Here's an open thread for this week. Feel free to post anything of interest for the course: links, websites, definitions, terms, discussions, images.
Open Thread
Here's an open thread for this week. Feel free to post anything of interest for the course: links, websites, definitions, terms, discussions, images.
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this website is really really amusing.
http://acaseofcuriosities.com/
the woman who does it is san francisco based, but she tries to keep herself really under the radar because she is afraid that animal rights activists will freak out at her if she reveals her true identity. like, i don't think we are allowed to go visit her studio, otherwise i totally would have gone months ago.
here's the chronicle article i originally found out about her in:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/24/DDG8UOQ8A71.DTL&hw=taxidermy&sn=002&sc=447
surf her site!
-e.r.w.
hey emily, thank you, I lost this site ages ago. Cool.
If you'd like to live in a prefab IKEA house in the UK
here's the URL
http://www.boklok.co.uk/
Not available, I believe in the US.
Brixton
Sadly, you can't build it with that little key.
Before the Ikea house, there was the Eames House by Charles and Ray Eames. Here's a link to a LOC website with images and plans and drawings of the Eames House:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/eames/space.html
They made a kit version of the house, the "Kwikset House" so everyone who wanted to could buy their own Eames House and build it themselves. Sadly, the company that they sold the rights to make the "Kwikset" kits to went bankrupt before production could begin (so no Kwikset Houses exist: I wish someone would bring it back!!!).
Here's a beautiful document that compares the house to a Chinese Kite. If I could, I would live in an Eames "Kwikset House" but the original Eames House is all that exists. Here's a drawing of the plan for the Kwikset House:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/eames/images/vcb35s1.jpg
I will try to show some Eames films and works during the class. -- Robert
Sorry to steer the open thread away from such wonders of architecture, but here's an essay I wrote a while back on Nietzsche's "On Truth and Lies" which we'll be reading in a couple of weeks.
Like all attempts to say something significant, the essay is cyclical, so read it however you'd like (left column or right column first, switch at the end or read the columns back into themselves, etc).
Here's the link, it's PDF. Just click the "click here for download," you'll need adobe to read it.
http://www.mediafire.com/?ijxdnhd0yon
On a way lighter note...
a small comic strip I found:
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