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