2005.04.15 18:26
abracadabra, faia
[...before the approaching apocalyptic EtherWare party.]
"Santa Monica, she's the mother of St. Augustine, right?"
And Santa Barbara, she's the non-existent patron saint of architects, right?"
"Shut-up already. We have to get out of West Hollywood before the stupid parade starts. I say we go to Malibu."
"Damn! We should've rented a Malibu."
"I thought it was your idea we got the vintage Probe."
2005.04.16 12:08
Duchamp to direct THE LUCKY BUMS
Marcel Duchamp has agreed to direct The Lucky Bums, a theatrical reenactment of Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier, starring Grace Princess of Monaco as Leonora Ashburnham, Rainier III Prince of Monaco as Edward Ashburnham, Flavia Maria Augusta as Florence Dowell, and Otto I King of Bavaria as John Dowell. The performance is scheduled for 4 August 2005 as part of Leaving Obscurity Behind, the 2005 Horace Trumbauer Architecture Fan Club Convention.
2005.04.16 12:38
Duchamp to direct THE LUCKY BUMS
Marcel Duchamp has agreed to direct The Lucky Bums, a theatrical reenactment of Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier, starring Grace Princess of Monaco as Leonora Ashburnham, Rainier III Prince of Monaco as Edward Ashburnham, Flavia Maria Augusta as Florence Dowell, and Otto I King of Bavaria as John Dowell. The performance is scheduled for 4 August 2005 as part of Leaving Obscurity Behind, the 2005 Horace Trumbauer Architecture Fan Club Convention.
"It was exactly as if I had come out of a museum into a riotous fancy-dress ball."
[three sentences later...]
"I had, in fact, forgotten that there was such a thing as gossip that mattered. In that particular, Philadelphia was the most amazing place I have ever been in my life."
[76 pages before that...]
"The death of Mrs. Maidan occurred on the 4th of August 1904. And then nothing happened until the 4th of August 1913."
"To begin with, she was born on the 4th of August. Then on that date, in the year 1899, she set out with her uncle for the tour round the world in company with a young man called Jimmy."
"Then, on the 4th of August 1900, she yielded to an action that certainly coloured her whole life--as well as mine."
"On the 4th of August 1901, she married me, and set sail for Europe in a great gale of wind--the gale that affected her heart."
[and 62 pages before that...]
"Florence's aunts used to say that I must be the laziest man in Philadelphia."
2005.04.16 13:31
Duchamp "presence" in "Monkey Sea Voyage"
Or maybe that should be "presents" as in "it is better to give than receive."
"Monkey Sea Voyage" is the second chapter (so far) of I'm a Big Fat Nobody: The Autobiography of Unbekannt.
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2005.04.17 09:56
lebbeus woods and Piranesi
veux1, if you have found many similarities between Lebbeus Woods and Giovanni Battista Piranesi, name/illustrate them, because then you'll have found things that do not even exist.
Tafuri's take on Piranesi is indicative of inadequate research and a superficial ratiocination of Piranesi's oeuvre, and virtually everything Tafuri has written about the Ichnographia Campi Martii is plain wrong.
Piranesi's Carceri have engendered tortured perceptions of the ill-advised since their original printing. Find similarities between the Carceri and the Prima Parti di Architetture e Prospettive and you might start getting somewhere.
2005.04.17 11:07
18 April gossip that matters?
the real gossip, however...
Constantine is Helena's second child, although the first and only with Constantius. Yes, Maximian and Helena were together beforehand, with a daughter, Theodora, as the result. In typical fashion, Maximian wanted more, i.e., a son, so he looked for another mate, while Helena and Constantius soon got together. Fortunately, Eutropia and Theodora bonded well, and the "secret" was mostly forgotten except by the inner few adults. Twenty years later the "secret" became even more secret as Constantius married Theodora, but it did ultimately matter that all Constantius' children were closely related to Helena, which also kind of explains why Crispus "got the short end of the stick." Alas, poor Fausta, it was her learning of the secret(s) that led to her suicide.
So who was Maxentius' real father?
Eutropia now says it's Diocletian, but that laugh while she says it still makes you wonder.
2005.04.17 11:29
lebbeus woods and Piranesi
db, please indicate where Tafuri is right about the Ichnographia Campi Martii. Of course, Tafuri didn't even know Piranesi printed two different versions of the Ichnographia Campi Martii, but why should that mean anything?
At the very beginning of The Sphere and the Labyrinth, Tafuri quotes from a text by Carlo Ginzburg and Adriano Prosperi:
"There comes a moment (though not always) in research when all the pieces begin to fall into place, as in a jig-saw puzzle, where all the pieces are near at hand and only one figure can be assembled (and thus the correctness of each move be determined immediately), in research only some of the pieces are available, and theoretically more than one figure can be made from them. In fact, there is always the risk of using, more or less consciously, the pieces of the jig-saw puzzle as blocks in a construction game. For this reason, the fact that everything falls into place is an ambiguous sign: either one is completely right or completely wrong. When wrong, we mistake for objective verification the selection and solicitation (more or less deliberate) of the evidence, which is forced to confirm the presuppositions (more or less explicit) of the research itself. The dog thinks it is biting the bone and is instead biting its own tail."
HOW IRONIC!
"So where is Tafuri now?"
"Why he's in the ether playground, just where he's always been."
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2005.04.17 13:16
lebbeus woods and Piranesi
Again, virtually everything Tafuri has written about Piranesi's Ichnographia Campi Martii is plain wrong, thus Tafuri's "particular interpretation relating Piranesi's work to the shaping of space by later avant-garde movements" is based on incorrect interpretation.
Interesting how 12 Monkeys was filmed in Philadelphia, but who cares. What's more interesting is the exact location of the History of Constantine tapestries vis-a-vis the "axis of life." Janosh, you should get up on the latest gossip.
Do any of you ever stop to think and wonder why a superficial similarity between Lebbeus Woods' work and Piranesi's work is worthy of intellectual investigation, while a very real similarity between Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway and a very symbolic aspect of Piranesi's Ichnographia Campi Martii is immediately scorned as worthless and/or fantasy? I think the answer lies within the direct relationship of ignorance and ignoring, plus the propaganda of the ether playground.
Hey cellardoor whore, just because you don't know about my delving into further details doesn't mean it hasn't already happened.
Oh, and what are the many similarities between Lebbeus Woods and Piranesi again?
2005.04.17 14:47
lebbeus woods and Piranesi
Piranesi did a whole lot more than visually represent "improbable and imagined" spaces. Piranesi was primarily an ur-archaeologist, and his hands-on understanding of "history" manifests an unprecedented delineation of how history coalesces with (architectural) design. Even Piranesi's personal design history manifests a coalescence, e.g., Prima Parti di Architetture e Prospettive through the Carceri through the Osservazioni sopra la Lettre de M. Mariette through the Diverse Maniere d'Adornare i Cammini through the Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi. Is that what Lebbeus Woods does?
My authority and dominance is in the field of Piranesi's Ichnographia Campi Martii, but why should I tell you all I know for free?
Hey Janosh, remember when you responded here at archinect on 22 January 2003 with:
Xavier Costa, in a class he taught at the AA while I was there, related it [the Ichnographia Campi Martii] to museological strategies/memory aids. Not sure that this is what you are asking, and I don't know if he ever published such a thing.
Could it be that Costa received his information from Marcel Baumgartner's "Topographie als Medium der Erinnerung in Piranesi's 'Campo Marzio dell' Antica Roma'"? published in 2000? Baumgartner at least admits/footnotes his knowledge of the Encyclopedia Ichnographica as published at www.quondam.com from 1 July 1998 to 20 March 2000.
2005.04.17 16:38
lebbeus woods and Piranesi
I read this text by Donald Kuspit--The Contemporary and the Historical--for the first time last night. It makes me want to exchange Piranesi for Breder and Tafuri for Mendieta. It also relates to Helena's sentiment as expressed within the making of "My Rita Novel Idea."
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2005.04.17 17:30
lebbeus woods and Piranesi
I was born 20 March 1956, 4 hours before the exact moment of vernal equinox, and Otto, after an early morning near-fatal car under a truck on the expressway accident, had his brain operated on 20 March 1980. Both these events occurred at Philadelphia Osteopathic Hospital. Maybe it was the driving with my parents to the emergency room on both occasions that viscerally taught me about reenactment, if not also calendrical coincidence.
More on equinox, indeed.
2005.04.17 18:23
lebbeus woods and Piranesi
I already told you, you better stop feeding me like this!
'Altars' and icons found in the park (that once was a Lenni-Lenapi camp site)
hocus pocus
2005.04.19 election of Pope Benedict XVI
2005.04.19 Rainier and Grace renew their marriage vows at Memorial Hall
2005.04.19 "Notes on Concentration Camp" by This Sontag
2005.04.19 10:30
Re: birth - life - death - Unbekannt
I need to know an artist who uses afterlife in their work.
"Hey, did you hear This Sontag is writing again? Yeah, she's writing "Notes on Concentration Camp."
and get this, This
Duchamp to direct The Lucky Bums
Happy Anniversary Rainier and Grace!
location, location, location
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