

Giny Vos, ‘Work to do’ (1985)
Intervention on the lighting scheme of the Europoint towers in Rotterdam.
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Posted in Composition
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Tagged architecture, blocks, command, DIY, fuckem, fun, giny vos, grid, installation, labour, letters, light, lighting, lights, netherlands, off, offices, on, pattern, public space, romance, rooms, rotterdam, spelling, text, towers, wall, windows, work
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‘The Continuous Monument: On the River, project, Perspective’ (1969)

‘The Continuous Monument: On the Rocky Coast, project, Perspective’ (1969)
by Superstudio.
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Posted in Composition
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Tagged architecture, buildings, coast, collage, culture, design, drawing, dystopian, fantasy, fiction, firm, fuckem, glass, island, italian, land, modernity, monumental, nature, paper, public space, sculpture, sea, size, structure, superstudio, the wild, transparency, unknown, utopian, wall, water
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Beth Collar, ‘The Island of the Dead’, still from digital video
watch here : https://vimeo.com/98592174
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Posted in Composition
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Tagged beth collar, comedy, finger, fuckem, fun, island of the dead, nature, performance, point, rehearsal, repetition, romance, sky, the wild, unknown, video, vimeo, water
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Lytle Shaw, ‘The Moiré Effect’ (2012)
Softcover, 128 pages, black and white
Cabinet Books & Bookhorse
Ernst Moiré was a mysterious Swiss photographer whose career has been obscured by silence, documentary voids, and misinformation. So much of his life is shrouded in speculation and half-truths that he sometimes seems more like a phantasm than the flesh-and-blood figure who will forever be remembered as the inadvertent inventor of the blur that bears his name. In 2002, Cabinet magazine dispatched literary scholar and detective Lytle Shaw to Zurich to investigate the reclusive figure’s life and work. Shaw published his initial findings in Cabinet issue 7, but the puzzle of Moiré continued to vex him, and it is only now, a decade later, that the full story of his continuing investigation can finally be told.
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Posted in Composition
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Tagged accident, alpine, book, cabinet magazine, conspiracy, ernst moire, fictional, literature, lytle shaw, moire effect, mystery, photography, switzerland, writer
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Erika Hock, ‘Shifters (moiré day/night’)’ (2011)
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Posted in Abstraction
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Tagged architectural intervention, architecture, belgium, blue, brussels, daylight, dazzle, DIY, Erika Hock, fabric, frame, germany, hue, installation, light, moire, nature, opaque, overlapping, partition, patterns, pink, sculpture, shine, sunlight, through, translucent, unknown, wall, wood
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René Magritte, ‘The Month of the Grape Harvest’ (1959)
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Posted in Composition
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Tagged anonymous, architecture, audience, belgium, brussels, coats, confrontation, crowd, empty, fuckem, gray, grey, group, hats, house, identical, inside, intruders, intrusion, light, men, outside, painting, rene magritte, room, sameness, similarity, suits, surrealism, unknown, waiting, wall, window
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Pencil and watercolor by Lt. Francis Meynell, “Slave deck of the Albaroz, Prize to the Albatross, 1845”, shows Africans liberated by the British Navy. The Albanez (erroneously identified as Albaroz) was a Brazilian vessel, captured by the Royal Navy ship, Albatross, off the mouth of the Coanza/Cuanza River (in present-day Angola) in 1845. Meynell was mate on the Albatross, captained at the time by Reginald Yorke. According to the NMM records, the Albatross was commissioned in 1842 and cruised African waters until 1849.
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Posted in Composition
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Tagged african, black, boat, brasilian, british, captivity, captures, diary, DIY, dorms, drawing, english, equality, fleet, freedom, human, issues, labourors, lt. francis meynell, naval, painting, pencil, people, prisoners, racial, records, sailing, sea, ship, slavery, trade, traffickers, unknown, water, watercolour, white
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Horace Pippin, ‘Harmonizing’ (1944)
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Tagged african, afro-american, american, architecture, black, cartoon, class, conversation, corner, culture, fence, fuckem, gathering, group, Horace Pippin, house, life, men, naive, outside, painting, public space, racial, romance, segregation, slavery, social, street, street view, struggles, wall, wood, wooden
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