various humidifiers filled with Coke Zero by Cory Arcangel
Guy Ben-Ner Ikea Sitcom Stealing Beauty
Guy Ben-Ner Ikea Sitcom
happy holidays
-via call henkel
wall papered
Dan Funderburgh’s Habitat Decoration Initiative, funded through FEAST, puts wallpaper on the streets of Brooklyn.
Scarlett Hooft Graafland
Scarlett Hooft Graafland makes staged photographs that fall somewhere between whimsical and wabi sabi. Big smack o’ inflateable boats, carpeting ice, bright balloons, it’s like one horse with a paint job in a snow swept desert. Hearts!
shadow of the wind
Just finished reading Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s The Shadow of the Wind. Just finished reading it. Missed walking Nikki and Shelly to work to do so. I woke up before her, and lied in bed reading it, and then was almost done, and she had had breakfast and coffee and shower, and I was still almost [...]
delft / china
-Lei Xue via happy famous artists Charles Krafft
sarat maharaj
I’ve learned from Open Source that a too-reverent interviewer can become grating and supercilious, yet some great lines slip through this interview with Sarat Maharaj, such as: “In a globalized economy one finds forms of translation that are so true as copies that it unnerves the original” “He [James Joce] remains for me the “translator” [...]
stupid or naive
purposefully misguided, recolonist Yep, more articles from that amazing issue of Afterall, this one on Thomas Hirschorn. Reading Hirschorn: A problem of (his) knowledge, or Weakness as a virtue by Jan Estep Jan’s talk of being forced to encounter ignorance in Hirschorn’s work, how “he doesn’t let me play the student or disciple”, and uses [...]