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This Is How Violins Are Made
Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Berkeley Diaries, Cures for the Nothing, Drawing, Ink, Music, tagged Drawing, la caminada loca, Mana Daddy, Music event, Oakland, oakland art scene, Sjetch on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Nostalgia, or The Last American Tailor
Posted in Architecture, art, Art Show, Cures for the Nothing, Photography, Writing, tagged Mission Hills, Photography, san diego, taylor on December 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
San Diego, December 14, 2011.
Thinking Deconstructivism in a Canyon
Posted in Architecture, architecture, Articles & Essays, Collage, Cures for the Nothing, Design, Digital Collage, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Experiments, F R A G M E N T S, History of Architecture, Lectures, Photography, photography, Quotes, Reading, Research, San Diego, Spontaneous Constructs, Theory and Criticism, Writing, writing, tagged bridges, collage, context, deconstructivist approach, Deconstructivist architecture, defamiliarization., familiar, mark wigley, photomontage, reading on a bridge on November 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
” In recent years , the modern understanding of social responsibility as functional program has been superseded by a concern for context. But contextualism has been used as an excuse for mediocrity, for a dumb servility within the familiar. Since deconstructivist architecture seeks the unfamiliar within the familiar, it displaces the context rather than acquiesce [...]
Thinking With My Hands
Posted in architecture, art,poetry,writing, Cures for the Nothing, Digital Manipulation, Drawing, Ink, Poetry, Quotes, Thinking with my hands, tagged art, bell jar, Drawing, Murmurations, Poetry, Quote, starlings, Sylvia Plath, thinking with one's hands, visual poetry on November 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I’m neurotic as hell. I’ll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.” Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 8 I have to thank my colleague Alan Rosenblum for [...]
Dispatch from the Blackout: Entre Chien et Loup/Between Hope and Fear
Posted in Architecture, architecture, art,poetry,writing, Cures for the Nothing, Photography, photography, Poetry, Writing, writing, tagged 2011, bankers hill, blackout, caffe' letterario, city, espresso, Hillcrest, iniziative letterarie, José Luis González, La Noche que Volvimos a Ser Gente, people, Photography, Poetry, san diego, september 8, The Night We Became People Again, urban moments, Walking on September 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It has been ten long days since my last post, ten days of travels, of letters written and not sent, of (re) search. In the middle of it all, I experienced the ‘biggest blackout in the history of San Diego county’. Thursday, September 8th, 2011, power went off for millions of people in Southern California, Baja [...]
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 »
Waiting
Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Cures for the Nothing, Drawing, Poetry, Writing, tagged ink drawing, la tua voce sonora, our song, silvia signorelli, tu voz sonora, waiting on August 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Il Nostro Canto by Silvia Signorelli il tuo passo a Milano di cento stagioni presso di me ha colorato l’aria di silenziosa neve d’inverno il calore dell’estate abbracciata di luce loquace gazzelle azzurre di mitezza nostro canto di bene grande raggianti Nuestro Canto tu paso por Milan de ciento estaciones junto a mi ha llenado [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Creativity! [dedicated to you!]
Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Coffee, Cures for the Nothing, Design, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Digital Manipulation, Drawing, Experiments, Link Love, Quotes, sketchbook, sketching, Tutorial, tagged 7ways to spark creativity, abbey ryan, abbeyryan.com, Anna Rabinowicz, art, atercolor, book, cappuccino, Coffee, creative assignments, creativity, daily inspiration, daily oil painting, danny gregory, dedication to the arts, Design, double shot, download, Drawing, ebook, february 2011 issue, february creativity challenge, filmmaker Miranda July and artist Harrell Fletcher, ghadah alkandari, illy, ink, latte macchiato, learning to love you more, Link Love, literature, Maurice Ronnet Le feu Follet - Luis Malle (1963), micheal nobbs, o, oprah magazine, Oprah on Ipad, pen drawing, philadelphia painter, Poetry, pretygreenbullet, sketchbook, Sketchbook O, sketches, sketching, st.loup secrets and lies, start to draw your life, the creative license, unquiz on February 10, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Everywhere I turn these days i see the word Creativity..could this be a sign …cause I have not been posting that much??? This post is more like…four…but so be it. A dear student let me borrow this fantastic book: The Creative License: Giving yourself permission to be the artist you truly are. What a wonderful [...]
Dispatches from Milano: I Navigli
Posted in Architecture, art, Artuesdays, Cures for the Nothing, Photography, Poetry, Writing, tagged Inverno, Milan, Milano, Navigli, Photography, sunset, tramonto, winter on February 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Before the first day of the month comes to a close…
Dispatches from Milano: Sketching and Card Making
Posted in Architecture, art, Artuesdays, Cures for the Nothing, Digital Collage, Digital Manipulation, Drawing, History of Architecture, Paper Goods, Photography, Poetry, sketchbook, sketching, Writing, tagged Bramante, card making, digital manipulation, Drawing, hand book sketchbook, Harry Seidler, horizontal sketchbook, Milano, penholder, recipe for sketching, sketches, sketching, sketching in cold weather, tea, The Grand Tour: Travelling the World with an Architect's Eye, travel sketches on January 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In the monastery adjacent this church, just a few minutes’ stroll from my house, one can find Leonardo Da Vinci’s ’Last Supper’. The apse (widely attributed to Donato Bramante, and dated around 1490) is significant as it signals a crucial transition from the Late Gothic style of the nave to a splendid Northern Italian Renaissance in the [...]
New Day, New Year
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Cures for the Nothing, Design, Photography, tagged Design, happy new year, interios design, michael buble', Milano, Photography, typography, vetrine, windo dressing, window dressing, wishes on January 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
While the first day of 2011 is coming to a close here in Milano, I think of what my mom always says: ‘What you do the first day of the year, you do all year’. I am happy to report I sketched today and fed my mind with architecture, art, and words. I also wanted to [...]
Collages with Papa’
Posted in art, Collage, Cures for the Nothing, F R A G M E N T S, Poetry, Writing, tagged arte, artwork, clocks, collaborative art work, collage, conversations about art, conversations with my mother, Drawing, father, Genoa, Genova, magazine, sketches, the fortress of lost time, time in art on December 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
These collages start with a drawing my father sketches out on thin notebook paper; I then proceed to create possible scenarios. And this is the conversation at the end of the day with my mother, a retired judge — which i have entitled: Talking about art with my (practical, realist) mother [Me , retiring [...]
Christmas in Amsterdam (and finally seeing Eat, Pray, Love)
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Cures for the Nothing, Quotes, Writing, tagged amsterdam, bali, Blogging, christmas, Eat Pray Love, india, Italy, Quotes, sarah gilbert, schiphol airport, writing on December 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Christmas Day finds me in Amsterdam this year, on my way to Milano. Internet access may be intermittent the next few weeks, and while I plan to do art and sketch (well, as much sketching as subzero temperatures will allow), I won’t have my scanner so the quality of the drawings, collages and [...]
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 [...]
Think Better (and multiply)
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Photography, Drawing, Cures for the Nothing, art, Digital Manipulation, tagged Drawing, diagram, open culture, multiplication, visual math, think better on December 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Think better, and multiply- The Vedic way. Thank you for existing, Open Culture.
Play on, Words
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Cures for the Nothing, Experiments, Photography, photography, Poetry, Writing, tagged arab music festival 2010san francisco, magnetic word games, paper cutouts, rearanging words, word play, words as art on December 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is a continuation of my experimenting with words from the Arab Film Festival in San Francisco. Lastly, an irregular haiku: How quickly the lizard loses its tail! San Diego, December 16, 2010
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 [...]
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 [...]
Contemplating Trees
Posted in art, Artuesdays, Cures for the Nothing, Photography, Poetry, Writing, tagged Hawaii, Introspection, Meditation. Contemplation, O'ahu, Photography, sepia, Tree on September 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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