Pocket World in Figures

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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT

Chrome Experiments - Detail - Harmony
Simple Procedural Drawing Tool with a set of special brushes
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
Abramović-Cam. Live during museum hours

Persian Cat Breeders

noreply@blogger.com (cgh) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:10:00 +0000

Megan and I are considering a Persian or Himalayan cat for our apartment, and while we haven't had much luck, I've much enjoyed the amazing websites that breeders maintain.

Sunday Morning

noreply@blogger.com (cgh) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:12:00 +0000

Oscar Grillo's blog

noreply@blogger.com (cgh) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:49:00 +0000

I followed a link from Kate Beaton to the site of artist Oscar Grillo, where he maintains an excellent illustration and cartooning image blog. It's worth following.

Today's post was on natural history artists:

This image:

Reminded me of the distorted skeletons in the Silly Symphony "Skeleton Dance":

Ansel Adams and Japanese American Internment Camps

noreply@blogger.com (cgh) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:25:00 +0000

I was surprised to find this collection of photos by Ansel Adams taken of the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California, archived by the Library of Congress.

via c-monster

Prospect Heights/Hyrule

noreply@blogger.com (cgh) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:00:00 +0000

My neighborhood in 8-Bit. Turn your city into a game.

8-Bit NYC

via @volume-mag

Links for 2010-03-08 [del.icio.us]

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST

Tino Sehgal's "This Progress": The Missing Children's Guide - Speakeasy - WSJ
The first few days were not encouraging. “People don’t understand the piece, dad,” my eldest son would said to me. “I ask them if they want to follow me and they say no and walk up the rotunda without me. Only five people said yes. I got like 20 nos.”
For Pedestrians, Atlantic and Flatbush Could Go From Bad to Worse
Indictment of poor pedestrian conditions on Flatbush and Atlantic

Nicolas Moulin

noreply@blogger.com (cgh) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:23:00 +0000

Enjoying interventions by Nicolas Moulin

“Warmdewar”, 2006
16 mm film

“Bergenobliqusaml”, 2008

via Pruned.

Links for 2010-03-05 [del.icio.us]

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST

Explore Maps | Southern Forests For The Future
Nice use of GIS
Books in the Age of the iPad — Craig Mod
To read.

Links for 2010-03-04 [del.icio.us]

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST

Business Card or How to Make People Angry
so funny. reminds me of monty python

Building Twins

noreply@blogger.com (cgh) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:18:00 +0000

Orhan Ayyüce has a good article up on Archinect on twin buildings. His main point:

As you can see[...], a developer can build two buildings with twin concept. He can save a lot of cash from the architectural billing and contract time, from the material purchases and double discounts, and, from the ease of proven installation and erection, all of which translate into large sums of monetary gain whose importance in American urbanism is paramount.

Next time you drive by a twin concept building, take a look at them and say, “Thanks Orhan, I see what you mean.”

via SuperColossal

Links for 2010-03-03 [del.icio.us]

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST

neil freeman - streets centered
All of the streets in selected cities, horizontally and vertically centered.

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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST

Why There Is No Jewish Narnia > Publications > Jewish Review of Books
Although it might seem unlikely that anyone would wonder whether the author of The Lord of the Rings was Jewish, the Nazis took no chances. When the publishing firm of Ruetten & Loening was negotiating with J. R. R. Tolkien over a German translation of The Hobbit in 1938, they demanded that Tolkien provide written assurance that he was an Aryan. Tolkien chastised the publishers for “impertinent and irrelevant inquiries,” and—ever the professor of philology— lectured them on the proper meaning of the term: “As far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects.” As to being Jewish, Tolkien regretted that “I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people.”
Map Envelope

Links for 2010-03-01 [del.icio.us]

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST

erasing.org - Seas
While Laura sleeps on the couch I put in a BBC Planet Earth disc — very beautiful on Blu-ray; the format flatters luminous underwater ocean scenes — and leave the sound off. On the CD player I put on Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2. This combination is absolutely nightmare gasoline.
smitten kitchen
Not Eating Out in New York
[ No Recipes ]
Goldilocks finds Manhattan
The Eaten Path
Walking Off the Big Apple: Connect the Dots: A Self-Guided Walk to Public Art in Lower Manhattan

Call in tactical tree drops

noreply@blogger.com (cgh) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:27:00 +0000

Via @eatingbark: Guerilla Gardening - Seeds of Revolution.

Very excited about this game - incite revolution through subversive planting! Green the city and start insurrection. Their really in-depth development blog here.

Related: The Urban Wilderness Action Center - looking for thoughts on urban wilderness

Lego fill-in (New York)

noreply@blogger.com (cgh) — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:14:00 +0000

Lego interventions arrive in New York!

More Dispatchwork (Jan Vormann) found by @NewYorkology at the General Theological Seminary.

Noby Noby Boy shows the shortest distance between my home and my work

noreply@blogger.com (cgh) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:49:00 +0000

Which are apparently six thousand meters apart. I don't think I've ever seen an iPhone "game" use as much of the platform's functionality as Noby Noby Boy.

All novels should start with maps and floor plans

noreply@blogger.com (cgh) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:18:00 +0000

Fed by Birds is reading old detective novels and particularly enjoying the maps and diagrams that always accompany the text. Why imagine the space in the novel when the author can lay it out for you? (I personally just like that I can flip back to the front of the book whenever I need that visual reminder).

I don't have much to add besides a strong endorsement - if your book deals with space, why not consider mapping it out for us?

Saying goodbye to Da Cake Spott

noreply@blogger.com (cgh) — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:11:00 +0000

Ever since Megan and I moved to Flatbush Avenue, this cryptic storefront sat empty across the street. Who built it? What was its purpose?
As far as I can gather, it was rumored to be a bakery from the owner of 'Snice, but I don't think it was confirmed. The sign went up in 2007, and besides workers visiting from time to time, the place never opened.
Now it looks like a spa is opening there, and the afternoon after I took this photo, those big red letters were gone. So goodbye, Da Cake Spott, your name brought a smile to my face and bafflement to my mind every morning.

View of Sighthill Cemetery (2008)

noreply@blogger.com (cgh) — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:25:00 +0000

Cyprien Gaillard, in what looks to be a really interesting group show.

Update: Owen Hatherly writes a good critique.

Olafur Eliasson, Your House, 2006

noreply@blogger.com (cgh) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:09:00 +0000

The artist's house in Copenhagen, split into vertical cross-sections and bound in a book. 908 pages, each page corresponding to a 2.2 cm slice.
Saw this weekend at the Museum of Arts and Design. Their show on paper art is worth visiting.

Close up here.

food doodles

noreply@blogger.com (cgh) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:12:00 +0000

I love Laura Park's work. Until her website is up, her illustration and comic work is available on Flickr.

snotorious b.i.g. ctd

noreply@blogger.com (cgh) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:38:00 +0000

So New York wasn't spared after all...

snotorious b.i.g.

noreply@blogger.com (cgh) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:00:00 +0000

The NASA Earth Observatory released this image of the snowstorm hitting the east coast.

My friend Dan was in (spared (for now)) New York for an interview, and rode back on the bus to DC armed with a snowshovel.

mousepath

noreply@blogger.com (cgh) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:05:00 +0000

I gave mousepath a try - here's my day at work, recorded.

Nick van Woert

noreply@blogger.com (cgh) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:05:00 +0000

"Julius Caesar" via new favorite But Does It Float

Seen on Rhizome

noreply@blogger.com (cgh) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:59:00 +0000

Until The End (2010) - Nicolas Sassoon:

link refresh

noreply@blogger.com (cgh) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:52:00 +0000

Inspired by a post I read elsewhere, I finally updated my blogroll and links on the sidebar. I'm inspired to update this site by the work my friends do online, and my 'friends' list needed to reflect that.

Links were updated to more current urls and friends who started blogging more recently were added. I think only one site was removed (rest in peace shamby productions).

m.ammoth's best architecture of the decade

noreply@blogger.com (cgh) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:00:00 +0000

Just when I thought the "Best (blank) of 2009/decade" lists were over and finished, mammoth writes an amazing post on the best architecture of the 2000's.

It avoids obvious spectacle architecture and uses a broad definition of the term. The result is a list that truly reflects, through a positive lens, the spirit of the decade. The authors are genuinely excited about the work done over the previous ten years and see much to look forward to, avoiding the usual gloom employed when writing on the last decade.

There's a lot to like, and I especially enjoyed their thinking on the housing development at Quinta Monroy, Chile, pictured above, which encourages creative natural expansion by homeowners.

[mammoth]

Kate Beaton shares an early lesson in making comics

noreply@blogger.com (cgh) — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:26:00 +0000

I think everyone has gone through a situation something like the one linked above. I remember being very disturbed that I could hurt the feelings of adults. From @beatonna

BLACK DEATH by Sammy Harkham

noreply@blogger.com (cgh) — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:57:00 +0000

What Things Do just put up the final installment of Black Death by Sammy Harkham. Like most of his work, it's beautiful, violent, and compelling. I'd recommend checking out the site for more of his comics and lots of other great series. I'm glad sites like this exist.

Flickr Face

noreply@blogger.com (cgh) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:16:00 +0000

I'm glad I wasn't the only person who noticed this.