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Architecture

how Charlotte must feel

Are you there Frank Gehry? It’s me, Orla. By the way, I took this image in a completely different way. Not in the remorseful way after (mistakenly) correctly pronouncing his name; but in the disappointed-structural-engineer-way. “I’m sorry Rem, but this is not a cantilever. Nice try.” “ “

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Music

Legacy

Looking Bach, Bach was like the Jesus of music. So immense is his influence that times in his immediate vicinity have become somewhat blacked out. He’s some kind of zero-point from which we are now tracing a new arc (just like BC and AD). Compare the number of Bach’s contemporaries you can name with the […]

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Music

The amen break strikes again

At 1:06, and heavily clad.

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Art Urbanism

Shame, in short.

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Non-fiction

Build a house, plant a tree, raise a son.

My dad fastened the last of the Ikea screws and went outside. It had predictably taken him too long and the sun had already begun nodding off. From the field and upon the great rock he felt like he could see through the house’s walls. He put his beer down and made a large gesture […]

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Non-fiction

Power leisure

On my run this morning, backdropped by awesome views of a golden jersey shore, glinted highlights from parked barges on the Hudson, storage containers, and windows, I passed more dog walkers than runners. I then remembered an interesting point Carl Skelton made during my final fall semester thesis critique (round-table style) in 2009 as we […]

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Music

evan shinners. coloring bach.

ROY G BACH

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Art Language

Figuration to Abstraction, our evolution out of language

Yarn I: It seems one of the primary artistic trends of the 20th century (with spillover, maybe the last two centuries) was the increased acceptance of sketches and raw, undeveloped ideas as legitimate “works of art” ripe for an audience. The beginning of the last millennium would not have indicated this, though– the market and […]

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Non-fiction

Artist as negotiator

Dennis Adams, professor of art at The Cooper Union, has a way of really nailing down works’ gists. In reverse as well, he is able to begin with an idea, crystallize it into a concept of sufficient scale, and name an artist whose work X in year Y best exemplifies it. In a discussion about […]

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Music

evan shinners. grateful dead cover

Watch and like; Evan is classically trained to rock!