Groovy sheet music book cover (unfolded) for the Hammond Sounder organ from 1973.
via Mike Davis
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Frontage typeface by Juri Zaech
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by Steven Briand
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“Not only do living things lessen the disorder in their environments; they are in themselves, their skeletons and their flesh, vesicles and membranes, shells and carapaces, leaves and blossoms, circulatory systems and metabolic pathways—miracles of pattern and structure. It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.”
— James Gleick, The Information (Chapter 9)
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From the New York Times article, The Grid at 200: Lines That Shaped Manhattan
It’s true that Manhattan lacks the elegant squares, axial boulevards and civic monuments around which other cities designed their public spaces. But it has evolved a public realm of streets and sidewalks that creates urban theater on the grandest level. No two blocks are ever precisely the same because the grid indulges variety, building to building, street to street.
Painters from Poussin to Seurat, Picasso to Mondrian, Pollock to Chuck Close have exploited the special power of grids to create order yet also highlight small differences. Manhattan’s grid is not perfectly regular. Some blocks are longer than others. Some avenues are wider. Broadway cuts diagonally across six north-south streets, and those cuts have made room for public spaces (Union Square, Madison Square, Herald Square, Times Square, Columbus Circle, Verdi Square).
We feel all these shifts in the grid, alert to changes thanks to the expectation of sameness.
Madison Square in 1894. I’m guessing this view is from the FlatIron building. The Pentagram office would be located a couple buildings into the block on the upper left.
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FINITY
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Ok, I’d heard a lot of buzz about Amon Tobin’s live sculptural projection mapping audio/visual extravaganza, and I ended up with a ticket by luck to see it last night.
AND OH YES…
…my mind was blown. It was like Lush Metrics: The Movie. It was like being inside of a robot genie’s lamp.
Since you’re here of all places reading this, just trust me: you’d like it. The next and last two shows are in London on November 23rd and 24th. If you live near there, get your mitts on tickets. If I convince you, then let me know next time you’re in New York and we’ll grab beers.
Stage production and creative direction by Alex Lazarus.
More photos of last night here.
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Ben Kafton makes me want to MAKE THINGS.
