no symbols where none intended
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my next video exploring the strikingly beautiful ellsworth kelly edition of die welt is up on my youtube channel (link in bio.) its incredible to encounter the transformation a single gesture of swapping editorial photography can have on a paper. lots to unpack. i hope you enjoy
ep 2. 'moon and space' (1969) is the first book on my new youtube channel (link in bio).
this is one of my all-time favorites due to how it balances playful expressivity without feeling gimmicky or chaotic. it is an immersive, strange, and beautiful object to experience.
the text is unlike any other exhibition catalog i've seen as it aggregates references to space across cultures, ages, and disciplines. this adds to the evocative, open-ended nature of the catalog and helps reject any singular reading of the work featured.
the videos offer in-depth analysis of their form, content, and production. if you like what you see, please do pass it along to someone else. and i welcome your feedback on how i can make the work more interesting. thanks. ♥️
youtube.com/@abookanaxis
this cafe that opened in my neighborhood is a good example of nyc's cultural decline. it's called "books n' cup" (...huh?) and is a bizarre amalgamation of references that privileges representation of an idea over the experience of the thing. baudrillard would have a field day.
an authentic experience is actually inferior to the simulacra of the thing. i'm seeing this trend over and over in nyc and think it's largely a result of the affordability crisis and the aesthetic suburbanization of the city. as someone who loves ny, i find it heartbreaking
can everyone please get way way more into ai art so i can buy a cy twombly painting for 10 grand?
They said photography wasn’t art.
They said cinema wasn’t art.
They said video games weren’t art.
Now they say AI arts/digital art isn’t art.
I’ve spent over a decade with my studio team turning millions of data points into living, breathing artwork experiences ethically — at MoMA, at the Guggenheim, at the Venice Biennale. Not because a machine told me what to create, but because I had a vision that no traditional tool could realize.
Denying all AI technologies as an artistic medium doesn’t protect art. It limits it. The artists who embrace new tools don’t replace the old masters — they join them.
Art is not defined by the brush. It’s defined by the intention, the emotion, and the courage to see the world differently.
a dream find: 1970 poster from the belgian national tourist office featuring a portion of pieter breugel the elder’s masterwork, the census at bethlehem. cc: @David_Rudnick
since ~2020 i’ve stopped tweeting critical remarks about design. i figured life is hard enough, people are just trying to get by, and design doesn’t actually matter so live and let live. but yesterday i saw 2 particularly egregious (yet lauded) projects that are making me rethink
does anyone have a responsibility to offer a critical view? what does productive commentary even look like? i know it isn’t punching down—jeering or cynical tweets disguised as intellectual debate—which were rampant in the ‘heyday’ of design twitter and i admit to playing a part
a big pet peeve of mine is designers self deprecatingly describing their focus on details and craft as “nerding out”; as though they need to apologize or seek humility for being obsessed with nuance and quality. i’ve never heard an artist say this.
coming out of hibernation to share this unbelievable book of greek textiles (published 1961). the design and printing is immaculate. plate colors are so vibrant they scream off the page. each textile is a painted reproduction—not a photograph—which accentuates the graphic quality
