In the winter, Venice is like an abandoned theatre. The play is finished, but the echoes remain. Arbit Blatas To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius. Alexander Herzen [...]
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Winter Venice
Posted in Architecture, art, Art Gallery, Art Show, Artuesdays, Competitions and Collaborations, Digital Manipulation, Experiments, History of Architecture, Photography, Poetry, Writing, tagged fotografia., Inverno, Photography, Venezia., venice, winter on January 3, 2012 | 3 Comments »
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” In recent years , the modern understanding of social responsibility as functional program has been superseded by a concern for context.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 [...]
New Jewelry Design: ‘Three Talismans | Nodes’ necklace
Posted in Architecture, art, Design, Experiments, Jewelry, Jewelry and Accessory Design, Poetry, Writing, tagged architectural, beads, bolts intrepidity, copper strands three nodes, industrial chic, jewelry design, nuts, rugged, Susan Lenart Kazmer, talismans on October 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A talisman (from Arabic طلسم Tilasm, ultimately from Greek telesma or from the Greek word “telein” which means “to initiate into the mysteries”) is an amulet or other object considered to possess supernatural or magical powers. (thankyou wiki.) Each spacer/bolt has the word intre·pidi·ty embedded on it. Susan Lenart Kazmer, of Industrial chic ,gives us [...]
Confession of a Lurker | Entry for ONE LIFE International Photography Competition
Posted in Architecture, architecture, art, Art Show, Berkeley Diaries, Competitions and Collaborations, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Experiments, Le flâneur, Photography, photography, Portfolio of Work, Spontaneous Constructs, Thought in the Alley, tagged city imagery., COmpetition, flaneur, international photography, one life international photography competition, Photograph, Photography, photography competition, trip around the world, Urban art on August 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I decided to participate ( characteristically last-minute) to ONE LIFE, an international photography competition, in the ‘City Imagery’ category. Click here (or on the image above) to see the entry at a higher resolution and, if you like what you see, vote and share my photograph. The prize is $10,000 or a trip around the world. [...]
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 [...]
Finished project and the [abstract] underside of things.
Posted in Architecture, art, art,poetry,writing, Collage, Design, Experiments, Spontaneous Constructs, Theory and Criticism, tagged 3d fabric paint, Abstract, backpacks, collage, fabric city, fabric collage, psychogeographic map of paris, situationsits, the city, thread paintings on June 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The reverse side of “The City” reminds me of a Situationist psychogeographic map. I toyed with the idea of letting go of all the work on the map and apply this abstract work on the backback. This would have been the gutsy thing to do but, in the end , i couldn’t let go of [...]
Fabric City, Kisses and Beads
Posted in Architecture, architecture, art, art,poetry,writing, Design, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Digital Manipulation, Drawing, Experiments, Jewelry, Spontaneous Constructs, tagged 100%polypropylene, beads, collages, construct, dancing dresses, fabric map, hands. collaborative work, jewelry design, kisses, la gitane, maps, model, mylar, new york, patchwork, Watercolor, yupo watercolor paper on June 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Fabric City is finally finished! Yay! Back to collages and sketches now. From this… …to a process of cutting and puzzle-making… to this: Tomorrow the ‘city’ will be cut and applied to a presently plain backpack and signed. I also want to share this impromptu jewelry design, my second, kindly modeled! Finally, work inspired by [...]
La Gattamorta and Auden on Love, Time
Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Design, Digital Manipulation, Experiments, tagged art, as i walked out one evening, binary code, cat, digital manipulation, female cat, gatta, gattamorta, image, Love, Poetry, time, w.h.auden on May 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As I Walked Out One Evening by W. H. Auden As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming river I heard a lover sing Under an arch of the railway: ‘Love has no ending. [...]
{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
Rain of Frogs [fragments, poems, movie lines]
Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Collage, Design, Digital Collage, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Digital Manipulation, Drawing, Experiments, F R A G M E N T S, Ink, Poetry, San Diego, Thoughts in the alley, Writing, writing, tagged a story that could be true, agata and the storm, agata e la tempesta, Digital Collage, frogs, poem, Poetry, rain, william stafford on May 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Pretty Parking Lot I have dreamt of perfect poems faded like dewdrops upon awakening About mice and buildings built by men Cities are sentences that haunt me Book thieves, foreign movies… the line is thin between memories and reverie The fog has lifted the rain felt soft [...]
Cities and Abstract Art
Posted in art, art,poetry,writing, Collage, Design, Digital Manipulation, Experiments, Graphic Design, tagged 3D, arab town, collage, domestic architecture of the arab region, Drawing, fabric, map, marrakesh, medina, old town, traditional arab town, tunis on April 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Marrakesh. From ‘Domestic Architecture of the Arab Region’.
Love Quatraine
Posted in art, Digital Collage, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Digital Manipulation, Experiments, F R A G M E N T S, Photography, photography, Spontaneous Constructs, Uncategorized, tagged android app, digital manipulation, filter, photo illusion, Photography, red, special effects on March 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
Collages in Art and Architecture
Posted in Architecture, architecture, art, art,poetry,writing, Artuesdays, Collage, Design, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Experiments, F R A G M E N T S, Graphic Design, School Work, tagged collage, collage in art and architecture, crackling glaze, gloss, Hector Perez, repetition, richard meier, socal ex on October 19, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I have been thinking and wanting to explore collages again since this summer, when I was so inspired by Hector Perez and his students’ work with SoCal Ex–but not until today I finally acted on that impulse. I have two works done and one almost complete. Two to share, and one part of a larger, [...]
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. [...]
Graphite Experiments or Woods (and thoughts of my father)
Posted in Experiments on August 19, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Working with Color
Posted in Architecture, art,poetry,writing, Design, Drawing, Experiments, Graphic Design, NaBloPoMo, San Diego, school, School Work, Tutorial, Watercolor, tagged Architecture, Botanical Garden, Color Drawing by Doyle, Color rendering, Drawing, Escondido, fabric, Furniture, hand rendering, illustration, ink, ink drawing, Kit Carson Park, loose rendering, loose sketch, marker rag paper, Markers, Niki St. Phalle, Prismacolor Pencil, Queen Califia's Magical Garden, san diego, Texture, trace paper, tracing, transfering, Tutorial, Urban Sketchers, Watercolor on August 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Do you remember Niki St. Phalle’s ‘Queen Califia’s Magical Garden’? Well, I went back with my students for some loose watercolor and pencil renderings.
Imaginaire : an evening with Magritte (and colors)
Posted in Architecture, art,poetry,writing, Artuesdays, Coffee, Design, Digital Collage, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Experiments, Link Love, School Work, Watercolor, tagged Architectural review, Architecture, Arles, Cafe' A La Carte, Coffee, Domus, Firenze, Futo Coffee, Harvard Design Guide, Inverno, la pioggia, loose watercolor techniques, Miti Aiello, Place Lamartine, Rene Magritte, Starry Sky over the Rhone, Surrealist house, University of Louisiana-Lafayette, Vijay Raghavendiran, Vincent Van Gogh, Watercolor techniques. George S. Loli, Winter in Florence on August 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
After some meetings today I stopped by the library, Futo coffee in hand, and indulged in my favorite Architecture periodicals: Domus, Architectural Review and Harvard Design Magazine. An article on Surrealist Houses launched an expansive search on the Architecture of René Magritte; will share some of the findings here. I am also thinking about watercolor [...]
Rear Facing Window
Posted in Cures for the Nothing, Experiments, F R A G M E N T S, Film, NaBloPoMo, Photography, tagged Abstract, film noir, Hitchcock, Photography, Quotes, Rear Facing Window on August 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From Rear Facing Window Alfred Hitchcock Lisa: I wish I were creative. Jeff: You are. You’re great at creating difficult situations.
SoCal – E>< : Exploratory Design Workshop
Posted in Architecture, art,poetry,writing, Design, Desk Crit, Digital Collage, digital collage, photography, writing, architecture, Drawing, Experiments, F R A G M E N T S, Featured Artists, Graphic Design, Lectures, NaBloPoMo, Paper Goods, Pastel, Photography, school, tagged Albert Frey, Alberto Kalach, Alfredo Melly, Andrea Benavides, Archigram, Architectural Collage, Architecture, california, Case Study Homes, Charles and Ray Eames, Charles Santamaria, Christine & Russell Forester, collage, Coop Himmelblau, Craig Ellwood, Culver City, Daly Genik Architects, Del Mar, Don Wexler, Ed Killingsworth, Eric Owen Moss, Estudio Teddy Cruz, Frank Gehry, Gehry Technologies, Greene and Greene, Hector Perez, Henry Palomino, Kathy McCormick & Ted Smith, La Jolla, Los Angeles, Luce Et Studio, Michael Maltzan Architecture, Morphosis, Nancy Tariga, newschool of architecture and design, Palm Springs, pasadena, Residential Design, Richard NeutraRudolph Schindler, san diego, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Monica, Sebastian Mariscal, Sebastian Mariscal Studio, Smith and Others, SoCal Exploratory Design Workshop, Southern California Design and Architecture, Superstudio, Ted Smith, venice on August 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Something eye-opening occurred at my school yesterday. I attended the exhibit for SoCal -Ex : Exploratory Design Workshop, completed by Professor Hector Perez and his students. Here are the specific of the Workshop: 6 Explorers Andrea Benavides/Alfredo Melly/Henry Palomino/Charles Santamaria/Nancy Tariga 25 Days July 12-August 5 10 Field Trips San Diego/La Jolla/Del Mar/San Juan Capistrano/Los Angeles/Santa [...]
Archeological Find
Posted in art,poetry,writing, Experiments, F R A G M E N T S, NaBloPoMo, Poetry, school, tagged AMerican School of Milan, Bic Pen, Clay, Il Sole, Kindergarden, Markers, Mary Oliver, Miti Aiello, Sculpture, The Sun, The Sun Poem on August 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Sun By Mary Oliver Have you ever seen anything in your life more wonderful than the way the sun, every evening, relaxed and easy, floats toward the horizon and into the clouds or the hills, or the rumpled sea, and is gone– and how it slides again out of the blackness, every morning, on [...]
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: [...]
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