June 2008
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May 2008
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Fortune Tellers
Tonight I had my first Tarot reading at Shannon’s birthday party. I didn’t really ask a question so much as chose a topic (my Career). Three cards were dealt. Past. Present. Future. In summary my past and present were merged as one, keeping me in a place of achieved goals and the “toil” of work in repetitive action where I am no longer learning. Future was something...
I decided I am going to be social tomorrow night. I might even be talked into a glass of wine or a margarita. It’s been a few weeks. I think since tres de mayo and the resulting hangover. Never drinking that much tequila again.
Link for full Index article - Rem Koolhaas, 2000 WITH JENNIFER SIGLER
REM: I can't ever be oblivious. I wrote a sentence today: "The tyranny of the oblivious ..." My whole life has been about envying the tyranny of the oblivious. And feeling the vulnerability of the ... recorder.
JEN: Of the what?
REM: Of those who record.
JEN: You call yourself a recorder.
REM: The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two — recording and producing — into a single event.
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JEN: There are some people who have very specific goals that they are trying to reach in their lives and others who seem to wander into their accomplishments. Which do you think you are? Is there a certain contribution that you aspire to make?
REM: It's very simple and it has nothing to do with identifiable goals. It is to keep thinking about what architecture can be, in whatever form. That is an answer, isn't it? I think that S,M,L,XL has one beautiful ambiguity: it used the past to build a future and is very adamant about giving notice that this is not the end. That's how it felt to me, anyway. That is in itself evidence of a kind of discomfort with achievement measured in terms of identifiable entities, and an announcement that continuity of thinking in whatever form, around whatever subject, is the real ambition.
JEN: Maybe I'm not being as direct as I should be. Maybe I should just ask: What is your goal for the rest of your career?
REM: Then I'd still give the same answer. To keep thinking about what architecture could be. What I could be.
JEN: Could be or could do?
REM: Could be. Could do. Could do is more interesting. Be or do. That's in itself beautiful.
JEN: Be or do? Is that a choice?
REM: It's an oscillation.
Sometimes I try to resist my Rem Koolhaas obsession… but it always comes back.
“Your peace is pissing me off”
– What I felt like saying to the (excruciatingly slow moving) flower stand lady
Volume →
h-o-l-y-s-h-i-t i think i just found my new favorite magazine
Al Manakh →
For Smokers, Quitting Is Tied to Social Circles -... →
“Now keep in mind that I’m an artist, and I’m sensitive about my shit”
– The first line of Erykah Badu, Live
I enjoyed the Erykah Badu article in Interview Magazine (can’t find link - loss patience with their flash website) a lot. I then left the magazine in a friend’s car. Very disappointing. I would like to send it to all the women in my life.
MIA - Paper Planes For my refugee friends
facebook wall-to-wall
Amanda Kirkpatrick: Hi. I finally got around to donating that bag of clothes you left at my house - um when did you buy a stretchy black shirt with wing like sleeves and "feel the force" written in silver on it? I'm going to keep it, I'm not sure why, but there has to be some point in my life where it will come in handy. It's so ugly. Honestly. Dude.
Emira Fako: I though I was cool with that shirt man. Someone encouraged me at some point. What can I do.
Edin Fako: hahaha, feel the force
god we were loser refugee children...
s oakley ave chicago il - Google Maps →
via katie via dan… click it, it’s crazy
Panda Snack Hoodie Jacket →
I don’t know if this hoodie is really earth-friendly, but I got it for a third of the price at TJMAXX, its really soft and comfortable and supposedly since its made of bamboo it’s antimicrobial and therefore won’t retain odor (I’m thinking that could be handy when biking to work…). And the name Panda Snack is really cute. It’s so soft. I will be wearing it...
“Well that would be great fun of ironic kind,
For your self-collapsing ironic...”
– Gogol Bordello………… I miss Austin
“The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only...”
– Banksy (via simko)
“Fairway is like my Never-Never-Land”
– That was my post-10 hours of photoshop on 2 hours of sleep way of saying “I like Fairway”
I'm cranky
Andrew: Nice blog rambling, crazy.
Did you do meth last night?
me: shut up
it made sense at the time
you could just not read my blog
Andrew: It still makes sense
It just sounds crazy
I like your blog.
You should keep letting people spy on your life
me: well sometimes i worry about the reasoning
and i take a break
i want to always make sure i do it for the right reason
that its in a healthy place about creation and story telling, not looking for external validation of my existance
so there
Andrew: Bob Lobb Law...
I just remembered a phrase my grandfather likes to use. Crazy like a fox. Intelligence that is willing to risk going unnoticed. Cleverness that is willing to hide behind a veil of mediocrity or stupidity, almost daring you to miss it. I like this because the viewer has to be engaged and looking for interesting concepts without being given direct cultural cues. This a problem...
Here’s to summer drives. Missy Elliott -...