3 related projects

PSFK often links to really great projects, and sometimes I find several over a series of weeks or months that just seem to speak to one another. See the 3 below:

Blurb
Project
Creator
"Each month or so, we release a new issue of "i left this here for you to read." We then leave them in public places (such on park benches, on buses, in airports and dentists' offices...) for anyone to take--free of charge. Currently, we distribute our magazine in about 25 cities in the US and Canada....This project was started by Tim Devin, but now involves more than 100 people."


Blurb
Project
Creator
"For our latest mission, 20 Improv Everywhere agents personally welcomed home total strangers at JFK airport. Grabbing first and last names from car driver signs, we greeted strangers with personalized posters, flowers, balloons, and a 10-foot wide banner reading, 'Welcome Back.'”


Blurb
Project
Creator
"Visitors can buy a T-shirt of their own choice, the only condition being that they share a bit of personal information about themselves, or more precisely: their name and address. When paying for the T-shirt at the museum-shop, the information is automatically mapped in Google Maps, thereby making it possible to see where each T-shirt ends up after leaving the museum."

2 projects

Catching up on my RSS feeds this morning I saw two interesting projects posted about on PSFK the trend and forecasting website:


Urban Rabbit Hole
I think this one sounds cooler than it really is, but maybe I'm just not a t-shirt person? What they do is make t-shirts with a print of lower Manhattan and mark them with red dots to mark places that have significance for you so that each one is completely individual to the wearer. They are only doing limited runs, and you have to jump through hoops to get an invite. I admit PSFK describes it a lot better than me, but it sounds like more hype than anything else in practice. Although I do think it's a lovely idea, don't get me wrong. You cna participate (and tell me how it goes) by entering the code newyorkoct#11 on this website.


Take A Seat
This one is definitely cooler than it sounds. Well, it even sounds pretty awesome. It's a project aimed at putting more seating on subway platforms by just putting chairs on the platforms. Jason Eppink is the artist (dude?) behind the project and he is encouraging collaborators to join him. You can see the Flickr set here (cheesy logo/graphic, lovely pics). Also see his blog website Self Referential Title. I like the personal sites :)

I admit I also have a wicked awesome knitter/artist website to post about, but I keep putting it off because I want to write something that does it/her justice because I'm just a bit in love with her work....I will tell you all about it soon though, I swear.

old links I never posted

Very common post idea, no? And I mean that in the older sense of the word. Maybe it will lead to nice surprises for me:

Hacking fashion from We Make Money Not Art:
....The outcome of the VakkoVamps is not so much a set of garments or objects as much as a series of methods for exchange and dialogue between two fields that are usually separated.
• I forgot about this one for sure. What a lovely idea! I love these kinds of projects where the outcome isn't about aesthetics but about process. No pictures from me because they don't give you any idea of what it's really about. Go on, read it!
• Ah, here is the official site about the project and others by the same instigator: Self Passage

From Coudal a link to the story of the Timepiece House. My favorite quote:
...The design concepts - derived from the forces of nature and humanity - are linked by the thread of Time: Light and shadow History Weathering Memory....
• Again, I'm leaving off the pictures because they just don't do enough justice to the concept of the project. This is a house designed to make you aware of time in your life and through your day to day activities. Really sweet project.

A piece on FI about a guy from my MA program a year behind me, Mark Liu. He also studied with this guy also featured on Fashion Incubator. No good quotes from this one, but I had to post another good MA project coming out of my program, right?

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Pictures next time, I promise :)

2 community sites I never heard of before

have you?

Ravelry, a knitting site

and

Fashioning Tech, a sort of social networking site about smart textiles.
This one I know a little about (I joined), it was started by Syuzi Pakhchyan who recently wrote a book of the same name. I'm not really sure what to do on there though :P

If you're on Fashioning Tech "friend" me! I'm still waiting for an invitation to Ravelry, but I'd love to hear insights or reviews of the community!

Round up 9

• Visualizations of time, the pic above mostly closely resembles how I visualize time.....
• A wonderful article from Cabinet Magazine that explores what makes a Readymade, and what is art after all. Or a story about art vandalism. A must read if you are a Duchamp fan.....

From The Coveted:


• I've been meaning to write a bit about Olaf Ureliasson ever since I caught something on the Coveted a while ago, but I guess if you want to know more about his beautiful vision you'll have to look around yourself. Above is The Weather Project 2003 from the (one of my favorite exhibition spaces) Turbine Hall, Tate Modern London
• Interesting ideas about one of a kind No Editions, more here.

From Coudal:


• I am so not a car person!
• A lovely column in The Guardian about objects begins.

From new favorite Girl in the Green Dress:


• I have a soft spot for Space Invaders
• Word seach gift tags! But the link on Etsy doesn't seem to work anymore :(

From Make:


• Great office supply selection! This has been linked all over town, but I hadn't see the one above, from Chloe Coulson
• I would love to raise my own silkworms....to make silk!

From Phantasmaphile:


• Louise Hindsgavl


• Anna Howarth

From PSFK:
• Hey! Getting customers to love and feel attached to a product creates sustainability! Surprise!
• And also: the deathe of trends!

From We Make Money Not Art:
I've been meaning to write about somehting more meaningful to go with these links too, but eh, you do the thinking (see what I mean about me and the internet burnout?)
• Knitting
• And more knitting

Round up 8

• Sweet notebooks




• Manon does lovely clothes, as well as installations and costumes. She writes:

The origins of my work can be traced back to my last year of study at France’s Duperré School of Applied Arts when I carried out a photographic study of the clothes worn by workers in the early 20th century and explored the "traces of wear and tear" on clothes.

ah! The clothes are beautiful, but I'm not in love with the fabric dolls. Although she's totally converted me to loving the dressed objects. Also, she was a research assistant for Elisabeth De Senneville!


• Great article about a Duchamp piece from Cabinet Magazine

• Another interesting article regarding China, this one regarding "luxury"



• Found this site from a post about shoes, but stayed for the great scans of vintage magazines! edited to add: after looking around, some scans have crazy moiré problems, FYI.

• Design Boom writes about Monica Bonvicini's winning scultpure commission in oslo

It is meant to be a monument about change, longing and hope, the beauty of the un-done as a permanent state of change

• Emily Davidow writes about Christian Nold's maps. My favorite is the Stockport Emotion map. She also mentions the We Feel Fine project I've listed before.

• What color should he paint his bathroom?

From Boing Boing


• I want one!

• This article says 48% of people believe in ESP!

• Free, old, anatomical atlas images for download

Round-up 7

• ku:nel magazine
• family trees
(via)


• Westwood on consumer culture
(via)


• I wish I had gone to this.



• soap shaped like baby hands
• beautiful, exploding porcelain sculptures
• seriously awesome interviews with old people hating on young people and with young people bitching about old people!
(via)


• I used to believe that MPH was a word
• how creativity is killing culture
(via)

Catch-up round-up (6)

I haven't done a round up in a while, so here's a long one (full of old stuff too). I swear I am still just catching up on stuff! I have a backlog of things I have scanned to show you too....next week!

VIA Boing-Boing:


• The Imaginary Foundation




• How little kids feel




• Sock exchange!

• Nike develops a Native American sneaker

• A man's Life Countdown clock

• Dr. Whippy is a machine that proffers soft scoop ice cream according to the perceived unhappiness level of the customer. See also here. Sweet!



VIA Coutorture

• Musings on shopping

• Mary Ping wins more fans to Slow and Steady Wins the Race



VIA The Fashion Informer:


• I love Isabel Toledo, here's an interview




• In this interview Francisco Costa mentions the book Hutterites of Montana by Laura Wilson. The photography & the clothing are both so lovely!



VIA PSFK:


• ooh, another one I really really love: streets without traffic signs! I was thinking about this in regards to speed limits when I was in Colorado driving my sister-in-law's car witha broken spedometer.

• The Thought Project. I'm not posting any pictures with this link because it will not do the project justice. I loved reading through this site, absolutely entrancing (pardon my enthusiasm, but go look!)

• hmmmm.....Solar powered jacket

• The Center for Cosmic Wonder




VIA Kottke:


•This reminds me of the Komar & Melamid paintings




• Oscar the cat. What do you think?

• Arts reporting. Ha! Who cares?



VIA Make:

• I like this project: The Exquisite Box

• These workshops sound interesting....




AND from everybody else:

• Girls on Cheap Paper





• To fulfill my ephemera quotient






• Ping Mag never disappoints! I want these.




• I like the Tree Dress (above).





• I like this idea by The Rage even if the shoes aren't quite my style.

• I always like laundry talk

• Ew?

• Hanna Werning does lovely work. I first saw her prints for Eastpak back packs

• Aitor Throup's menswear

• After the shoelace, the necktie

Round up 5

I wish I could say all of my links today are about fashion week, but I'm just not that organized. I'll try to put everything in a few categories though.....

Fashion or Fashion Week related:
• Kathleen is doing a great batch of posts in honor of NY Fashion Week. My faves, he comments on the pages of September Voque and a vintage Lane Bryant catalog
• Burda just launched an updated website. I posted about it before too.
• St. Jude's Gallery produces gorgeous fabrics designed by some excellant artists and designers.
• Mrs. Dean links to some beautiful fashion photography (click on Les Habits).
• Angel Chang, whose S/S08 show is today (right now!) and who I worked with a bit on this collection (my contributions were dropped), got a nice little blurb on Style. [via]
• Fashion show invitations! (also, I realized Slow and Steady Wins the Race, which I wrote about before, is still in production!! SO wish I was going to that show)
• A short, sweet piece from Cathy Horyn.

Things to make:
• Print out your own graph paper!
• Shoot better product photos

General sites I should have linked to something specific about and I always meant to read but never had them on my RSS feeder:
• Life Hacker
• A classic

Unusual, amazing bits:
• A couple of good links from the ever excellent Boing Boing. A relief map rug by Laurens van Wieringen and a woman visits her on heart [Link]
• An interesting bit about hand gestures

Thoughtfulness:
• I am so in love with Entwinements. Two recent posts, slowness and mindful making
• When I was working as a graphic designer my favorite cards and mailers to get in the mail were from James Victoire. [via]

Not bad, actually. Most fashion related.....Have a good weekend!

Round up 4

• A bunch of posts on Coutorture about value, luxury, and "it" items. And one fun one about how lipsticks are made!

• Susie Bubble reminds me how much I love quilting

• What is visual clutter? [via]

• Mrs. Dean links to an article about Out of body experiences and also about Jan Adriaans, and artist interested in space and materials.

• tee hee, PSFK writes about How Trends Don't Matter in France (or do they?)....

• My favorite blog Things posts a link to photographer Nicholas Whitman, who writes an entry about photography and time.


• The gesture blog! [via]

• Now for my most commercial links: We Are the Market writes about the Vogue Retail Shop and a T-shirt contest for Uniqlo

• Régine conducts an interview with Jessica Findley, a multidisciplinary artist and designer (the best kind!) from Brooklyn.

piccie round up

Guns & Bugs Wallpaper by Radi Designers
totally reminds me of work from people in my program like Jo Pierce and Rachel Kelly. I don't know where I found this, maybe here?




Another beaut going around. This time by Fiasko Design, via PSFK




Have you seen Aspen Magazine before? I think the first time I saw one was when I was working at the Denver Art Museum. Coudal links. Aside: I am very excited to see the new DAM building this fall (although I've always loved Gio Ponti's North Building very much)! And maybe I will get to see David Adjaye's new MoCA/D too....




Tree
photographs by Myoung Ho Lee

Simple in concept, complex in execution, he makes us look at a tree in its natural surroundings, but separates the tree artificially from nature by presenting it on an immense white ground, as one would see a painting or photograph on a billboard.

Another one via Coudal

Link round up 3

• I'm going to be doing some footwear design this fall, so of course I'm devouring First Pullover

• How to tie the perfect tie

• Susie Bubble's Look at me, Don't look at me post.

• PSFK reports on Matt Hoyle's new work. Also a good post on the slowing of fast fashion.

• Miranda July does The Thing.

• Did I mention this already? Mental Floss posts about this book.

• DIY Shrinky Dinks!!

• Signs a bit like the idea behind my thermochromatic embroidered bonnets

• Why fashion copyright is stupid (my words, not the title of the article!)

• Just discovered Mrs. Deane!

• I'm listening to Henri Salvador right now.

• Someone else hates McQueen's luggage for Samsonite as much as I do.

Iqons faves

Every now and then I have time to tool around Iqons, the fashion industry's answer to MySpace, and I always find someone or something new and interesting. Unfortunately, even when I invite someone into my (ill-named) Entourage I still don't feel like I really get a chance to "meet" them....maybe the guestbook feature is just not used enough yet on Iqons. Or maybe I'd better just start using it myself!


Emma McCorquodale


Stacey Tester
(okay, not the best picture.....but I kind of like it!)


Carla Fernandez
(also here)


Tekla Knaust
(also here)


Lindipoo! Lindipoo has almost no info on her page but I find her so compelling! Maybe because she invited me into her "Entourage" first...maybe it's also here name: oh Lindipoo!


Wendy & Jim
(also here)


Eley Kishimoto
(also here)

link round up 2

• See Style Bubble's piece about a really lovely competition from Boxfresh (I have two of there jackets that I LOVE (and surprisingly bought in a charity shop in London)) called Cut and Paste. Nice, right?

• B612 Magazine: New magazine from Amsterdam on my list to order the premier issue....looks interesting

• MissBehave magazine: Actually not sure this is a magazine for me, but I don't think I can resist a magazine run by a girl who subscribed to the Weekly World News!

• Emily Davidow: New on my RSS feed....

• Fantasy & Clothes Go Together: "Personally, I have to admit that I almost exclusively buy clothing that is non function for my regular life to the point of absurdity." Me too!

• I receive the Draper's Newsletter (I can only link to their blog of similar content), and in the July 31st issue they had a great reprint of an article about menswear from 1902, an excerpt:

What is worn? For the most part, grey. A great quietude seems to have overtaken fashionable London

• Evil Knievel talking about re-enactments.....oh man, I WISH I could go to this!

link round up

so. many.

When I started writing online, I thought I would post something everyday that inspired me, or was relevant to my interests (that I would normally just bookmark and never look at again). But I'm finding that there are dozens of sites and links and posts every week that I want to remember and I can't do justice to. There's no time to properly write about them all. I think every Friday will have to be a link round up of all the other pages I'd like to write more about but have just run out of time. Because there will be a whole new crop next week....



Máquina desempolvadora
Adriana Salazar interviewed by Régine Debatty (lovelovelove)

...a girl who creates delicate and elegant (but slightly ludicrous) machines that smoke, tie shoes, pull thread through the hole of a needle, relentlessly measure walls, switch the light on and off, on and off, on and off, dust walls, cry while another one dries its tears....

I am a rabid convert to Style Bubble!






• Acne (here)
• Sruli Recht (here)
• Nova Magazine
• Couture Lab (here)
• I'm not sure I agree with her definititon of label-ista (I would say it's someone who cares only for labels because of their cache not because of any meaning a label carries)
• This one reminds me of my own wardrobe documentation for my MA research
• I love the way she talks about this jacket & memory


I've been reading PSFK a lot lately too. They post a lot, and while it's not always stuff interesting to me, when it's good it's very good!
• The WHY (my personal favorite...)
• Objects that age (my personal fave....no really!)
• Why looks matter
• Kate Betts on how fashion trickles up
• Smart Fabric




Just pretty from Kako Ueda via Phantasmaphile



The beauty of scale