Author: sasukakir
The Places We Live
I cannot believe I briefly forgot about The Places We Live. This website made an enormous impact on me when it launched last year. It’s a great use of the medium: award-winning Magnum photographer Jonas Bendiksen captures startling imagery from slums around the world, and these are married with sounds and voices from the locations telling the stories of the families and individuals featured in the photos. You can navigate the 360 degree perspectives interactively.
To quote Aperture: “For the first time in history, more people live in cities than in rural areas. One-third of those city dwellers—over a billion people—live in slums, mostly in the rapidly urbanising cities of Africa and Asia. Slums have become the fastest growing human habitat in the world.”
I was reminded of this important work recently, thanks to coverage of the National Building Museum’s presentation of Bendiksen’s touring multimedia exhibit, developed in conjunction with the Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo. The exhibit is on view at the Museum until January 15, 2010.
If you are happy with your current intake of shelter blogs and mags, do not visit The Places We Live. You really can’t look at lush photos of architecture and decor the same way afterward.
Ephemeral and Nonviable. Or, Giant Jewelry
Ahhh, these are so great! Guess what? It’s in Amsterdam! What the hell is going on with Even More Legendary and the Netherlands? I don’t get it. This recent jewelry grad transforms existing urban structures into giant jewelry. She is working with that zeitgeist about “ordinary”, and quotes the poetic words of photographer Joel Meyerowitz on the second splash page, Splash The Sequel, of her site: “It may be the slant of the light, it may be even the smell, something not visible, you may feel yourself rooted to the spot where suddenly there’s a smell of salt water mixed with roses, and it’s got your number. At that moment you know ‘I’m alive. Here, now.’ And what’s there? Whatever you make of it. Sometimes it’s ephemeral and nonviable. Ordinary.” Saw this over at todayandtomorrow.net.
Beloved Neuroses of Others
No need to post on the despised neuroses. The internet is bursting with that commentary.
This cat draws detailed blueprints of classic television cribs, like Laverne and Shirley’s, the Flintstones’, the Cleavers’, even Batman’s. Actually, especially Batman’s – visit that first. Brought to my attention by SpaceInvading.
Another Is Imminent
(Anselm Kiefer/Nomenus Quarterly)
So set your rss or bookmark or whatever system you use to nomenus quarterly, as his newness should arrive very shortly. And you know that six grand pricetag on the print edition is for chumps.
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Oblivious Revel
Spending, Not Wasting Time
Untitled, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, 1959
“A steadily growing digital image sampler and browsing resource from the vast photography holdings of George Eastman House.”
Begin spending here.
Happy To Do My Duty
And re-post this. Pass it on.
The criticism that Ralph Lauren doesn’t want you to see! – Boing Boing.
Not Completely Trailer Cynicalized Yet
Nay, I still got excited looking at this. And I’d just recently read all about it in Vanity Fair without getting excited. Despite descriptions of a process that involved replacing Heath Ledger, who died during production, with multiple actors (Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, Jude Law). Despite Terry Gilliam, say no more. For that matter, despite Christopher Plummer, also say no more. So, hats off to the trailermakin bizness once again.
Even More Legendary 
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