Sanford Biggers : Blossom.

Whoa.


Artkrush

The Nouget Cafe` Band

This evening found us shooting the Nouget Cafe`Band's Christmas album cover in the middle of Wilmore's Halloween bash. It was tricky but I think I was successful in keeping the pumpkins and costumed kiddos out of the camera's line of site. ;-)

Many thanks to hospitable owners of Tastebuds in downtown Wilmore for generously sharing their space for our little photo shoot! The shakes are great!

Paint By Numbers!

Paint a beautiful picture . . . the first time you try! What is the fascination with paint by number? Is it the compulsive, intoxicating act of filling in small pools of color? The thrill of creating your own works of art? Perhaps it is that without any lessons or experience, you can paint a masterpiece, just by following the numbers. From ballerinas and the Eiffel Tower, to tug boats and poppies, you’ll have your choice of eight different vintage paint by numbers.


My friend, Claire, used to have a Paint By Numbers landscape in her bathroom. I always thought it was the funniest thing in a grown-up girl's bathroom...

UPPERCASE :: Papergoods

Happy Hallowe'en, kids!

And that's all I'm saying about it.


Cute Overload! :: Dragon Peeg

66 Celebrities That Blog.

Skip the publicist-penned chaff (we'd bet you our Funny Girl DVD that Ms. Streisand doesn't hit the "Publish" button herself) and get to the good stuff: Jeff Bridges, John Mayer, Zach Braff and David Byrne are among the boldface names using blogs as they were intended to be used: to share, in real time, all the cool stuff they're obsessed with. - gettrio.com

Celebrity Cowboy :: 66 Celebrities That Blog

p.s. How funny is it that I have no tag for "blogs?"

Paul Andreu Architecture

National Grand Theater of China, Beijing

also referred to as "The Egg", it's composed by an opera, a concert hall and 2 theaters joined under a titanium and glass shell that covers the public space. Designed by Paul Andreu. Due to finish by 2008.

Casino of Macau, China

The Oceanus project is much more than a casino, and in fact, the biggest casino in Asia and eventually one of the biggest in the world, it is also a great complex that includes commercial center, luxury shopping malls and villas and a 600 rooms hotel in its front part. Construction started in 2006.

Greetings!

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Night Clock by George Nelson.

FYI - Should I ever decide to spend almost $400 on a clock, I will buy a George Nelson Night Clock. In fact, I'll buy one for every room in my house. Why? Because I love this clock. And because I'll be a gazillionaire. I will need $400 clocks in every room in my house. And I will hire homeless people at a good wage to polish them every day. I will be a kind and giving gazillionaire with $400 clocks in every room in my house. The End.



Night Clock by George Nelson :: Lumens Light + Living

Oh, my.

I can't say it any better than Defamer does below.


A reader angry over the unexpected eye-diddling he received from the seemingly crazed Alan Arkin, his gang of tiny pals, and a scrapie-afflicted sheep emerging from page 7 of today's Variety wrote in a little while ago to request that we share with the world "the ugliest, most confusing, bizarre movie ad I've ever seen. It looks like it was designed by a Bollywood crack-addict."

We might argue that it seems more like the work of a criminally insane graphic designing hopeful who procrastinated too long before getting started on the final project for his prison's occupational Photoshop-therapy class, but, really, that would be splitting hairs. Whatever your initial reaction, in the end we think that Lois Wadsworth of the Eugene Weekly's assessment of the film itself holds for its visually arresting ad, "Make time to see it...this one leaves you smiling."

Annals Of Movie Marketing: Alan Arkin And The Amazing Technicolor Dream Ad

Japanese 3D Graffiti

Paramodel, an artist duo formed by Yasuhiko Hayashi and Yusuke Nakano from Eastern Osaka, created these intriguingly beautiful 3D graffiti.

via PingMag


You can help the Sichuan earthquake victims today by

here, the money goes into purchasing water purification tablets.

I Am a Host at The Olive Garden.

S'funny cuz it's true.


gregnog.com: I Am A Host at The Olive Garden

(via not martha which, in turn, is via Chris Glass)

The Last Supper in 16 billion pixels.

This is only a 25% zoom. Amazing.


BBC NEWS | Last Supper gets 16bn pixel boost

Try it yourself here.

(Thanks for the correction, Bradley. I know you got my back, bro.)

Designs in Focus

The Australian Millicent & Frank designs have a sweet homy feeling with a professional simplicity.

Park planters.

If I would ever pay $160 for a planter, this would definitely be it. Fantastic.

Generate :: Park Planters

(via Creativadoration)

Millicent & Frank.

Simple, fun and lovely.




Millicent & Frank

(via Design Milk)

Tetris furniture.

Great idea. Unfortunately, still just a prototype.


The young singles ratio is getting increase in the society. These people live alone in small apartment in the city. They would like to have multipurpose furniture for using small room efficiently. There are two chairs and on table. Ordinary these are two chairs and table. But When they watch TV. It can be Sofa. And when they go to sleep. It is going to be a single bed.

sdesignunit

Best Architecture of the Year

This is THE most beautiful piece of architecture I've seen this year: Leonardo Glass Cube designed by 3deluxe,











You can help the Sichuan earthquake victims today by

here, the money goes into purchasing water purification tablets.

I want this calendar...

Dupont - Corian Calendar
Designed by Niels-Kjeldsen Design

DuPont asked 40 international designers to create a genuinely functional object - a table or desktop accessory - that reflects the ingenuity of the designers as well as the design possibilities of Corian to commemorate the big event in Milano - Corian 40 years/40 designers.

Winter Journey

Photo by `gilad

Mid-October finds Beijing chilling. Winter descends without saying hi to autumn. I feel it's time to listen to Franz Schubert's Lied cycle Winterreise (op.89, D.911) on Wilhelm Mueller's poems.

Gute Nacht
by Wilhelm Müller (1794-1827)

Fremd bin ich eingezogen,
Fremd zieh' ich wieder aus.
Der Mai war mir gewogen
Mit manchem Blumenstrauß.
Das Mädchen sprach von Liebe,
Die Mutter gar von Eh', -
Nun ist die Welt so trübe,
Der Weg gehüllt in Schnee.

Ich kann zu meiner Reisen
Nicht wählen mit der Zeit,
Muß selbst den Weg mir weisen
In dieser Dunkelheit.
Es zieht ein Mondenschatten
Als mein Gefährte mit,
Und auf den weißen Matten
Such' ich des Wildes Tritt.

Was soll ich länger weilen,
Daß man mich trieb hinaus?
Laß irre Hunde heulen
Vor ihres Herren Haus;
Die Liebe liebt das Wandern -
Gott hat sie so gemacht -
Von einem zu dem andern.
Fein Liebchen, gute Nacht!

Will dich im Traum nicht stören,
Wär schad' um deine Ruh',
Sollst meinen Tritt nicht hören -
Sacht, sacht die Türe zu!
[Ich schreibe nur im Gehen
An's Tor noch gute Nacht]1,
Damit du mögest sehen,
An dich hab' ich gedacht.

1 Schubert: "Schreib' im Vorübergehen / An's Tor dir: Gute Nacht"

Art songs / Lieder, choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text, listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

* by Reiner Bredemeyer (1929-1995) , "Gute Nacht" , 1984, from Die Winterreise.
* by Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) , "Gute Nacht" , op. 89 no. 1, D. 911 no. 1 (1827), from Winterreise, no. 1.

Good Night
Translator: Arthur Rishi

As a stranger I arrived,
As a stranger again I leave.
May was kind to me
With many bunches of flowers.
The girl spoke of love,
Her mother even of marriage, -
Now the world is bleak,
The path covered by snow.

I cannot choose the time
Of my departure;
I must find my own way
In this darkness.
With a shadow cast by the moonlight
As my traveling companion
I'll search for animal tracks
On the white fields.

Why should I linger, waiting
Until I am driven out?
Let stray dogs howl
Outside their master's house;
Love loves to wander
God has made her so
From one to the other.
Dear love, good night!

I will not disturb you in your dreaming,
It would be a pity to disturb your rest;
You shall not hear my footsteps
Softly, softly shut the door!
On my way out I'll write
"Good Night" on the gate,
So that you may see
That I have thought of you.

Download: Winterreise mp3 Part One, Part Two.
Performed by Gardner Chamber Orchestra

When Anime Meets Fashion

An exhibit of Takashi Murakami's work went on display today at Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art, including his highly coveted (and incessantly duplicated) collaborations with Louis Vuitton.

Visit the museum website for more photos and interviews

via ELLE


Limited-edition Neverfull bag: a Louis Vuitton and Takashi Murakami collaboration, price upon request, visit moca.org for more information
Photo courtesy of Takashi Murakami, Kiki Co., MoCA, and Louis Vuitton


Flower Matango (b), 2001-2006, oil paint, acrylic, fiberglass, and iron, private collection, courtesy of Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris and Miami
Photo: ©2001-2006 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd.


Installation view of Summon Monsters? Open the Door? Heal? Or Die?, Kaikai & Kiki, (2000), Time Bokan—pink, (2001), and Jellyfish Eyes (2001) at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2001
Photo: Norihiro Ueno, courtesy of Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris and Miami, and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, ©2001-2006 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd.



Top: Cosmos, 1998, acrylic on canvas mounted on board, courtesy of Collection of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Bottom: Tan Tan Bo, 2001, acrylic on canvas mounted on board, Collection of John A. Smith and Victoria Huges, courtesy of Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Photos: ©1998, 2001 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. You can help the Sichuan earthquake victims today by

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