Finally I managed to meet some really bad guys in Second Life. "Protected by the DPA Jd Moxing" (yes thats a name) is a Darth Vader-ish guy who drives around in a black Mustang (its a Nissan but don't tell) and leaves traces of black smoke as he walks around. 
We took a ride in his car and I think we "killed" a couple of sucker citizens. That was bad, but it was fun too. 
When JD stands still, kisses fly around him. (!?)
I took these ages ago, on the Intrepid Museum, when I did an inflatable video booth for Vanessa. How cute are these rhomboid details? I guess they paint them white 'cos thats where they tie their ropes when they play WAR. Still all the color coding on the grey background is unexpectedly elegant.
The intrepid is a boat that has become a museum. Vanessa was doing her VB42 and she asked me to make a reconstruction of a small Navy-Seals museum in Florida, so I decided to make it out inflatable military boat material, so that it would be a mini museum made as a boat based on a museum of boats inside a boat that became a museum.
So I was randomly flying over islands and putting "architecture" in the finder, to see what the map would come up with, which was not really much. I did bump into a stupid looking house which was flying up in the air for no apparent reason, and things without reason always attract my short attention. 
On closer inspection this was not one house but three, all "created" one next to the other like bad leftover copies. This happens sometimes in SL because you can prefabricate objects in the sandboxes and then just place them wherever from your inventory. Somebody must have clicked "place" three times for this stupid looking generic house. 
The copies were placed a little apart and somehow it created an early Eisenman effect of displaced grids blabla. Given how generic-wal-mart the interior is with the greige carpeting and the windows that look out to other windows it's almost interesting. 
Later on I found yet another copy of this house, this time with a faux 60's spacey thing on the roof. Seems like this poor house can never be normal.
I've always been a fan of Kostis Velonis' work and a few days ago we had a chance to visit his studio, and I could not stop taking photos of his works in progress as well as random objects that could one day become works
The studio is a World, a complete environment with it's own republic, an army, new laws, totally psychedelic in it's own kryptopolitical way, new creatures and new perspectives. Have a look:
more works here
This blog was always supposed to be the "News" page of my site, then it turned into something else entirely. Now a part of this blog has been included in the last issue of super cool L.A. based Textfield magazine, and I guess blogging about the publication of your blog is the absolute Möbius strip of self promotion, so much so that it's almost funny. Anyways, here's how it looks in print:
On the subject of publications, here's also the brand new Ff magazine (no, not THAT type of FF) from Sweden with a sexy looking Farshid Moussavi of Foreign Office Architects on the cover.
This first issue has tons of great stuff on the branding of Stockholm, Urban Sustainability, hot favourites R&sie,
as well as me with Hotel Blue Wave, Cloud House and Polygon Housing with excerpts from an interview by Jan Aman which you can apparently read here (though I could not find it).
and this just in from Ligne8 the magazine of the Opera de Paris
It seems I'm only blogging about magazines or books or internet stuff, and I can definetly feel the urge to get the hell out of the office but it aint happenin just yet. 
I've posted about Mark before, but cant help posting some more because it just gets better and better with every issue. I wonder if they're going to keep redesigning the whole thing with every issue because it sure looks different every time. 
So apart from the totally cool content, Lesley Moore's design for Mark 4 totally rocks. 
Like totally.
Our property is totally blocked in because the area has really shitty zonng laws, and there no room to work on the tiny 512sqft lot, 
so I took the Tube House out for repairs to a Sandbox, to have alook at the section and group it as a single object. A Sandbox is an area where you get lots of space for 12 hours, so people go to there to build and test tons of stuff, like snowmen and 
scary monsters that wrap themselves around your head, 
to a little chrsitmas kiosk selling trees and guns, and french fries and burgers, 
and there was even a weirdo goth guy looking over my back lest I snatch the fries, so I scrammed and continued looking for a larger piece of land somewhere along the coast...
OK I have definetly overdone it with the Gaetano Pesce posts, so here's one more. I just couldnt resist blogging his RAG CHAIR (how fabulous?) 
or this MOLOCH LAMP (???) 
and the cute drawing whose title once again says it all.
I'd been looking for this all over Amsterdam when my friend Jop told me about it, and finally I found it in Milans' Corso Como boutique. Super expensive fashion stores are good for something after all: Check out Issue 1 of the hot new architecture magazine, PIN-UP: the self procaimed magazine for architectural entertainment 
It doesnt say anywhere that it's a GAY ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE but the first issue is very homo friendly indeed, featuring the sexy and talented Mr Juergen Mayer H talking about his upcoming buildings as well as the New Bears of Berlin, 
the cute and very interesting artist Daniel Arsham 
and the utterly camp Anca Petrescu talking about her most famous achievement, the Palace of Romanian dictator Nicolai Ceausescu. 
Oh and there's famous tall buildings made into dildos, the fabulous Rick Owens showing us around his house,texts by Beatriz Colomina and so much more. Run to the newstands.
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