This has been a fun experiment, but it feels like time to switch things up a little. From here on posting will move to a new address.
Home sweet home
November 10, 2008
A new cell phone tower, in someone’s backyard.
[pix by imagineering]
Mo better
November 10, 2008
Odd handpainted sign relegated to a parking lot, Oakland, CA.
[pix by imagineering]
Advertising on advertising
September 14, 2008
[above images: original advertisements from the Metropolis Chronicle, published in Metropolis, Nevada, USA, July 15, 1912.]
Say cheese
September 14, 2008
The fabrication for the work Reclamation was a bit complicated and involved many discussions with the Fearless Installation Wizard, Ron Bernstein. Ron works as Coordinator Materials at the Jan Van Eyck Academie and is an artist also. Ron was amazingly generous with his time and experience in the many stages of producing the work, for which I’m very grateful. As he demonstrates in the above image, sometimes you just have to make a sketch with materials at hand.
[pix by imagineering, performative sculpture by Ron Bernstein]
Long time no blog
September 6, 2008
Long time no blog, because of this.
Amazingly, I still remember the login, so here we go again.
[above image: original advertisement from the Metropolis Chronicle, reproduced from a scan of microfilm, originally published in Metropolis, Nevada, USA, July 15, 1912. John B. Crapo was an assistant to the director of the Metropolis promotional campaign.]
Super fun
July 22, 2008
I worked on the design and layout for this ad with Richard Woods, which just ran as a full page in Frieze. The exhibition is at Milton Keynes Gallery, full info here.
BS
June 30, 2008
This modification to a sign is something of a landmark on Nevada’s I-95.
[pix by imagineering]
Brooklyn melons
June 28, 2008
I was in Brooklyn recently doing some preliminary work on a commission for the Brooklyn Historical Society. Here are some fruits of wanderings deep in the borough, including a real and counterfeit $10 bill, and (the last image) the dilapidated-but-charmtastic Avenue Q subway stop.
[pix by imagineering]
The dream imagined
June 26, 2008
Sign for the still-in-progress residential development of Goldewijk, in Almere, The Netherlands. The tagline is indeed: The Dream Imagined.
Below, two dwellings from Goldewijk. I’m impressed to see that the Dutch have so fully embraced postmodernism in their quasi-suburbia; these two piles are just down the street from one another, practically neighbors.
[pix by imagineering]
And the band played on
June 26, 2008
With that foot wedged up in there, resisting the drum kit’s urge to crowdsurf.
[pix by imagineering]
Work it girl, liven up that public sculpture
May 11, 2008Public sculpture with interpretive dance by Raquel Welch and some spacemen. The site is the Ruta de la Amistad sculpture project from the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Watch the clip here.
[all pix screengrabs from the youtube clip]
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