Umbrella Collective

train kids

Thu, 09 May 2013 23:37:00 -0400

Born 1985 in Arizona, Mike Brodie first began photographing in 2004 when he was given a Polaroid camera. Working under the moniker, The Polaroid Kidd, Brodie spent the next four years circumambulating the U.S. amassing an archive of photographs that would go on to make up one of the few, true collections of American travel photography. Having never undergone any formal training, he chose to remained untethered to the pressures and expectations of the art market.

Brodie compulsively documented his explorations and as suddenly as he began making photographs, he left the medium behind.

In 2008, Brodie received the Baum Award for American Emerging Artists. A new book, A Period of Juvenile Prosperity published by Twin Palms will be out early 2013, followed by numerous gallery shows. Brodie recently graduated from the Nashville Auto Diesel College (NADC) and is now working as a mobile diesel mechanic in his silver ‘93 Dodge Ram.

BBC interview begins at 12:55

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derek jarman's garden

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:06:00 -0400

Derek Jarman created his own garden in the flat, bleak expanse of shingle that faces the nuclear power station in Dungeness, Kent. A passionate gardener from childhood, he combined his painter’s eye, his horticultural expertise and his ecological convictions to produce a landscape which mixed the flint, shells and driftwood of Dungeness; sculptures made from stones; the area’s indigenous plants; and shrubs and flowers introduced by Jarman himself. The book, Derek Jarman’s Garden, the last he ever wrote, is his own record of how this garden evolved, from its beginnings in 1985 to the day of his death in 1994.

The Sun Rising -John Donne

BUSY old fool, unruly Sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains, call on us ?
Must to thy motions lovers’ seasons run ?
Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide
Late school-boys and sour prentices,
Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride,
Call country ants to harvest offices ;
Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
In that the world’s contracted thus ;
Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
To warm the world, that’s done in warming us.
Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere ;

This bed thy center is, these walls thy sphere

There are over 100 houses at Dungeness. Some were created over 100 years ago from railway carriages, others are wooden huts like Derek Jarman’s tar black Prospect Cottage. It was to here that Jarman retreated when he discovered he was HIV positive. Around the cottage, in the shingle, he started to create a garden. All around Dungeness there are plants, growing in this seemingly inhospitable place they thrive, adapted to the salt-laden winds and the calcareous soil. Species such as the horned poppy, sea kale, woody nightshade and valerian appear through the shingle. These little plants hunkered down and battered by the elements inspired Derek Jarman. He added to the natives already growing encouraging more of them and experimenting with other plants to see if they too could cope with the conditions. He discovered that Californian poppies, lavender and santolina were all happy there. Collecting driftwood, bits of metal and rope and large pebbles that washed up on the shore he created sculptures and focal points which gave the garden some height. He also created patterns in the shingle such as concentric circles, a little like in Japanese gardens, where they rake gravel to symbolize water. sourcemichael kid amanda white

Derek Jarman’s Garden

ISBN 9780500016565

144pp over 150 Illustrations, 90 in colour

First published 1995

theimpossiblecool: Georgia O’ Keeffe, 1956. photo by Yousuf...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:19:07 -0400

theimpossiblecool:

Georgia O’ Keeffe, 1956.

photo by Yousuf Karsh

pottery japan

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:54:56 -0400

ohmhura takeshiando masanobuonzuka shojiyoshida kenzo

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landscape paintings by jeremiah eck

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 12:20:00 -0400

Jeremiah Eck, FAIA, is the senior partner of Eck/MacNeely Architects, Boston, a former lecturer in architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and a landscape painter. He is author of The Distinctive Home and The Face of Home (Taunton Press, 2003, 2006) and recently House in the Landscape: Siting Your Home Naturally (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011). He is also cofounder of the Congress of Residential Architecture (CORA). eckmacneely.com

“We believe that architecture is both an art and a service and, most importantly, that good clients make good architecture.”

fabric works of louise bourgeois

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 17:40:26 -0400

2005-2006 untitled works in fabric (+) by artist louise bourgeois, 1911-2010

“My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.”

Louise Bourgeois: The Fabric Works

Edited by Germano Celant in collaboration with Jerry Gorovoy and the Louise Bourgeois Studio

336 pages, colour plates throughout
Clothbound hardcover with dust jacket
24.5 × 28.5 cm / 9 5/8 × 11 1/4 in

Skira, Hauser & Wirth, 2010

978-88-572-0752-0

June 2010

£65 / $100 / €75

bill hornstein does burning man

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:44:09 -0500

shots of burning man, by art director, bill hornstein, september-august 2012, nevada.

happens

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 23:31:00 -0500

On Dec 22, 1849 writer Fyodor Dostoevsky is led before a firing squad and prepared for execution. He had been convicted and sentenced to death on November 16 for allegedly taking part in antigovernment activities. However, at the last moment he was reprieved and sent into exile.

Dostoevsky’s father was a doctor at Moscow’s Hospital for the Poor, where he grew rich enough to buy land and serfs. After his father’s death, Dostoevsky, who suffered from epilepsy, studied military engineering and became a civil servant while secretly writing novels. His first, Poor People, and his second, The Double, were both published in 1846—the first was a hit, the second a failure.

After his last-minute reprieve Dostoevsky was sent to a Siberian labor camp, where he worked for four years. He was released in 1854 and worked as a soldier on the Mongolian frontier. He married a widow and finally returned to Russia in 1859. The following year, he founded a magazine, and two years after that he journeyed to Europe for the first time.

In 1864 and 1865, his wife and his brother died, the magazine folded, and Dostoevsky found himself deeply in debt, which he exacerbated by gambling.

In 1866, he published Crime and Punishment, one of his most popular works. In 1867, he married a stenographer, and the couple fled to Europe to escape his creditors. His novel The Possessed (1872) was successful, and the couple returned to St. Petersburg. He published The Brothers Karamazov in 1880 to immediate success, but died a year later.

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 01:49:40 -0500

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near

Between the woods and frozen lake

The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.

The only other sound’s the sweep

Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

-Robert Frost

sketches by 7 yr old king louis xiv of france

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:29:29 -0500

america, via the world

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:17:06 -0500

london

rome

russia

kenya

china

berlin

america, via slab city

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:03:20 -0500

wabi sabi wash out

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 19:51:09 -0400

vintage painted chef bottle at modern 50

minimalist mandalas

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:17:00 -0400

Pencil on paper by Phong Bui.

interview with the artist, Dan Walsh, at the Brooklyn Rail

are you looking for anything special?

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:17:16 -0400

handmade nails (these were excavated from the properties of thomas jefferson’s monticello)

vintage wine bottle racks (circa france 1918-1920s)

schoolhouse chalkboard

copper pots. click julia child’s salade nicoise; source: k.i.d.

antique butcher block source: house beautiful

evidently this french butcher’s table is not far from me. what does that tag say?!! source: fellow new hampshirite

monticello

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:15:14 -0400

green floors in the entry way.campeachy chair, attributed to john hemmings

buffalo skin in the hallway

red chair in library

This image shows a 3D data set of Jefferson’s library at Monticello. More than 100 million range samples were acquired with a DeltaSphere-3000 3D scene digitizer along with 1,000 color photos in two evenings during the summer of 2000. The 3D measurements are colored with data from the photos, and then the underlying model is simplified. At the top of the image, the colored model is shown. At the bottom, the color has been turned off, showing the simplified 3D model.
Credit: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and The University of Virginia.

breakfast with the madisons

Artist G.B. McIntosh imagines breakfast at Monticello with James and Dolley Madison as guests.

Seen in the picture are: enslaved child Israel Gillette, age 12 carrying in food; enslaved butler Burwell Colbert carrying a platter of muffins; Ellen Wayles Randolph, age 16; Martha Jefferson Randolph; James Madison Randolph, age 6; Mary Jefferson Randolph, age 9; Virginia Jefferson Randolph, age 11; Cornelia Jefferson Randolph, age 13.

copyright: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc.; watercolor by G. B. McIntosh

beer in cellar, often made by slave Peter Hemings
food from the kitchen was brought to the Dining Room along this all-weather passage the runs below Monticello and under its L-shaped wings.

cook’s room stone cottage the gardens at monticello.vineyard sea kale, one of thomas jefferson’s favorite vegetables tennis ball lettucetobaccostew kitchen wine dumbwaiter

Jefferson’s undated drawing and notes on macaroni (pasta) and a macaroni machine. transcript macaroni

monticello at night thomas jeffersons alcove bed in his cabinet, or office.alcove bed in an octagonal bedroom3rd floor alcove bedroom used by jefferson’s grandchildren during his retirement

luzfosca: Cemal Emden Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut - Reportage...

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:41:40 -0400

luzfosca:

Cemal Emden

Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut - Reportage Le Corbusier

Thanks to yama-bato

Photo

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 19:23:43 -0400