Julie and Julia

Gabrielle Cran (my girlfriend) helped make this movie about Julia Child and Julie Powell. It's really great, Meryl Streep is amazing, and every scene makes you hungry. You should  see it.

Everything Ornament

We've just completed another new drawing, Everything Ornament, for our upcoming exhibition at Land of Tomorrow.

Radiant Emblematic Structure

We've just completed a new drawing, Radiant Emblematic Structure, for our upcoming exhibition at Land of Tomorrow.

Painting Silver Leaf

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My partner Stella is painstakingly painting silver leaf on another drawing for our upcoming show.

Hand Painting Surface Tesselations

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Hand painted tesselations

These two images show part of the process of a drawing we are currently working on for our upcoming exhibition. The first shows a detail of the computer generated background produced in Maya and the second shows the painstaking work of hand painting each surface tesselation.

Deliverables Exhibition

Deliverables Invitation

DELIVERABLES presents four large scale drawings from the New York based architecture studio Bureau V. As a response to the waning use-value of the physical drawing in contemporary architectural practice, these documents seek to establish new values for the architectural deliverable outside the functions of presentation and construction. Each drawing is an original document created through processes such as computer-generated graphic content, hand drawing, applique, painting, and collage.

Opening: Friday April 10,6-9PM

Land of Tomorrow Gallery: 527 E 3rd St. Lexington, Kentucky 40508

Ying Yang Twins Watercolor Study

This vector drawing of the Ying Yang Twins is my first study in what I hope to be a series of watercolor paintings of rap artists. Ideally the look would be much softer, more romantic. Pencil and watercolor will help.

MUSEO XI

Check out the new issue of MUSEO with articles on Cory Archangel, Dan Graham, Paola Pivi, Abraham Cruzvilleas, Jonan Freeman, and the architecture of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saint.

Stella Lee in New York Magazine

My business partner, Stella Lee, is featured in New York Magazine discussing the opening of our Berlin office.

​Angela Co at Eyebeam

Check out Angela Co's Weather Making Balloon. It's an airborne interactive media installation that will debut at the Eyebeam Art and Technology Atelier’s Mixer.

Jeff Kipnis Presents Coop Himmelblau

My former teacher / spritual adviser Jeff Kipnis has curated this retrospective of the work of Coop Himmelblau:

COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
BEYOND THE BLUE

Thu, Apr 2 - Sun, July 26, 2009 
Wexner Center Galleries

The innovative approach of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU permeates buildings, ideas about urban planning, and even the name of this influential Viennese architectural firm.

“Coop” signals the firm’s identity as a cooperative. “Himmelb(l)au” offers the double meanings of “sky blue” (with the “l”) and “sky building” (without). Launched in May 1968, COOP HIMMELB(L)AU has never yielded the radical fervor of its founding moment and consistently rejected preconceived notions of design across 40 years of exquisite, experimental plans and constructions. Among its recent projects are the double cone structure of the new BMW center (BMW Welt) in Munich, the eye-catching addition to the Akron Art Museum, and the dramatic headquarters for the European Central Bank in Frankfurt.

The Wexner Center is proud to host the U.S. debut of this exhibition from MAK in Vienna, one of the world’s leading museums of contemporary art and design. In it, you’ll have the opportunity to study several projects in depth in large-scale models and to survey small models of many more projects displayed on an oversize model table. Recalling an urban landscape plan, this display strategy evokes the firm’s belief in architecture’s need to address spatial possibilities, while also reflecting design principal Wolf Prix’s passionate critique of contemporary urban planning. Choreographed light and film sequences add to the rich visual experience. Jeffrey Kipnis, professor of architecture at Ohio State, is the exhibition’s consulting curator.

Organized by MAK—Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna.

Turbine Integrated Facade System

Here’s a quick peek at a wind turbine facade system we’re developing at Bureau V.

Parrish Rash

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Le Chaise Grotesque by Hernan Diaz Alonso

My friends at Parrish | Rash (the go-to firm for art and architecture fabrication) have a new website featuring their work for the likes of Zaha Hadid, James Turrell, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Etc..

New Columbia GSAPP Website

Check out the NEW Columbia GSAPP Website designed by my classmate Gabe Bach.

Grasshopper Primer

Andy Payne put together this comprehensive manual documenting the Rhino plugin Grasshopper.  Truly a necessity. Find it here.

Montello, Nevada

I'm in the Nevada desert this week doing a site visit for a new project. The guy with the long hair is Rontello, mastermind behind Nevada's biggest drumset. I think the rest is self explanatory. 

Kevin West on Brad Pitt

Kevin West's profile of Brad Pitt graces the cover of the latest W Magazine.

BRAD PITT

WITH A CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED NEW FILM—AND A PERSONAL LIFE THAT’S ALMOST SINGLE-HANDEDLY KEEPING THE TABLOIDS IN BUSINESS—BRAD PITT IS MASTERING THE ART OF SUPERSTARDOM.

By Kevin West 
Photographs by Chuck Close February 2009

To be Brad Pitt is to know the bowels of hotels: the hidden mazes of back entrances, subterranean passages and service elevators daily trudged by housekeepers and room service waiters—and sometimes traveled by a VIP guest who needs secret conveyance to his suite. Thirty minutes before Pitt is scheduled to arrive at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood on a Friday afternoon in December, his private security detail is scouting a route through the basement and issuing brisk instructions to hotel staff. In an earlier era, the mood of tense anticipation would have suggested the arrival of a political candidate, or perhaps a kingpin in illicit commodities, but today’s advance preparations are just for a 45-year-old actor, albeit one whose fame calls for an impervious security bubble to thwart overeager fans and aggressive photographers. Intensifying the situation is the fact that, a few days earlier, Pitt said on television that he “hates” the paparazzi—an arguably gratuitous comment, since, who didn’t already know that? “Now,” he announces when he blows through the door of the 12th-floor suite, motorcycle helmet in hand and aviator glasses still on his face, “they’re out for me.”

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