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Ominously nicknamed "Devils Mountain," Teufelsberg is what you imagine from Berlin, a city still showing the scars of the Cold War. The complex on top of Teufelsberg was a former U.S. listening post during the cold war and the hill itself was actually made from all the rubble of the city after Berlin's destruction during the Second World War. The hill covers a Nazi military technical college designed by Albert Sp...

Interval Studies Posted by on February 23rd, 2010 at 8:17 pm
A friend of a friend in Copenhagen has started a small gallery, aptly named the Microgallery who have recently provided working and exhibition space for two 'new media' artists from New York. The first show entitled Interval Studies by Tristan Perich are series of sound installations. Each has a grid of speakers emitting a single, primitive 1-bit tone with a different pitch. Tristan Perich: Interval Studies (Part 2) from Tristan Perich on Vimeo. ...

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Hip Hop Karaoke Championships – NYC Posted by on February 11th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
What is Hip Hop Karaoke? Think of normal karaoke, take away the bouncing ball above the song's words displayed on a screen. Take away the words themselves and then invite entrants to get up on stage an perform selected hip-hop songs from memory. In reality this is nothing like Karaoke. Its not cheesy or clumsy but was sometimes painful and slightly embarrassing watching some performers - and these were the best from around the nation at the 5th annual Championships. The songs of choice fo...

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Slash – The Best Exhibition in NY Posted by on February 3rd, 2010 at 3:25 am
Slash: Paper Under the Knife takes the pulse of the international art world's renewed interest in paper as a creative medium and source of artistic inspiration, examining the remarkably diverse use of paper in a range of art forms. Slash is the third exhibition in MAD's (Museum of Design and Art) Materials and Process series, which examines the renaissance of traditional handcraft materials and techniques in contemporary art and design. The exhibition surveys unusual paper treatments, includ...

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Always Sunny in Philadelaphia Posted by on February 1st, 2010 at 12:07 am
[caption id="attachment_257" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Bringing Christmas Spirit to Bumms near you"][/caption] I expected Philly to be the quintessential suburban America we've all become accustomed to in movies and TV throughout our lives. The America affected by foreclosures and the economic downturn, where danger and gun shots are just a suburb away and all the supposedly regular people are connected only by highways to their work and friends in other similar residential areas...

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Skyrocket Love – Or Something Like That Posted by on January 31st, 2010 at 4:40 pm
The four days spent in LA were a mixture of days spent driving the city looking for architectural highlights (which were hard to find, but total gems when I did) and nights spent going from gig to gig with an up-and-coming LA pop rock band I was staying with called Skyrocket love. Pop/Rock is certainly not my kind of music but it certainly gave me an interesting side of LA and by the end I was surprised that I even kind of liked their music (kind of). I hoped that the music industry still...

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Walt Disney Concert Hall Posted by on January 21st, 2010 at 5:32 pm
Its impossible to take a bad photograph of this building. Like some massive piece of sculpture standing in the middle of Downtown LA wasteland, an eerily empty world, it sits attempting to inspire. As a funny anecdote, I heard that because of its highly reflective surface the reflected light has significantly increased the air conditioning of adjacent buildings and now they are attempting to sue the City for damages.... ...

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Paris, Ashton and Marisa Posted by on January 19th, 2010 at 5:35 am
I went along to a photography exhibition on Melrose Place, Beverly Hills the other night for three recent graduates of art school in the LA area, or to be more accurate an exhibition for some rich LA princesses who had just finished photography school and their parents had banded together to put on an exhibition in a swanky gallery on Melrose to show off their daughters talents. Sage’s stuff was basically a travel journal from New York back to Los Angeles and was a colla...

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George Rousse Posted by on January 6th, 2010 at 8:07 am
Rousse's work, from the 1990s to today, generally appears at first glance to be photos of desolate or abandoned spaces (buildings, rooms, parking garages or streetscapes) often on their way to the wrecking ball, on which the artist has superimposed precise geometrical shapes or squiggly graffiti. However, this is an intended illusion: what Rousse does is to paint these designs onto the abandoned spaces before taking the photo, correcting for such things as the slope of floors or the inter...

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Evolver Posted by on January 6th, 2010 at 7:57 am
Evolver is a wooden pavilion built by students from the ALICE Studio at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. When you walk through it, you’ll make a 720° turn and have an amazing panorama on the surroundings of Zermatt. This project certainly show the potential of student design build projects. Found at www.todayandtomorrow.net Embed code: ...

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“Ignore the Wardle Envelope” Posted by on September 11th, 2009 at 5:03 am
The winning John Wardle and Office dA submission has been described by Tom Kvan as showing “a detailed understanding of the teaching and research activities of the Faculty and the potential for contribution to research across the campus”. It is the internal planning of the building and its integration with the broader urban environment of the university that is the designs strongest selling point. JW & DA have created an internal avenue connecting the Concrete Lawn with Swanston St and t...

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