—- Man is rescued 40 miles off the coast of the Carolinas after surviving for two months at sea. Thats a very very long time.
“The Coast Guard is very nice,” Watson said. “I just need some food. I’ll be all right. I wouldn’t mind having some chocolate pudding.”
Have you heard the one about….
TOP JOKE IN BELGIUM. Why do ducks have webbed feet? To stamp out fires. Why do elephants have flat feet? To stamp out burning ducks.
TOP JOKE IN SCOTLAND. I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.
This is part of a scientific study. Really.
Have you heard the one about….
TOP JOKE IN BELGIUM. Why do ducks have webbed feet? To stamp out fires. Why do elephants have flat feet? To stamp out burning ducks.
TOP JOKE IN SCOTLAND. I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.
This is part of a scientific study. Really.
SCI-Arc Lecture series presents Karen Bausmann of Karen Bausmann + Associates this coming wednesday, (that is October 2). You can go to it and fugure out what they do.. here is a website that will help with that too. +++
To celebrate the opening of New York’s Museum of Sex go hunt around here. Check out the feature 1001 Nights in Manhattan… a sexspot/experience map of NYC. I only wish they would realize that setting pages to maximize to full screen is annoying as hell.
Check out Karin Sander’s project Word Search, a catalog of words in 249 languages, written by residents of NYC, to be published in the NY Times on Oct. 4th. It is facinating to see so many languages that most people have probably never heard of, and to read the stories about the individuals who speak them.
TONIGHT: The LAtch Gallery Presents:
The Daily Circus Sept. 28 – Oct. 27
Reception: Saturday September 28th 8pm -12am
A spectacular group show of Extraordinary painting, performance, video, sculpture, sounds, magic, installation, and other fantastic feats of Art
Featuring work by:
Tallon, B&T, Lauren Hartman, Christopher Wonder, Richard Soria, Michele Jaquis, Jeremy Quinn, Cinnamon Roll Gang, Curt Le Mieux, T.S. Lewis, Christopher Sprague, Joseph Mattson, Mike Slack, Matt Rebholz, Brooke Sauer, Tyler Ingle, Sibyl Wickersheimer, Bastard Co., Tynatoy, David Ferrera, Ry Rocklen, Narumi Ogawa, Lucy HG, Frank Martinez, Destiny Rogowski, and DJ Buck Wheaton
Curated by:
Tallon & Brooke Sauer
LAtch Gallery
5367 W. Washington Blvd.
Los Angeles, Ca. 90016
323-934-4370
latch@attbi.com
Look for a black security gate with the silver LAtch sign on the
North side of Washington across from “The Quick Stop Market (the corner of Washington & Hauser)
Sam Jacobs from the London Architecture/Art/etc firm F.A.T. (Fashion, Architecture, Taste) came to SCI-Arc to give a chat last night. He had a slide of Corbu crying and they built a house that is sheer genius. You should go to their website RIGHT NOW and look around in it for no less than 15 minutes. Seriously, they rock, and are not afraid to point out that Complexity and Contradiction (uh, Venturi Scott Brown) is still one of the most important architectural texts out there. I tend to agree.
Mmmmm, tasty. The graphic design and T-Shirts of Minnesota-LA. Get me a Homogenous or running with scissors T please. Dig the scrolling wood panel too. How nice is that? I see you can find their shirts at Vice in LA. Of course…
Am recuperating from Thesis Presentations this past weekend – a re-presentation of proposals, development of methodology, and presentation of research/work accomplished so far. I will put a transcription of the Luxury Project review up as soon as I can type one out as well as a web version of the ideas presented.
Some interesting underlying currents seem to be guiding several projects – an interest in affect, focus on the effects of architecture rather than pure tectonics (both here can reference the Baroque), an examination of the gap between architecural ideas and the finished built product – in terms of the problems inherent in the standards of translation, namely working drawings and their conventions, an interest in the design of neutrality – in stark contrast to the super-flashy manipulation of form (see Guggenheim Bilbao). Anyway, this if just an observation of a few exciting ideas that kept surfacing during several reviews… it should be interesting to see what develops from here. The academic world of architecture could sure use a few new avenues to explore.
Coming up this weekend – on saturday – will be The Daily Circus. Another LAtch event, the Daily Circus will feature art and performances by a slew of LA based artists and musicians, including an installation by Michele Jaquis and myself and an onslaught of improvisational music I will also pitch in for. This event looks to be bigger (and maybe more organized judging by the advertising for it) than the previous ones. More info will be posted here soon.
Kraftwerk Flash meets Kraftwerk – some interactive, some just to watch. Go waste some time there.
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