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Wednesday, 1 February 2012

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I stopped by Calvert 22 to see The Forgetting of Proper Names exhibition this week and found myself strangely mesmerised by Agnieszka Polska's two video pieces.
Here is a link to one of them: The Calendar

Go and see the show if you get the chance!

Monday, 30 January 2012

Harry Callahan






















I came across these images in The Guardian this Saturday, i had forgotten how much i like Harry Callahan's work!
These images are of Callahan's wife, Eleanor, and daughter, Barbara, in and around Chicago in the 1950's.

See more of Harry Callahan's work at the new Photographers Gallery at the V&A, London.

Friday, 27 January 2012

Jessica Sanders



















Jessica Sanders

“I think there are lots of different kinds of thinking. Your hands learn to do things that you could spend a whole day trying to write about and articulate. What’s intuition? It’s a kind of thinking. It’s not stupidity. And so I think there’s a discomfort associated with trying to put all those different ways the brain works together. So I kind of like to avail myself of that discomfort.”

“It’s odd to be in the studio and not know what you’re going to do. I think being an artist and choosing to put yourself in a circumstance where you don’t know just how things are going to work out and what you’re going to do is very exciting and rich and also difficult.”

— Jessica Stockholder, Art 21
















Hmmmm.....

'Yoga Room' at San Francisco Airport...























The Yoga Room at San Francisco Airport is the first of its kind...brilliant!
“The room gives modern travelers a space that fosters and supports quiet and reflection. Those aren’t emotions that people typically encounter at the airport,” said Melissa Mizell, design director for Gensler, the Terminal 2 architecture firm that also created the yoga room, in a statement.
Located just past the security checkpoint in the recently renovated Terminal 2, the new yoga room is bathed in calming blue light, with a floating wall said to symbolize a buoyant spirit and enlightened mind. Lights in the room are low and warm — to counteract the bright concourse — and loaner mats are supplied.
Bonus: If you’re not interested in getting sweaty with strangers, you can simply go sit and meditate with them at the Berman reflection room — “a centre for quiet reflection and meditation.”

Come on Heathrow, your turn!

Source: yoga dork

Thursday, 26 January 2012
















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"The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. "

Virginia Woolf's writing desk.
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012