I love this photo for so many reasons. Chris Glass plucked these leaves -- all from the same tree -- to create this amazing color wheel. So let's hear it for Chris's discerning eye, nature, creativity, color, ingenuity, inspiration, bothering to pull off the side of the road in pursuit of beauty, chance, serendipity, and the wild and wonderful interwebs!
Happy Thanksgiving, friends. xoxo
This poster is so awesome I could cry tears of joy.
Check out the poster of James Brown, too. That is so fantastic that I want to rob a bank to buy all new furniture just to give that poster its aesthetic due.
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Um, yeah. Just what is so horrifying about pretty 39-yr-old Faith Hill, pray tell?
Here she is looking like a very pretty person.
Redbook sucks.
Ooooooooh, talk about easy on the eyes. The new design of Le Monde Diplomatique.
Mmmmm, that is gorgeous. Talk about readability. This former yearbook staffer is drooling.
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Will wonders never cease? Let's hope not. This incredible, beautiful, elegant Ping-Pong tree sponge is killing me.
Wow. Wow.
Today, the revolution in lights, cameras, electronics and digital photography is revealing a world that is even stranger than the one that Beebe struggled to describe.
The images arrayed here come from “The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss” (University of Chicago Press, 2007), by Claire Nouvian, a French journalist and film director. In its preface, Ms. Nouvian writes of an epiphany that began her undersea journey.
“It was as though a veil had been lifted,” she says, “revealing unexpected points of view, vaster and more promising.”
The photographs she has selected celebrate that sense of the unexpected. Bizarre species from as far down as four and half miles are shown in remarkable detail, their tentacles lashing, eyes bulging, lights flashing. The eerie translucence of many of the gelatinous creatures seems to defy common sense. They seem to be living water.
On page after page, it is as if aliens had descended from another world to amaze and delight. A small octopus looks like a child’s squeeze toy. A seadevil looks like something out of a bad dream. A Ping-Pong tree sponge rivals artwork that might be seen in an upscale gallery.
And I can't help it. I want this:
I'm sure this little (?) Dumbo octopus already has an anime contract in Japan. ;->
Ooooooooooooooooooh. This would fit perfectly in my backyard.
From Africa to Queens Waterfront, a Modernist Gem for Sale to the Highest Bidder.
Tomorrow, the Maison Tropicale, a small aluminum-paneled house built in 1951 by Jean Prouvé, a French designer and the current court favorite of well-heeled contemporary art and design collectors internationally, is being opened to the public for preview in Long Island City. Christie’s, the auction house, will offer it for sale on June 5. The presale estimate is $4 million to $6 million.
It’s cash and carry. The structure is a kit of metal parts, like an Ikea piece, but bigger. It was conceived by Prouvé as a utopian prototype for prefabricated housing for French colonial officials working in Africa. Eric Touchaleaume, a French antiques dealer, bought the house and two others in 2000 — the only three produced, andwhich actually made the plane trip to the Congo and Niger in the 1940s and ’50s. He then took them apart and shipped them back to France.
Mr. Touchaleaume has said he is selling the Maison Tropicale reassembled in Queens to finance a Prouvé museum, which will travel in another of the three Maisons Tropicales. The house’s riverside preview site, directly to the south of the Queensboro Bridge, is owned by Silvercup Studios and is being developed as a $1 billion complex with two towers of luxury residences — a more New York kind of utopia.
The Maison is also plug-and-play: there was never any plumbing, and it is wired for electricity. It ships in six containers. Christie’s is compiling a short list of potential bidders with substantial properties in Mustique, Antigua, the Hamptons — name your playground — who might like a 59-foot-by-32-foot--by-16-foot-tall folly/outdoor sculpture/guesthouse/vintage metal toy to park on the lawn, with a designer label attached.
Ooooooooooooooooh.
The Philip Johnson Glass House will open to the public for the first time in its 50 year history this spring. This 47-acre site, with buildings designed in each decade of Philip Johnson’s life, represents a survey of architecture, art, and landscape design from the second half of the twentieth century. Preview months of April, May, and June will precede the Inaugural Gala Picnic to be held on Saturday June 23, 2007.
I'm sure it's not "frio," which is the first thing that came to mind. Jeez.
Another museum trip to make! And just in time, our pal JM tells us that the brand new Express Jet flies non-stop RDU to SAT.
Museum Honors Hispanic Culture.
With a hot pink carpet on the sidewalk and a 600-piece mariachi band in the wings, this city has swung into fiesta mode to welcome the nation’s largest Latino museum, a collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution.
Few American cities are more exuberantly tied to life south of the border than San Antonio, where tourists flock to shop its Mexican markets, meander its River Walk and sip margaritas. But despite the persistent efforts of residents, no museum here showcased Hispanic arts. The new museum — the Museo Alameda affiliated with the Smithsonian, or MAS — “more,” in Spanish — changes that.
“It’s making history,” said Rosa Rosales, national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, a rights group with 150,000 members, who came home to San Antonio from Washington for the opening. “Words cannot express the need. Our history has been ignored.”
