A visitor looks out over the financial center of London from the Leadenhall Building, one of the City’s newest skyscrapers, by Will Oliver.
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Chelsea Arts Club
On March 12, 1919, the Chelsea Arts Club held a costume party, called a Dazzle Ball, at Royal Albert Hall in London. It was inspired by the abstract geometric shapes on camouflaged ships in World War I , a method that was first employed by the British, who called it “dazzle painting” or dazzle camouflage. When the Americans adopted a comparable method, they referred to it by other names, among them “baffle painting,” “jazz painting,” and (rarely) “razzle dazzle.”
Le Corbusier
‘Villa Savoye’ (1929) by Le Corbusier.
Considered by many to be the seminal work of the Swiss architect Le Corbusier, this house is seen as one of the ultimate ‘machines for living’.
Le Corbusier with a model of Villa Savoye.
The construction of the house.
Chris Evans
‘Portrait of a Recipient as a Door Handle’ (2014) by Chris Evans.
Permanent work on the entrance of the Rabobank office in Rotterdam.
Trevor Paglen
Since 1963, more than eight hundred spacecraft have been launched into geosynchronous orbit, forming a man-made ring of satellites around the Earth. These satellites are destined to become the longest-lasting artifacts of human civilization, quietly floating through space long after every trace of humanity has disappeared from the planet.
Trevor Paglen’s The Last Pictures is a project that marks one of these spacecraft with a visual record of our contemporary historical moment. In 2012, the communications satellite EchoStar XVI was launched into geostationary orbit with the disc mounted to its anti-earth deck. While the satellite’s broadcast images are as fleeting as the light-speed radio waves they travel on, The Last Pictures will remain in outer space slowly circling the Earth until the Earth itself is no more.
The Last Pictures Artifact.
Some of the images on the disc.
EchoStar XVI launch in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, November 21st 2012.
Trevor Paglen, ‘The Last Pictures’ (2012)
William Pope.L
William Pope.L, ‘The Great White Way, 22 miles, 9 years, 1 street’ (2001-ongoing). From the larger series ‘eRacism’.
People who are forced to give up their verticality are prey to all kinds of dangers. But, let us imagine a person who has a job, possesses the means to remain vertical, but chooses momentarily to give up that verticality? To undergo that threat to his/her bodily/spiritual categories—that person would learn something. I did… Now I crawl to remember. – William Pope.L