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• Building Storeys: “intriguing images of often unseen rail and marine transportation infrastructure in Toronto”.
• Open See: “large-format billboards feature dramatic views of a crowd of refugees and a makeshift encampment. Situated within an increasingly dense zone of condominium development at Front and Spadina, the installation challenges the passersby to consider the lives of people who are often overlooked.”
• City Scapes: Maybe the ROM crystal is not entirely terrible after all but reflection of row houses into the facade of the AGO is much cooler still.
• The Nine Eyes of Google Street View: “Many of us already feel we are observed simultaneously by everyone and by no one, that everything is recorded, but no particular significance is accorded to anything. When Rafman reframes an image sourced from the Google site, he reintroduces the human gaze into the picture and reasserts the importance of the individual.”
• Crumbled Empire: “Andrew Rowat travelled overland from Kyrgyzstan into Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan”.

i will never …

… spend $999 on a bag but this project is so cool

turquoise?

My purple vans are dying. He suggests turquoise. the sartorialist agrees.

What I’m packing for Chicago (to go with turquoise vans which I have yet to purchase): grey coat; white jacket; striped (white/light pink) pullover; skin tone button down sweater; dark grey jeans; light grey jeans; loose grey skirt; tight brown skirt; white capri; black shirt; pale yellow t; black t with blue v; white top.

Not buying anything orange for spring but I am using it in my slides (with grey and blue a la lela rose).

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Villa Roces designed by Belgian Architects  Benny Govaert & Damiaan Vanhoutte of Govaert-Vanhoutte Architecten firm.

Villa Roces by Architectuurburo Govaert en Vanhoutte. Photography: Tim Van De Velde

Villa Roces by Architectuurburo Govaert en Vanhoutte. Photography: Tim Van De Velde

Villa Roces by Architectuurburo Govaert en Vanhoutte. Photography: Tim Van De Velde

Villa Roces by Architectuurburo Govaert en Vanhoutte…

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mnmlsm @ its best

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Images from Brooke Alexander Gallery

We met up with his friend Sara, who described his place as minimalist. My response: Huh? My place is 1200 sq ft. His place is 1000 sq ft yet he has 50% more stuff than me. His walls are lined with Joseph Albers and Le Corbusier prints. Mine, nothing. I guess it’s all relative!

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image from ideasinfood.com

• Denise introduce me to preserved lemon peel in uni and I have been in love ever since; retrieved new batch from t&t
• Steven lent me his old kindle; Walter Isaacson is highly addictive
• great looking fire extinguisher; stay calm extinguish on?

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Image from funthyme.com

• Red Chicory with Cashel Blue: how poetic is that?
• I liked keep calm invest on. I love forward banking.
• He found this very cool espresso bar slash cooking party slash show room at 1 Yorkville; me thinks multi-taking commercial space is the future.
• Arbeit “lies within this trajectory of structuralist biopics, focusing on the influential German economist Hans Tietmeyer: former head of the Deutsche Bundesbank and one of the architects of the Euro // Echoing this structure of nostalgia, Campbell’s examination of the European financial crisis is both a formal and conceptual treatise on images, history, revision and the uncertainty of what lies ahead.”

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photo from chairholder.de

• cute and (informative) short film on Basel III
• Vitra Design Museum holds several prominent estates, including those of Charles Eames, Verner Panton, Anton Lorenz, and Alexander Girard (located in Weil am Rhein, 6 km away from Basel)
• Dad congratulated me for living next to the Best Food Market in the world

on a less positive note

photo from anotherstickerinthewall.com

• We saw Eames: The Architect & The Painter ten days ago at Bloor Cinema. It upset me so much that I didn’t know what to write. Charles+Ray found a successful design firm. Charles (who is described as very very charismatic) meets new girl and offers to leave Ray and start a new design firm with her. Imagine a version of the Bill+Hillary (Billary?) story where Monica runs for president.
• Reading Here Are The Women of Y Combinator And They Are Awesome, I stumble over this quote: “Women and men look at things differently. Women will go to a store and browse. But job search is built around knowing what you want and going after that.” Like seriously!!!

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• architizer: The New York Times quotes MoMA’s chief curator of architecture and design (and jury member) Barry Bergdoll, who says that Wendy is “pro-active, it’s not apologetic… It’s going to be amazing from the No. 7 train!”
• Penny Plain much darker than I expected; yes I expected romance at the end of the world to be more lighthearted; zoomermag: “The plot intrigues, and at points seems inspired by something out of Beckett or Arthur Miller. // One of the highlights is the appearance of Geppetto and his grown son. The symbolism, in terms of the plot and of the character’s relation to Burkett himself, is ripe for interpretation”
• preceded by the always delish smoked salmon sandwich from petit four; last ate there with Yiding; can’t believe I haven’t been there for four months; used to go there every week when I worked for OW
• T+T’s sticky black rice bun is my idea of real fusion: layer of (flower scented?) sticky black rice between french bread)
• trio of green tea snacks: cracker with green tea leaves; uji green tea cream sandwich; matcha meltykiss (will visit Nagoya and eat this one day)