Satoyama garden.
Yokohama, Japan.
Satoyama garden.
Yokohama, Japan.
Hans Hartung (German-French, 1904-1989) - T1961–H37, oil on canvas, 92 x 150 cm (1961)
Frisk Gum print ads, 2003
i've been saying this
Lionel’s cool home is a renovated, stable, garage, and hayloft. He’s an interior architect, and to him working equals playing, recycling, assembling, with a wink towards other cultures, the local context, and the past.
The craft of creating furniture has been handed down 6 generations. Isn’t this a great space, full of art and interesting things?
Love these old metal columns. This door leads to the living room.
This is quite a piece of art, rather than a chair.
The living room is quite large and has 2 different seating areas.
The kitchen looks handcrafted, and I like the industrial design of the desk.
This room looks like a fine study, and I love the green chair. What a great place.
This guy’s taking his tea in the garden.
The vast stained glass window in this original bathroom overlooks the inner courtyard and bathes the room in natural light
The lighting just released endorphins in my brain
Toro Can / Santa Barbara County
© Laure Joliet / John Ellis
Adeyanju Adeleke
This would hurt so many ppl feelings if this aired now 😭
Stevie Wonder + Eddie Murphy on SNL (x)
By copyrighting his property as an artwork, he has prevented oil companies from drilling on it.
Peter Von Tiesenhausen has developed artworks all over his property in northern Alberta. There’s a boat woven from sticks that is gradually being reclaimed by the land; there is a fence that he adds to each year of his life, and there are many “watching” trees, with eyes scored into their bark.
Oil interests pester him continually about drilling on his land. His repeated rebuffing of their advances lead them to move toward arbitration. They made it very clear that he only owned the top 6 inches of soil, and they had rights to anything underneath. He then, off the top of his head, threatened them that he would sue damages if they disturbed his 6 inches, for the entire property is an artwork. Any disturbance would compromise the work, and he would sue.
Immediately after that meeting, he called a lawyer (who is also an art collector) and asked if his intuitive threat would actually hold legally. The lawyer visited, saw the scope of the work on the property, and wrote a document protecting the artwork.
The oil companies have kept their distance ever since.
This is but one example of Peter’s ability to negotiate quickly on his feet, and to find solutions that defy expectations.
I feel like this is really important.
Art as resistance
not to be That Bitch but it really is insidious that the construction of the concept of “granny panties” has made women self conscious about their freaking underwear of all things (meant to be worn underneath your clothes and not be seen most of the time!!!) to the point where women sacrifice comfort to wear a gstring or cheeky hipster or whatever crap the industry comes up with all so that women can be constantly maintaining not just a pleasing outward appearance but a ~sexy~ state of mind
Nam June Paik 백남준 - Faraday (electronic components [1 TV housing, 3 Sony 8’ monitors, hardware, 1 Sony laser disk player, 1 Paik laser disk player, 1 transformer] aluminum, fluorescent, neon, 1992)