Nicole told me about this object based subscription:

the thing quarterly

the first object was a series of blinds each painted with unique text by miranda july.

Vertical planted wall system at the Anthropologie store going in just outside of huntsville, al. It has angled planting cells, and it look like irrigation hose running behind, and there was a copper gutter along the ground below to catch run-off. The corner detailing was a little brutal.

My father has a pneumatic 55-gallon-drum crusher. the crushed drum weighs over 50lbs.

House by hays + ewing,
McDonough expats,(http://www.hays-ewing.com/index.htm)
as part of their riversedge community development,
the woolen mills residence is right across the street.


three photos from my bike ride on the trail near riverside park, in the same neighborhood.

Failed graphic.
"the shaved head is the new mustache of law enforcement".
Originally this started as a joke about how all cops now shave their heads.
and it was originally going to be sort of a homoerotic cop on cop locker room shaving incident, but when two dudes are in underwear how do you tell they are cops.
it then turned into the next image.
I have no excuse for the carribean/african colors.
I like the idea of defining an identity by all of the facial trappings, I would be interested in reusing it divorced from the dumb cop joke.
like aviators/beards/mustaches and plastic framed glasses--all of my accoutrements.

Pretty awesome...



Maybe I am behind the times, but my mom told me to check these out... there are some more dynamic ones on Youtube.

I have avoided posting links to other websites as content,
but I don't think it really matters at this point--and I feel compelled to tell as many people as possible about a couple of my favorite things on the internet.

1] blogoteque take-away shows
When touring artists come through Paris they are convinced to film these performances in unusual and impromptu venues; filmed(in a fantastic widescreen format). The quality is great. but the performances are often overwhelmingly optimistic. Check out the liars crack themselves up, improvising drum parts off of the different sides of an elevator.

2] Daytrotter Sessions
As bands pass through the midwest they stop and record special sessions that are then released as free mp3s; great bands, and at this point a huge archive of past sessions.
vampire weekend just posted.

3] catbird records
This record label releases small runs of a couple hundred cds, at ridiculously low prices--often on gocco printed sleeves. And the releases are all great. Tap Tap, Forest Fire, Pet Politics, and The Ghosts are some of my favorites. They also have a great music blog at catbird seat.

Just in case anyone out there is looking for a job, I found this interesting bit of advice on portfolios.

Got a questionaroni. It has to do with internet bookmarks. Specifically the taxonomy of said bookmarks. They are spiralling out of control for me. I have found a plug in I like (Foxmarks for Firefox) and now I need to organize. I would love if there existed a convention for this. Sounds like there should be an iso protocol. As there is not one that I'm aware of, and I don't see how the Dewey Decimal system helps me, I'm asking for your help. Does anyone have a good system that they have developed? Or know of a resource? Now that I'm thinking about it more, maybe the DD would work. Seems like I'd have all of mine stashed in the 700's.

hill house by eero saarinen. fenestration pattern, brick wall radiused to meet the ground plane, and over-fired bricks.

I got a little excited to see this Robert Indiana sculpture in person, as i had only seen it in pictures (even though it's something I was never particularly interested in)--and my instinct was to commemorate the experience by taking a picture of it. enjoy.

cardboard partition wall blocking off an unused portion of the building housing the exhibit.

my favorite piece from the Broadcast show at the Contemporary in Baltimore.

I'm doing a lot of work like these two projects lately--relatively quick sketchup models photoshopped.

You probably haven't seen stacks of trees like this since "Method & Red" got cancelled.