Happy Holidays to everyone. Its been so much fun connecting with all of you. I know this sentiment has been said but it truly feels amazing to have creative connections the world over.
Oh and the illustrations above I did for Minnie Wilde Holiday. Cheers I wish you all good friends, good food, and good times.
xx K
I was listening to studio 360 again while at work and it was an amazing show. It opened with Kurt and Maira walking around Manhattan talking to people and taking photos. She calls them inspiration walks. Whenever she gets a bit bored in the studio she takes her camera and goes for a walk and then comes back and draws what her pedestrian adventures led her to. Ummm how do I get this job?
Then he went to one of the first artist colonies ( The Macdowell Colony ) where you apply for residency and stay for a month to 8 weeks to work on your project with no interruptions except for a very nice man who brings you lunch in a picnic basket each day. Sounds like heaven to me.
And finally Kurt ended with Miranda July reading from her new book 'Nobody Belongs Here More Than You'
Overall and incredibly inspiring show that just made me want to work a bit harder to enjoy the little things and to really make an effort to live the life I want to live and not the one I'm supposed to live.
If you have a chance give it a listen.
Happy 100th Mr. Niemeyer!
Here are a couple of images of Brian Barneclo's work on Shotwell Street. It's been up longer than I'd rather admit ... sometimes I forget to share. I first became aware of his work at NOPA restaurant when it first opened. And then sometime a few months ago I saw this mural go up little by little. (Its on my way to the building department.) Whats so great about the location is that its a pretty bleak little street that attracts a lot of homeless and drug use and the rest. The (all) people that live in the area must be over the moon about Brian's addition to the neighborhood.
Materials and Applications is an open air gallery in Silver Lake that allows for large scale installations by one group usually pertaining to art, architecture, or landscape. A professor of mine once stated that he didn't like these types of galleries for they promoted architects as "installation designers". Although I respect him as an architect and designer I couldn't disagree more.
Here is a space architects can test out their ideas no matter how radical they might be.
Now you might be lucky enough to have a client who is willing to go out on a limb for something forward thinking and allow you to foster those ideas with their money and their land but well... that is a once in a lifetime opportunity if you are lucky. Not to mention here is a place to explore that angst you have built up right out of school when you are stuck behind the computer for some ungodly hours doing a spec house and learning for the first time of the true insanity of the ADA. That transition is not easy.
Regardless I feel these conceptual installations open up a dialogue which is essential to propel design forward. And those that exhibit aren't necessarily looking at landscape and architecture as nurture and shelter.
Above is 'Density Fields' their most recent exhibit Oyler-Wu Collaborative. I hope to make it down there before its gone. I sadly missed the Ball Nogues exhibit of Maximilian's schell.
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