2005.03.29 14:43
degrees of separation OR creativity as parody
The notion of reenacting the Trilon and Perisphere of 1939-40 at Ground Zero today is probably technically copyright infringement. I wonder who owns the Trilon and Perisphere design.
Yesterday's The New York Times had an article about the possible copyright infringement manifest by the latest Freedom Tower design. I didn't read the article nor save it.
Anyway, today's The New York Times has two articles, one about reenactment and one about (possible) copyright infringement.
Historical Epic Is Focus of Copyright Dispute
By Sharon Waxman (NYT) 1124 words
ABSTRACT - Timothy DeBaets, lawyer for James Reston Jr, author of Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade, sends letter accusing 20th Century Fox and director Ridley Scott of stealing his research for screenplay for Crusades epic Kingdom of Heaven; studio lawyer, in letter of rebuttal, says movie's creators never read Reston's book; fact that film and book are both rooted in historical events may make Reston's claim difficult to prove; Orlando Bloom stars in movie scheduled to be released on May 6.
Documentary Criticized For Re-enacted Scenes
By Irene Lacher (NYT) 1503 words
ABSTRACT - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, prompted by tempest over unflagged use of re-enactments in Bobby Houston and Robert Hudson's Ocar-winning documentary short, Mighty Times: The Children's March, initiates review of eligibility rules; Houston and Hudson recreated some scenes using vintage cameras and distressed film stock to portray 1963 civil rights protest by thousands of children in Birmingham, Ala.
I'm thinking about the issue that exists that is more a combination of these two stories, and how creativity gets/is involved.
Technically, the St. Pierre Hurva Synagogue is copyright infringement, even if it's existence as a design is only virtual. What allows this design to exist, however, is the 'fair use' clause of copyright law which allows use of copyright material for educational and/or non-commercial use. Or I could label this work as parody, which makes the St. Pierre Hurva Synagogue design a matter of social commentary and/or self expression.
2005.03.31
Why Duchamp?: The Influence of Marcel Duchamp on Contemporary Architectural Theory and Practice
Marcel Duchamp is a high standing member of the Horace Trumbauer Architecture Fan Club. New member Walter Hopps was extremely unexpectedly thrilled to be present up front and center for Duchamp's and Jennewein's "Nudist Camp at the Philadelphia Museum of Art" 20 March 2005.
From now on, any work regarding Duchamp and Architecture must demonstrate a thorough knowledge of The Odds of Ottopia and Leaving Obscurity Behind. Indifference to this notice is much more than chancy, even.
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2005.04.01 14:55
how should someone feel after visiting a museum?
If it's an exceptional avant garde museum, then according to design appropriateness, and even according to 'sustainable design' standards, the visitor should feel sucked in, confused, inadequate and, of course, an aftershock of wanting more.
Remember that Information Society song that began with some guy saying "It is useless to resist us!"?
2005.04.02 death of Pope John Paul II
2005.04.02 09:48
how should someone feel after visiting a museum?
"Here we suddenly remember that, of course, the very same thing is true for scientists themselves. The most creative ones, almost by definition, do not build their constructs patiently by assembling blocks that have been precast by others and certified as sound. On the contrary, they too melt down the ready-made materials of science and recast them in a way that their contemporaries tend to think is outrageous. That is why Einstein's own work took so long to be appreciated even by his best fellow physicists, as I noted earlier. His physics looked to them like alchemy, not because they did not understand it at all, but because, in one sense, they understood it all to well. From their themetic perspective, Einstein was anathema. Declaring, by simple postulation rather than by proof, Galilean relativity to be extended from mechanics to optics and all other branches of physics; dismissing the ether, the playground of most nineteenth-century physicists, in a preemptory half-sentence; depriving time intervals of inherent meaning; and other such outrages, all delivered in a casual, confident way in the first, short paper on relativity--those were violent and "illegitimate" distortions of science to almost every physicist. As for Einstein's new ideas on the quantum physics of light emission, Max Planck felt so embarrassed by it when he had to write Einstein a letter of recommendation seven years later that he asked that this work be overlooked in judging the otherwise promising young man."
--Gerald Holton, Einstein, History, and Other Passions (Woodbury, AIP Press, 1995), pp. 13-14.
2005.04.02 11:35
how should someone feel after visiting a museum?
...thus it's all the more avant garde when the design and execution of a museum is not concerned only with forces in equilibrium, forces a rest.
"It is useless to resist us (forces)"
2005.04.03 12:22
John Paul II dies
I remember in grade school back in the 1960s how mad all the nuns got during one of the "Bishop's Fund" drives when all us kids in the school yard were yelling, "Give money for the Bishop's Fun!" I think that was one of my first experiences of concrete comedy.
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2005.04.03 13:21
Books to give parents so they understand what architecture is
Why not scare your parents even more? Give them nightmares even --
Philippe Duboy, Lequeu: An Architectural Enigma (Cambridge,MA: The MIT Press, 1987).
Forget the cute "queer eye" advise, and even "extreme makeover" advise is just a commercial for Sears and plastic surgury. Go straight for the lobotomy.
2005.04.03 16:57
Fashion Trends
There's really only one trend, and that's planned obsolescence.
2005.04.04 18:01
abracadabra, faia
meanwhile....
Asian punks are flipping feverishly through 5 inch thick imported comic books while sitting at the counter waiting for their lunch in a Japantown stripmall eatery. Unbekannt tourists were driving by.
"I ate there once, back in the 80s."
"Oh. When we get back to Chapel's Studio, I'm gonna make tapes of KROQ for my car back in Philly."
"Cool. Hope you get that song too."
They were heading for Santa Monica Blvd.
"Remember when we used to say 'Who Sadat?' instead of 'Who said that?'?"
"Wasn't that Kooky Faruqi's idea?"
Then they started daydreaming about drinking more margaritas once they get back to Santa Catalina Island. They're favorite waitress was Rita, Margarita Rita.
2005.04.05 12:51
April dates of LEAVING OBSCURITY BEHIND
1 April
1994 Good Friday
1994 death of R. David Schmitt
1999 Holy Thursday
1999 Lauf finds of St. Helena
2004 'Origin of Ignudi'
2 April
2005 death of Pope John Paul II
4 April
397 Holy Thursday
397 death of St. Ambrose
5 April
1730 birth of Seroux d'Agincourt
6 April
1483 birth of Raphael
1520 Good Friday
1520 death of Raphael
8 April
1973 death of Pablo Picasso
2005 funeral of Pope John Paul II
9 April
1959 death of Frank Lloyd Wright
2005 marriage of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles
17 April
1790 death of Benjamin Franklin
1988 death of Louise Nevelson
18 April
1955 death of Albert Einstein
1955 Otto I of Bavaria meets Albert Einstein
22 April
1926 birth of James Stirling
1965 the day Pop Art died
23 April
1522 birth of St. Catherine de Ricci
1950 death of Julian Abele
24 April
1945 death of Georg Brenner
27 April
4977BC Johannes Kepler's date for creation of universe
1848 birth of Otto I of Bavaria
1945 Italian partisans capture Mussolini prisoner
1950 The modern state of Israel was officially recognized by the British government
1978 Afghanistan revolution (National Day), pro-Russian military coup
1989 Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China
30 April
1881 birth of Julian Abele
[When will there be a next Pope?]
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2005.04.06 death of Prince Rainier II of Monaco
2005.04.06 08:13
Understanding Duchamp
don't waste your time
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