is a funny post that sent to me this morning. Seems that a chinese artist decided to give Bernie the bull…via Compliance Week. Thanks Jon!
Here is a cool post from Curated about Marc Newson’s For 021C which he designed in 1999 and never got produced. I really like its simple and clean design even though it is very toy like. Maybe they should finally consider getting some built and testing out the market! If not now then when?
