We stumbled on this today and thought it was hilarious. Nothing beats kids’ forts made from couch cushions (and other various household materials) paired with serious architecture criticism. Here’s the review for the above photo, one of our favorites: The crisp, orthogonal structure is, in a way, camouflaged by the informality of the landscaping. While [...]
We love reading Scouting New York, a blog by the once-anonymous Nick Carr, a film location scout in NYC. A couple of days ago he posted some amazing pictures of 570 Lexington—originally built for RCA-Victor, then sold to GE, and finally donated to Columbia University. The building is an Art Deco-lover’s dream with beautiful details [...]
Continuing in our series of How’d They Do That? is Diane Birch’s video for “Valentino.” The concept of the video is great to begin with…the singer interacts with a projection screen, both in front of and behind it…but what we find intriguing is the “Making of” video where the screen is missing and we get [...]
Since everyone is touting the launch of the iPad as the next generation of books, we thought we’d take a look at the fine art and craft of bookmaking. REAL bookmaking. This fascinating short documentary (just under eight minutes)Â by John Carrera of Quercus Press takes a look at the entire process of creating Pictorial [...]
Last month we posted about a project in Detroit by Gregory Holm and Matthew Radune. The Ice House was an architectural installation meant to call attention to the foreclosure plight in the city. The project was completed, and Holm contacted us this week to point us to the video above which he and a film [...]