Auckland Museum have collaborated with some musicians and sound artists to create soundtracks for sections of the museum. Reminded me a little bit of the soundtrack I listened to at Alcatraz, and how much it added to the experience. This also made me think about how often I wander around with my ipod playing, and how nice it is to not have it on sometimes, to hear the actual sounds of the place I’m in.
I have wanted an Eames Lounge chair for as long as I can remember - I’m waiting till I have the study to put it in. This is a video of Charles and Ray on the Arlene Francis “Home” show, broadcast on NBC in 1956.
More from Teenage Engineering - I hope this makes it to production, I would purchase one of these right now.
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As an inspiration to the author I do not think the cat can be overestimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. The perfect symmetry of his body urges one to achieve an equally perfect form. His colour and his line alone would serve to give any imaginative creator material for several pages of nervous description; on any subject, mind you, not necessarily on the cat himself.
The sharp, but concealed claws, the contracting pupil of the eye, which allows only the necessary amount of light to enter, the independence, should be the best of models for any critic; the graceful movements of the animal who waves a glorious banner as he walks silently should stir the soul of any poet. The cat symbolizes, indeed, all that a good writer tries to put into his work. I do not wonder that some writers love cats; I am only surprised that all writers do not love cats.
There is another explanation for the almost general fascination the cat has for the literary man. Writers as a class are irritable, temperamental, captious, and sensitive. They find in the soft grace, the urbanity, the reserve and the dignity of the cat exactly the softening qualities they require to smooth the ruggedness of life. Indeed the cat is as nearly as possible what many a writer would like to be himself.
― Carl Van Vechten - The tiger in the home - THE NECESSARY CAT
Amazing Philip Glass animation “A Geometry of circles” - made for Sesame Street a bit ago. This is so cool, I love the music, espeiclaly at around 2:00.
Found via Crack Unit
I was thinking about this the other day, and now I see Priyanka has too. I want to play some more.
Lovely design for the Loop festival which takes place in Brighton during the summer. I like the fact that they have used analogue tape for what I always thought was a digital festival - maybe I didn’t pay close enough attention to the last 2 years design.
Had a lovely morning so far - missing running, so I’m going to focus on cycling, and this morning it was beautiful. Do get slightly envious everytime I see a runner though.
From the introduction by Karola Grässlin: “Clegg & Guttmann declared a road underpass with no relation to art to be an exhibition space that, for the public, was an unfamiliar one and brought back (in the form of photographs resulting from this expansion of potential art sites) the exhibition to its original location, the K-raum Daxer sponsored by art patrons, Mr. and Mrs Daxer.”
Why don’t we have stamps like this in the UK. These are beautiful and I would love one of these adorning one my letters.
Gavin Potenza — Homage to the Stamp
Found via PSFK
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