‘Habana is very much like a rose,’ said Fico Fellove in the movie The Lost City, ‘it has petals and it has thorns…so it depends on how you grab it. But in the end it always grabs you.’ “One of the most beautiful cities in the world. You see it with your heart.” Enrique [...]
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Desde La Habana {Imágenes y Son}
Posted in ArchistDesign | Studio, Architectural Photography, Architecture, Art Show, art,poetry,writing, Books, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Habana Diaries, History of Architecture, Le flâneur, Lectures, Music, Photography, photography, Quotes, Reading, Research, School Work, Traveling, tagged Alejo Carpentier, Architectural Styles, Architecture, Centro Habana, city of colums, cuba, Cuban eclecticism, El Malecon, Federico Lorca, graham greene, Habana, Habana Vieja, Havana, havana as a rose, images, La Habana, literary quotes, Lost CIty, photographs, Photography, Quotes, ruins, urban design, Vedado on April 20, 2012 | 1 Comment »
San Francisco My Love II
Posted in Architecture, art, Books, Drawing, Photography, Poetry, San Francisco Diaries, sketchbook, sketching, Traveling, Writing, tagged berkeley sign, Drawing, Photography, san francisco, sketches on February 19, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Strangers | The Poetry of Arab Women
Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Books, Photography, photography, Poetry, Writing, tagged art, fog, Huda Ablan, marine layer, Photograph, poem, Poetry, poetry and photgraphy, Strangers, the poetry of arab women on October 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Strangers by Huda Ablan 1. No one belongs to the path except a pocket stuffed with the leaves of the night. It keeps steps in stock from a shop at the crossroads of the will, patched with the skin of an old dream. When yawning, it invites them to a dance with few feet [...]
Wabi Sabi, Dwellings for Imaginary Civilizations, Nightverses
Posted in Architecture, architecture, art, Art Gallery, art,poetry,writing, Artuesdays, Berkeley Diaries, Books, Coffee, Collage, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Featured Artists, Poetry, school, School Work, sketching, Writing, writing, tagged art, charles simonds, clay dwellings, corcovado nights, designers, dwellings for imaginary civilizations of little people, graphite drawing, new york, NYC, Poetry, poets & philosophers, sarah vaughn, wabi-sabi for artists, whitney museum on August 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. It is a beauty of things unconventional. From Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers Charles Simonds began building clay villages, ruins and what he termed ” dwellings for imaginary civilizations of little people” in the [...]
Upon discovering ‘Meditations in an Emergency’
Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Books, Collage, Cures for the Nothing, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Digital Manipulation, Experiments, Poetry, Writing, tagged Digital Collage, frank o' hara, meditation in an emergency, new york, Poetry, poetry foundation, poets.org, the best american poetry on August 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From The Best American Poetry: The title of the book began as a very sophisticated literary joke, an allusion to John Donne’s “Meditations on Emergent Occasions.” But as sometimes happened in O’Hara’s poetry, the joke turned out to have a surplus of meaning. His poems are meditations — but not the kind that comes [...]
Thinking of Amy
Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Books, Cures for the Nothing, Drawing, Ink, sketchbook, tagged amy winehouse, art, Art and ANarchy, Baudelaire, Edgar WInd, Excess or Atrophy, forces of the Imagination, Goethe, ink drawing on August 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Bruce Mau’s on Architecture, and more importantly, Life: An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth.
Posted in Architecture, architecture, art,poetry,writing, Books, Featured Architects, Quotes, School Work, Writing, writing, tagged an incomplete manifesto for growth, Architecture, attention span, begin anywhere, bruce mau, digital revolution, visual, writing on July 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today I want to stray from the visual and go back to words (even though visual work is piling up by the scanner, waiting to be shared.) The visual permeates every aspect of a designer/artist life…it is the expected outcome: something that all can see. Here in sketchbloom I share works and progress/process in form [...]
Tales of Salt Cities
Posted in Architecture, architecture, art,poetry,writing, Artuesdays, Book Reviews, Books, Collage, Cures for the Nothing, Digital Collage, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Digital Manipulation, Featured Artists, Photography, photography, Writing, tagged Arab cities, Cities of Salt, City of Salt, Digital Collage, escapism, fable, fantasy, favorite books, fiction, Invisible cities, Italo Calvino, Miniature cities, nicholas kahn, orientalism, Photography, photography spread, prose, reverie, richard selesnick, tales on May 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Here is a splendid volume from the Terry Gillam school of fictional photography… The book comes in a sturdy slipcase and features complex landscapes, painstakingly created, and digitally peopled by actors playing out scenes which conjure up a mystical Middle Eastern civilisation. Enigmatic, but beautiful.” AG Magazine “This is a beautifully structured text with an [...]
{From our current selection}
Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Books, Collage, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Digital Manipulation, Experiments, Link Love, Paper Goods, Thought in the Alley, tagged a year in the merde, Digital Collage, Ines De La Fressange, inspired goodness, map, Paris, parisian chic: a style guide on May 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Photo from Inspired Goodness. Founded in 2008, Inspired Goodness is a custom invitation and paper goods studio located in Brooklyn, NY. —————————————————————————- Notable books: A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke Parisian Chic: A Style Guide by Ines De La Fressange
Sometimes a Poem…
Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Books, Poetry, Thought in the Alley, Writing, tagged agata and the storm, agata e la tempesta, american poet, contemporary italian cinema, italian movies, nebraska zen center heartland temple, Poetry, poetry as salvation, william stafford, william stafford poem, writer's block, zen, zen in american poetry on May 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
13 Days of a mild artist block and a spring flurry of activities all around. It has been one busy month of May. In the blog-material department, I have been gathering up material for new posts (but failed to..ahem..post them), reading omnivorously,watching foreign movies,writing poetry on walls and collecting books mentioned or shown in said foreign [...]
It’s April: New Shoes for Everyone
Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Berkeley Diaries, Books, Coffee, Drawing, Ink, San Francisco Diaries, sketchbook, sketching on April 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
History of Coffee Ethiopian sheperds discovered coffee when they realized their goats began to dance. Michelle Ramadan From Coffee Poetry
Drawn Resolutions (and calling for mandatory poetry)
Posted in Architecture, art, Artuesdays, Books, Cures for the Nothing, Digital Collage, Drawing, Essay, History of Architecture, Ink, Photography, Poetry, Quotes, Research, school, School Work, sketching, Theory and Criticism, Writing, tagged 'spiro kostof, ability to visualize, architect: chapters in the history of the profession, architects, architecture academia, architecture curriculum, artist, balboa park san diego, communication for architects, criticism, curricula, designers, downcast eyes: the denigration of vision in twentieth-century french thought, draw it, Drawing, drawn, essay, eth switzerland, importance of literature, inchoate, ink, intellectual dialogue, literature, mandatory poetry, marc angelil, meditating, pen, Poetry, poetry humanities in architecture curriculum, powerpoint, read in the park, read outdoors, resolutions 2011, sketching, the picture is worth a thousands words syndrome, tyranny of the visual, visual people, visualization techniques, war, writing, writing for architects on March 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As designers, architects, artists, we use the ability to first visualize then communicate a desired outcome. Implementation means having the courage, discipline and perseverance to bring that vision into the physical realm. I love to write, and to write lists, but this year I am doing something different with my 2011 resolutions. I am drawing them. It [...]
Hybrid Notes : Bjarke Ingels. San Diego. 02.25.2011
Posted in Architecture, art, Books, Cures for the Nothing, Design, Digital Collage, Digital Manipulation, Drawing, Featured Architects, Lectures, Museum WOWs, Photography, Poetry, Quotes, San Diego, school, School Work, sketchbook, sketching, Theory and Criticism, Writing, tagged 2011, AIAS NSAD, Allen Ghaida, Autograph, BIG, bjarke ingels, california, danish architect, Drawing, february "%, Hybrid notes, lecture notes, museum of natural history, newschool, NewSchool Arts Foundation, newschool of architecture and design, notes from the lecture, NSAD, NSAF, Review, san diego, sketches, visual notes, yes is more on February 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Bjarke Ingels came to speak to our school Friday night. The venue was the Museum of Natural History in scenic Balboa Park. I am still blown away by the lecture and, more importantly, the message. It was truly (r)evolutionary. The fact that BIG’s insanely brilliant concepts not only get built but a) give back to [...]
Welcome to my Piazza, my outdoor living room.
Posted in Architecture, art, Artuesdays, Books, Cures for the Nothing, Digital Collage, Experiments, Photography, Poetry, Spontaneous Constructs, Writing, tagged 2010, Firenze, firenze architettura e citta', fiume in inverno, giovanni fanelli, library books, libri e citta', outdoor living room, Piazza, river in winter, world atala of architecture on December 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is my piazza, do you want to join me? We can walk inside the Battistero and talk about Islamic influences in the architecture of the Rinascimento in Firenze…or maybe just stroll about like tourists. Let’s take that via,the one on the left, do you want to come with me? Every time I consider imaginary [...]
A Time to be Revolutionaries: Thoughts on Books, Poetry, Bourgeoisie and Revolution
Posted in Architecture, art, art,poetry,writing, Books, Cures for the Nothing, Quotes, Writing, writing, tagged 1968, 1970, A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Deleuze, Anthony J. D'Angelo, black block, Book Block, books, books as shields, Bubbles, Cagliari, carica, collettivo letterario, Coop Himmelblau, culture, Decameron by Boccaccio, Don Quixote by Cervantes, Gelmini, Gomorrah by Saviano, government cuts, Gustave Flaubert, Haus-Rucker-Co, interactive installations, Italia, Italy, James Baldwin, literary shield, London sudent protsts, migliaia di palline colorate, Moby Dick by Melville, Naked Sun by Aasimov, one thousand colored spheres, Paris, photos, Poetry, polizia, post-tramatic urbanism, Proteste Studentesche, Quotes, revolution, revolutionaries, riot police, Roma, soft explosions, Soft Space, Spatial Agency, Student protests, studenti.it, symbol, tagli all'educazione, The Italian Constintution, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Prince by Macchiavelli, Tropic of Cancer by Arthur Miller, University reform, urbanism, Utopia, video, Vienna, writing, wu ming on December 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Students revolts have spread in Italy and England in the past few weeks. The images that I see coming from my country remind me of interactive urban installations organized by Coop Himmelblau in the 1960′s and 1970′s . These are called ‘soft explosions’, such as the covering of a street in Vienna with foam,or the [...]
Dispatches from Vladivostok: Architecture, Poetry, the Oneiric, the Grotesque
Posted in Architecture, architecture, art, art,poetry,writing, Books, Featured Artists, Lectures, NaBloPoMo, Poetry, Quotes, school, School Work, Theory and Criticism, Writing, writing, tagged and the Wilderness Urbanism of John Hejduk, architects as artists, Architecture, architecture of a city, art, Baikal, critical thought, criticism, Detour, Errand, essays on architecture, Exquisite Corpse, Invisible cities, Italo Calvino, John Hejduk, Lake Baikal, Marco Polo, Mask of Medusa, Michael Sorkin, paroles d'architects, Riga, sketches, the ethics of aesthetics, the informer, the minister of culture, theory, venice, Vladivostok on November 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
John Hejduk has been called one of the most influential architects and educators of our time.. He was also a poet, an artist and the Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the uber-prestigious Cooper Union in New York. I am reviewing couple of his books, Vladivostok and The Mask of [...]
The Beginnings of Architecture
Posted in Architecture, architecture, art,poetry,writing, Books, History of Architecture, Lectures, San Diego, school, School Work, tagged A Global History of Architecture. Francis D.K. Ching, A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals. Spiro Kostof, A World History of Architecture. Michael Fazio, Altamira, and Vikramaditya Prakash, Architecture: From Prehistory to Postmodernity, Beginnings of Architecture, Catal Huyuk, Eddie Izzard, Eddie Izzard on Stonehenge, History of Architecture, History of Architecture textbooks, Jericho, Lascaux, Lawence Wodehouse, Marian Moffett, Mark M. Jarzombek, Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman, Powerpoint Presentation, Pre-Columbian Architecture, Pre-Contact Architecture of the Americas, Stonehenge on October 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From my Friday’s History Class. The Beginnings of Architecture covers Stonehenge, the caves at Lascaux and Altamira, and what we consider the beginning of the urban revolution in our hemisphere, the proto-cities of Catal Huyuk and Jericho. I will share weekly my History powerpoints, well, okay, the ones I consider complete…next I want to sharpen [...]
Steven Holl: Sketches, Watercolors, Collages
Posted in Architecture, architecture, art, art,poetry,writing, Books, Cures for the Nothing, Design, Digital Collage, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Drawing, F R A G M E N T S, school, School Work, Watercolor, Writing, tagged Archigram, Architect, Architecture, art, collage, Drawing, Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum(1992-1998), Knut Hamsen Museum(1994-2009), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1999-2002), Nanjing Museum of Art & Architecture (2002-2009), photocollage, Simmons Hall, sketch, sketchbook, Steven Holl, Watercolor, watercolorist, written in water, written on water on October 13, 2010 | 2 Comments »
All images are from a research project completed by my student, Mariam Thomas, on Architects as Artists and their rendering/design techniques. The relationship between architecture and art, and the study of practitioners who are also artists (with the mindframe of artists), whose design process transcends design practices and pragmatism to include enlightment, discoveries and art- wonderings [...]
Chiaroscuro Truths (Occhi Blu Capelli Neri)
Posted in Architecture, art, Books, Cures for the Nothing, Digital Collage, Drawing, Experiments, Featured Artists, Painting, Photography, Poetry, Quotes, Thoughts in the alley, Tutorial, Watercolor, Writing, tagged Architecture, black and white, Black Hair, Blue Eyes, book, book cover, Capelli Neri, chiaroscuro, ciao.it, critica letteraria, Drawing, durasian, Grayscale, grayscale watercolor, hands, Indochine, interior architecture, Italian, jane eyre, L'Amante, literary critic, literary review, literature, loneliness, longing, Love, Marguerite Duras, millenovecentosettantatre, modernism, new french novel, Occhi Blu, patterns, Philosophy, Poetry, prose, shades of gray, sri chimoy quote, stockings, The Lover, Truth on September 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The measure of a good book is its ability to haunt us. I have been delinquent; the past few days’ in-between moments, usually dedicated to art and this blog, stolen away by a classic charmer of a book, Jane Eyre. Yet I have been thinking, almost pining, for another book –and the time and the place [...]
Les Mots Et L’Amour {Words and Love}
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Books, Cures for the Nothing, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Drawing, Experiments, F R A G M E N T S, NaBloPoMo, Quotes, Writing, tagged breaking and entering, idra, Marguerite Yourcenar, sei un rettile, St. Loup's Secrets and Lies, Words are Swords on August 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
From St Loup’s secrets & lies: All you have to do is take these lies and make them true… …manier les mots, les soupeser, en explorer le sens, es une manière de faire l’amour, surtout lorsque ce qu’on écrit est inspiré par quelqu’un, ou promis à quelqu’un. Marguerite Yourcenar Quoi? L’Éternité, Paris, Gallimard, 1988, p. [...]
The Nature of Inspiration
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Books, Writing, tagged Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, Inspiration, Ted Talks, transcendence on August 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
There are ‘doing’ days and there are ‘absorbing/thinking’ days. Today was the latter. { Here } is a wonderful Ted talk from the author of ‘Eat, Pray,Love’ on inspiration and its transcendence (thankyou to my friend Momen for sharing this). I must admit I was wary of the book, and of ‘jumping on the band [...]
Beginnings…and quotes for beginnings
Posted in Acrylic, art,poetry,writing, Books, Link Love, NaBloPoMo, Painting, Quotes, tagged Acrylin Painting, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Becoming Minimalist, Chairs, collage, Frederick Franck, Hui Hai, John Ruskin, Le petit Prince, Te Power of Intention, wayne dyer, Zen Seeing Zen Drawing on August 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some quotes that are inspiring me these days: “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Le Petit Prince From Becoming Minimalist { thankyou Andy} “What we think or [...]
Chairs, Chairs, Chairs (on Coffee)
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Books, Design, Desk Crit, Drawing, Graphic Design, Lectures, NaBloPoMo, Painting, school, School Work, Watercolor, tagged Betty Edwards, Chairs, Class Experiment, Coffee, Figure Ground, How to Draw on the right Side of the Brain, Miti Aiello, Picasso, Stravinsky, Talent, Upside Down Drawing on August 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Another exercise with ‘Drawing on the Righ Side of the Brain’. By drawing the space, not the chair, the proportions were incredibly accurate in all drawings. The drawings can be read as Nolli Maps of imaginary cities, we can see piazzas, palazzi…we can see perspective, spatial configurations/plans, abstract paintings… I love the ambivalent water medium, [...]
Right Brain Drawing and Learning to See
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Books, Cures for the Nothing, Drawing, Experiments, Film, Link Love, Music, NaBloPoMo, San Diego, school, School Work, tagged david grann, Drawing on the right side of the brain, film noir, gilda, ink drawing, le corbusier, movies balboa park, movies under the stars, new yorker, pacific beach, peter paul biro, san diego, San Diego Reader, screen in the green 2010, sketchbook, teleportation, the mark of a masterpiece on August 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I hope everyone’s having a fabulous beginning of August. I am really trying. I plan to go to some movie under the stars, or at the park, or on a roof, like Cinema Paradiso. A good black and white movie, preferably a noir Hitchcock, would be the cat’s meow. I am officially suffering from wanderlust. [...]
Fading to Cheshire: An Art Exorcise
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Books, Cures for the Nothing, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Drawing, Experiments, Poetry, Spontaneous Constructs, Thoughts in the alley, Uncategorized, Writing, tagged Alice in Wonderland, Art Exorcises, Cheshire, Christmas in July, Hauntings, Lewis Carroll, Obsessions on July 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
From Disney’s Alice in Wonderland (1951). Cheshire Cat: Oh, by the way, if you’d really like to know, he went that way. Alice: Who did? Cheshire Cat: The White Rabbit. Alice: He did? Cheshire Cat: He did what? Alice: Went that way. Cheshire Cat: Who did? Alice: The White Rabbit. Cheshire Cat: What rabbit? Alice: [...]
Summertime [the living is easy] :Yosemite, Plen Air Sketching and Reckless Reading
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Books, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, NaBloPoMo, Photography, Quotes on July 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Hello Hello! Two weeks zipped by since my last from San Francisco and I have been reveling in summer outdoor activities, traveling, and getting ready for the new summer quarter. California blooms in this season, and the living is easy. Days with art-dates, writing, and regularly producing and posting new work, though, always make me [...]
Book Love @ City Lights [For you, Professor]
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Berkeley Diaries, Books, Paper Goods, Photography, Poetry, Quotes, San Francisco Diaries on June 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
All the following images have been taken at City Lights Booktore in North Beach (Little Italy) , San Francisco, on June 29, 2010. I dedicate this post to my dear English and Literature Professor at NDSU, Steve Ward. Long live The Beats.
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