ey day: 2010.02

28.2.10

what is that supposed to be, harris; you eating cinnabun?

skip ahead to 5:25.
them teeth.

27.2.10

watching you watching me.
laptop reflections.

26.2.10

“the art of indulgence is a threatened species. god preserve us from all those reasonable architects, those cool manners, those careful buildings. go look elsewhere for that – there’s plenty of it around.”
_ sir peter cook

25.2.10

baster.nl

24.2.10

wangechi mutu.

23.2.10

20 Tufteisms from The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

1. Graphical excellence is the well-designed presentation of interesting data – a matter of substance, of statistics, and of design.
2. Graphical excellence consists of complex ideas communicated with clarity, precision, and efficiency.
3. Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.
4. Graphical excellence is nearly always multivariate.
5. Graphical excellence requires telling the truth about the data.
6. The representation of numbers, as physically measured on the surface of the graphic itself, should be directly proportional to the numerical quantities represented.
7. Clear, detailed, and thorough labeling should be used to defeat graphical distortion and ambiguity.
8. Write out explanations of the data on the graphic itself. Label important events in the data.
9. Show data variation, not design variation.
10. In time-series displays of money, deflated and standardized units of monetary measurement are nearly always better than nominal units.
11. The number of information-carrying (variable) dimensions depicted should not exceed the number of dimensions in the data.
12. Graphics must not quote data out of context.
13. Above all else, show the data.
14. Maximize the data-ink ratio.
15. Erase non-data-ink.
16. Erase redundant data-ink.
17. Revise and edit.
18. Forgo chartjunk
19. If the nature of the data suggests the shape of the graphic, follow that suggestion. Otherwise, move toward horizontal graphics about 50 percent wider than tall.
20. The revelation of the complex.

i react against the majority of these. this is this. what a boring world mere representation brings. interpret.

* this is this.
text via.

22.2.10

daniel day lewis mastery.

21.2.10

mixtape sunday:

dillmatic.

wu vs the beatles.
these are both much better than you would expect.

dance, dance.

20.2.10

newswipe.

19.2.10

the ego has landed.

18.2.10

In 1942, Andre Breton organised a retrospective exhibition of Surrealist art in New York: First Papers of Surrealism. For the vernissage Marcel Duchamp created this installation – a gigantic web – called the Mile of String. He and Breton furthermore arranged for a number of children to ball in the room thereby making it very difficult for the guests to see the paintings.
The gallery space, such a predetermined expectation. And Duchamp stays as the first to play on expecatations and challenge every inch of them. From then on what we see are replays of what his first attempt produced.
text + image via

17.2.10

science museum porn (as art).

16.2.10

twan gets a little upset, does a little twirl.
skip ahead to 0:50.

15.2.10

"our practice is to hire an architect and get on with it, not to waste time and money on design competitions for what are essentially utilitarian buildings"
thank you councilor gord hunter. you are the perfect embodiment of political ignorance, and the reason why so much of ottawa looks like shit.

14.2.10

i want to be your lover.
29 years old, but newer than tomorrow.

romance.

13.2.10

daniel shea.

12.2.10

always a sucker for a good studio tour.
kill pixie. (of cat shirt fame)

11.2.10

rafael lozano hemmer.
your wake, your influence. your tracings, your agency.
this is what all art should be, today.

10.2.10

harm van der dorpel.

9.2.10

after you left, they took it apart.
demolished paul rudolph homes by chris mottalini.

8.2.10

enlightening; numbers to what everyone knows, except the numbers don't say what you expect.
(skip past the intro to minute 5:00)

7.2.10

goran petercol.

duchamp makes rotoreliefs.
(dual orbs theme)

not generally in love with motorcycles, but this is evolution.

6.2.10

bmw museum, munich.
but: how could you put so much thought and effort into such a truly astounding work; something both visceral and technical - and then fill the walls behind with such inane and offensively banal and cliche'd word-questions? innovations... technology... design... dialogue... jesusfuckingchrist.