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I shot a funny event at the Kennedy cen­ter yes­ter­day, the above pic­ture is my favorite from the shoot. It’s insane that I’ve lived in Wash­ing­ton for four years and last night was the first time I set foot in there… The pic­ture above is my favorite from the event, but I haven’t seen the ones from my new lit­tle Ricoh point and shoot that I’ve been using a whole ton lately.

Every­thing seems to be sta­tus quo at the moment and I have very lit­tle to write about it seems! Last night I started look­ing for places in Bush­wick and it was encour­ag­ing to see such good stuff lis­ten on CL. I’m writ­ing two posts a day for Won­kette and I see that I’ve made it into their Wikipedia entry. My room­mates and I are also plan­ning a vcast sit-​​com based on our liv­ing sit­u­a­tion and we hope it will be funny to peo­ple other than us (more on this soon).

On Sun­day I have a ticket to see a screen­ing of Hel­vetica at Sil­ver­docs and I’m totally stoked about it. I’ve been jazzed to see this film for months.

And, lastly, I haven’t been able to talk my part­ner Britt out of mov­ing to Ver­mont for the sum­mer and she’s leav­ing today. So that sucks. But I’ve never been to Ver­mont and it’ll be fun to visit her.

I just learned from Muse-​​ings that Alec Soth’s Dog Days: Bogota is being pub­lished. Not only is this my favorite of Alec’s projects, but it’s the only one I will have the oppor­tu­nity to own now that both Sleep­ing by the Mis­sis­sippi and Nia­gra have both gone out of print. I have already pre-​​ordered a copy of Dog Days on Ama­zon because I learned the heard way that it’s impor­tant to get your hands on one of these books as soon as humanly pos­si­bly. I ordered a copy of Nia­gra from Ama­zon before they stopped pub­lish­ing it, but I guess the demand for it was so high they weren’t able to ship it to me before new ones were made. I then got a mes­sage from them say­ing I was hosed, there are none left.

But not with Dog Days, oh no sir. You can take that to the bank.

My Etsy Store

I know that all of you have just been sit­ting at your com­put­ers breath­lessly wait­ing for the day I made my work avail­able for you to buy. Good news: that day is today. I just fin­ished set­ting up my Etsy store. Just a few images there for now, sort of test­ing the waters. We’ll see how it goes.

From the New York Times

There is a global boom in design and con­struc­tion of artis­tic spaces. Some peo­ple includ­ing myself are cyn­i­cal about this, liken­ing it to the cur­rent boom in sta­dium con­struc­tion here in the states: a way for cities to bring in more tourist dol­lars. How­ever, there is no deny­ing the archi­tec­tural inno­va­tion that has occured as a result in the imag­in­ing of new muse­ums and con­cert halls, and New York Times explores the lat­ter in a piece pub­lished this morn­ing look­ing at the Dis­ney Con­cert Hall in Los Ange­les and the newly ren­dered images of the upcom­ing Elble Con­cert Hall in Hamburg.

The Ham­burg con­struc­tion seems breath­tak­ing. It also strikes me as sim­i­lar to some of the inte­ri­ors imag­ined for the 1969 ver­sion of Planet of the Apes, but I mean that in the most endear­ing way pos­si­ble. The arti­cle is lengthy, but cer­tainly worth read­ing since it explores the area from which most of the cur­rent archi­tec­tural inno­va­tions come from.