hey lover, i miss you

B.R.M.C. (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club) - Open Invitation

 

 

 

The Antlers - Kettering  (side note... your song, your mix)

 

DeVotchKa - How It Ends

Ming Cho Lee Set Design

 

Yale's School of Architecture and School of Drama are teaming up this fall to present "Stage Designs by Ming Cho Lee," a retrospective of the award-winning designer and Yale professor's work in theater, opera, and dance. The exhibit, free and open to the public, will be on view Nov. 21–Feb. 1 in the Yale School of Architecture Gallery, 180 York St., in New Haven.

Since the 1960s, Lee has been one of the world’s most celebrated and influential set designers, particularly during his tenure with the New York Shakespeare Festival and at the New York City Opera. He is renowned for his meticulous attention to precision and detail, and his models have been described as works of art in themselves. Organized by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, "Stage Designs by Ming Cho Lee" will showcase some 65 of these models, along with sketches and photographs selected from the nearly 300 productions he has designed.

Read more here.

Re:Post - Why We Must Re-learn To Be Alone And Other Truths from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s "Gift from the Sea"

I love this post from M. M. Lafleur on why we must re-learn how to be alone. David doesnt' have this problem, but as a busy working gal in NYC, alone space is not only hard to find, shcedule and justify.

Original post here.

Why We Must Re-learn To Be Alone

And Other Truths from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s "Gift from the Sea"

In my elementary school, those in charge used a host of acronyms to make otherwise un-fun activities seem cool and edgy, which is why our daily schedule involved an hour of SSR, also known as “Silent Sustained Reading.” Basically, this was the time when our teacher holed up at her desk as we worked our way through our Boxcar Children books.It sometimes felt like a drag, but nowadays, I’d give anything for an hour of SSR each day. And thus, we’re kicking off a new book-themed series here on The Ampersand. First up is Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s Gift from the Sea.Lindbergh was the wife of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh, and though she was an aviator in her own right, she was also a talented author. First published in 1955, Gift from the Sea is a series of her philosophical musings on relationships, aging, solitude, and the challenges of being a woman in the modern era. Though the book was very much of its time, many of the ideas still ring true today. It’s not uncommon to hear a woman say she’s re-read it every year of her life, only to find that it feels more spot-on with each reading.Though she was a busy wife and mother, Lindbergh wrote the book during a blissful-sounding solo trip to Captiva, Florida. Over the course of a few stolen weeks, she lived simply in a seaside shack and settled into a state of quiet observation and rumination. Fittingly, one of the passages I most appreciate is about the importance of being alone. When I first read it, my inner introvert breathed a huge sigh of relief—validation at last.

We must re-learn to be alone… The world today does not understand, in either man or woman, the need to be alone.

How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange. What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!

Actually these are among the most important times in one’s life—when one is alone. Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work out his thoughts; the musician, to compose; the saint, to pray. But women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves: that firm strand which will be in the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.

I also love Lindbergh’s thinking about how relationships evolve, ebb, and flow of their own accord, despite our futile efforts to control and shape them.

When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity—in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern. The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now. For relationships too must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits—islands, surrounded and interrupted by the sea, continually visited and abandoned by the tides.

- Tory Hoen

TAGS: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Books & Film, Charles Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea, M.M. LaFleur, Silent Sustained Reading

~ Childhood's End - Lazy Saturday Playlist ~

majical cloudz is making it difficult for me to be anything other than loungey this fine saturday morning...

majical cloudz - childhood's end from Emily Kai Bock on Vimeo.

hey frenchie, i'm in love

zaz - eblouie par la nuit

zaz - les passants

kiwi teenie bopper

lorde - royals

lorde - the love club

Download After Dark 2 For Free

via pitchfork: Johnny Jewel is quite the giving soul. One month after releasing the great new Italians Do It Better compilation After Dark 2, he's offering the whole LP as a single-track free download. Stream the entire thing above and download it here.

01. Warm In The Winter

02. Tears From Heaven
03. Let's Kiss
04. Fill The Blanks
05. Looking For Love
06. Heart Of Darkness
07. Camera
08. Half Lives
09. The Possessed
10. Cherry
11. Beautiful Object
12. Into Eternity
13. Intimate
14. The Magician
15. Redheads Feel More Pain

Last time we were in Amsterdam...I uploaded the "Running From The Sun" Lp.
Tonight we are in Amsterdam again...Still high from our amazing weekend in Paris. We left North America in such a frenzy...I didn't have time to post this album. We are so happy with all the shows on this trip. This has seriously been the best of the best for us in Europe. Can't wait for London, Dublin & Barcelona round 2. We're rabid & ready...

Thank You!
xo
Johnny Jewel

~ Happy Wednesday Night / Thursday Morning ~

This Haim song has been stuck in my head all night ever since my girl Chachalupa played it earlier:

which is kind of awesome live:

they are generally just awesome live, especially acoustic:




this interview:




you probably know them from this song:




 Or better yet, you may recognize this ubiquitous Duke Dumont remix:






 COMING SOON -- Exclusive for Aphasia-Design, the notorious Chachalupa will be curating soundcloud playlists with love.

~ Happy Tuesday Playlist ~

No one is listening, but here are three oddly unrelated songs that I happen to find romantic:

Pharmakon: "Crawling on Bruised Knees"  

 

 See full pitchfork interview with Pharmakon here.

AWOLNATION - Sail

Talib Kweli "Come Here" feat. Miguel 

 

Let's Have A Kiki

Scissor Sisters - Let's Have A Kiki - Instructional Video 

 

 

 

~ Happy Wednesday Playlist ~

A little bit of dancey pants for your Wednesday  morning :)  

Jessie Ware - If You're Never Gonna Move 

 

Future Islands - Balance

Metronomy - The Look 

 Electric Guest - This Head I Hold

Future Islands - Tin Man 

 

Jessie Ware - Sweet Talk

 

475 Kent Ave

~ home sweet home ~

I love these photographs of our former apartment building, 475 Kent Avenue in Brooklyn, by French photographer Gabriel Abrial . We moved out of this building when David had his AVM (six years ago today).  

Talib Kweli - Prisoner Of Conscious {2013}

Talib Kweli just released new album ~ Prisoner Of Conscious.  Check it out here on Spotify.

~ Happy Tuesday Playlist ~

Its a mellow morning this Tuesday in New York City.  Have you heard any of this music before David? 

 

James Blake - The Wilhelm Scream 

 

SOLANGE - LOSING YOU

alt-J - Tessellate

Bedouin Soundclash - Brutal Hearts - V1

 here is another version of the video...

 Bedouin Soundclash - Brutal Hearts -V2

~ Happy Monday Playlist ~

One of the nicest things about making new friends is getting exposed to new music.  I recently befriended a very dapper British DJ who kindly sent me a mix with some of his "most jelly" songs:

Metronomy - The Bay

Max Frost - "Nice and Slow" 

Hanni El Khatib - Fuck It. You Win. 

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Tapes & Money 

 

 

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http://davidcoddington.squarespace.com/

it's a work in progress

Archtober - NYC

Archtober (ärk'tōbər) is New York City's Architecture and Design Month, the second annual month-long festival of architecture activities, programs and exhibitions taking place during the month of October.


For a full calendar of events, click here.

Architecture, Interior Architecture, Designed Objects and Fashion Graduate Show 2012

saic design show 

David Coddington earned his Bachelor of Art in Painting from Reed College in 2001. David’s interests stem from a brain injury, which left him with temporarily paralysis of his right side and aphasia, a defect or loss of the power of expression by speech, writing, or reading. His way of thinking about architecture is a visual language that is intuitive, instinctive and emotional.

Aphasiology is the result of a study of architecture’s need to be speechless.

(Master of Fine Arts in Studio, Interior Architecture)