Posts tagged color
Turquoise tile arch, Rue des Postes, Lille, France, Google Street View
I love the little flourishes of local architecture that you discover on Google Street View—particularly, of course, in neighborhoods that've been around for a century or more. Things you first notice as totally odd—like this turquoise tile in a window-arch—come up again and again as you click your way down the street.
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Cartonlandia (detail), by Ana Serrano, 2008 :: via designboom
I love the color and use of flatness and space in this collage-like sculpture by the young L.A. artist Ana Serrano.
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from "Dutch farmers tip-toe through the tulips as landscape is transformed into a spectacular display of colour," uncredited photo, Mail Online, 8 May, 2008 :: via FFFFOUND!
It's easy to fall into modern-mechanistic metaphors when we consider the scale and scope of industrialized agriculture, but I like how this stunning aerial view calls to mind an older cultural product: the woven tapestry.
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We learn about and remember the inventions, equations, and colors that changed the world. But we can easily forget that at the time, which invention, equation, and color would prevail was an entirely open question. And then we can easily deceive ourselves into thinking that changing the world is a great deal easier than it actually is.
—Culture Making, p.193
from a gallery accompanying "At the Getty Central Garden with Robert Irwin," photo by Gary Friedman, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2008
My memories of visiting the Getty Center on its hilltop, a year or two after it opened, are more of the harsh, angular warmth of Richard Meier's travertine-clad buildings and patios. The plants, in recall, were generic soutnern-California fringe, nothing like this stunning (and at the time controversial) water-maze of azaleas, which calls to mind both fingerprints and pond-ripples, each equally apt.
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