Ten things I have learned
An essay by Milton Glaser
Day of the Wolf
My father was a carpenter.
The smell of wood sap always brings back memories of my dad’s workshop. I would spend time there with him in the summer and build a simple boat or car.
I’ve been feeling reverence for carpentry and joinery for some time now. I used to be a modelmaker and have had to spend many hours in the workshop. Needless to say, I moved away from that career, I didn’t appreciate it so much then. When I own my own house, I’d like to have a workshop in the garage and make furniture and toys for my kids.
These pics from the Gram and Grain Journal have the perfect mix of dusty colors and workshop grain.
The Geometry of Pasta
Chef, Jacob Kenedy and designer Caz Hildebrand’s, Geometry of Pasta. Nice change from all the food porn.
Beautiful work.
Leoni Advokater by Hello Monday – http://www.hellomonday.net/
The Blackwing 602 pencil was discontinued in the early 90’s.
Palomino have brought the beauty back into production.
I remember requesting (and receiving) a Braun voice control alarm clock for my birthday when I was a kid. Always loved this very graphic looking clock, with it’s bright yellow second hand. Lubs & Rams created an icon with this one.
Soaking up the solstice.
Cristi & I went for a tour around one of the lesser known Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, here in LA.
Hollyhock House was his first California build in 1919. It was commissioned by Aline Barnsdall, the entrepreneurial daughter of one of the first oil drillers in the states. It was to be the focal point of a whole city block dedicated to the arts.
It was interesting to hear how Wright struggled to please his client and how there have been so many issues with the building over the years. I’ve recently been noticing how the creatives we look upon as masters still had their struggles and faults. It’s been a weight off my mind and a prod to my productivity to feel a little more free to fail, and fail better.
My second gift was a jar of Stumptown Coffee. A blast into the not so distance past…
This lens would be a nice addition.
The normal man can follow the general trend without injury to himself; but the man who takes to the back streets and alleys because he cannot endure the broad highway will be the first to discover the psychic elements that are waiting to play their part in the life of the collective. Here the artist’s relative lack of adaptation turns out to his advantage; it enables him to follow his own yearnings far from the beaten path, and to discover what it is that would meet the unconscious needs of his age. Thus, just as the one one-sidedness of the individual’s conscious attitude is corrected by reactions from the unconscious, so art represents a process of self-regulation in the life of nations and epochs.
From the book, ‘20th Century Theories of Art’ - By James Matheson Thompson
