on wes, on tenenbaum. classic

young marc jacobs

after his graduation show 

"Don't walk behind me, i may not lead.
Don't walk in front of me; i may not follow.

Just walk beside me and be my friend."

great minds meeting

la cité de l'ocean et du surf

Honor to whom honor is due.

the petition for honoring denise scott brown postmortem for her contribution as seminal to her husbands' work, the exhibition on eileen gray in the centre pompidou in paris - honor to whom honor is due.

there was a kickstarter-project to fund a documentary on eileen gray's house E1027 and her relations and influence on le corbusier and others.  unfortunately, there are far too little supporters for the time being. 20 days left!

In episode 7, season 6 of mad men, this chaise longue, officially designed by le corbusier, gets quite some attention. The influence of eileen gray is evident, the fact that the design actually comes from charlotte perriand, who worked for Le Corbusiers atelier, rather unknown. Behind every great man there is a great woman. 

wings of desire

one of the few films that hit me like a bomb in my heart and won't get out of my head till i die.




When the child was a child
It walked with its arms swinging,
wanted the brook to be a river,
the river to be a torrent,
and this puddle to be the sea.
When the child was a child,
it didn't know that it was a child,
everything was soulful,
and all souls were one.
When the child was a child,
it had no opinion about anything,
had no habits,
it often sat cross-legged,
took off running,
had a cowlick in its hair,
and made no faces when photographed.

Peter Handke

don giovanni by frank o. gehry and rodarte, 2012

balenciaga fall/winter 2013

Ideas for breaking out of a creative drought

• Hesitation is destruction.
• Addition is often a process of subtraction.
• Go as deep as you can with what you’re doing.
• Let your camera follow your life instead of having your life follow the camera.
• Think of photographs as compliments and love letters.
• Relationships are more important than photographs.
• Rejection is normal, don’t be afraid of it.
• Welcome failure because it leads to growth.
• Don’t worry about the answers, you’ll never find them until you embrace the questions.
• Success is a byproduct of something bigger than itself so don’t pursue it.
• Confront your anxieties and fears by leaving your comfort zone.
• Don’t repeat yourself.
• Don’t worry about your work being bad or good – completion is all that matters.
• Stay away from imitating others (know the difference between inspiration and imitation).
• Know yourself.
• Challenge everything and do so with humility.
• Your subconscious is like a secret factory, if you feed it good things than good things will probably come out.

• Stop thinking and go out and produce and produce and produce…
• Two weeks with a great mentor is probably equivalent to two years of school.
• What you surround yourself with will often dictate who you become.
• Photography is not about photography (photographs about photographs are boring).
• Examine your intentions carefully and stay true to the original idea.
• Make friends with people who aren’t photographers.
• Becoming a “great” photographer is a lifetime achievement.
• Sentimentality is the opposite of cynicism and try to keep both out of your work.
• Let your work breathe. When you have completed it, lock it away and come back to it at a later date with fresh eyes.
• Sometimes you need to let go in order to have something return.
• Everything is subjective.
• People are constantly re-writing their memory.
• Know when and when not to show your work to people. Give ongoing projects a healthy incubation period before sharing them.
• Go for walks when you feel stuck.
• Fake it until you make it!
• Always trust your gut.

- Peter McCollough

Henri Rousseau, le douanier

My favourite painting of the Kunstmuseum Basel; negro attacked by a jaguar, 1910 Henri Rousseau. 

Henri Rousseau was largely seen as a curiosity -- a naïve, unlearned, uncultured and unsophisticated painter -- but he grew to be a fashionable curiosity, with special interest by Pablo Picasso the writer Guillaume Apollinaire. He was autodidact, "a prodigiously intuitive person", but certainly not uneducated, he himself claimed he had "no teacher other than nature". 

how come, jeroen koolhaas?

wondering about the strong presence of architecture in pradas real fantasies, the name jeroen koolhaas might be the hint. 

crossroads of pot d'étain

l'art et le lieu // genius loci // art in situ

thanks to my projectweek of landart and my research on working with the existing, i fell in love with art installation. 

more more more

franz west, auditorium, 2000

tadashi kawamoto, metz, 1998

haus-rucker-co, oase nr. 7, 1972

emmanuel saulnier, rester - résister, 1994

klaus pinter (haus-rucker-co), rebonds, 2002

rosemarie trockel, kunststation st. peter, 1993

atelier land art // survivalcamp

3 days cold mountains, ripping trees, making fire and finally a triangle, anamorphosis in the woods. 

whatever happens, happens

"Fear is what keeps us alive. Of course, big waves are scary, but it’s extremely exciting to push yourself in bigger conditions and challenge yourself mentally. In my head, I'm saying, 'Push yourself, be committed, and whatever happens, happens.' The biggest lesson in surfing when you wipe out is to relax — you can't fight the ocean, it's too powerful. So, you just have to go with the flow and enjoy the washing machine ride."
Stephanie Gilmore, world surfing champion

the world is a bug

monta, my teenage-love.
old is gold!
good morning strangers out there (:

mm

martin margiela.


probably the only photo of him ever gone public.. 1997