Some Thoughts on MoMA

Taniguchi’s MoMA New York. My first thought when entering MoMA: This place is fucking enormous. My second thought: this place is fucking hilarious. Walking through the museum, my initial feelings were only verified. MoMA is almost a parody of a contemporary art museum. A beautiful parody, but a parody nonetheless. In the early galleries, sprawling, [...]

You (Aero)Gellin’?

Aerogel. The holy grail of building materials. Samples are lusted after in materials classes everywhere. (available now on eBay, natch.) Insulator, structure, window, fabric, comet-catcher, aerogel can potentially revolutionize the building industry. It could revolutionize every industry….if only it wasn’t so damn expensive. Wired gives a brief history of the material that’s made of 99% [...]

New York Interlude: recap

If anyone’s wondering where the promised skyskraper porn is (see previous post) - don’t. It doesn’t exist. Somehow - perhaps for the best - this trip went completely undocumented. whoops. A little too much celebrating, you see. I do however, seem to recall an absolutely hideous building on Astor place, a Band a [...]

Great Headline, Bad News:

After seeing the horrors of sept11, Jonathan “Yoni” Shimshoni was inspired to create a quick evacuation system for high rise buildings. His company, Escape Rescue Systems, have designed and constructed a prototype life-boat for buildings. Lowered to the street along the side of the building on cables, the “escape pods” then expand to form [...]

A New York Interlude

or “Modern Art Makes Me Want to Rock Out”
To quote the great poet Andrew W.K. “I love New York City! Oh Yeah! New York City.” Drawn by the current Robert Raushcenberg exhibit at the Met, the new (to me) MoMA, and the chance to catch up with some college friends, I’m off to the [...]

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