I went to Japan, to Tokyo and Kyoto. It was unbelievable. Everything there is opposite. They walk and drive on the other side of the street. Nothing will ever be the same for me now that I have been there. Enough with the platitudes here are the photographs. This is the subway in Kyoto. The subway is tidy and orderly. I loved the green velour benches and the plastic rings hanging everywhere. As a New Yorker, my immediate thought was "How do they get people not to piss all over everything?" It's cultural, is the answer. This is in Kyoto, at the Ginkaku-ji, "The Temple Of The Silver Pavilion," in the pouring rain. There is a very mystical garden with...
Last week I posted the materials that got me interested in knolling. Here is a link to last week's blog. From Wikipedia: "Knolling is the process of arranging like objects in parallel or 90 degree angles as a method of organization." I went to the library to do some research and to learn more about Knoll Associates, a modern furniture company whose angular designs inspired the term. It was a summery day. I went to the Art & Architecture Library in the Steven A. Schwarzman Building - the Main Branch of the New York Public Library. This is the book I was looking for. Entitled Knoll Index of Designs, the book was originally spiral bound, but the spiral was cut...
The last winter was hard for a lot of us. It was so cold and endless and all that snow... In the middle of it I had an idea of how to create a real working vacation: go to awesome places, bring blank stock and paint it. Bolinas 2 Miles is the first group like this I've done, but there is def more coming. All of it was printed with block printing tools that I made and each piece has an edition of 3 to 6. Bolinas is a trippy, beautiful California beach town and what its known best for is that the locals perpetually take the sign down off the highway, so you can only get there if you know...
I've been interested in 'knolling' recently. Knolling is an organizational activity that was devised in 1987 by Andrew Kromelow, a janitor at Frank Gehry's furniture fabrication shop. Gehry was designing chairs for Knoll at the time, and Knoll designs are famously angular in an obsessive and almost otherworldy way. I came upon the idea after doing some research into Tom Sachs, who uses knolling as a component of his studio process. In Part II of this post, I go to the library to do some research, but first I wanted to share some background information about what I found out so far. From the Wikipedia page on Knolling: Knolling is the process of arranging like objects in parallel or 90...
