i’ve always loved pencils. a slim cylinder of graphite encased in a cylinder of wood. so elegant.

TERESITA FERNÁNDEZ

Drawn Waters (Borrowdale), 2009
natural and machined graphite on steel armature

Through Dec 19
@ LEHMANN MAUPIN: 540 WEST 26TH STREET

the japs have been friggin fashion nuts for centuries, man. craze! gonna try to check out this show at the met soon. (also on the agenda: vermeer, japanese mandalas, chinese cinnabar carvings)

Dō-Maru Gusoku Armor with Black Lacing and Three-Branched Deerhorn Helmet
Momoyama period, late 16th century
Iron, lacquer, leather, wood, papier-mâché, and silk; H. of helmet bowl: 7 in.

one day

mark your calendar for sat nov 21, peeps — it’s cranksgiving time!!

been thinking about making a lamp out of this box of medical slides, similar to this. but maybe a bit too craftsy?

with this solution, i don’t have to mutilate the actual slides.. but costs 200 lbs! don’t i know anyone in fabrication?

(via suckuk)

Michael Marcovici

this lamp is made out of way too many slides than i have

Hubert Hilscher (via butdoesitfloat)

doing funny things to my eyes. good things.

(November 5, 2009 – December 8, 2009)

The inaugural exhibition in the newly re-located Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography. Herb Lubalin (1918–1981) is best known for his wildly illustrative typography and his groundbreaking work for the magazines Avant Garde, Eros, and Fact.

The installation includes recent posters, publications, and motion graphics by internationally recognized graphic designers that spotlight an emerging trend toward expressive lettering and typography. Original sketches, magazines, logotypes, and posters selected from the Lubalin Center Archive will illuminate Lubalin’s influence on contemporary graphic design.

Featured Artists

• Marian Bantjes
• Deanne Cheuk
• The CW Network In-house department
• Ariel Di Lisio
• Marcus Eriksson
• Oded Ezer
• GrandArmy
• Gretel
• Jessica Hische
• HunterGatherer
• Justin Thomas Kay
• Like Minded Studio
• Brett MacFadden
• Christopher Martinez
• Non-Format
• Matt Owens
• Post Typography
• Roberto Quiñones
• Strange Attractors Design
• Alex Trochut
• TV Land
• Rick Valicenti
• Herb Lubalin

Curated by Mike Essl and Alexander Tochilovsky

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 5, 2009, 6 – 8pm, FREE
@ The Cooper Union: 41 Cooper Gallery [ MAP ]

present tense? future told?

(via tanakaofficial, rastasamurai)

new music obsession: phantogram

radshaw’s playing another show. you’ll know where to find me this friday:

Hey guys!

This Friday my band will be playing at Bruar Falls with Holy Hail and Desert Stars. It will be our second show ever and i’d love it if you guys could come out and see us. I’m hoping to not be as nervous the second time around! It’s also Holy Hail’s record release party so it’ll be extra special.

We are the first band so we go on early. Hope you can make it!! Here’s a link to a few songs from our last (aka first) show which was videotaped by Peter Beste.

See you there!!
xo
j

9pm - Open Ocean
10pm - Desert Stars
11pm - Holy Hail

Massimo will be DJing in between bands.

FRIDAY, NOV 6TH, Doors 8pm, $7
@ Bruar Falls: 245 Grand St. btwn Driggs+Roebling

girl in bannu, afghanistan

why is it so hard to find?

discovered that early/mid-career the human league is perfect music for autumn days. this cover of “you’ve lost that loving feeling” is genius in its sparseness.

Don’t talk
Close the door
You’ve been here before

Your shape dim
I’m an old man now
The air’s thin
The walls very damp now
And if I don’t go
I’ll always be stuck here in this poor little room
With a view of the corner

I don’t forget
Though I’ve grown weak now
Experience is useless
Unless you can learn
And I’ve never met anyone
Who used their knowledge
To avoid those mistakes made again and again

And if I don’t go
I’ll always be stuck here in this poor little room
With a view of the corner

- The Human League (Reproduction, 1979)