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The Recycled Houses
so beautiful!
“About 12 years ago, Dan Phillips started Phoenix Commotion, a construction business in his hometown, Huntsville, Tex., where he builds low-income housing out of salvaged items.”
Article in the NY Times: One Man’s Trash…
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Spike Jonze: Bringing ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ to the Screen - NYTimes.com
an inspiring portrait of an artist
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something about this article (their relationship) really reasonated with me
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Essay - What My Copy Editor Taught Me - NYTimes.com
sifting through papers i found this article/essay i loved, and saved. this picture looks better in newsprint. it’s almost magenta.
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Justin Rice and Jess Weixler in Joe Swanberg’s “Alexander the Last.” - ILLUSTRATION: ADRIAN TOMINE
Youthquake: The Current Cinema: The New Yorker
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The Kindness of Strangers, an excellent article written by Jessica Helfand (via Design Observer)
[via karenh]
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I LEGO N.Y. - Abstract City Blog - NYTimes.com
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Artist Chuck Close
“The Event”
On Dec. 7, 1988, Close felt a strange pain in his chest. That day he was in New York about to give an art award. He begged to present first, went on stage, quickly read his speech and then ran to the hospital. Within a few hours, Close was paralyzed from the neck down. At first the doctors were confused but eventually they diagnosed a rare spinal artery collapse. Close called that day, “The Event”. For months Close was in rehab strengthening his muscles, he soon had slight movement in his arms and could walk, yet only for a few steps. He has relied on a wheelchair since. The doctors and art teacher experts both agreed on one thing, his career was over.
However, Close continued to paint with a brush strapped onto his fingers, creating large portraits in low-resolution grid squares created by an assistant. Viewed from afar, these squares appear as a single, unified image which attempt photo-reality, albeit in pixelated form. Eventually Close managed to recover some movement in his arm and legs, and now paints with a brush strapped to his hand. Although the paralysis restricted his ability to paint as meticulously as before, Close had, in a sense, placed artificial restrictions upon his hyper-realist approach well before the injury. That is, he adopted materials and techniques that did not lend themselves well to achieving a photorealistic effect. Small bits of irregular paper or inked fingerprints were used as mediums to achieve, nonetheless, astoundingly realistic and interesting results. Close proved able to create his desired effects even with the most difficult of materials to control.
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