Art various
Fliegende Blaetter - first sighting of the duck-rabbit.
Artbots 2004 has several drawing machines: the painterly ArtSBot (and here), the rather accessible/adaptable DrawBot (and here), and the gorgeous sand-and-magnet Sisyphus.
Earth is the Alien Planet - Doug Aitken and Ed Ruscha in conversation
Doug Aitken: I always wanted to have a way to understand this city better. This city is so non-linear, so broken apart. I wanted a timeline to follow - one thread - but instead I found many divergent paths. So recently I took a really interesting trip in Los Angeles. I went to San Pedro and tried to go up the Los Angeles River in a small military-type boat to see how far we could go. [...] It was a two-day trip. The first day I went as far as I could go by boat. Then the second day we drove the continuation of the river. I felt like if I could just follow it 'til it ends, even though it's a joke of a river, I would understand the narrative of the land a little bit better. This concrete runway, viaduct that leads from the Pacific Ocean into this dense metascape. Then it literally disappears into a trickle of water the size of a knife.Dictionary of Art HistoriansEd Ruscha: That should be J.G. Ballard's next book - a story about the LA River. He could do it. And have all these great descriptions of the concrete viaducts, embankments and all that.
Art Answers - like a non-profit Mike Smith Studios?
Libeskind's diary - travelling, receiving awards, eating and drinking.
Generate your own graph paper - dots, offset dots, hexagonal grids etc.
Living in a space box - plug-in neighbourhood, modular homes.
Ciabatta cities - against homogeneity.
Terminal 5 - art show - some good names, in the Saarinen terminal at JFK.
Jerry Saltz's yearly roundups of the artworld, 2000-4.
Rembrandt's vision problem - viz Lucian Freud as well in Richardson's Sacred Monsters.
[via Phil, Anti, Inter, Purse, Boing, V2, Artful and various other good people]
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