During the massive Occupy Gezi protests in Istanbul, a group of Turkish architects observed examples of "event architecture" in the temporary homes set up by occupiers. After seeing a number of these structures destoyed by authorities, the group began to archive the structures with photos and drawings, eventually creating online pools on Tumblr and Flickr for others to contribute images. The project, called "Architecture for All," or "Herkes icin Mimarlik" in Turkish, aims to aid in the study of this new natural architecture, an architecture without architects.
Read more about the project at Dezeen.
By using an op-art design trick, Studio Roso's Circus Sideboard cabinet actually changes color during use. Sliding the doors to one side or the other swaps a red and white palette for a blue and yellow design. Both colors groove with the minimal white frame and triangular legs. [via Lin Morris]
See the cabinet in action below, and check out a few more images from Studio Roso.
The fridge is a very private part of the home. It's not that the number of onions in the drawer or the expiration date on a crusty bottle of hot sauce are marks of shame, but the food items we keep around provide a certain amount of personal narrative. A new photo series on Micropolis:NYC will take a look inside New Yorkers' fridges, and publish autobiographical profiles in the form of each subject explaining their life through food choices. Check out the first installment below.
Here's an excerpt from the profile about those 17-year-old bonito flakes:
"I have a jar of bonito flakes dipped in soy sauce. It’s been in my fridge for 17 years, since I came to the US. I use this is for making rice balls, but it’s never been changed or cleaned. I think it still has some essence of 1995. This is an important condiment to me. But I like to keep it. It never goes bad. It’s like a gem. It is impossible to go bad. You put the sauce in the middle of the rice ball and then wrap seaweed around it."
Follow Micropolis:NYC for future profiles.
Disclosure (just added to the Pitchfork Paris line-up) issues another video from its rapturously received debut album Settle. "F for You" both approximates our idea of the duo's live show (and shows off its integrated gear quite nicely) and plays with light. Ross McDowell and Bullion Collective's Ben Murray are once again directing, as they did for MVA-nominated "Control."
Inspired by the end-of-day ritual some families practice—parents asking kids "So, how was your day?" at the dinner table and perhaps also serving as a kind of journal for the time-strained modern individual—Alex Fuller and Jessa Brinkmeyer created the new Highs & Lows iOS app. It allows users to reflect on the day's events, wins, and losses and record their causes. The app pulls out two simple high and low points that sum up day. Over time, say after a month, one can look back and see if there is a pattern to the predominance of ups and downs. And naturally, one can share app entries via Facebook or Twitter—delivering a more balanced recap of one's day rather than just the major highlights and lowlights we normally share.
Find out more at myhighsandlows.com or download Highs & Lows for $1.99 in the app store.
The Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival for 2013, curated by the Land and Sea Department, celebrates arts, music, food, and culture in Logan Square, Chicago—which just so happens to be the home of Nothing Major HQ.
The fest features the work of over 50 visual artists and designers from the area (graphic superstars Drug Factory Press and Sonnenzimmer for instance) in pop-up galleries, live music on two stages (notable acts include Dam-Funk, Waco Brothers, Santah, and The Cairo Gang), and food booths from the likes of stellar local restaurants Reno, Chicago Diner, and Parson's Chicken & Fish.
But the MAAF is even better than that because Nothing Major will be on hand—in pop-up shop form, that is.
The Nothing Major shop at MAAF will be stocked with limited quantities of OLO Lightning Paw perfume, Juniper Ridge room spray, Taylor Stitch shirts, our Coil Lamp, totes, T-shirts, patches, and diamond pins. The shop will also stock a limited range of items from FairEnds, Needles & Pens, Co.lab and Filly.
We're also excited to introduce four new caps from our Nothing Belongs to Ebbets collection, which will be available exclusively at MAAF. Plus, we'll have discount code buttons for our online shop. So come on by and meet the team!
The Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival runs Friday June 28 5pm-10pm, Saturday June 29 12pm-10pm, Sunday June 30 12pm-10pm on Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago's Logan Square. Visit MAAF online for more information.
Doug Aitken's latest Happening will be mobile. The trip will see multimedia artist Aitken and an impressive list of collaborators travel by train from New York to San Francisco with stops in cities along the way like St. Paul, Chicago, and Los Angeles, as well as more out of the way locations like Lamy, New Mexico and Winslow, Arizona. There will be live performances in each city, and the train will function as a mobile studio and broadcast performances en route. The musical lineup includes Savages, No Age, a rare show from The Fiery Furnaces, and a solo performance from David Longstreth from Dirty Projectors among others. The trip will feature culinary contributions from Alice Waters and Leif Hedendal.
Station To Station leaves NYC on September 8 and arrives in San Francisco 20 days later.
Pitchfork TV's documentary about Aitken's Song 1 Happening:
If you picked up the latest issue of Apartamento, you might have seen the epic 14-page "Looking for Anything" comic, the work of illustrator Andy Rementer. While his style looks great as a piece of longform, Rementer has also done remarkable lettering work, including features for New York Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and a spot for a sustainable paper called Opus 30, seen at the top of the post.
See more work on pillowcases, posters, and wrapping paper on the artist's site.
Pick up a copy of this poster from the artist.
Two NoMa favorites, Colorado-based makers of excellent bags Winter Session and all-natural fragrance-makers Juniper Ridge, have teamed up for two limited-edition Dopp Kits. Juniper Ridge creates incredible fragrances and trail soaps from botanical ingredients largely collected in wild regions of the western United States. Winter Session handcrafts very fine rustic bags, aprons, and wallets from leather and waxed canvas. Good match, we say.
The Desert Collection kit includes full-size bottles of JR's Caruthers Canyon Backpackers Cologne (highly recommended by us) and Inyo Trail Crew Soap in a rust-colored waxed canvas bag.
While the Forest Collection comes with full-size bottles of JR's Siskiyou Backpackers Cologne and Siskiyou Trail Crew Soap in an olive-colored waxed canvas bag.
Each bag is handcrafted from 20 oz. waxed canvas and vegetable-tanned leather. Each is available online from Winter Session for $200.
Among many others things, the latest installation from Tomás Saraceno depicts gravity. After observing the different levels and planes created by orbiting planets, the artist designed a system of climbable nets and plastic spheres to allow visitors to Düsseldorf's K21 Ständehaus museum to observe their surroundings from a different perspective. The three-leveled steel wire construction is suspended 25 meters above the museum's piazza and features half-a-dozen inflated PVC "spheres."
Non thrill-seeking museum-goers, or those unable to climb through the nets, are an equal part of the installation. A similar sensation of falling and suspension is possible looking up at the climbers, and visitors on the ground provide a necessary context.
"In Orbit" opens this week at K21 Ständehaus.
