my favorite _____ is:
-villain: klaus kinski in my best fiend
-book: a man in love, karl ove knausgaard
-smell: comme de garcon, kyoto
-film: adaptation by spike jonze
-band/musician/composer: king crimson
-artist: james turrell
–city: new york city
-restaurant/ bar: el bulli
-drink/ cocktail: ginger tea
-decade: 2004-2014
-sport: running
-advice: stay small
-food: tiny bow (chinese dumplings)
-prized possession: my dad’s watch
way to go (die): in bed, either alone or with somebody lovely
my favorite _____ is:
-villain: the editor
-hero/superhero: rodney mullen
-book: into the great wide open
-smell: santal 33
-fetish: al jazeera
-film: withnail and i
-band/musician/composer: the grateful dead
-artist: mariah robertson, chiara de rege, alex graham, jawal nga
–city: bamako, mali
-restaurant/ bar: a yemani fish place in djibouti
-drink/ cocktail: ginger ale
-decade: 90’s
-sport: skateboarding
-advice: “find what you love and let it kill you”
-nightmare: i’m marooned on an island with tracey emin
-shop: tokyo hands
-position: CEO
-vice: hacking
-woman (of all time): mom
-man (of all time): brother
-hobby: collecting civil war era tin type photos
-prized possession: my niece
way to go (die): while ingesting a twombly painting
i came across this bit in my references, it’s old, from mister apc, jean touitou, and i would say that like most of the time the man is right, stand up for something that make sense. love it by pp.
always loved jean toutou’s tone. this one from the apc journal is great, my favorite is “art is for mobster”, but i have to say that “fashion is for losers” don’t make sense out of his mouth, feels a little phony, isn’t it? even if this is true… by pp.
even trendy guys need a summer job sometimes. any clue who used to take care of an ice cream cart in the 80’s? just a hint, that is not andy warhol 😉 by pp.
sorry, but seriously? wtf? by pp.
anybody seen jane march lately? by pp’
this year, the laureates for the prestigious architecture award “pritzker prize” is the japanese duo sanaa.
i love the visual aspect or their work, but it seems interesting that they receive the price at the same time that their new york flagship work, the new museum, is at its critically non-acclaiming height.
not that they have anything to do with the poor programming and curating of the museum (which is another debate) but is this building is not as bad as it’s content, really?
is there anybody that set a foot in there that can say it’s convenient? what about those stairs so small they would not even accommodate a 2 story residential place? what about those windows looking at walls? is that good design?
my point is that as designers, we all had great designs that were fucked up by a client at some point in order to fit whatever and i wouldn’t like to be judged based on those. but since i never been to any sanaa building except the new museum, i’m wondering if this is a “client fucked up” case or if architecture is now judged on a theoretical aspect more than a convenient one? by pp’
lee disputing his shadow in david shrigley’s skate-park pool, malmö, sweden, may 2009. photo by carlos van hijfte.
my favorite _____ is:
-book: “what we talk about when we talk about love“, by raymond carver, one of my
favorite authors, one whose stories changed my view of the world we live in— what more can one ask of a work of art?
-album: blue, by joni mitchell, has been sustaining me these last few weeks as our
tour has grown long, playing over and over on repeat in my iTunes. what an
amazing achievement this record is.
-cities: right now i’m infatuated with all things portland (OR) — hands down the hippest city in USA right now. close seconds: paris, tokyo, marrakech, melbourne.
-place: place de vosges, paris.
-films: pierrot le fou, godard; late autumn, yasujiro ozu; ali: fear eats the soul,
rainier werner fassbinder; don’t look back, D.A. pennebaker; the gleaners,
agnes varda. this list, as with many of these, could go on and on…
-restaurant: chez panisse in berkeley — good vibes and good food.
-hotel: of late, from our recent summer tour, W hotel, dallas. not a city one needs to visit, really, but a killer hotel.
-hobby: bicycling. I’ve spent the summer bicycling my way across the country as sonic youth has toured. fantastic rides everywhere: montana rocky mtns, okla
cornfields, portland streets & bridges, st. louis mississippi river basin,
milwaukee, boise, san fransisco to the foot of the golden gate—you name
it, every city in the US is improving their cycling system.
-band: pavement, the most rocking and literate band of the 90s.
-prized possession: my just-released fender signature model jazzmaster guitar (the lee renaldo fender jazzmaster was released on july 1st).
-drink: single malt scotch on ice
-way to go: parched in the high desert.
above: waris ahluwalia in red suit (and lou doillon in looong legs)
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