miércoles, mayo 31, 2006

Sports car...or pet mummy?

For about the same price as a new sports car, a Salt Lake City, Utah- based firm will make a mummy of your departed pet...

Watch as two pooches are prepped for their journey to the afterlife.


Instructions for mummifying your small pet via summum.org

Academia de Refinamiento...

EXCLUSIVA

"El lente de Tania Fernández nos transporta esta vez en un viaje tan fascinante como perturbador. Su mas reciente proyecto plantea la tesis del corte fugado a través del mundo de las academias de refinamiento, de niñas con maquillaje y pubertad adelantada. Por sobre el reflejo de las aspiraciones de mocosas aún sin identidad y en precelo, el poder de las imágenes de Fernández nos habla de los anhelos quiero-ser-burgués de unos padres con más complejas crisis identitarias y miembros de la mediatizada clase nuevobruto portorricensis..." OB, Jornal Fuerte Veerde, 2006

Academia de Refinamiento:

(Apriete en los números para ver una selección de imágenes)
:::1 ::: 2 ::: 3 ::: 4 ::: 5 ::: 6 ::: 7 ::: 8 ::: 9 ::: 10

Mas de la Academia de Refinamiento apretando AQUí y ACá.

Vea también:
Gallera 1:::2:::3:::4:::5
Retratos 1:::2:::3:::4:::5

Some more

"S'more appears to be a contraction of the phrase, "some more", as in "Please, give me some more of that delicious treat." The informal nature of this term reflects the environment in which s'mores are traditionally served. Some have jokingly surmised that the name originated from people who were so busy eating the tasty dessert that they did not have time to speak in complete sentences, or alternately, that their enunciation was compromised by the fact that their mouth was still full of the previous s'more..."

martes, mayo 30, 2006

El Bosque en Invierno

Arboles de Texone


" Tree accesses the source code of a web domain through it's url and transforms the syntactic structure of the web site into a tree structure represented by an image. this image illustrates a tree with trunk, branches and ramifications. first each tree is initialized, than all html links are detected, chronologically saved and finally displayed."

la imágen es el Dominio de Placa de Petri hecha árbol...useless but cute...

Texone

Puerto Rico Celebrates Dependence Day


















vía "la cebolla"
hahaha

New York en 10 Años

"(Jane) Jacobs’s vision was lovely but limited, with little room for new buildings, new neighborhoods. Rereading her arguments, one develops a sneaking admiration for the size of Moses’s thoughts. For the city to grow, it needed major change. Under Bloomberg, big thinking is happening again. What we have is a—some would say unholy—alliance of Bob and Jane. Exaltation of the neighborhood, coupled with the idea of building new ones from scratch."

New York Times Article

lunes, mayo 29, 2006

Brooklyn's Flatiron?


"The lot is triangular and the building was designed to fit the site, not unlike the Flatiron Building, explained Dan Kaplan of the FXFowle Architectural firm, who designed the building.
Kaplan further explained that while the building size is taller than the surrounding “brownstone fabric,” it will utilize lighter colors to match the surrounding buildings. "

Articulo aqui





Taller Tres A-eme:

"Time is not a line, but a series of now-points..."

Taller Tres A-eme:

"Politics, religion, sex, race and gender; only if directly related to architecture..."

Visite el Taller Tres A-eme aquí.

viernes, mayo 26, 2006

Post-Flood Architecture

This unconventional concept, by Dutch design firm MRDVD, envisions a school built inside a man-made hill with classrooms and other facilities protruding above sea level. The hill's exterior would be parkland, and the facility would serve as a flood refuge for local residents.

Haga click aqui para ver mas imagenes del disenyo de MVRDV...basado en un es-ketch de una ninyita de New Orleans

Link to other proposals for the re-building of New Orleans

oliver stone












q u e d e c i r . . . ?


Friendly Neighbors


Thommi and Hans don´t talk much. But they enjoy having a decent ping pong match together.

jueves, mayo 25, 2006

Warhol para Braniff Airlines

Dali para Lanvin Chocolate



cortesia de Orlando.

Clayton Bigsby

Macondo Streets

"Macondo Streets is a cry that describes the feelings of a whole generation with education, but jobless..." - A.GC. The Gulembo Times

After making the first single Soñando con Puerto Rico the third best selling single of all time (from the album Aquí no hay vergüeza... ni quien la ponga). Radio Leña 92.5 (WLEÑA-FM) and Tecatex Record strikes back with the album's second single, Macondo Streets. Now number 11 hit on the charts and broadcasting live from the Festivale Nazionale-Carnavale Tropicale...

Exclusive Macondo Streets downloadable version HERE.
Soñando con Puerto Rico
downloadable version HERE.

es largo pero vale la pena...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-869183917758574879

En una gala presidencial ofrecida a los reporteros, Stephen Colbert achicharra a Bush en su propia cara...una verdadera joyita!

miércoles, mayo 24, 2006

ya empezó...




vayan al cine este fin de semana y demuestren que a diferencia de las industrias petroleras we don't call it life!
The Scariest Movie of this Summer...la parte scary es que es un documental y que todos son facts...

Engineering Conflict


"Architecture matters because it lasts, of course. It matters because it is big, and it shapes the landscape of our everyday lives. But beyond that, it also matters because, more than any other cultural form, it is a means of setting the historical record straight."
interesante articulo de New York Times

Las Brujas

De la serie Blanca Nieves y los Siete Churi-Churín, Chespirito nos trae Las Brujas...


"Todas las brujas del mundo
usan la misma poción
con esa fórmula extraña

que doy a continuación...
"
www.chespirito.org

Red

"Cesar Pelli's third project for the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, the so-called Red Building, was conceived as part of the original site plan in the 1970s, and since then it has been postponed, redesigned and nearly forgotten."
"The project suggests an acceleration in L.A.'s shift from a city of scattered landmarks to a place where ensemble architecture will become more common, more noticeable and more important. "
Red, Blue?? WTF?
Articulo aqui

Nike +

Apple y Nike se unen para crear un sistema en el que tus Nike le hablan a tu IPod Nano y tu IPod Nano le habla a un website que monitorea tu regimen de ejercicio. Plus, hace que tu ropa cambie mientras corres, increible...vea más aqui.

lunes, mayo 22, 2006

Churi Churín Fun Fláis

EXCLUSIVO: ¡Que Residente Calle Trece, Julio Voltio, ni que ocho cuartos! Remóntese al año 1979 con nostalgia y deléitese con la versión Chespirito original del Churi Churín Fun Fláis...


"Hay unas palabras clave
que significan quién sabe:
Churi churin fun flais,
churi churin fun flais..."

Pitufirialiti Tivi

Caffeine Tights

" Body temperature causes the release of caffeine microcapsules into the skin increasing the metabolic rate and the burning of fat. This can reduce the circumference of thighs, cellulite and the "orange peel" effect. "

Tights Please UK

Colectivo Nortec

Esta placa de petri es para los fans de Wonder Showzen...


Aquí se ilustra a la única escala que podrían acabar con el hambre mundial ;)jejeje.

Call for Entries...


Voto por que cambien las gráficas de la placa...es que cada vez que las veo pienso que un payaso tiene eso en la mano y lo va a usar para pintarme una mariposita en la cara con un Q-tip!!! miren a ver si encuentran algo chévere y lo postean...

Escape from a Petri Dish!!!

Dr. Blob's Organism is a lightning-fast shooter where players blast feisty one-celled organisms as they try to escape from a petri dish!

Each level in the game introduces new powerups (like freeze, lightning and multiguns) and special organism abilities (like force field, regeneration and frenzy) to increase the fun and toughen the challenge throughout the entire game!

http://www.maxxdownload.com/Dr_Bloband146s_Organism.html

sábado, mayo 20, 2006

Take on Me

EXCLUSIVO


Learn everything about this MTV Video Music Awards Best Video 1986: Take on Me

viernes, mayo 19, 2006

jueves, mayo 18, 2006

The Tank Man

Tiananmen Square, June, 1989
The Tank Man

"Tiananmen Square, Beijing, the largest public space in the world, created on an inhuman scale. The monumental public buildings that line the edges and the vast, treeless spaces in between speak of the insignificance of the individual before the might of the state.

The atmosphere here is edgy. Even with permits and government minders, our filming is constantly interrupted. Soldiers, policemen, men in plain clothes, all demand our papers. The authorities here are afraid of cameras. They know their power. They have hundreds of them trained on Tiananmen Square, their cameras..."

Watch the Full Program Online: The Tank Man

::: 001 Prologue ::: 002 Tens of Millions of Protestors ::: 003 the Theater of Massacre ::: 004 China's Rise ::: 005 Two Chinas ::: 006 The Struggle to Control Information

CEI

CO2: We call it Life Campaign

CEI website

"Exxon Mobil Corporation is a "major donor" to CEI, with over $1.6 million in contributions between 1998 and 2005. In 2004 the company gave CEI $180,000 that was earmarked for "global climate change and global climate change outreach." CEI also gets funding from other oil companies through the American Petroleum Institute."

BMW's Green Paint Shop


"BMW Manufacturing Co. announced that it will use recycled methane gas generated by the Palmetto Landfill near Spartanburg to provide energy to its paint shop. "
"Landfills are the largest human-made methane source in the United States. Methane is produced as waste decomposes. When released into the air, it is a greenhouse gas and contributes to local air pollution. "
BMW news release

L'assassina di aragoste



Coming soon in Theaters: L'assassina di aragoste. An unconventional love story film with Mikele Connolly and Silvia Saponaro. Filmed at the beautiful sceneries of the Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor, Maine.

Soñando con Puerto Rico

"Si por casualidad duermes y sueñas / que pelean por una silla / y sientes que un gamberro..."

EXCLUSIVO:
Radio Leña 92.5, el sello Tecatex Records y la Placa de Petri nos ofrecen la primicia mundial del primer sencillo de la superproducción Aquí no hay vergüenza ... ni quien la ponga.

Suba el volumen y escuche en su totalidad aquí:

Soñando con Puerto Rico

Nueve Once y el Pentágono

¿Y donde está el avión que no lo veo?

Blue's construction

miércoles, mayo 17, 2006

Design week in Brooklyn

Blockparty brings the work of 40 designers and 26 artists, all Brooklyn-based, under one domestic roof. This installation inhabits all of 267A State Street, one of fourteen award-winning twenty-first century townhouses designed by Rogers Marvel Architects.

Saturday May 20 from 2pm to 5pm
A,C,G to Hoyt Schemerhorn-Walk one block on Hoyt to State Street. Right on State Street to 14 Townhouses.
2,3,4,5 to Jay Street/Borough Hall-Walk on Court Street to State Street. Left on State Street. Go straight on State two blocks to 14 Townhouses.

---------------
HauteGREEN is an exhibition of the best in sustainable design for the contemporary home, showcasing furniture, lighting, and accessories that are both aesthetically pleasing and eco-friendly.

DATES: Saturday through Monday, May 20-22, 12-7pm
RECEPTION: Monday, May 22, 7-10pm
LOCATION: 70 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Indulgences...

The duo [Tobias Wong + Ken Courtney] took McDonald's classic coffee stirrer of the '70s — more notoriously used as drug paraphernalia...

Ken: It was all born from my wanting to cast the McDonald’s coffee stirrer in gold. I was browsing around on eBay one (1) night and came across one of the original stirrers someone was selling. It described how the spoons had been taken off the market in the late 70’s by the McDonald’s corporation when they found out that people were using them to do cocaine. I called Tobi and asked him to help me find a jeweler to work with and he mentioned the Bic Pen cap idea. That’s when I decided we should collaborate and make an entire line. Pun intended.
Interview


Effective statement or artistic indulgence?


Refresh Displays


"After obtaining approval from local New York authorities, we have initiated the installation of Refresh displays in 2006, together with the Department of New York City Parks & Recreation.The selected locations for this first phase are the boardwalks at Coney Island and Brighton Beach... "
Farrah Service International

Yanks match biggest comeback in franchise history






Inning #2: Rangers 9,Yankees 1
Inning #9: Rangers 13,Yankees 12
Jorge Posada at bat
3 balls
2 strikes...
2 outs...
Winning run on third...


martes, mayo 16, 2006

Mobile Living Exhibit NY

EVENT INFO









Office in a bucket?

Blue


"Blue is Tschumi's first condominum building in New York City. His design, he says, captures the energy of the diverse population and eclectic buildings of the Lower East Side."
Blue website
700k one bedroom

lunes, mayo 15, 2006

UP for grabs!


Tengo aqui 4 taquillas
para el juego de
los Yankees
contra los Rangers
para mañana.

Quien quiera las taquillas,
hable ahora.

Autostadt


" In a fully automated procedure, your new car is brought down to you from one of the 20-story Car Towers. Large signboards in the Customer Center show you when your turn has come. Then, you're handed the keys, your picture is taken, the glass doors open and your brand-new car appears. You're all set to go. "

Autostadt
Y esa es solo una de las atracciones...representing Deutschland...Jaaa

domingo, mayo 14, 2006

prehensile

kOCKS



[pre·hen·sile]
1-Adapted for seizing, grasping, or holding,
especially by wrapping around an object:
a monkey's prehensile tail.

2-Having keen intellect; insightful.

3-Greedy; grasping.

zogg

sábado, mayo 13, 2006

...

viernes, mayo 12, 2006

GSAPP Final Show exhibition


invitacion abierta a todos. Los espero

fl...ash...

BUUUU!!

Me gustaba cuando primero empezaron a salir las paginas hechas en flash pero ahora las odio.


....loading....loading....FUCKING STILL LOADING!

y cuando finalmente loudea, desorden.

a veces (casi siempre) me gusta ir donde quiero.

Is it too hard to ask for a web page that's easy to navigate?

geesh.

/rant

FLASH

BUUUU!!

Me gustaba cuando primero empezaron a salir las paginas hechas en flash pero ahora las odio.


....loading....loading....FUCKING STILL LOADING!

y cuando finalmente loudea, desorden.

a veces (casi siempre) me gusta ir donde quiero.

Is it too hard to ask for a web page that's easy to navigate?

geesh.

/rant

GSAPP - End of Year Exhibit


Opening Reception: GSAPP End of Year Exhibit
Saturday, May 13, 2006, 6:00 pm -8:00 pm

15lbs.

a u t e c h r e:

g a n t z g r a f v i d e o














c h u p e n

[documentos]

smoking gun

Bassoon


Bassoon

jueves, mayo 11, 2006

Aerogel

Luego de que 565 me preguntara si era photoshop lo que suspendia a las aereo-ciudades...
Encontre en el articulo de Mildz que Saraceno esta interesado en un material que se llama aerogel, el cual permitiria que las ciudades-burbujas pudiesen volar con energia solar...
Y Nasa dice:
http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/photo/aerogel.html



-It is 99.8% Air
-Provides 39 times more insulating than the best fiberglass insulation
-Is 1,000 times less dense than glass.

Ver imagenes aqui


Adicolor Black Short Film

Parte de la nueva promoción de Adidas Adicolor.
Más colores aqui

Air-Port-City











Designed by Tomas Saraceno.

"My idea for an Air-Port-City is to create platforms or habitable cells made up of cities that float in the air. These change form and join together like clouds. This freedom of movement is borrowed from the orderly structure of airports, and it allows for the creation of the first international city. Airports are divided by “air-side” and “land-side”; on the “air-side” you are under the jurisdiction of international law. Your every action is judged according to international norms. Air-Port-City is like a flying airport; you will be able to legally travel across the world while taking advantage of airport regulations. This structure seeks to challenge today’s political, social, cultural and military restrictions in an attempt to re-establish new concepts of synergy.

Up in the sky there will be this cloud, a habitable platform that floats in the air, changing form and merging with other platforms just as clouds do. It will fly through the atmosphere pushed by the winds, both local and global, in an attempt to equalise the (social) temperature and differences in pressure. It will be a sustainable and mobile migration. These aerial cities will be in a permanent state of transformation, similar to nomadic cities. After all, gypsies never go back to the same place simply because the place is constantly changing."



Installation pics

miércoles, mayo 10, 2006

Baroque Modernism




Zaha en el Guggenheim

Urban Sprawl Made in China


"I liked it immediately — it is just like a house in California," exulted Nasha Wei, a former army doctor turned businesswoman, sitting on a white suede banquette in the four-bedroom home in Orange County (China) she moved into this year.


Articulo aqui

martes, mayo 09, 2006

lunes, mayo 08, 2006

Five Boro NY

viernes, mayo 05, 2006

Sincretismo

Asqueante sincretismo político-religioso

Mientras Primitivo Aponte oraba con el Riqui Maltin del sacroportunismo hallan macabro trabajo espiritual en honor al Espíquer de la Cámara Baja:

"Además de la cabeza, que tenía los ojos perforados con alfileres, en la bandeja había una foto del presidente de la Cámara y un letrero que leía: Aponte, San Lorenzo siente vergüenza por ti..."

Lea:
Un fufú para Aponte.
Y también: Colorida protesta.

Kagüiforo

EXCLUSIVO: Kagüiforo despunta como la quintaesencia del debate cibernético. Forjador de la opinión pública. Donde rompe la noticia. La verdadera discusión rajatabla, a lo bréaquin plánk.

"Hay un montón de discusiones cheverísimas en ese foro. Yo soy miembro desde marzo de 2002 y moderador..." Saibeldós




La discusión del momento:

So Saibeldós, the Yankees are coming to town

¡Únase aquí y participe ahora!

FUC, WHO?

Discurso?

O solamente se van a limitar a enviar emailsitos?

jueves, mayo 04, 2006

Killers and Their Victims


" Between 2003 and 2005, 1,662 murders were committed in New York. Men and boys were responsible for 93 percent of the murders; their victims tended to be other men and boys; and in more than half the cases, the killer and victim knew each other..."

Check the interactive map and lookup for your neighborhood here!!!!

martes, mayo 02, 2006

Pratt Show

Graffiti Chair

check it out