Posted in Design, New York City, Visual Art, tagged Christo, Jeanne-Claude, Pont Neuf, Reichstag, The Gates on November 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last Wednesday, the artist Jeanne-Claude, wife and creative partner of the artist Christo, passed away. New Yorkers remember Jeanne-Claude and Christo’s ambitious 2005 piece, The Gates, a sweeping installation with 23 miles of saffron fabric fluttering throughout Central Park.
The couple showcased their dramatic work all over the world, famously wrapping the Reichstag in Berlin and [...]
Posted in Design, Music, New York City, Technology, tagged Greene Space, Janelle Monae, Studio 360 Live, Time Travel on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Say you’re from the future, a future in which time machines exist. Why not take a trip back to the good old 21st century? And join us here at WNYC on Tuesday, November 17, as Kurt hosts the live taping of our show all about time travel. You’ll meet some of [...]
Posted in Design, Visual Art, tagged Baby Clothes, Dave Cole, Iraq, Jeremy Dller, Kevlar, knitting, Studio 360, Visual Art on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I got outed on the elevator the other day. A co-worker spotted knitting needles in my bag.
I rarely have a chance to knit these days, and compensate by indulging in the next best thing: looking at weird knitted art online.
Listening to this week’s show, I remembered an odd, thought-provoking site that can add to Jeremy [...]
Posted in Design, Music, TV, tagged Frankie Negron, sesame street, swag, The Jimmies, thumb drive, tote bag, uncommon economic indicators, whoopie cushion on October 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Earlier this summer, we lamented the decreased flow of swag into our office in the wake of the recession. While many promotion companies continue to tighten their belts, some recent arrivals may forecast a recovery. Below are some of our own uncommon economic indicators:
From the folks at Sesame Street, we got [...]
Posted in Design, Technology, Visual Art, tagged Marque Cornblatt, Robots, SFMOMA, sparky, Studio 360, Technology on September 21, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Most robots take millions of dollars and years of research to build – but you can get started today on your very own, without any grant writing. And some of the materials you’ll need might be cluttering up your house right now.
“Sparky” (an invention of artist Marque Cornblatt) uses [...]
Posted in Dance, Design, Video, tagged 100, boombox, Dance, ely kim on March 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Yale Graphic design grad student Ely Kim conducts a 1-man dance off to his 100 fave songs. You won’t hear more than a few bars of each, but you will want watch all 100 (and marvel at all the great art school interiors from printshops to bathroom stalls). Best of all, guests at your future [...]
Posted in Design, Los Angeles, tagged aircraft design, cars, desert, Dryden Research Center, Gene Winfield, hot rods, Los Angeles, Mojave, NASA, planes on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve just spent a fascinating day in the desert an hour and a half north of Los Angeles.
It was an Art Center College of Design field trip. First stop was a hangar-cum-workshop at the Mojave airport – officially, and very grandly, the Mojave Air and Space Port — where I met Jon Sharp, a charming, [...]
Posted in Design, Japan, tagged Kimono, Tokyo on November 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Last night Roland brought me along to his friend’s kimono Party. Yes, you guessed it, a kimono party is a party with people dressed in kimonos. Of course it was somewhat tongue in cheek, but as most Japanese these people were dead serious about their hobby. There was a one hour presentation on ways to [...]
Posted in Design, Japan, tagged Kurt Andersen, midtown, Tokyo on November 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Last night I visited the new highrise called Tokyo Midtown, which is the tallest building in the city and on its lower floors contains — thanks to vast swaths of wood, elaborate lighting, and other beyond-the-call-of-duty architectural and furnishing details — the most convincingly, tastefully luxurious shopping mall I’ve ever experienced.
And the luxury extended from [...]
Posted in Design, Japan, Video, tagged crossing, Design, pedestrian, PSA, shibuya, Tokyo, TOTO, train, Video on November 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
More great design solutions that I wish we could bring back with us to the US:
ITEM 1:
Say you’re shopping in a department store with your toddler and you need to go to the bathroom… where do you stick the kid? TOTO, maker of the world’s most amazing (and complex) toilets offers another great product, [...]
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