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blizzard pics

Friday, March 12th, 2010

remember when this happened?

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design for a living world @ cooper-hewitt

Monday, September 14th, 2009

went to the cooper-hewitt national design museum this weekend and saw an amazing exhibit called sponsored by the nature conservancy. the exhibit’s been up since may and runs through january 4, 2010. if you’ve never been to the museum, i recommend checking it out for the architecture if nothing else. it’s housed in the carnegie mansion at 91st and 5th and is stunning.

the exhibit asked ten designers to create products from sustainable materials and include kate spade new york, isaac mizrahi, maya lin, yves béhar, christien meindertsma (whose organic wool project is depicted above) and abbott miller (from pentagram - also responsible for the exhibit’s exquisite layout).

the exhibit is $5 for students, $10 general and FREE for pratt students and faculty! (yay that’s me).

if you don’t want to make the trek, you can check out this (unlinkable flash) site, which includes all the video segments from the actual exhibition. but of course, seeing it in person is aces.

scuttle snails by chase rees

Monday, September 14th, 2009

from vimeo’s HD channel.

Timelapse of snails coming out during the rain. Just for fun.

Aphex Twin
Fingerbib
Richard D. James

you should care about this (part 2)

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Josh Fox is working on this amazing documentary that’s exposing the extremely criminal acts of “clean” natural gas drilling companies. tonight i’m going to TOXIC SPLASH BASH, a benefit for the film which will featuring phenomenal performances by Reverend Billy, Rude Mechanical Orchestra, and a whole bunch of other awesome activist art folk. and there’s apparently a ton of free food. and it’s only $15.

hope to see you there. but if not, please check out waterunderattack.com to learn more about this important film, and to be completely freaked out and motivated to do something about it.