going fishing

big china model

world press photos

amazing work from photojournalists working around the world and acknowledged as 2009 world press photo contest winners

more sad times for polaroid

word from the ny times on the latest in a series of financial setbacks for polaroid and a cultural setback for us all

To pay off creditors, a bankruptcy court in Minnesota is forcing Polaroid to sell a portion of its collection at Sotheby’s in New York on June 21 and 22. On offer will be 400 photographs by Ansel Adams alone, along with prints by Mr. Close, Mr. Wegman, Robert Rauschenberg, David Hockney, Robert Frank, Robert Mapplethorpe, Warhol and Lucas Samaras.

rauschenberg, “japanese sky I from the bleacher series”

nightwalking

tim knowles is a british artist performing unique and rigorous explorations mapping movement and recording the disturbances of ephemera

irwin fog hedge

archiving images and stumbled across this slide of robert irwin‘s fog hedge, courtesy of julie b.

simultaneity + operations

photomontage from diller+scofido [+renfro] project for the brasserie restaurant in new york [2000]. range of potential action + inhabitation rendered simultaneously through photograph. consider both for site documentation [think: shadows, "typical" use] or shelter “operation” diagrams [think: sit, sleep, stand, sell?]

from the ciliary function, works + projects 1979-2007:

bathrooms separated physically yet connected visually by semi-transparent honeycomb panels and a cast resin sink spanning both spaces with a single drain between

reCOVER parsons

testing grasshopper to model + router to fabricate flatpack installation for exhibit at parsons about reCOVER relief housing project from uva. collaboration with a. canfora

display panels

re-installing display cases. collaboration w. iliescu. east lobby as hinge between building addition + existing line of display walls. leverage production-scale router to fabricate plywood “peg-board” for system of posts + hooks to secure cases of various sizes.

“unfolded” elevations of doors + peg-boards: rhythm of vertical mullion frames extended as field.

remembering rainier

from years-ago-reading, probably around the time i shot this:

great things are done when men and mountains meet
w. blake (1807)