Jasper Johns Still Doesn’t Want to Explain His Art

no need — it’s brilliant and left willingly open to interpretation.








Mr. Johns, who is now 87 and widely regarded as America’s foremost living artist, has a new retrospective at the Broad called “Something Resembling Truth.”

Not long ago, Jasper Johns, who is now 87 and widely regarded as America’s foremost living artist, was reminiscing about his childhood in small-town South Carolina. One day when he was in the second grade, a classmate named Lottie Lou Oswald misbehaved and was summoned to the front of the room. As the teacher reached for a wooden ruler and prepared to paddle her, Lottie Lou grabbed the ruler from the teacher’s hand and broke it in half. Her classmates were stunned.

“It was absolutely wonderful,” Mr. Johns told me, appearing to relish the memory of the girl’s defiance. A ruler, an instrument of the measured life, had become an accessory to rebellion.

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Le 12eme homme: Thomas Pons


Au coeur des tribunes, le 12e Homme est la parfaite incarnation des instincts grégaires, de l’oubli de soi au profit des abattements et des jubilations collectives.

At the heart of the stands, the 12th Man is the perfect incarnation of gregarious instincts, of self-forgetfulness in favor of the collective abysses and jubilations.

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Mount Herzl Memorial by Kimmel Eshkolot Architects

for one that is not typically a huge fan of bricks i find this simply beautiful











kimmel eshkolot architects developed the scheme as an interior project where the ground was excavated to allow daylight to enter. conceived as both a personal and collective structure, the light that enters through the overhead oculus is filtered through the funnel and onto the interior surfaces. several 1:1 mockups of the project were built at ETH zurich. here, the architects, together with ackerstein industries and merkava, developed a construction method that involved concrete bricks screwed together at pre-cut joints.

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‘Città del Sole’ Rome, by architecture studio Labics

amazing contrast of modern and historic design.












in east rome, architecture studio labics has completed ‘città del sole’, or the ‘city of sun’. the development, which covers 11,000 square meters, seeks to regenerate an area of land adjacent to the city’s tiburtina railway station. the project is made up of residences, commercial spaces, offices, car parks, and a succession of public spaces on various levels. ‘the most important aspects of an urban regeneration project are the relationship with the context and the creation of shared spaces capable of rooting the project in the local community,’ says the design team.

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Video — MAX Conference Identity: Physical Materials through 3D-printed logo

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in october 2017 the annual adobe MAX creativity conference took place in las vegas. german communication designer thomas wirtz created the identity of the event based on his master thesis ‘BTW’ — a modular system consisting of two components: a typeface, produced by 3D printing, and a variety of physical processes associated with the letters.

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Aoe’s Metal Mesh Curtain links Architecture with Nature while honoring Chinese Traditions

stunning!








when asked to design the sales office of china’s largest developer sunac, aeo chose to honor chinese tradition by emphasizing the expression of architectural logic following natural law. draping the building in a metal mesh curtain, the beijing-based studio uses the secondary skin to form a symbiotic space for both man and nature.

contrary to western architecture — which is based on a geometric form and stone masonry construction systems — aoe adopted a design for the exterior which is dictated by natural curves. the unique façade overhangs, with its eaves forming a gray lounge space linking the building with its surroundings. the metal fabric also forms a sustainable curtain to protect the building from direct sunlight.

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Video — Pausefest 2018 Opening Titles

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“We shall not cease from exploration,
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”

– T.S. Eliot

Opening main titles for Pausefest 2018.

I was contacted by Pausefest founder George Hedon in summer of 2017 about creating the opening titles for next years conference and, a conference opener being on my project bucket list, I happily agreed to do it.

This concept aimed to visualize this years theme: Journey = Destination. The idea that a journey and it’s destination are the same, two parts of a whole, leading to a never ending cycle of discovery. A journey leads to a destination, that might lead to a new journey, and so on.

While this can be abstracted and intellectualized ad infinitum it can also take a more literal shape. A map.

Maps can serve as metaphors as well as the more obvious tool many times necessary to embark on and complete a journey.

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