seeing clearly

we saw Alyson Shotz's Mirror Fence at Storm King upstate over the weekend - really great.
Its reflective pickets, which extend in a straight line, enclose nothing. As Shotz has described her practice, "I'm interested in making objects that change infinitely, depending on their surroundings. The light at different times of day, the weather…what the viewers are wearing, all these are just some of the variables that will make the piece different every time one comes in contact with it. For me an ideal work of art is one that is ultimately unknowable in some way."

reminder

Sandy's impact on New York made me think of a postcard collage I made in 1997 - luckily this time was not this bad (and there weren't giant ducks to contend with)
you can see more New York collages here

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moving images

  


Michal Rovner's paintings that move and projections on black limestone slabs at the PACE gallery in Chelsea

have a look here






amazing 3D

came across this amazing new tool for 3D visualization (ideal for architects) at the WANTED DESIGN presentation of this new city app created by urbasee 

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definitely the descendent of the magic eye 3D postcards - remember them?

party night

David Weeks, Margaret Russell & Ralph Pucci  
It was good to see our friend and neighbor David Weeks at the Ralph Pucci showroom for the launch of his new line of lighting, furniture and rugs. We know his lighting but the chairs and rugs were new to us. Good job!

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underground parking

just caught the exhibition of the LowLine on Essex St - very impressive project for the underground development of the old tram station underneath Delancey St  which was abandoned in 1948 - read more here. For some reason the show ended today - early. We were the last people there, nearly getting locked in
The lighting is collected and channeled sunlight! 

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kiss kollage

some randomization of kiss as construction boards get moved around (Houston and Ave A)

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summer deis

another great T shirt in Italy -  translation to English via China

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surreal

a Giacometti sculpture in the garden at MoMA


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random

still life with chair legs on Ludlow St (piled high on the back of a pick up)

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kaleidoscopic view

went up to the opening of Tom Fruin's (non functioning) watertower in DUMBO, made out of salvaged plexiglass and steel - pretty nice!  
you can read more about it and see other pictures here

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pretty fantastic


caught these LED flickering candles by Moritz Waldmeyer at Ingo Maurer's design week party last night - always creating/showing the most innovative in lighting.


each 'candle' is an individual unit, comprised of a custom-designed 250-LED panel and circuitry. waldemeyer explained to designboom that he programmed the behaviour of the 'flame' based on video footage of actual candles, converting the moving imagery to pixel data and working with a software engineer to code each individual LED to reflect the movement of the flame, achieving an extremely realistic representation. from a slight distance or in darkened settings, the pixels meld together and the top of the lighting unit disappears, leaving only a virtual flame visible and flickering atop a candle-like form -  designboom

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out and about



matching Anna wearing Salvor to Stella! - we did manage to say hello to Frank at the opening of his new 3D printed work at Freedman Art on 73rd st.


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HOT TEA

great new take - fence tape graffiti. Maybe it's an evolution of the masking tape suburban house reported earlier here 06.04.09 - it's on the same block


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black flag

signs of spring -
the plastic bag trees are in  bloom




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off the wall

they closed this lot off the next day to build, so I'm glad to have caught this wall featuring another impressive JR piece


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sign of the times


the new 'street sign' spotted around the corner from us in DUMBO
in reaction to extreme asspants - two examples seen while out and about
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just watch it OK

one step beyond


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hardly since way back

confusing - they're hand painting one Bushmills ad with another





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street art


caught this field of yellow at Houston and Avenue A





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T&A

umm.......OK














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