1. Attractive men ogling ≤ unattractive men ogling. 2. I have a kickass sense of direction. 3. Once you’ve navigated the streets of both Mumbai and Paris, you can cross any street in the world without fear of being run over. 4. Eating alone at restaurants is more fun in Europe. 5. Fried potatoes are good regardless of their culinary heritage. 6. Jane Jacobs was right : smaller city blocks, people! 7. Shade + breeze = bearable 80-degree weather. 8. South Indians honk just to say hello. 9. South Indians like to say hello a lot. 10. Most people are friendly if you approach them with a smile and a certain degree of reverence.
Shea Hembrey’s 100 Artists project on TED. The thing I most love about his recent project? It addresses the plurality of not only the art world today, but the plurality inherent in each artist (why chose one direction, when you could choose many?). I’ve been struggling with this issue over the last year, and hearing Stanley Tigerman speak at the opening of his retrospective at the YSoA gallery has only underlined my need to define the role pluralism will play in my own work.
The Art of Clean Up speaks so loudly to my color-coding sensibilities.
Should we have a museum of obsolete buildings? Obsolete architectural agendas? Obsolete ideologies?
“In Holland, we have two words for design. One is vormgeving; in German formgeben. And the other word is ontwerpen; in German entwurf. In the Anglo-Saxon language there’s only one word for design, which is design. That is something you should work out. Vormgeving is more to make things look nice. So for instance, packaging for a perfume or for chocolate in order to make things fashionable, obsolete and therefore bad for society because we don’t really need it. While ontwerpe means, and the Anglo-saxon word, but its stronger, means engineering. That means you as a person try to invent a new thing—which is intelligent, which is clever, and which will have a long-life. And that’s called stylistic durability. It means you can use it for a long time.”
— Gert Dumbar
Finally! Now, I want a stylus that lets me control line weight with pressure…when will Apple get around to incorporating Wacom technology? That would open up the possibilities for such a great digital medium!
Moritz Resl’s ‘Average Font’ overlays each letter in 900 typefaces with low levels of opacity to reveal the Platonic ideals.
