By David Iseri
555 KUBIK | facade projection | from urbanscreen on Vimeo.
I try not to post stuff from other blogs on this my blog because I’d like to think you’d come here for just my stuff but but this is an exception. what this guy daniel rossa and urbanscreen did to this kunsthalle in hamburg germany is just rad. their description is “how would it be, if a house was dreaming?”
via designboom weblog.
So we are stumped by this thing and I scanned these sketchbook pages of discussion to record and communicate with team members but sort of realized that they look kinda cool on their own.
I took a trip to Flushing Meadows on Sunday. I decided to go there after lunch at the taco garage. Anyways I biked to Flushing Meadows which was pretty ridiculous, on the way there. Of course I got lost as soon as I got into Queens. Nothing makes sense there, 60th Street is next to 60th Place is next to 60th Ave is next to 60th Lane, and all the numbers to that. Some streets with the same number run perpendicular to one another.
Flushing Meadows/Corona Park is the this huge park in Queens. Shea Stadium, the US Open thing, Queens Museum of Art, some science thing, and remnants of the former worlds fair – which I was especially interested in, are all there. Good ‘ol Karl brought up the topic of ghosts recently, and Flushing Meadows definitely has the aspects of a ghost world. The former worlds fair is littered with these really huge megabuildings, which are in a fairly abandoned and dilapidated state. While around it hundreds of thousands of people are playing in the park, around these hulking monoliths. They seemed strange to me, very ghostlike in that they are urban voids, you can’t enter them but they consume a really large amount of space, are very sculptural in a 3 dimensional sense, and activity happens everywhere until you reach the threshold of the void. The structure above commanded most of my attention, there’s some new building attached next to it, but it was closed, maybe if I got there earlier I could have gone in, but all in all the thing is now a birdhouse. The Mount Olympus for the bird gods of Queens.
A few more pics and thoughts after the cut.
Finished moving. Superbowl at Laura and Jeff’s. The Bryan O’ Malley week + Comic-con. Valentines Day. Building shelves. Peter Luger’s. Hannah’s birthday (the card/gift pictured above). Arch DL V.
In the works: a brainstorm session, a flesh tearers force, building some walls, making a projector screen, and a comic about the future.
It’s all pretty good.
Busy, busy, busy.
I got a job. It’s a junior architect position at Daniel Goldner Architects which is great. I started Thurday.
In other news, we’re like 70% moved into our new place. The last of the move will take place this Saturday.
The cat really likes the new apartment.
Sunday we should be done with everything. I can’t wait.
I return to New York more or less unemployed and look for work. In the process of updating my portfolio and resume I made this for my 5th year project, The Vomitorium. It feels like a really long time ago but I’m pretty pleased with the results. It sort of cracks me up because it’s a heavily photoshopped image of an analog model that was built to look like a digital model. I like the aesthetic. I also posted a not as good night shot, and some other news after the cut.