Procrastinating. Leb Woodz

Procrastinating. Leb Woodz

Bentley’s photo of me in Philly’s City Hall. Arch = love.

Bentley’s photo of me in Philly’s City Hall. Arch = love.

David Lynch. Portraiture.

David Lynch. Portraiture.

Generative.

Generative.

Could be better, but still evocative. BLDGBLOG

Could be better, but still evocative. BLDGBLOG

For the posthumously released book by Nabokov, one designer asked friends to re-design covers in collection boxes … via New at Pentagram, and at The Design Observer Group

For the posthumously released book by Nabokov, one designer asked friends to re-design covers in collection boxes … via New at Pentagram, and at The Design Observer Group

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How cute? Too cute! ninakix: The wooden graphics are physically knitted, rather than printed, giving each pillow a little custom touch. Each pillow retails at Etsy for $69 on sale (via GEARFUSE)

How cute? Too cute!

ninakix:

The wooden graphics are physically knitted, rather than printed, giving each pillow a little custom touch. Each pillow retails at Etsy for $69 on sale (via GEARFUSE)

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The endless searching momentarily pierces the armor of self-confidence and hints at what gave the best architecture of this period its depth: a sense that all was not as it appeared on the surface, that there were more troubled waters — political, social, psychological — bubbling somewhere underneath.

The difference between Saarinen’s era and our own is that we no longer want to appear so naïve.

via NYT re: Eero Saarinen, because my M.O. is naive arch.

I’m not sure what this means. But it has made me think. We live in a way that no other animal has ever lived: our lifestyle is unprecedented in the history of the planet. Often, we like to congratulate ourselves on the cities we have built, the gadgets we can buy, the rockets we send to the moon. But perhaps we should not be so proud. Something about the way we live means that, for many of us, life comes to seem unbearable, a long, melancholy ache of despair.

On the statistic that the most likely way for a given person to die a violent, unexpected death is … suicide. You’re more likely to kill you than be killed on a dark road at night.
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Social life comes to resemble economics, with people enmeshed in blizzards of supply and demand signals amidst a universe of potential partners.

From Cellphones, Texts and Lovers — an interesting (and by interesting, I mean: “concerningly accurate portrayal of a romantic dynamic that makes me question how my emotional attachments are just part of a larger, failing, technologically-driven social trend”) column in the NYTimes.

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