Archive for June, 2008
Sunday Morsel 2
…that only a bet on the impossible makes sense. It is an act of faith and courage requiring an irrational leap over reason. A man wins simply by making such a bet. from Roscoe by William Kennedy
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2008 is rocking for us… I’m posting this way late, but after sending around the newsletter with the big news, I keep forgetting to put it on the blog, finally I get to it! Et voila ici: MJ Neal, AIA wins Another Design Honor Award… and a Silver Medal as it was distributed on our [...]
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Trellis Finished, Vanity in
It’s concrete guys, so smooth that you’d think it was plastic… fabricated by John Newbold. more about “Trellis Finished, Vanity in“, posted with vodpod
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Tags: architecture, austin, bathroom, bouldin, builder, concrete countertops, Cool Other People, interior design, Interiors, John Newbold, mj neal, new construction, solar shading, trellis, vanity, Wolfe Den
Good News!
In between pretty boys and girls and brainy architecture geniuses, let’s celebrate my first MONTH WITHOUT SMOKING in 25 years! (except for a very short six months in 1992.) I’ve QUIT SMOKING!!! I’m PSYCHED!!! Remember the Boston trip? Well I was in my third day, when we left, no really. The simplest, silliest little book [...]
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Tags: quit smoking, quit smoking the easy way, VV Speaks
Zumthor is the man
That would be “the man” as in the good, iconoclastic, sort of James Brown way not the governmental, controlling, fascist (I won’t mention any names) sort of way. so check it: Zumthor goes to the essence of things
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Tags: architecture, James Brown, MJ Speaks, zumthor
Sottsass
Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007) The thing I love most about Ettore Sottsass is his beautiful, poignant, often ironic writing. The following was in The Reader (a compilation of architecture writings from news papers around the world) put out by Abitare. The writing was originally published in Terrazzo, n. 12 HOUSES HAVE AN INTERIOR Those who build a house [...]
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Tags: architecture, Ettore Sottsass, houses, Interiors, MJ Speaks
Kiaron
No, this is not becoming a photography blog, but what can I say, I’m in a shooting mood. And we can all use a break from architecture once in a while. Kiaron works at the grocery store and I’ve been wanting to photograph him for a while, then he shows up with a black eye [...]
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Tags: art, austin tx, black eye, editorial, fashion, fashion photography, hyde park theater, kiaron, photography, viviane vives, VV Speaks
Is it just me or is this starting to feel like a final stretch? Check the first pics of the bulthaup kitchen outfit. more about “More Wolfe Den and Kitchen Peek“, posted with vodpod
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Tags: architecture, austin, bulthaup, design, interior design, kitchen, solar screens, sustainable, Wolfe Den
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