Three of my photos are included in Foreign Tongue, a travelling exhibition curated by Andrea Serbonich of the Gagosian Gallery.
Blurry Trees for Pin-Up
Pin Up Centerpiece
We recently designed a series of tesselated structures for the launch of Pin-Up Magazine issue 7 (which features Bureau V). The pieces are hybrids between found birch branches and finished birch 1x1 boards. Better images and more details soon.
Baby's On Fire
A mock up of a bench we are designing at Bureau V turned up in Radar magazine along with the band Amazing Baby.
Supa Vice
My friend Supa Saint, New Orleans' number one Saint's fan, goes all out on the road to the Super Bowl in Miami.
Somewhere I Read
Somewhere I Read is a processional performance event in
Times Square that was commissioned for the opening of Performa 09 and
was developed in partnership with the Times Square Alliance Public Art
Program. Designed in collaboration with musician Arto Lindsay and
choreographer Lily Baldwin, the piece features 50 trench coat clad
dancers equipped with cellphones that transmit and produce a live
musical soundtrack. More images here.
Pin-Up Photoshoot
Peter Zuspan and I were photographed by Alex Antitch for an article about young New York architects in the upcoming Pin-Up Magazine.
Texas A&M Lecture
I'll be lecturing at Texas A&M at 7PM November 9th.
Mission One Motorcycle
PRvD Vase
I’ve been working with my friends at PRvD to develop a line of furniture pieces. This vase is one of the first workable prototypes to come from our experiments. It is made out of CNC milled poplar tree trimmings set in a clear acrylic resin and measures approximately 12” tall and 6” in diameter. Currently we are fine tuning the production process, trying to make larger pieces, use less resin, and fabricate with less manual labor. We should have a more complete line in the next month or two.
Nevada Desert
I used my Leica to take these photos on a recent trip through the Nevada desert. I particularly loved the candy Spiral Jetty.
SSWTR Still Life
SSWTR 2010 » Installation Detail
We recently designed an installation at Saatchi & Saatchi for Mary Ping’s 2010 collection, Slow and Steady Wins the Race. The design consisted of display stands that housed still life installations by artists and fashion world people working in New York. Here is a quick shot of one of the stands that I took on my phone. The whole endeavor was cheap, fast, and fly by night, with a focus on producing something subtle and elegant within the atmosphere of the brand.
Feathered Edge
Ball Nogues has a great installation titled Feathered Edge on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Michael Bilsborough
Michael Bilsborough is pretty much the nicest person on earth until you get him in a corner. I love how all of his drawings look exactly like him but more debaucherous.
Black Box
Here is an image from our presentation at the CANactions exhibition that recently opened in Kiev.
SSWTR on Opening Ceremony
Still Life, the installation we designed for Mary Ping’s Fall 2010
Collection of Slow and Steady Wins the Race is covered by Opening
Ceremony.
Bureau V: The AntiPopUp
Via The Architect's Newspaper, written by Matt Chaban:
There has been so much talk in recent years over the confluence of fashion and architecture, we won’t attempt to add to the “discourse” accept to note that Fashion Week is ending today and with it a number of cool and interesting installations around town. One of particular note was created by our friends at Bureau V—two Asymptote alums and a former DSRer—who have now made their third installation for designer Mary Ping and her Slow and Steady Wins the Race brand.
We’re not exactly sure what’s going on here, as one of the principals sent over this nice photo in reference to a separate email, but Style.com puts it thusly: “[It] uses the idea of the still life to, as Ping puts it, ‘react to the temporality of the pop-up, and go back to an older tradition of talking about objects.’” If you hurry, you can still catch the installation and the objects thereon—some designed by Ping—some merely selected by her, through tomorrow at Saatchi & Saatchi’s ground floor events space at 275 Hudson Street.
Everything Ornament
Our drawing, Everything Ornament, appears in this month's Nylon magazine.
British Columbia
Abacus 1970
While updating the Bureau V website I found this great 70s film stock rendering of the almost final design for our Abacus installation at the Whitney.
SSWTR Spring 2010 at Saatchi & Saatchi
Bureau V will design an installation for fashion designer Mary Ping’s Slow and Steady Wins the Race Spring 2010 Collection.
The installation will include artwork and still life contributions from:
Amy Yao, Andrew Kuo, Bureau V, Chris Caccamise, David Carson, Darren Kraft, Gloria Baume ( Fashion Director Teen Vogue ) Judy Linn, Mika Tajima, Mike Mills & Miranda July, Naomi Nevitt, No Age, Sam Wilson, Sonnet Stanfill ( Curator Victoria & Albert Museum ), Tavi , Vampire Weekend, Wendy Yao, Zoë Ghertner and other special guests …
Saatchi & Saatchi
375 Hudson St (between Houston and King) enter on King St
Opening Reception
September 13
6pm to 8pm