desk

for those of you who have not seen my bowling alley floor, which i am going to use for a desk, here it is.



these are some of the desk leg options i'm considering have made for me.





although i'm considering just getting a drafting table. like this one that i think is awesome.



i just thought this was stunning.



i got most these images from get back inc. anybody who hasn't been there i suggest going there immediately. they some really amazing antiques.

lot-ek

this is by far my favorite architecture firm. they came from napoli, now they live in new york. where they openned this firm called lot-ek. they do buildings, renovations, objects, urban design and installations.

here an excerpt from their statement:

lot-ek is making architecture with existing objects, systems and technologies to be used as raw materials

lot-ek is the dialogue between existing objects and program needs to generate unexpected volumes/spaces

check it out: www.lot-ek.com







i don't know about the black text on the yellow background. come on guys. are you to make me vomit.

signage art

look at these cool trays/bowls made out of old recycled signs

by: boris bally

From Chicago With Love...

There is an incredible amount of active industry in Chicago, unlike any other major city we have been to. It is intermixed into the various neighborhoods, such that, a Trader Joes and CB2 abuts the trash heap you see below, for example.





Trying to find our way home, one drunken night when we had first moved here, we stumbled into a steel factory that was actually pouring bright hot iron ore. It was memorizing to watch, and surprisingly, no one kicked us out... in fact, one worker explained the process to us (at 3a.m.)





That same drunken night, Rebecca tried to climb a fence and explore the area depicted below, convinced doable, a good idea, and had water access... wrong!

475 kent: eviction & nostalgia

a photographic homage to our old stomping grounds

(please click the ... after each image for photo credits; there is more comprehensive coverage of the 475 kent saga elsewhere...)



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