Luxuriously surreal ataraxic juxtapositions by Luis Gispert. Currently showing at Mary Boone Gallery.
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Digital mock up rendering of the Elbe Philharmonic Hall currently under construction in Hamburg, Germany. Stunning. It’s built on top of an old warehouse.
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Design 99′s “Power House” transformed a dilapidated house in Detroit into this self-sufficient green studio for artists.
Design 99 continues to investigate means of off-the-grid power production, public art initiatives and neighborhood participation. The term Power House describes two functions. First, the house is a power creator meaning it produces its own electricity from solar and wind power with an the intention of powering an additional adjacent house — thus creating a localized power grid. Second, the term implies a kind of taking control of ones own community by becoming an example of self reliance, sustainability and creative problem solving through education, communication and increased diversification of the neighborhood. In all a place that symbolizes hopefulness and curiosity by integrating a complex web of social and artistic ideas into a neighborhood that might otherwise end up into a typical cycle of decay and criminality.
Love that plank by plank color scheme.
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Libyan rebel urges on his fellow fighters with his guitar in this photo by Aris Messinis. “Cool song bro, but why don’t you pick up that bazooka.”
[Hat tip @mrkamoji]
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Photo by Anis Mili of “an abandoned VIP stairway seen on a road at the airport in Sirte, one of two remaining bastions of support for the deposed Muammar Gadhafi.” A similar “stair car” was the primary vehicle of The Bluth family.
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Surreal photo by Philippe de Poulpiquet of “an armed rebel kicking a soccer ball as flames engulf Muammar Qaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli on August 23.”
Reminds me of the famous truce between German and British soldiers during World War I where they stopped fighting, emerged from their trenches to exchange gifts and play soccer against one another on Christmas.
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Photo from Apple’s Keynote speech announcing the iPhone 4S a day before Steve Jobs passing.
Steve Jobs, one of the heroes and visionaries of our generation and certainly mine passed away today. I reminisced over the phone with Kaizar, a fellow Apple fanboy who was in the trenches with me back when everyone gleefully rubbed their hands as Apple looked headed towards bankruptcy. Our friendship formed in college around the topic of Apple or rather our love of Apple. There are not many people in our generation or younger that have roots with Apple as a consumer that goes as far back as him and I. I make this point because what I always found so inspiring and admirable about Jobs wasn’t his success as steward of the booming and ascendant company that it is today per se, but that he achieved this despite all his failures. He wasn’t always the frontrunner that he is today where if you don’t use one of his devices, then people look at you like you’re crazy. I remember a time when it was the very opposite. He had his failures and challenges. He had people tell him he can’t. He shouldn’t. He wouldn’t! He did not care. He had a vision and he stuck with it. We are lucky he didn’t listen to us along the way.
I hope there’s an inspired kid out there who will be the next Steve Jobs of figuring out how to get rid of cancer. Fuck that shit.
(Posted from Macbook Air)
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