a great loss - MIKE KELLEY (1954 – 31.January 2012) could’t destroy all monsters.
Thank you Mike Kelly for your radical oeuvre. You made me marvel, wonder and think.
Archive for the 'looks alright from where I stand' Category
MODERN MAN, Lyrics by Black Flag
He’s too straight and you can wait. Modern man. I’ve only got time for a few, and not you.
Living tomorrow is everyone’s sorrow.
Modern man, Modern man.
Henry Rollins
Elia Kazan: I realize now that work was my drug. It held me together. It kept me high. It’s your identity, and when it’s done you are nobody.
Renaissance man/ Derek Jarman
And then no renaissance came
And times continued to change
Nothing stayed the same
But there were always renegades
outtakes from Derek Jarman’s Last of England:
Itself, by itself, solely, ONE everlasting, and single. Plato
from: Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
illustrated by fabulous Harry Clarke (Ireland, 1889 – 1931)
Harry Clarke
Gerrit van Bakel, artist & designer (1943 – 1984), unknown guest at documenta 7.
He wears the sun. And he wear it well.
check out the great website – here
–> Interview
Raimund Johann Abraham,
he the fantastic iconoclastic architect from Austria, who had been teaching at the Southern California Institute of Architecture since 2003, died in a car accident in downtown Los Angeles. (March 4, 2010)
Are the architectural drawings by Mr. Abraham art or architecture or a hybrid of the two?
This is a misleading question. It takes us into either-or debates which really have nothing to do with his work, drawn or otherwise. In my view his drawings are essentially philosophical, in that they struggle with questions of existence and its meaning. What makes them architecture—or, I should say, Abraham’s architecture–is that they create clear relationships between abstract, tectonic space and form and human experiences and conditions that comprise our existence. As he has said on many occasions, “architecture must confront a program,” which I take to mean a program for inhabiting particular spaces and their contexts.
(Answer by Lebbeus Woods to a question asked by a journalist about the work of Raimund Abraham)
Austrian Cultural Forum New York. Design competition won, 1992; building completed 2002:
The Measure (from Words)
I cannot
move backward
or forward.
I am caught
in the time
as measure.
What we think
of we think of—
of no other reason
we think than
just to think—
each for himself.
from: The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975
