Regine introduces me to some jewellery I find almost unspeakably beautiful:
“It all started with a true story: a farmer had lost his wedding ring in the field and found it a season after with a tomato grown inside it. To make the jewelry, Hilde De Decker fits the ring over the tender young fruit. […]
Constant Nieuwenhuys - a master of imagining different worlds - has died.
I can’t find any English-language obituaries, although Dutch and other European news sources seem to be covering it.
From our archives, The Ludic City, a “world in which man no longer toils, but plays.”
Heavy Trash installs viewing platforms
“On April 24, 2005, Heavy Trash volunteers deposited bright orange viewing platforms in front of three Los Angeles gated communities; Brentwood Circle, Park La Brea and Laughlin Park … Like the historic viewing platforms at the Berlin Wall that allowed Westerners to see into East Berlin, the Heavy Trash viewing platforms […]
Vladimir Mayakovsky. A Tragedy.
A Tragedy was painted in cubo-futurist style by Iosif Shkolnik and Pavel Filonov. The backdrop depicts the modern city against whose alienating but exciting background the poet rebels. In 1913 it was performed on a double-bill with Victory Over the Sun, the “first Futurist opera”. (via)
Also: Frans Masereel’s Die Stadt, […]
Mobile Houses in Context: Israeli West Bank Settlements by Tulay Gunes
“The Western literature on mobile and portable buildings in architecture is largely structure-focused, technological and positivist. Prefabricated, portable and mobile housing units are celebrated and romanticized as prototypes that are relocatable, portable, adaptable and reusable according to the user’s will…Accordingly, the inhabitant becomes the ‘modern […]