Coming soon: A Short Visit

A Short Visit, RODEO, Art Athina, May 22nd

Two Views: Module 856

Yesterday I bumped into this:
Enzo Mari's Module 856,
from the Biennale of San Marino 1967.
Somehow fascinating

YouTube VeeJay for the Moment

Just contributed a video to Felix Burrichters' New York Times Blog Moment.


Great Klaus Nomi who was really the inspiration for this:

Some chairs I met today

Great family of conference chairs from the Carteco archives
they've been to parties
they've been grey and packed
and fuchsia with aquamarine and gold trim and grey,
and there was even a golden bamboo but thats coming soon

This months Pin-Up

Brand new issue of PIN-UP just arrived

with fab post memphis paranoia hotel Estela by Luis Venegas
Fabulous stacks by lovely Marcelo Krasilcic
perfect sunsets by Ann Woo
perfect Freudian slippery by Madelon Viesendorp
interviewed by Beatriz Colominaand my personal favorite, amazing furniture stacks by Florian Slotawa,
profiled by lovely Felix Burrichter of course

Dolmen, Quoit or the Dragons' House

Always been fascinated with Stonehedge and Dolmen Houses, and today I found out that in Greek they are called Δρακόσπιτα (Dragonhouses), which makes everything so more interesting and urgent. Dolmens are also called Quoits or Cromlechs, it all depends where they are, but here's a few cool examples...
typical cromlech
Dolmen
Stonehedge
of course
the most famous Dragon House in Karystos
looks totally livable
almost comfortable
little dolmen
great rocks

Random Island Memory Blast

Browsing through the photos hard-drive,

looking for island ideas,
here's maybe a few

a marble hut
a stone hut
a white rock hut
if only this was a building

Three Mile Island

After Kevin Roche, somehow I googled 3 Mile Island, the nuclear disaster groundsand this amusement park proposal came up
classic 70s photo
radiogramm
demolition
rebirth?

College Life Insurance

I was always somehow fascinated by the work of Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo
this popped up in a book on minimalism. Not sure what to think here

The Stockholm Underground

Stockholms' tunnelbana are lovingly dressed up as faux natural caves.
starting off from the airport with a simple grey cave
with the occasional screen of course
moving on to Stadshuset, getting all theatrical with abandoned bombs
and faux structures emerging thru the faux rock
yellow mysteriesRadhuset with white faux cracks
and ending up in Fridhemsplan,
a white-grey rock with Jackson Pollock-esque paint splatters
plus the prerequisite inexplicable object
and a wooden seagull (why?) flying through clouds of green spray paint.

Parco dei Mostri

I was randomly looking for Herbert List pictures

and I came across this really great one

taken at Parco dei Mostri in Bomarzo, Italy.

searching for more monsters

Then somehow randomly a friend mentioned the hall of giants

at the Palazzo del Teand from there somehow to Dutch painter Carel Willink
who painted the monsters of Bomarzo

and more