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Monroe’s Last Nudes Lohan Redux
MONROE’S LAST NUDES LOHAN REDUX
Looking at the New York Magazine Nude Lohan prints, as an artist who’s taken many reference photoshoots, I felt the pictures only told half the story. I needed to see how they compared to the original Marilyn shots and which Marilyn photos were used for reference. Just seeing the Lohan photos didn’t give me any perspective.
I painstakingly (it was fun) went through the original Bert Stern / Monroe “the last sitting” shot-by-shot and figured out (to my best guess) which pictures he referenced for the Lohan shoot. (see below)
How Lohan was able to take poses and expressions that are fun and alive in 1962 and make them look so dull and contrived in 2008 is amazing. Probably the one time when a little champagne tumble off the sobriety wagon would have been a good career move. . .
READ MORE AFTER THE JUMP W / ALL PHOTOS AND REFERENCE SHOTS
(NOT SAFE FOR WORK)
Lindsay Lohan Nude, Bert Stern, Marilyn Monroe, New York Magazine, The Last Sitting, Hotel Bel-Air, Lindsay Lohan, Layout, Comparison, Side-by-Side, (NOT SAFE FOR WORK), Cojo Art Juggernaut, Artsucks.com, Cojo
HORTON HEARS A WHO: SKETCH 365 SEUSS HOMAGE’s
HORTON HEARS A WHO: SKETCH 365 SEUSS HOMAGE’s These drawings were initially created for my yearlong sketch experiment SKETCH365.com as tributes to the Dr.Seuss legend for my painting (S)TORY TIME. The top sketch seen here is called HORTON, the next sketch on the bottom left is called CAT IN HAT, and the third sketch GEISEL. Click the images above or the names of the sketches to see if the original sketches are still available for purchase. If you buy one of these originals I will include a print of the finished colored piece with it.
To browse all 365 sketches in the sketch gallery (sold and unsold) please visit SKETCH365.com. Sketches are available on a first come first serve basis.
Dr. Seuss, Horton, Cat in the Hat, Sketch365, Sketch365.com, Sketchbook, Horton Hears a Who?, Horton Movie, Sketches for sale, Jim Carey, Steve Carell, Cojo Art Juggernaut, Artsucks.com, Cojo
The New York Times paid a visit to Jean Shop, the Manhattan based specialist denim store that sells its own brand of raw jeans which can be dyed and distressed to your specifications.
Seen On The Streets Of Korea – via Wooster
Make it Right
The work of architects in the Make It Right 9 housing project in New Orlean’s lower 9th ward.
Wannabe architect Brad Pitt has assembeled this amazing team including a few of my design heroes.
Welcome to Cloud City
Studio Lindfor’s vision of what would happen if NYC were hit by a category 3 hurricane.
A lesson in when to stop…
Dear Leger Wanaselja Architecture, you had it at the middle photo, then you lost it. My word of wisdom for your office, Edit.
Frank Gehry gave us great wisdom when he said, often buildings look better under construction.
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/02/08/prefab-friday-container-house-by-leger-wanaselja-architecture/
Harvesting energy from a revolving door.
Harvesting energy from a revolving door.
The water cube, National Swimming Center in Bejing
Betting the farm worked in Queens
The annual transformation of the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center’s courtyard, departs from previous installations, creating a rural oasis and urban farm, complete with a harvesting plan.
A lot of Ingmar Alge’s paintings are reflections of architecture that brings to mind a suburbia of “somewhere else”. There is a carefully constructed flatness to the work, as though the artist has built up layers to create a façade that hides the truth. The viewer is given a take-it-or-leave-it sort of choice, and to get through to the horizon, must first get lost in the lonely landscape provided. How refreshed will that swimming pool be? How cosy is that home? What sort of conversation takes place on the two chairs?
Artist: Ingmar Alge
+ kuckei-kuckei.de
A brief survey of interactive Facades:
Some of these seem to be compensating for that missing element of design, the lights distract you from lack of ambition and execution.
Exceptions: Herzog & DeMeuron’s Allianz Arena, Peter Cook.
Krzysztof Wodiczko, had no problem finding his voice on a well executed facade: http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/wodiczko/index.html
Roadtrip to KC?
Anyone? Anyone?
Why Architects back up their files…
Tokyo Jewel Box
Ando finds a skin. Typically his work is un-adorned concrete, beautifully executed.
Ando finds a skin. Typically his work is un-adorned concrete, beautifully executed.
Architecture of Abandonment
Architects Duel
I see a new DSM event….
Been there, Done that:
AIA National’s Best of the Best
Honors for Architecture:
Honors for Architecture:
Honors for Interior Architecture:
Honors for Urban Design:
For those of you keeping score from Catalyst State, Note: Brown 1, Phifer 1.
MoMA goes pre-fab:
Pre-fab housing is not for the Trailer Park anymore and 2 years after the Walker did the same: http://design.walkerart.org/prefab/ (The Walker show was excellent).
Walden in 2008?
Finding a retreat in the carpark because you “wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived…”
For the Birds:
An estimated 1 billion birds die annually in the United States as a result of striking buildings, bridges, and other manmade structures.
When you have to go…NYC has you covered.
The new public toilets in NYC, 25 cents and you’re covered but what follows is “possibly the longest and most awkward 20 to 30 seconds of a person’s day. The door slips open like an elevator, but then it stays open, to accommodate those who need extra time getting in. Meanwhile, men and women in suits walk past. It is very difficult to look inconspicuous in a bathroom on a sidewalk in New York with the door open.”
Only a mere $100,000 each and 14 gallons of water per use.
Very interesting work by Jaleh Afshar www.JALEHAFSHAR.com draw.paint.design.shoot.
The Falling Times
LINK quote [Falling Times is an everlasting and growing real-time news translation machine representing permanently appearing and disappearing information about our times and, simultaneously, the fall of our western decadent civilization. Falling Times refers to the heavy InfoPollution we live in. The InfoSociety has created a new kind of consumer – the InfoConsumer! The most consumed information is the news today. The news has been turning more and more into an entertainment – the Infotainment. The news producers are the biggest info polluters of our time and thus are the biggest contributors to the infoEcological disaster].
Nils Rainer Schultze is a Berlin lighting designer who transforms the bleak winter nights by using areas that are usually fine weather fountains to produce lighting sculptures. Instead of dispensing water, the fountains shed colourful light that transforms the urban landscape at a time before the solstice when we really appreciate it. Shown above is Winterwolken, an installation that changes colour when people approach. These are great examples of public art that make a difference.
Artist: Nils Rainer Schultze
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Disney’s Highway to Hell:
A glimpse into our auto-enslaved future…
I’m still waiting for my rocket car that turns into a boat, and the sun-powered electro-suspension car.
http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/20/disneys-highway-to-hell/Bldgblog’s Year in review on Archinect:
http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=69229_0_24_0_C
A glimpse into our auto-enslaved future…
I’m still waiting for my rocket car that turns into a boat, and the sun-powered electro-suspension car.
http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/20/disneys-highway-to-hell/Bldgblog’s Year in review on Archinect:
http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=69229_0_24_0_C
Yale’s dean gets the credit he’s due:
Congrats Bob Stern.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/arts/design/16pogr.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin
Africa becomes Europe’s power plant?
http://pruned.blogspot.com/2007/12/what-if-africa-was-europes-power-plant.html
Grimshaw’s Aerogenerator:
Wonder if you could adapt this to work with fresh water applications?
http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/222/
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Thanks to Brad Rippey:
Tate Modern Receives Grant:
Herzog and De Meuron get the opportunity to complete their vision at the Tate. To be completed by 2012.
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=1702
Server Rooms:
“Computer server rooms are at least as great a threat to the climate as SUVs or the global avaiation industry.” – New Scientist
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/server-rooms-and-future-of-humanism.html
coincides with the future of books?
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/future-warehouse-of-unwanted-books.html
Swank living in NoHo:
Subterranean Pharming:
http://pruned.blogspot.com/2007/12/cave-pharming.html
Vernacular innovation in the face of tragedy:
http://pruned.blogspot.com/2007/11/bridge-house-of-sierra-leone.html
Arcana Hotel:
http://www.monocle.com/sections/design/Web-Articles/Arcana-Hotel/
Steven Holl Talks with Charlie Rose:
30 minutes, but worth it and a plug for U of I School of Art and Art History (who wants to go on a road trip?).
http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2007/07/23/3/a-conversation-with-architect-steven-holl
via fashiontrendsetter.com
adidas Originals Spring/Summer 2008 – Introducing Originals Denim by Diesel
On February 1, 2008 two iconic lifestyle brands, adidas Originals and Diesel will launch a landmark product collaboration – adidas Originals Denim by Diesel.
The first denim collection to result from this four year relationship is a collectible line of extremely detailed, premium denim for true jeans lovers, designed in conjunction with the adidas Originals and the Diesel Creative Team, latter headed by Creative Director Wilbert Das. Two male and two female models presented in four different washes will be available exclusively at adidas Originals stores all around the world starting spring/summer 2008. Prices range from 160 Euro for the female adi-rohnary model up to 210 Euro for the male adi-viker model. Representing the long-term partnership of the two brands, the range is recognizable by the adidas Originals Trefoil and the Diesel co-branding.adidas Originals and Diesel – two global brands that stand for authenticity, self-expression and creativity for the fashion forward – have come together in the spirit of unconstrained exploration and collaboration.”I am an adidas fan myself and I am very excited about this project! It is the first time that Diesel creates a denim line with another lifestyle brand and we wanted to do it with adidas that shares with us the same fresh attitude and care for high quality and creativity” said Renzo Rosso, President of Diesel.
“This is the first time that we have entered into a collaboration of this kind with adidas Originals, and we would only do this with the right partner who brings our consumer something truly unique,” explained Hermann Deininger, CMO adidas Sport Style Division. Now when a consumer walks into one of our stores, we can offer them a complete look – from a track top to jeans to a pair of sneakers.”
The unconditional approach to individuality and expression shared by both brands is presented in the first Originals Denim by Diesel collection and the below the line campaign to celebrate both authenticity and originality.
The general concept behind the different campaign executions is the expression of “83 original ways to successfully waste your time” by presenting playful, inspiring ways to encourage open, uninhibited self-expression and celebrate originality. 83 inspirations is just a start to invite everybody to share ideas in adidas Originals stores, online and through events. Because staying open to others is what being unconstrained is all about.
For more information please visit www.adidas.com | www.diesel.com
Rock & Republic and Diesel Open Online Stores via Denimology
This month both Rock & Republic and Diesel have opened online stores. The Rock & Republic store is pretty straight-forward displaying the jeans, clothing and accessories is an easy to browse way. Diesel on the other hand take their usual bonkers approach to web design by displaying their range in a “Liquid Space Style Lounge” which turns out to be an underwater “Matrix” style environment where browsing through the range is frustratingly difficult.
Blessed & Cursed Denim via Denimology
Blessed & Cursed is a German premium denim label that I have just been tipped off about. Their website doesn’t offer much in the way of info about the company, but the religious themed press photos are interesting. 
Algae Power:
“It has long been known that algae produce small amounts of hydrogen as a byproduct of photosynthesis. In 1999, researchers in Berkeley observed that algae alternate between hydrogen production and normal photosynthesis depending on the chemical environment. Depriving algae of oxygen and sulfur, the researchers greatly increased the hydrogen production and triggered the algae to produce hydrogen for an extended period of time. Another research group also discovered that algae will sustain simultaneous production of hydrogen and oxygen from water by illuminating the algae and depriving it of carbon dioxide and oxygen. Researchers estimate that a small pond ( 1.5 acre or 10 meter diameter) will produce enough hydrogen on a weekly basis to fuel 12 cars.”
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/algae-power.html
Massive Study:
“Unlike the existing high-rises where one is segregated from the outside world as soon as he [or she] leaves the ground floor, Boutique Monaco will be a building where at each level will be a vertical open space accessible from different spots in the floor”
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/study-in-mass.html
Finding the Wind:
London the test city for urban wind power?
http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2007/11/reading-a-recen.html
Confronting the energy crisis:
A look back at 1973.
The 2007 Progressive Architecture Awards:
The current definition of “progressive.”
http://www.architectmagazine.com/industry-news.asp?sectionID=1006&articleID=418995
sound chair data sculpture via information aesthetics
a sound that is precisely crafted to form the physical shape of a normal chair when visualized as a 3-dimensional object using a volume, time, frequency line plot. the life-size chair is an exact replica of the soundwave graph so that the result is a product with dual existence as both a “sound” & a “chair”.
an original approach to data-driven physical artifacts or “data sculptures”.
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Catalyst State – Iowa Design Weekend Nov 16 & 17 2007
Cody Hudson for GoodShape Design
by Tim Yu, 26 October 2007
Multimedia artist Cody Hudson is the first to take part in the GoodShape Design artist series run. The limited edition series consists of silk screened 18×24 prints made on heavy stock acid-free paper and t-shirts printed on the trusted American Apparel tee.
GoodShape founder and designer Wayne Pate isn’t going for a high-level concept here, he’s simply including artists that he finds inspiring personally. Rather than capitalize on current fads or who’s popular at the moment, we appreciate how the collection is a more honest curation of timeless and fun design.
The next artist on deck is Tyler Askew of Rude Movements. Wayne comments, “besides Tyler I have a few people in mind but I will keep that under my hat for now.” We’ll just have to keep checking back.
The prints go for $50 and are limited to an edition of 50 and the t-shirts cost $30. Pick up both at the GoodShape Online Shop.
Ooh yeah, some yummy work by Courtney James who also has a Flickr site.
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