Vianya.net : Mt Hood while we're at it.

Vianya.net : We've Got Molten Rock: "They said that since the ash was dark, they couldn't see it falling from the sky, it just sort of appeared in the yard. The eruption went on for nine hours, can you imagine?"

One of the prints in the Grant Johnson exhibition closing Friday, December 24, Sunrise, Napa Valley, 9910300427, inspires a new online gallery of Johnson Details, which show some of the unique aspects of Johnson's achievement as a studio printmaker. He started in art school as a painter interested in pointillism in the manner of George Seurat and Paul Signac, but that was too slow, he said. Then, when computers with graphic capabilities came along in the early eighties, he tried pointillism again using early pixel paint programs and a bitpad with somewhat more success, except there was no output capability. Eventually the tools came together, a sufficiently powerful, yet affordable platform, major investment in a large format inkjet printer, scanners and Photoshop. Like the old masters, Johnson relies on optics, this time in the form of photography, heavily mediated by his process, and always rendered in dots (or points), just as in his first efforts, a vibrant optical mixing of pure colors, no muddying.

Tourgueniev ce héros posts on graffiti, an art based on flight, aerosol of spray paint and fleeting spaces, such as walls, doors, trains.

Jacket 12 - Larry Smith - Kenneth Patchen - Poetry and Jazz days, 1957-1959, a chronicle of the birth of a form

‘I breathe the same air as Liberace’

Gabion: Shock of the new, or chill of the morgue? The terminally tasteful new Museum of Modern Art in New York. 1/2 via things:

Most big art museums started off life as houses - rich people's houses, with rich people's art in them. This was as true in 1929 when New York's Museum of Modern Art was founded, as it was in the 18th century when the national collections of European countries were being amassed. Despite successive waves of rebuilding and expansion, MoMA always kept something of that domestic feel. No longer. It has become the world's biggest corporate office foyer.

Chaleff & Rogers, Architects - powered by smugmug from a friend of Canessa. This is green architecture, SIPs, at least somewhere, since the friend has been piecing together panels for over a year.

Grant Johnson, scenes from "The Other Side of the Valley," now showing at Canessa…

Design Observer: writings about design & culture: What We Talk About When We Talk About Architecture

The Crush List (thejimside.blog-city.com):

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