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Artist Post- Bill Cunningham

William J Cunningham is an 86 year old fashion photographer for The New York Times, known for his candids and street photography. 

Cunningham photographs people and the passing scene in the streets of Manhattan every day, focusing on their genuine usage of clothing to express personal style. He is known not to overly photograph celebrities (like paparazzi would) or people that use fame to showcase clothing they did not originally pick themselves (sponsored, free clothing).

He has made a career taking unexpected photographs of everyday people, socialites and fashion personalities, many of whom value his company.

He has his own documentary made in 2010 “Bill Cunningham New York”

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Happy Mothers day Xtines!

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Reading of the day!

In Los Angeles, Showcasing A City That Might Have Been

http://www.npr.org/2013/09/14/217281645/in-los-angeles-showcasing-a-city-that-might-have-been

The never built project showcasing what Los Angeles might have been like is I think a very interesting project to show. Not only that it’s interesting to see the forgotten ideas of the architect, but seeing of how elaborate and very unique and over the top the majority of the idea was, is very fascinating to be able to see.  It makes you wonder how your own hometown might have looked like as well and also how difficult and very important it would be to decide what should be made into the city, imagine if the city messed it up in the beginning, it would be very bad for the people. Just like my home town country for example, because the place is still a developing country, we island and cities are still having problems in having either enough streets for cars and/or not being able to provide public transport and other big facilities.

 From the choice of eight never before built structures I chose the Los Angeles International Airport original plan made by Pereira and Luckman in 1952. I think this original design visual looks phenomenal, and would be amazing to see it come to life. It has a beautiful large glass dome, with green plants around it and an interesting main center point. Even though the airport is visual appealing, the plan wouldn’t be very efficient to be made into real life. Because it was planned to be a single, centralized terminal on one roof, the airlines and the city engineers canceled the plan. The elaborate plan was put off because the city’s building department found that the place was too fundamental, in that the cost of having to have air-conditioning for the large place would have been unreasonable and to have all the terminal in one roof would be chaotic and is not wanted by the airlines, as they would want individual terminals. Not only that building this airport at that time would not have been economically good for the city, as it would have cost them a lot of money and time to built it. In my opinion I think the city could have made this design not for one large airport, but maybe having it a smaller size for one terminal, as it is a pity to put off such an amazing idea, especially since now a days, airports around the world are known to have one of the best architectures.

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Museum Visit

Museum of the Moving Image- Queens, New York

The Museum of the Moving Image exists to expand public understanding and appreciation of the art, history, technique and technology of film, television, and digital media by collecting, preserving, and providing access to moving-image related artifacts via multimedia exhibitions and educational programming.

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https://instagram.com/thegoodquote/

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Charles James

In celebration of the soon Met Gala 2015, we go back to last years Met Gala where it was all about designer Charles James. 

Charles James was a British born fashion designer known as “America’s First Couturier” He is widely considered to have been a master of cutting and is known for his highly structured aesthetic. 

At age 19 he opened his first hat shop in Chicago, then moved to Long Island. then later opened a hat shop in Queens, New York where he begins to design his dresses. 

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Song Of the Day

Robortom feat. Au Revoir Simone - 'Paganini Rocks'

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Inspiration/Color of the Day

GREEN!!!

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Artist Inspiration- Harsh Patel

L.A. based graphic designer. Originally from Nairobi, Kenya spent his later years in Texas. He considers himself a working class, strictly middle class artist and person.

He constructs narratives related to his interests, ones that sometimes have to do with nothing and other times having to do with everything. His works use common designs that become propaganda-like pieces, empowered images that he uses to make his own reality and history. 

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http://www.at60inches.com/artists

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Todays work space. Parsons The New School Library. 

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Building Appreciation

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York City.

Built in 1955-1969 and opened in 1962.

Photographs inside is of the Metropolitan Opera house and the David H. Koch Theater stage. 

Inside The Metropolitan Opera house 

David H. Koch Theater stage.

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Elective - Letter Press Printing

Mid terms type specimen project, with two colors in set of 20. 

For this project I had to make a type specimen for Copperplate Gothic with the letter press machine. It was a tedious work as the metal letters was quite tiny and there wash that many metal parts left to make the gaps that was needed to lock up the frame. The printing process it self was quite easy, just had to make sure it was on the right place. The final prints however tends to be a bit messy since i was working very quickly and didn't notice hands had many ink. 

It was such a experience working using the machine and all the metal types, with the frames and all the other equipments to make the print. Very different to when just making these typeface digitally, where its very easy to erase a mistake by just clicking a button and not as much printing issue as using the letter press printing. 

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STUDIO SPRING 2014 - VIDEO PROJECT - I LOVE HELVETICA

A short video about typography for studio 2014 class- specifically on Helvetica and how it is everywhere around us. Also towards the showing my Final Project Helvetica book/Zine draft.

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What id rather do….

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Todays Mantra