Shooting Up

Today I went through all my posts and realized what started as a vent for all my beliefs and inspirations has now become just art so let's change it up a bit. Best current video I've watched in a while and it's about this place Insite.

Insite was designed to be accessible to injection drug users who are not well connected to health care services – men and women who use more than one drug; people who experience both addiction and mental illness; people with a history of trauma; people who are homeless, live in shelters or live in substandard housing; men and women of Aboriginal descent and people who have tried unsuccessfully in the past to beat their drug addiction.

You go in and they provide you with clean needles, a space, and supervisor. They founders of this argue that thousands of lives are saved each year b.c. there is an epidemic of diseases being spread by needle-sharing. Also they say that by luring these people into these facilities they can more easily try to counsil. This all sounds like a wacky idea and truthfully I don't know how comfortable I am with it but worth a post.

WATCH IT

Prada Marfa

Store as sculpture. Back in 2005 two boys, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Gragset, installed a Prada store in the middle of a Texas highway... aka bumfuck nowhere. Hilarious. As expected three days after its unveiling, the store was vandalised but apparently Ms Prada enjoyed the store so much that she donated new items.


and here are some of the duo's other works:

Colors of Shadow

Hiroshi Sugimoto, a new favorite, has done this collection called The Colors of Shadows.



When surfaces receives light, the light effects varies according to the angle of exposure.

Selecting three distinct angles—90?, 55? and 35?—I had the walls surfaced using

traditional Japanese shikkui plaster finishing, which absorbs and reflects light most

evenly. In the morning light, the shadows play freely over the surfaces, now appearing,

now vanishing. While on rainy days, they take on a deeper, more evocative cast. I've only

just begun my observations, but already I've discovered a sublime variety in shadow

hues.


I think one of the million reasons architects where black is because color is so deemphasized or at least that's my expert knowledge after one year in architecture school. We are taught about creating a space using different shapes and manipulations. Rarely do we even mention color.

I don't know if this is why I really appreciate Sugimoto's work but I find it pretty intriguing just how many variables there are to capture and the enormous range of color that can come out of shadows in a singular space.

Gaudi

I've had more time to cozy up in bookstores now that school is done and drool over one person t the next. My man of the hour is Gaudi. I've glanced at him from time to time but over the past few days I've fallen in love. His works are exactly where I envisioned my future movie to take place.


So this is the Sagrada Familia for those who don't know located in Barcelona. I wish I could find some more close-ups because the facades are excellent. This has been in construction for well over a hundred years now and isn't exected to be completed for another 25 or so years but man... aint she a beaut!











Read about him yourself. I need to go play in the sun. Pretty much he was a man who very much kept to himself and was uber dedicated to his work... like every other success story I suppose.