bd's Roll on Friday: Alan Camp Architects
‘The office fills with wonderful smells that happily distract us’
"Each Wednesday, one person in the practice volunteers to cook, normally for about 20 or 30 people. It started about 18 months ago with just baked potatoes. Our studio is close to Borough food market and we have a fantastic kitchen with a huge oven, so people decided that it would be a great idea to cook for ourselves."
Eternity Modern
Picture this: an Arco Floor Lamp lighting the pages of The Stranger as you recline in your Eames Lounge Chair (With matching Ottoman) as a glass of Chateauneuf-de-Pape tempts you from the Noguchi Coffee Table …
You may not be able to afford the originals but Eternity Modern specialise in quality reproductions of modern classics, including pieces by Corbusier, Eames, Mies van der Rohe and Starck.
So if you want to set yourself down in design pieces you've only ever ogled online visit their new site: eternitymodern.com
Don't forget to tell them Carpal Fonil sent you!
Frieze Art Fair: artistic or autistic?
"While these installations have a humorous side, they came across like a pack of tourist postcards, simply replicating different environments and experiences. Rather than invite you into a world of fantasy and feeling, they distance the viewer from experiencing the actual threat our environment is under. So much so, that after several turns around Frieze I began to feel I was surrounded by autistic objects in an autistic world."The First Post
Tracey Emin fights to save Brick Lane from developers
"Emin says that her problem with the developers is not about regeneration, but about the local residents’ right to daylight. “I am pro-commerce, I welcome regeneration of all areas and I really like new architecture. What I’m against is blocking people’s light in residential areas.”"TimesOnline
One Mile Scroll
"The One Mile Scroll transforms virtual space into an actual, physical distance. Take your computer for a scroll. Participate and add heights of things using the data entry area to the right. Please only add the vertical heights of things as opposed their lengths. Be sure to check your measurements (with Google or similar site). Once submitted entries can only be modified or deleted by the site administrator.
Which is highest when stacked, a million dollar bills or a thousand Robin Day Polypropylene Chairs?
The site was published to coincide with "Extra Medium" at Arcadia University Art Gallery Philadelphia September 2008. It was assembled by Jeffery Vaska who transformed an unrealized project into an ongoing project - thank you for confirming that the Eiffel Tower is exactly 1224576 pixels high."
Does Damien Hirst's auction at Sotheby's mean the end of the gallery?
There's a hell of a lot of money in art - but the artists don't get it," grumbles Damien Hirst, giving himself a thoroughly good scratch through the faded brown T-shirt he has decided to wear to Sotheby's today. "What I find is unfair is the Van Gogh thing. The artist doesn't make any money, but everyone else does." That, at least, was how it used to be before Hirst himself entered the lists. Now the ratios appear to be changing. If things go according to plan - and most of the ridiculous stunts Hirst comes up with work out surprisingly well - then, a fortnight from now, the old way of making pots of money from art will look as out of date as last year's winner of the Turner Prize.
entertainment.timesonline.co.
Louboutin 1
Who else but Christian Louboutin would call a shoe design "Ambrosina?" Well, here it is and this is how delectable it looks. The fine details are: black satin and demi-sheer chiffon platform peep toe pumps with a 125mm / 5 inch stiletto heel, a 20mm / 1 inch platform and his signature lacquered scarlet sole.
Image: courtesy Net-a-Porter
100 Artists
100 artists, including the inimitable Michael Markowsky, will share their creativity and talent by drawing live and in person; audiences have the rare opportunity to watch art come to life and purchase completed drawings for $75 each. Outpost's annual live drawing and fundraising event is on 12 October from 3-7pm at the William D. Davis Memorial Building in Altadena CA 91001. For a complete list of artists and schedule > Outpost for Contemporary Art.
Happy Birthday Diesel
Diesel celebrate their birthday by transforming old school pornography into family friendly viewing ! I doubt this advert 'went down' too well with the censors, but that doesn't stop it from being absolutely hilarious viewing - AWESOME ! diesel.com/xxx *Warning: Although no longer explicit this is modified pornography.
Tabletop Experiments
