Ronen Reblogs

I was there! It was awesome!

noraleah:

The Super Bowl aside, the weekend was all about celebrating Elizabeth Bard and Lunch in Paris. We attended a (standing room only!) cooking demo and reading at Brooklyn Kitchen, which she did along side Giulia Meluccia, author of I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti. My (ahem, rather handsome) boyfriend mixed a Lillet cocktail that he created based on the Boulevardier, a favorite of Julia Child’s when she lived in Paris after World War II.

Side note: he spoke at some length about proper cocktail stirring technique. “It’s more of an oscillation….” I couldn’t keep a straight face. We’re talking about STIRRING for chrissakes! But that’s why I love him.

And then all of us friends and fans of Elizabeth retired to a very lovely cocktail party at a very special space in Williamsburg….

Amanda, one of Elizabeth’s dearest friends, flew out from LA to surprise her!

A clever twist on the floral bouquet.

Slow dancing with the man she fell in love with over lunch in Paris.

And on Sunday, we said fiddle-dee-dee to our hangovers and drove out to Teaneck to visit Elizabeth’s family and pay our respects to her 6-month-old son Augustin (whatever you do, don’t call him “the sequel”!). He had quite a few fans, as you can see….

Today Elizabeth is off to on a round-the-word book tour, from Sidney to San Francisco and finally back to NYC for a bit before home to Paris. I can’t wait to read about her adventures.

bobulate:

Alex Stenweiss invented the album cover as we know it to create a new art form:

I love music so much and I had such ambition that I was willing to go way beyond what the hell they paid me for. I wanted people to look at the artwork and hear the music.”

So:

In 1940, as Columbia Records’ young new art director, he pitched an idea: Why not replace the standard plain brown wrapper with an eye-catching illustration? The company took a chance, and within months record sales increased by over 800 per cent. His covers for Columbia — combining bold typography with modern, elegant illustrations — took the industry by storm and revolutionized the way records were sold. …. He launched the golden age of album cover design and influenced generations of designers to follow.

His new book, Alex Steinweiss: Inventor of the Modern Album Cover, was recently honored.

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[Image: Alex Steinweiss Bartok, Concerto 3]

wazo:

Mental Map 2

I want to make out with your brain.

wazo:

Mental Map 2

I want to make out with your brain.

(via wazo)

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Possible Projects

wazo:

Interactive map/ epic poem

A while ago, I sketched out an idea to create a fantastical map of Switzerland that would be accompanied by an epic poem, an Ode to Switzerland. I traced over a found map with paint pens and wrote text in the margins.

I want to expand on this idea so the finalized text will be an epic poem that is slightly based on Dante’s Divine Comedy and Chatwin’s In Patagonia. The setting will be the country roads and mountain passes of Switzerland and my guide will be Albert Hoffman, the swiss scientist who discovered LSD. The poem will stay true to geography and uncover the historical oddities and place-specifities of each village it walks though. I want to sift through the layers of time and create a historical yet fantastical oral/physical map/songline of Switzerland. The poem will function as a sort of hypertext so it will need a reference guide and this where I’m not sure about how to go about it. The map could be physical or digital, it could be both.

Expanding on the piece On the way to the Sublime

This installation was all about mountaintops as shrouded places of mystery. The home of the gods, the earthly paradise, the staircase to the stairs, the point where like in the Sistine chapel man can touch god. I used cairns, stacked rocks, as altars and markers of the path. A series of cairns led to a locked door. Behind the door was a strong light and if the viewer got on their knees and placed their heads as low as they can go, in complete supplication, they could see a glimpse of the Shangri-La. However, the piece was not successful do to space and time constraints.

There were not enough cairns and the path was to straightforward. The piece is as much about the act of walking as it is attempting to reveal what our true destination is. The way that the cairns were laid out did not force the viewer to walk for the amount of time that creates an awareness of the act of walking an in turn an awareness of life itself. (I am not explaining this very well but I am sure you know what I mean. Walking allows your mind to do things that sitting still will never achieve). The cairns should be placed further apart and form a path that is more convoluted, backtracking, circling, and climbing. I’m thinking of acres and acres of land with huge cairns that must be climbed in order to see where the next one is, tiny cairns that are nestled in trees, a wide variety of way-finding marks.  This is in a forest but this could also be in a desert where the cairns would stand out from the atmosphere as man-made monoliths. Overall,  I would like to create a path (or space-intervention) in an urban park that is navigated from cairn to cairn using sound, treasure-hunting, logic and riddles.

Expanding on the form I discovered in You Win

I would like to make a huge landscape out of found video. I want to collage the video like I did in You Win but hundreds of more times. Rather then focusing on narrative I would focus on the visual and aural experience. Imagine a landscape like this:

or this:

but each brushstroke is a piece of video.

..!

What is this thing that keeps me awake at night?

wazo:

I am currently struggling with a personal dissonance. I cannot reconcile the me that is the wanderer, the nomad, and the me that is the collector, the hoarder of things. These two me’s are the Abel and the Cain, the hunter-gatherer and the agriculturalist, the free-loader and the capitalist. You Win and the (Physical) Suspension of Disbelief reflected on this issue through the use of mountain peaks and meta-narratives of the hidden treasure.

My other pieces are primarily about naming, discovery, and movement. I used maps, navigation, oral culture, and walking/climbing as my referents. These pieces revel in the nomadic side of me and I am very interested in following them through to see where they go.

I like when things are nice to each other that shouldn't be.
annietron:

themadeshop:

essayons:libertinecircle:iheartmyart:Max Dunlop, Chair and Window, 2009, 24 x 24 in oil on aluminum

annietron:

themadeshop:

essayons:libertinecircle:iheartmyart:Max Dunlop, Chair and Window, 2009, 24 x 24 in oil on aluminum

annietron:

lickystickypickyme:

How to Craft Super-Natural Eco-Homes;by using the natural shape of trees rather than milling them into dimensional lumber, the resulting architecture becomes organic and lifelike as if it were a living, breathing and growing structure – though correspondingly more difficult to construct, each custom branch and trunk needing to fit somehow in with the rest.via

wow.

annietron:

lickystickypickyme:

How to Craft Super-Natural Eco-Homes;

by using the natural shape of trees rather than milling them into dimensional lumber, the resulting architecture becomes organic and lifelike as if it were a living, breathing and growing structure – though correspondingly more difficult to construct, each custom branch and trunk needing to fit somehow in with the rest.

via

wow.

I think I dreamt about Ronen last night.....

ellebeta:

Probably because the last thing I did before I went to sleep was <3 all his posts and reblogs.

So creepy, I know.

rad!

Not at all weird- I sneak into people’s dreams for adventures all the time ;) (re al ly)

Whatever did we do?

lol

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See, I told you I was cute.
Marke Johnson
themadeshop:

I couldn’t find a photo of me as a baby wearing the red hat that now belongs to Maxx, but here’s a picture of me wearing the same one in blue.
See, I told you I was cute.

themadeshop:

I couldn’t find a photo of me as a baby wearing the red hat that now belongs to Maxx, but here’s a picture of me wearing the same one in blue.

See, I told you I was cute.

http://awesomefoundation.org/
Hello, New York!

awesomefoundation:

Happy New Year! The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences is thrilled today to kick off 2010 by announcing that we are officially launching a new chapter of the Foundation in New York City.

Additionally, we’re honored and seriously pumped to be welcoming a simply stellar cast of micro-trustees steering this project and forwarding the interest of awesome in the universe, including:

* Catherine White

* Caterina Fake

* Chris Dixon

* Sam Lessin

* Clay Shirky

* Colin Nederkoorn

* Jesse Chan Norris

* Douglas Repetto

* And, AF-NYC’s Dean of Awesome, the Honorable Lee-Sean Huang

Since it’s January 1st, this means that applications are open once again on the main grant submission page. And if you’re in New York City, this means that it’s officially open season to grab a chance to become the city’s very first Fellow! Grants close once again promptly on January 15th, so it’s worth not delaying and submitting your project ideas as soon as you can.

You might notice that we’re short a few of our micro-trustees (the usual board is ten, to create our $1,000 grant). We’re still sorting out the details with the remaining slots, and we’ll be announcing them as they confirm in January! Stay tuned, dear readers.

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