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Grouping Prints
(Source: tamsinjohnson)
I am happy to be back to my blog (August totally disappearing due to laptop
collapse) with a new HDD up and running!
Here is a great example for hanging multiple prints/paintings. which is always a challenge.
This can very inspirational if you are a collector of special pieces of framed art, but are in
a quandary as to how to display them tastefully. Your collection will not look exactly like
this, but it will definitely show your own personality! I, myself, am faced with this problem,
being one of those with an art ‘stash’ which I have recently perused! Happy Hanging!
The Mystery
Posted by J. Quigley in 20th Century, Beat, Culture, Ken Kesey, living, Merry Pranksters, Postmodernism, quotes, writing on March 14, 2012
The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking. I’ve never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer. -Ken Kesey
photo via Ensuite Assai
Water Branch House
Posted by J. Quigley in 21st Century, architecture, Culture, Design, Installsation, Japan, Kengo Kuma and Associates, living, Neo-Modernism on February 23, 2012
WATER BRANCH HOUSE
Exhibition title: MOMA Home Delivery Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
Venue: The Museum Of Modern Art, New York / 11 West 53 Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, NY, USA
2008.07.20 – 2008.10.20
Installation
1.2 m2
KENGO KUMA AND ASSOCIATES
Water block is a piece of plastic tank. By piling them up, you can build anything from furniture to a house. It is very light and easy to carry around. Water or other types of liquid can be stored inside. It is in the shape that each cube of 100×100mm is connected staggeringly so they can be turned into a variety of shapes. Furthermore, it can form a strong structure by joining its concave and convex firmly.
The weight of Water Block can be adjusted by the volume of liquid that you pour inside, and it also can be used as a safe to keep the water for emergency. By connecting the pieces, liquid can flow into the next block and run around within the tanks. By doing so, Water block can function not only as a structure but also as many other roles:
– Thermal insulation
– Network wiring
– Filtering by concave and convex, water purification system with precipitation tank
– Absorbing shock with its soft material
– Lighting equipment
– Storing rainwater
– Greening of wall and floor
– Change its role by the thing you put inside (such as mud, sand, concrete, opaque liquid, etc.)
– Hydroelectric generation
Moreover, Water block is a trial case of using PET, the Hydro/Biodegradable polyester that can eventually go back to the ground. If it is successful, a new sustainable recycling system will be realized that takes the route from a container, to construction material, and to soil.
And I would like to refer you to check out more on neo-modernism by reading
HOME DELIVERY: FABRICATING THE MODERN DWELLING , a MOMA article
that includes a great video of modern dwelling through the years. Kengo Kuma and
Associates also designed a Starbuck’s in Japan that is out of this world.
It’s All Really One
Posted by J. Quigley in China, Form, life and death, living on January 16, 2012
tea is an act complete …
Posted by J. Quigley in living, quotes, Tea Ceremonies, Thich Nhat Hanh on December 17, 2011
tea is an act complete in its simplicity.
when i drink tea, there is only me, and the tea.
the rest of the world dissolves.
there are no worries about the future.
no dwelling on past mistakes.
tea is simple: loose-leaf tea, hot pure water, a cup.
i inhale the scent, tiny delicate pieces of the tea floating above the cup.
i drink the tea, the essence of the leaves becoming a part of me.
i am informed by the tea, changed.
this is the act of life, in one pure moment, and in this act the truth of the world suddenly becomes revealed: all the complexity, pain, drama of life is a pretense, invented in our minds for no good purpose.
there is only the tea, and me, converging.
-thich nhat hanh: tea ceremony
Shoreline
Posted by J. Quigley in living, quotes on November 16, 2011
Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it is sent away.
– Sarah Kay
The Complete Designer
Posted by J. Quigley in Design, History, Innovation, living, Paul Rand, People, Steve Jobs, Technology, The Sartorialist on October 18, 2011
Steve Jobs describes working with the great Paul Rand. I am amazed how articulate and aware Steve was about people and design.
VIA gregmelander
Knowing
Posted by J. Quigley in 20th Century, Books, living, Photography, Physicists, Richard Feynman, Writers on May 23, 2011
Physicist Richard Feynman Uncredited and Undated Photograph
Some people say, ‘How can you live without knowing?’ I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know. Richard Feynman, “The Meaning of It All,” posthumously published, 1999
Ne Me Quitte Pas
Posted by J. Quigley in life and death, living, music, Nina Simone, paris on May 7, 2011
This is a cover of Jacques Brel’s masterpiece artfully interpreted by the incredible singer, Nina Simone. It exudes passion, sadness, sorrow…truly deep.
Yin Yang 