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Architecture and Being

Monday, August 17th, 2009

A few years ago, a girl sat in front of me and recounted her experience of the Thermal Baths in Vals, Switzerland. The conversation went something like this: (more…)

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It’s been nearly two months since Tehran erupted in protest. It’s only been a few weeks, however, since the memorial for Sohrab Arabi, a nineteen-year-old Iranian shot during post election protests. (more…)

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Doodling Art with WeWillDoodle

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

If artists were to have some quasi-phobia of anything, it would perhaps be the fear of blank space. A white wall or a blank page of a notebook would probably trigger some inner outrage, (more…)

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Dark Night of the Soul: Into the Mind of David Lynch

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Ah, David Lynch, that inscrutable master of macabre doings on Main Street, U.S.A. The deranged impresario behind cult classics (more…)

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Green is the New Black: Profile of Fashion Designer Jme

Monday, July 20th, 2009

It would appear green is the new black and I am not talking about the color. If you Goggle eco fashion, you will come up with hundreds of companies who have jumped on the green bandwagon. (more…)

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Book Review: The Infrastructural City

Monday, July 13th, 2009

In 1971, Reyner Banham’s well-known book, Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies, offered an inspired version of what the city had to offer. Rather than deride the sprawling, car-crazy metropolis, Banham embraced the place, dividing it into four zones (more…)

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Deconstruction of a Fashion Website

Monday, July 6th, 2009

It used to be that making it in the fashion world entailed actual sewing, meeting a few well-placed people face-to-face, selling them on well-designed clothes and then setting up a tiny boutique shop preferably in a hip neighborhood of New York. But that’s all so passé now. (more…)

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From Minimalism to “No Style”

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

It would be hard to find a night sky darker than the one over U.S. Route 67, on the way to Marfa, Texas. According to some accounts, it would be more difficult to miss the strange, floating balls of colored light known as the Marfa Lights, which occasionally float against the jet black horizon. (more…)

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Visualization: Information Overload

Monday, June 15th, 2009

Sometimes I can’t tell if technology is ruining my life or becoming my life, or if the two are ultimately inseparable. When I was growing up in Spokane, WA, I’d read the Spokesman Review every Sunday and that was that. (more…)

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Shoe Enginnering: Marloes ten Bhömer’s Walking Art

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Humble accessory no more, the shoe has graduated into becoming any ensemble’s main focal point. Like little sculptures for the feet, this new breed of shoes escape their traditional form and construction while challenging current footwear archetypes (more…)

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