Category Archives: art & design
The Institute for Art and Olfaction
I’m so excited to announce a new organization I am forming in Los Angeles: The Institute for Art and Olfaction. The IAO aims to instigate greater engagement with the art and science of perfumery. We will do this through a public education program, by building an archive of contemporary perfume releases, by creating an accessible […]
Public Domain
The Public Domain Review is amazing. I picked out two images from the site that I liked. Each links to the original context. Old Arabic machines: Photos from a square dance in 1940′s Oklahoma: France in the year 2000:
dOCUMENTA (13)
Two photos of Los Angeles-based artist Marcos Lutyens’ mind-bending ‘Reflection Room’ at dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel Germany.
Micah Hahn, on Typography
Made this. Love him. Here’s a link to his website.
LA
And now for something even more awesome: ‘Los Angeles: A Love Poem‘, by Dylan King (featuring a poem by Sandra Beasley)
Hey Pachuco!
Zoot-suiters in Los Angeles, and the girls who loved them. Sources: a. http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL272/8157143/15269508/231094190.jpg b. http://www.flickr.com/photos/80643375@N00/356743212 c. http://i.ytimg.com/vi/HCcB7IDJQ6Q/0.jpg
‘Tree of Codes’ by Jonathan Safran Foer
Visual Editions, started in 2009 in London, publishes books that are very aware of their materiality. As they put it “books should be as visually interesting as the stories they tell”. On Nov 15th they will publish their second book, Tree of Codes by acclaimed author Jonathan Safran Foer. This book was generated not from […]
Pete Dougherty is a more coherent e.e. cummings
Here’s a section of a poem Pete Dougherty wrote when he was 17: “I knew she wasn’t English, Because she spoke it far too well. The grammar was goodly, the verbs as they should be, And the slang was bang on the bell. So as the language barrier clanged and banged, I couldn’t hear – […]
Cacophony Society
Stemming from San Francisco’s now-defunct ‘Suicide Club‘, The Cacophony Society is “a randomly gathered network of individuals united in the pursuit of experiences beyond the pale of mainstream society through subversion, pranks, art, fringe explorations and meaningless madness.” They claim to be the original impetus for Burning Man, and they also started such important urban […]
