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Recursive Reticulation: Misunderstanding the Mobile

Two quotations from Yona Friedman Understanding something means misunderstanding it in one’s own way. An architect does not create a city, only an accumulation of objects. It is the inhabitant who...

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ab ovo: social comforts and refinements

The Sayings of Poor Richard (Toronto: The British Educational Society, [nd]) reprints a biography from 1938 published by The Grolier Society Limited in which one reads: He never countenanced the...

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Eschew perfection. Strive for excellence.

Thomas Keller The French Laundry Cookbook When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection...

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Procrustean

Maged Zaher from If Reality Doesn’t Work Out Smaller beds bigger nightmares And so for day 2918 08.12.2014

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Pro-retro

From an interview in Surface Magazine: What’s the future if we can’t learn from the past? Sébastien Léon, artist, designer and sound sculptor This was set as an either/or question: Remember or forget?...

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Horticultural and Culinary Tautology

Scribbled on a postcard in a series mailed out as correspondence art: If a recipe is a solution, a garden is a crime. And one of the series inverted the order: If a recipe is a crime, a garden is a...

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Turn, turn, turn

A most magnificent coda: The earth spins and we, utterly, are spun. “Of Contour, of Cadence”Thief in the InteriorPhillip B. Williams And so for day 304008.04.2015

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Moving Goalposts

Gene YoungbloodSecession from the Broadcast Utopia is no longer understood as not possible because it’s too ideal, but as not permitted because it’s too radical. And so for day 312027.06.2015

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The Dangers of Deictics

Aphorisms are dangerous. This is not an aphorism. And so for day 312704.07.2015

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