France: Les Vans Market

Frace: A Little Village Called Naves

Carry me away to a dreamy little town where I awoke in my dream.
This is Naves. A sweet little town nestled in the mountains just outside of Les Vans
But had you told me that I would have been treated such grace and kindness that I experienced here, I'da laughed This is the lovely family that graciously welcomed me along on their vacation. We swam in a river, climbed a mountain and roamed the country sides. I have never eaten so well in all my life.

I can't sleep: part : parte dos

Kelvyn Smith and Jeremy Tankard, Tata Awareness Study for Wolff Olins, UK 1997 c/o Letter Press/ The Allure of the Handmade by David Jury

Smart Illustrations

Ogilvy(Paris) worked with illustrator, Noma Bar, to produce posters for IBM's Smarter Planet campaign.I think good poster design rarely meets big agency advertising, but it does here.
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World Science Festival

I am going to Eye Candy: Science, Sight & Art at the World Science Festival tomorrow which will examine biological principles that drive art appeal.I also might try to go to Icarus at the Edge of Time which is a 40 min film accompanied by a 62 piece orchestral work (one original piece by Philip Glass). Narrated by Liev Schreiber

Vermont & Some Thoughts

The past year has been a little hectic, hence the lack of posts. I am currently doing some much needed recharging. There is so much that I want to talk to you about but we're going to take some baby steps. I recently went up near Montpelier, Vermont to visit a friend who is building a self-sustainable home. He has built an outhouse, revitalized an old cabin you'll see below, made gorgeous wooden lawn chairs, planted an orchard, preserved a bog.... you get the point. After my own year of balls-out work to rebrand a somewhat massive computer company(obvious not alone), this visit really put things in perspective. I don't really know what this means but I hope the impact will be significant.
4 of us stayed in this wonderful little cabin
This last photo is sadly out of focus but I didn't feel like taking it again. These are various mosses and fungi I collected from the trip. They will nicely compliment the collection from my visit to Ashland, Oregon.

Beans

Biked around Boston with an old, dear friend this past weekRay and Maria Sata Center at MIT by Frank Gehry

Filmstrip

top: Ruby Falls, middle: stalactites on the way to Ruby Falls, bottom: Grandparents' barn behind the house.

High Tide

At my grandparents farm in Tony, Alabama
The last photo is the old bath house that my dad used when he was a little boy.

Montana

photos from a trip to see my sister in 2000

Weekend: Nuts

This was in my avocado
















Santi came home with a story about this little guy throwing bits of bark down from a tree he was sitting underneath.

Tis the Season

Its about gallery time in New York! So grab your most uncomfortable shoes, put on your important face and go get yourself some free wine! I kid, though it is that time and I am excited to see some new work. I will post as much as I can in the next month.I want to see Chris Johanson at Deitch this weekend.
Sidebar: a minute fun

Yurt Kidding Me

In the search for the perfect get-away spot to send Santi smoothly sailing into his thirties I ran across a rental yurt powered by solar panels... ehm but I am not finished.... in the middle of a horse field . Neheheheeeat!So for those of you who haven't researched the dwelling structures used by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia, a yurt is portable, felt-covered, wood lattice-framed and from the photos that I have seen, its generally round.
This Buryat yurt is a little different but also cool.
pre-felted yurt
inside
wiki says, "In Russian the structure is called "yurta", whence the word came into English." I like that the word whence is worked into this entry. ceiling
The jury is out on whether I can get reservations but keep your fingers crossed.// The yurt is booked till Sept. :/

Weekend: Beach Camping

On our annual Fire Island trip we got to walk along the boardwalk, having gone before bug season. Super cool. I want to go back to photograph them with a tripod at dusk.S really kicks ass.We found this lamp there!

John von Bergen

is super ccol and down-to-earth... and oh yeah, he makes interesting and beautiful works of art. I got the to snoop around his studio and hang out while I was in Berlin. The photos don't really do the work justice.
pencil and paper 18"x24"steel, glass, polymer-gypsum, steel bolts, graphite
polyurethane, steel bolts, paint

Berlin: Art

Jeff Koon's Flower
It was overwhelmingly everywhere. There is a whole "island" of museums(5), two of which I experienced: The old museum and the Old Nation Museum. Guess I will just have to go back to see the rest.
Old Museum: The red neon reads"All Art Has Been Contemporary" I also went to the New National Museum: A lovely building designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (65-68).
New National Museum: Flags are from the biennial Upstairs I found some Berlin Biennial sculpture and film pieces. I was fortunate enough to be with Jorge who worked with the biennial . Even though the pieces weren't especially thoughtful, save one or two, it was nice to hear about the artist thoughts in combination with the incidentals that affected the development of art work. Specifically the artist's work held in the New National Museum were asked to respond to the architecture. So the artist couldn't necessarily use old work.
That same day I walked down to the East Side Gallery which is a long section of the wall. Originally several artists covered sections of the east side of the wall with murals. Now there are a lot of "tags" and "Suzy wuz here" layering over the work. Even though there are signs discouraging this, I saw parents handing there children pens to leave their mark.
East Side GalleryI am not sure what I think of this or if Berlin has a collective opinion thought. I would assume not since the marking continues. Maybe by not policing the wall, it allows the freedom that the wall once suppressed.
More on Berlin biennial / art to come..