mysteries of the everyday

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biomorphic yeah-yeah

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Alex Chitty: looking at her website, it is clear is she serving it up lots lately with new work.

I am looking down a microscope on to all the smaller miracles, blob and scribble.

and: her water bear zine.

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minutes from the meeting

symme-trees

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I heart Art Nouveau for the bad-ass organicism of forms, shapes, and naturalistic intuitions reflected in that which is built. That sort of resonance is even nicer when it isn't necessarily even intentional.


Arashiyama, Japan.

sit stylez

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Dan Peterman, Thank You for Your Patronage: Chairs from Street Carts, 1989.

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David Hull

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Philosopher & historian of biology David Hull passed on this last week.

His work in biology was deeply influential throughout graduate school. Besides his numerous papers, I once spent whole summer simply studying his one book Science as a Process.

This morning preparing for my fall classes I find myself relying on copies of books he kindly let me take from his collection when I visited him last year. Philosopher, steadfast gay rights advocate, and even a decent portrait painter to boot....

short obituary here

in honor of...

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PAWS Chicago sends me a big glossy magazine, which among other things includes mention of the donations to PAWS that are made in honor of/memory of certain individuals.

Fuji Soft

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Mount Fuji is certainly one of the most famous and iconic of all mountains in the world. Its symmetry and sliding slate-colored slopes beckon one's sight. For centuries it has been the muse for many an artist, including the 36 views of Mt. Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai ( the originals of which I was lucky enough to see at the Ota Museum this past month.

Luck should also have it a friend on mine brought me up to Uwakudani, a sulphurous steaming peak from which the Fuji can be seen very well. Of course no Japanese tourist sopt would be complete without a soft ice cream stand, setting the stage for a nice visual and metaphorical moment for a 37th view.




























To call this "Fuji soft" seems apropos, and especially so since there is a computer company by that very name in Yokohama - Fujisoft - from which you can supposedly also see Mt. Fuji, on the clearest of days...

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pinned

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caught in Shikoku.

Aug. 6th

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"far east"

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some of what has been going on the last couple of months.

everything flies

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misty cool / artsy cool

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The aforementioned recent trip to th Setouchi Art Festival meant making new friends with art, and revisiting some old ones, like this Olafur Elliason piece that I met at the Chicago MCA last year (clearly we travel in the same fancy circles).

The art lover in the photo recently posted on Japanese techniques for cooling from the summer heat, including public space water misters - so it seems only right to make mention of this artistic device. Certainly Olafur is thinking along the same lines in terms of his work. Perhaps that is why they asked for this piece to be in the Japanese mid-summer festival?

daily things #1001

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A cicada husk found clasping to a tree on Naoshima, in the Seto Inland sea.

This fellow was next to the new Lee Ufan museum and the Setounchi International Art Festival 2010 . For more on that, I recommend Christa's post.

For more on cicadas on the other hand, perhaps here, or here.




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Chiyoda 3331

Chiyoda 3331 art space opened in just the past few weeks and there was an opportunity to stop by. A former public school building now new collective-esque art center of galleries, studios, a cafe, and shops. A beautiful day that turned nicely into a night. Fingers crossed for the possibility of something as interesting as the kids use to rock when they lived in it.

a ceiling is a sky

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every outside has an inside it worries over.

(colors as the camera took them, no additives or preservatives)

daily things - June 24, 2010

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Look, listen, scribble, catch ~

( translatehighlightamplify )

daily things - June 22, 2010

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keys to new places, backs of new business cards, erases that always have an edge, 100 yen store finds that help you find your own way.

strapped/strapping

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Shinjuku; seen from Tochomae station ~

This was a perfect little visible coffee break after just seeing the the Hussein Chalayan show across town at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo: Spacepods, dresses that weave into a science fiction, and all the like. In a country that is now painting Mobile Suit Gundam on their airplanes, are we surprised it might appeal?

Stopping by to see the latest in footwear at the ABC Mart last night, and the current Nike shoes (hell, more than plenty of the cross-trainers) had a similar membraneous quality, like collagen strands in a tissue.

daily things - June 20, 2010

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~ Yokohama says "ohayoo" ~