penumbral time.

Birthday card for my mama! Took way longer than it should/looks....

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 02:28:25 +0100

Birthday card for my mama! Took way longer than it should/looks. #kirigami #birthday #card #crafting

When another person on my newsfeed gets engaged

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:55:15 +0000

whatshouldwecallme:

wow.

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:21:00 +0000

wow.:

new favourite tattoo artist.

cjwho: Out of Disorder: Topographical Maps Carved from...

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:41:18 +0000

cjwho:

Out of Disorder: Topographical Maps Carved from Electrical Tape and Intricate Thread Sculptures by Takahiro Iwasaki

Whenever I'm running in my dreams

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:59:16 +0000

whatshouldwecallme:

Having a bit of an obsessive moment…

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:17:21 +0000

Having a bit of an obsessive moment…

vandalog: Mobstr is brilliant.

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:29:21 +0000

vandalog:

Mobstr is brilliant.

cherriedragon: Timur Lysenko WHAT.

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:33:24 +0000

cherriedragon:

Timur Lysenko

WHAT.

nevver: Prepare for take-off

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:20:56 +0000

nevver:

Prepare for take-off

darksilenceinsuburbia: Nobuhiro Nakanishi. Work from Layer...

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:12:58 +0000

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Nobuhiro Nakanishi. Work from Layer Drawings.

“The theme of my work is “the physical that permeates into the art piece.” In a foggy landscape, we no longer see what we are usually able to see – the distance to the traffic light, the silhouette of the trees, the slope of the ground. Silhouettes, distance and horizontal sense all become vague. When we perceive this vagueness, the water inside the retina and skin dissolve outwardly toward the infinite space of the body surface. The landscape continues to flow, withholding us from grasping anything solid. By capturing spatial change and the infinite flow of time, I strive to produce art that creates movement between the artwork itself and the viewer’s experience of the artwork.” – Nobuhiro Nakanishi

The Future of Architectural Education?

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:27:46 +0000

The Future of Architectural Education?:

Very tempted.

My first work in print! (even if it is the cricket...

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:32:15 +0000

My first work in print! (even if it is the cricket paper…baby steps baby steps)

mobylosangelesarchitecture: ok. this house has fascinated me...

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:07:57 +0000

mobylosangelesarchitecture:

ok. this house has fascinated me for a few years now.
here’s what i know:

it’s in the middle of hollywood.

it’s hidden in plain sight.

it doesn’t seem to have a driveway.

it might not actually exist.

i can see it from the other side of the canyon, but when i’ve tried to look for it up close it disappears.

granted, there might be banal and pedestrian explanations for why it doesn’t actually exist and why it seems to disappear when i look for it up close. but who wants banal and pedestrian explanations for things that are interesting and mysterious?
to that end:
i almost feel that humanity as a whole suffered a great loss when cartographers stopped writing ‘here there be monsters’ at the edge of ocean maps.
why not just keep writing ‘here there be monsters’?
that’s way more interesting than writing ‘here there be some normal cities you’ll probably never visit.’
or when the monster at the end of scooby doo was revealed to be a local hardware store employee.
why not leave things vague?
oh,
to be clear:
i’m not saying that there are monsters in this little cabin.
i’m not saying anything about it, except that it might only partially exist, like a little urban rural brigadoon.

it could, of course, be the home and headquarters for a group of crime fighting animals. i’m not saying it IS, but if someone forced me to come up with
an explanation of how and why there’s a driveway-less cabin in the middle of hollywood i’d be forced to say ‘it’s the home and headquarters for a group of crime fighting animals.’
during the day they hang out and sleep and put things in their scrapbooks, and at night they run down the hillside to fight crime.
which might also explain why my neighborhood has a surprisingly low crime rate.

and yes, this is ostensibly a blog about architecture.
thanks.

moby

and p.s-yes, in case you’re wondering, this hidden in plain sight cabin is in the middle of an urban sprawl of 15,000,000 people.

This website

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:19:15 +0000

This website:

is something I just came across, and now I feel like I need all of it in my brain. Immediately.

Photo

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:43:18 +0000

California (double) exposed. By a Diana Mini lomography...

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:20:48 +0000

Venice Beach, Los Angeles

Venice Beach/San Francisco

San Francisco

Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco

San Francisco - near & far

Golden Gate Bridges

California (double) exposed.

By a Diana Mini lomography camera.

(I got lucky)

Documentation. Technology now means that we are able to augment...

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:52:00 +0000

2 week diary

collage of found objects

Documentation.

Technology now means that we are able to augment the capacity of our own memories with that of a machine - and immortalise fragments of a story that would otherwise become lost and forgotten. Or, with enough time and patience, a tangible, uninhibited personal history might be recorded in a diary (I mostly wrote mine on Greyhound buses while sitting next to strangers - high point: being called Jack Kerouac. low point: being called Bridget Jones). Either way, it is essential that in some way we are able to access memory and history somewhere outside of our own heads; to place some of ourselves in another that is, in part, a way of fixing that which is subjective.

Souvenir - to remember.

My souvenirs are the most ordinary of collected/found objects - tickets, matchbooks, business cards, labels, receipts - that evoke a memory, which is surrounded by an entire story, that then interrupts itself with another fragment, that trips into a new recollection, that detours on an entirely different thought. Image becomes person becomes place becomes emotion becomes voice. And so on and so on.

I want to do something more with these ideas and elements, but so far I don’t really know what…

darksilenceinsuburbia: Tom Friedman. Small World,...

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:58:30 +0000

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Tom Friedman. Small World, 1995-1997. Modeling clay, 72 inches in diameter.

600 individual unique sculptures.

americanphoto: “Between the buildings of a city, another city....

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:35:46 +0000

americanphoto:

“Between the buildings of a city, another city. It’s the city no one built. In this city, the buildings are made not of brick or steel, but of sky.” - Peter Wegner.

Photo: © Peter Wegner, courtesy Galerie m Bochum, Germany.

Shapes

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 22:52:41 +0000

Shapes:

I love regular shapes (see recent reblogs) and I love this blog also.