Edward Hopper's Inspirations in New York City
“If you are the nostalgic sort, you might long for Hopper’s paintings to represent reality, and for that reality to still exist on the streets of the city. You might want to find an actual diner, for example, where the faded imprints of the nighthawks’ elbows can still be observed in the Formica countertop, or at least know the hallowed ground on which the diner once stood, if only to have a place for pilgrimage, a place to point at and say, “There it was.” See also, Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York, Hopper’s Process.
1959 Republic Steel Advertisement - Missile building, in praise of America’s Foundrymen.
“Art is like life - it shouldn’t be so serious.” FRANÇOIS-XAVIER LALANNE
FRANÇOIS-XAVIER LALANNE (1927-2008) “Singe Avise (Grand)”, Patinated bronze. 46⁄ x 32 x 30 in. (118.1 x 81.3 x 76.2 cm) Produced by Fonderie Bocquel, France. Number 7 from the edition of 8. Lower back impressed with foundry mark bocquel fd. and underside of one
foot with 7 / 8 and fxl.
Charlotte Perriand, Bibliothèque, circa 1954. Ash-veneered wood, painted bent steel, mahogany, oak.
Two Early Diode Lamps - Marc Newson. Corian®, brushed tubular steel, painted metal. Taller: 70 1/8 in. (178 cm), other: 47 1/4 in. (120 cm) Produced by Pfeiffer & Söhne GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany. From the production of 16. Underside of one with metal label impressed
JEAN PROUVÉ (1901-1984) Pair of doors, designed for the Maisons Tropicales, circa 1949 Painted steel, aluminum, colored glass, clear glass, wood. Between 1949 and 1951 Jean Prouvé produced three pre-fabricated houses for the French colonies in West Africa. The French government commissioned these designs following World War II, partly out of support for the aluminum industry, and also in keeping with the tradition of sending pre-fabricated structures to the colonies. These “Maisons Tropicales” were designed dierently than his earlier prefabricated structures intended for a European climate.
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Music From John Water’s Mondo Trasho (Shoplifting and Stealing Shoes) - Sil Austin - Slow Walk (1956)
An Honor for the Creator of the GIF
“Among the thousands of file formats that exist in modern computing, the GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, has attained celebrity status in a sea of lesser-known BMPs, RIPs, FIGs and MIFFs. It was honored as a “word of the year” in 2012, and Tuesday night, its inventor, Steve Wilhite, will be accepting a lifetime achievement award at The Webby Awards. Now, almost any fragment of digital culture can be spun up into a grainy, gratifying animation. GIFs provide a platform for nearly everything, it seems — from rapid-fire political commentary to digital art to small moments of celebrity intrigue.”
Young London: Permissive Paradise Photographs by Frank Habicht, with introductions by Heather Cremonesi and Robert Bruce Harrap, London, 1969
Selector After Dark: Andrew Weatherall By British Council.
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