2026.09.18
museum closed sculpture garden open .260918am
2025.09.18
451 Rhawn Gallery
Stephen Lauf even I'm not sure what's going on 2025.08.25
Stephen Lauf Mellow Yellow 2025.08.05
Stephen Lauf we have the room 2025.08.22
Stephen Lauf flowers perfined 2025.08.22
Stephen Lauf Andy and Sol 2025.08.22
2020.09.18
Mary Boone's 180 hours of community service hours 161 162
Mary Boone's 180 hours of community service hour 163
Mary Boone's 180 hours of community service hours 164 165 166
2016.09.18
2D CAD data
16091802.db Dominican Motherhouse Nunnery NATO Headquarters plans schematic plans
2015.09.18
Architecture of Decadence
Read this morning:
"Science has discovered that readers of romance novels produce endorphins in their brains. Endorphins are chemically similar to morphine, an extremely addictive drug. Astonishing as it sounds, the romance reader, in fact, becomes physically addicted to romances.
A dope pusher may get hundreds of people addicted. A fiction writer can get them addicted by the millions. The storyteller's magic is truly immense." --JNFrey
Reminded of:
I just finished writing a novel where 20% of the world's population employs an architect--after cell phones, i-pads, etc., architects have become the must-have life accessory--most consult their architects on a daily basis. Then, of course, the competition among architects is fierce, thus the book is like The Gong Show meets Fantasy Island.
--20130218
2009.09.18
Your Ideal City mash up....
Neuschwanstein + Las Vegas + Atlantic City + an Indian Reservation + Monte Carlo + Dubai + Angkor Wat + Pompeii = "My kind of town."
2002.09.18
Re: what is an architectural idea?
Perhaps the real question is "What idea is an architecture?"
another fashion tip [of the iceberg]
Don't tell anyone, but just the other day I thought of a 'brand new' fashion line where all the items have expensive prices (e.g., $2000 or $24000, etc.) prominently 'branded' on them--I'm thinking of labeling it Queastio Abstrusa's Karma collection.
I wonder which is the most expensive building on the planet right now.
1996.09.18
metabolizing the existing data
Data can be metabolized in a number of ways:
1. rescale plans and models at odd scales and rotations.
2. mix up all types of databases and drawings.
3. zany perspectives.
4. wireframe perspectives.
5. generate perspectives of 2-d data.
6. create new building models by combining just pieces of the models already available.
1968.09.18
1968. Wednesday, Cadaqués
After postponing their return to Paris a few days [9.9.1968], Marcel is now feeling well enough to travel back to Paris by train.
Ephemerides
1955.09.18
1955. Sunday, New York City
After being shown a collection of drawings by the late Henry Toledano, Duchamp writes to Carl Zigrosser at the Philadelphia Museum of Art asking if he would "accept to see the drawings" and give his opinion, as the artist's brother would like to dispose of them.
Ephemerides
1947.09.18
1947. Thursday, New York City
Awaiting the return of Kiesler from Paris with photographs of the Surrealist exhibition [7.7.1947], Marcel writes to Elisa and André Breton to confirm that he received a copy of the catalogue about a fortnight ago. Again Marcel asks Breton to consider making an "album-souvenir" [18.7.19471 with photographs of the installation and texts from the catalogue, arguing that it would not be expensive to produce.
Ephemerides
1915.09.18
1915. Sunday, Boston
In the wake of a number of press articles [12.9.1915], the Boston Evening Transcript publishes a portrait of Duchamp by Alfred Kreymborg, who is the editor of Others, a literary magazine recently founded with financial backing by Walter Arensberg. Like his colleagues, Kreymborg identifies Duchamp as the man who "provided the high-water sensation" of the Armory Show [17.2.1913], when "men and women who could not distinguish between a Rodin and a canary bird's cage passed passionate judgment against such 'quackery', 'self-advertising', 'new-commercialism'," and "the artist and the art critic glared and blared".
"A month ago [15.6.1915]," writes Kreymborg, "a tall, slender, athletic-looking individual of twenty-eight arrived in New York. Word soon flew round that Marcel Duchamp was here... New York gasped.
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Ephemerides
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