Untitled (BR100CO), 1989
Oil, autobody compound, fiberglass over wood
62 1/2 x 56 1/2 x 3 inches
My new favorite sculptures are from Richard Prince’s Hoods series. In addition to his rephotography for this series, Prince created molds of car hoods and painted the resulting casts in Rothkoesque colors.
Can something be both a sculpture and a painting? Why [...]
Jan Chipchase discusses single-occupancy vehicles in two (increasingly convergent?) contexts. In Los Angeles, single-occupancy is the norm; you won’t get any weird looks from fellow commuters. In Kabul, Afghanistan—where the occasional suicide bomber prefers to drive alone—security-minded drivers are more likely to give you both weirder looks and a wider berth.
There are very few sports from which the language of the everyday almost always borrows and to which it seldom lends.
Usually the vocabularies of sport and the everyday are cooperative. Baseball, for instance, names the plate towards which all offensive action is oriented “home”. And I don’t think I need to mention even one of [...]
Of course maps tell a story. But while cartographers like John Krygier and Cindy Brewer offer us resources for making good maps, how do we tell better stories?
According to This American Life’s Ira Glass, a good story consists of three basic components:
1. Begin almost self-consciously in media res, with an unrelenting anecdote full of “and [...]
The road to Hengelo is paved with good inventions. The Dutch town [map, wiki, official] is paving a local road with green bricks containing “a titanium dioxide-based additive” that “binds the nitrogren oxide particles emitted by car exhausts and turns them into harmless nitrates” when sunlight is added to the mix.
This is the first test [...]
If you’re an idiot like me and forget to save your HTML/CSS/whatever and then you make some changes you don’t like, save them in Wordpress, and then can’t remember how to change things back—remember, you’re an idiot like me—then the best thing to do is to find your website in a Google search and go [...]
I’ve spent a busy Friday afternoon preparing to move to Delaware, which is only an hour’s drive from Baltimore, a city I hope to visit several times (if only to see Camden Yards). Last month Steve Rose of The Guardian’s architecture bureau argued that, for all the gritty acting and tangled storylines, the built environment [...]
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