There is a crack in everything

That's how the light gets in. 

diana scherer image

 rain maker

pouring rain 

Simon Berger's photographs can be found here

Cool for Cats

A bizarre trend where people are paying up to $15,000 to get their pet cats painted, it lasts for around three months and then the cat's hair grows out.

 

here's the link

Amoureux Solitaire

Hey you, tell me you love me
Even if it's a lie and we don't stand a chance
Life's so sad, tell me you love me
Every day's the same, I need some romance
A bit of plastic beauty to erase the shadows under our eyes
Some chemical pleasure for our brains too dull 
Let our lives look like a perfect movie
Let's forget everything, ourselves included, what we really are
Lonely lovers in a dead city
Imaginary lovers, after all who cares
Let our lives look like a perfect movie






FRANÇOISE HARDY - Message Personnel by Pat-Sera

Sunday Ummm

The beautiful design of the new Serpentine


Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei from Serpentine Gallery on Vimeo.


The 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London created by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei.  A cork-clad structure that allows visitors to move beneath the Serpentine's lawn and explore a hidden history of previous incarnations.

"Our path to an alternative solution involves digging down some five feet into the soil of the park until we reach the groundwater," say Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei. "There we dig a waterhole, a kind of well, to collect all of the London rain that falls in the area of the Pavilion. In that way we incorporate an otherwise invisible aspect of reality in the park – the water under the ground – into our Pavilion. As we dig down into the earth we encounter a diversity of constructed realities such as telephone cables and former foundations."

A lovely video of people interacting with the space can be found here on Domus.

These ideas of making visible a ghostly structure of secret space resonates with the work of Studio Velocity and their House in Chiharada.  Roughly translating as “a bottom floor with a view of the sky and a top floor that’s like a town” the plays on form and scale reflect a landscape inside the home.

 

 Located in Aichi prefecture, the home derives it’s name from the way stairwells rise up in the living room to resemble buildings in a town. 

architectural model

night shot 

They can't know you

I was in my trailer, working on Godfather II or III in New York, and there was a knock on the door. The guy working with me said that John Gotti would like to meet Mr. Coppola. And I said, "It's not possible, I'm in the middle of something." There's an old wives' tale about vampires — that you have to invite them in, but once they cross the threshold, then they're in. But if you say you don't want to meet them, then they can't come in. They can't know you.

Francis Ford Coppola in an interview in Esquire

Cambridge Inspiration

Do what makes you happy.

Mark Zuckerberg - early days.

A fronte praecipitium a tergo lupi

At first I was all...



And then I was like -

And now I'm all 

"There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle"
- Robert Alden

 "When you possess light within, you see it externally."

- Anais Nin

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
- Aristotle Onasis

The Light in Winter

This Melbourne festival brings together artists, designers, architects, filmmakers and multicultural groups in a free, month-long program of light sculptures, talks, events, workshops, performances and the Solstice Celebration.  This year’s program, directed by Robyn Archer, is inspired by the National Year of the Reading and will celebrate the enlightenment that reading sheds on our lives. Literary texts, oral traditions, calligraphy, music, body art and braille are all viewed in a new light, along with imaginative light sculptures, and surprising collaborations from top international and local artists, designers and architects.  This morning on the river terrace I enjoyed cBraillie by Rob Caslick.  Located in a shipping container, cBraille focuses on emotions as the direct link between visitors and a visually impaired person.