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Small Showroom | SMALL
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The SMALL Showroom was launched May 4, 2012 during Version Festival 12 at the Co-Prosperity Sphere (3219 S Morgan Street) in Chicago for the month of May. SMALL Showroom is a nomadic shop created to launch awareness of SMALL members’ products and services. Think of it as the People’s Macy’s. The SMALL Showroom was open May 4th to May 26, 2012 at the Co-Prosperity Sphere @ 3219 S Morgan Street. Stay tuned for more openings…. The SMALL Showroom of Furniture and Functional Objects. Zachary A. Design.
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ReCYCLE Public Art Project | Main Street Takoma
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A Designated Maryland MAin Street. Takoma offers a small town spirit with urban sophistication. Restaurants, live music venues, one-of-a-kind shops, spas and fitness studios. There's always something to do. Dine & Drink. Year round fun is the plan. Music festivals, craft fairs, antique markets and cultural events plus DC’s longest running producers-only market, the Takoma Park Farmers Market. Art Hop arts fest. Takoma Park Street Festival. 4th Street Block Party. Shop, Eat and Drink Sidewalk Sale. Takoma...
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Object Guerilla: October 2012
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Today, I took a bike ride down the side of Lake Michigan for my inaugural visit to the Museum of Contemporary Art. In Chicago. Despite having lived here for more than a year, Ive never made it down to the MCA. Sitting in the shadow of the Hancock building and Mies Lakeshore towers. The building is a strict concrete box. They seem to favor the blue and green. The show that finally lured me downtown was Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec: Bivouac. Industrial design documentary Objectified. Next loomed the question...
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Object Guerilla: August 2012
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Object Guerilla on the Move. The move coincided with my trip to Rabbit Island. Which put a crimp in the whole unpacking-and-organizing dance that generally takes place in each new residence. However, since I had some time and space to plan things, I did have a chance to knock out a bunch of new furniture, and photograph some old furniture that deserved better representation. . The Knock-Down Shelves. . Rabbit Island: The Trip. Back at the end of March, I entered an architectural competition. Two weekends...
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Object Guerilla: November 2012
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A few years ago, down in Alabama, I led a group of students in the construction of a fence made of scrapped road signs. The daycare fence and H.E.R.O. community garden. The Road Sign Lounger. Last week, America voted. Design Observer. Published an interesting piece on the arrangement of polling places. The author, Alexandra Lange. Then moved on to riff about knolling. A term coined twenty-odd years ago by Andrew Kromelow. Then working in Frank Gehrys. Fabrication shop. It refers to the practice of pl...
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Object Guerilla: Hale County Revisited
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After last week's discussion of some of the challenges facing Hale County, Alabama, I thought I'd follow up with some of the progress underway in Greensboro and the surrounding towns. I had the chance to revisit my former home for the first time in almost two years last week. The lady. And I stayed at Spencer House with some old Rural Studio friends, and got a tour of the latest projects. The 20K I built with Penny Hagberth, Clem Blakemore. The Scrap Table, shining on. Community Clubhouse. That space...
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Object Guerilla: Paolo Soleri
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As I write this, it is a cold and rainy April in Chicago. Forty degrees, slanting drizzle, ugly wind, a winter that just won't seem to pass. Five Aprils ago, I was in Cordes Junction, Arizona, living and working at Arcosanti. It was much warmer there, dry and sun-whipped. Arcosanti was founded by Turin-born architect and artist Paolo Soleri. Sketch I made of Paolo at one of his lectures, autumn, 2007. There, he took up ceramic and bronze casting as an art, and built part of the factory out of pots. In Ca...
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Object Guerilla: Trainsect
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Is defined as :. 1 (verb) to cut or divide crossways. 2 (noun) a sample strip of land used to monitor plant distribution, animal populations, etc, within a given area. In biology, a transect. Is a path along which one counts and records occurrences of the phenomena of study (e.g. plants). In 1998, conservationist and endurance junkie Michael Fay undertook the MegaTransect,. Contemplating a similar project that will cover the temperate rainforests of Alaska and British Columbia. Hooked railroad tie bolt.
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Object Guerilla: June 2012
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Last year, Little Black Pearl. A community arts center in Hyde Park launched a charter school called the Options Laboratory. Offering an arts and technology-based curriculum for young folks that have had trouble succeeding in traditional educational environments. They are also running a series of after-school programs, including a poetry class and a woodshop experience. Meshed together, under the auspices of a grant won by local arts education non-profit Urban Gateways. West Fulton Market Street.
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Object Guerilla: January 2013
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Climate Change Corps (A Modest Proposal). On Monday, President Obama took the oath of office and delivered his second inaugural address. The Culture of Curation. Apologies, all, for the long gap between posts. I was felled by illness, as folks often are this time of year. Laying in bed, coughing, got me thinking about the nature of epidemics. Viruses, and the spread of ideas. . I came by the following quote in a roundabout way - a footnote in Matthew Crawfords. Shopclass as Soulcraft. . Shopping remains...
