…of Midwestern monoculture are giving me something to look at and think about while anticipating a return to L.A. home at long la..
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…is the descending rhythmic order of the crosstown two-way streets striating Manhattan you experience in a special way while flying south along the island, looking down the tight rows of streets like crops from a speeding car, occasionally punctuated by those wider streets of that amazing grid – coming to us from the Commissioners’ plan ..
…today brought a busy day running around the city, an evening flight, and a sunset on the way to Minnesota where I’ll be for a few days visiting family and having meetings and hoping f..
…where I’m returning for a Monday meeting of the Princeton Student Colony – we pass over the always surprising lush wooded landscape, before the abrupt shift to the industrial coast, and the descent to Newar..
…where I’ll be visiting for the first time, and having tours and meetings about a new project to re-envision Everton Park – but first it is the gauntl..
…over pretty grids for a talk at the Columbus College of Art & Design..
…is the strange ‘wild’ landscape west of Secaucus – strangled by industry, transit, and general extreme urbanity – that I’m enjoying from the window of a ‘speeding’ NJ Transit train from Princeton to Manhattan this morning – and I’m wondering how are things going down there?..
…after a hot sunny summer-like 80 degree day spent in shorts gardening is my prelude to a late night red-eye to NYC, and all of the early March weather it implies, making the day more special, and harder to l..
…is a typical return to town lately, delivering me to Union Station – the highlight of which is the vista of the city and mountains (if you’re lucky) from the top of the massive 105 to 110 interchange which then directs us north to downtown, dramatically framed in the b..
…took me from Tiburtina station (after landing at Fiumicino – followed by a quick detour to Piramide where I met with friends and collaborators about the upcoming Roma Mangia Roma book from Nero still in the editing process) – through the white mountains to this city on the Adriatic under a fluffy white blanket after weeks ..
…makes me very very happy these days, returning to home and the winter climate that allows me to garden in shorts…and today we are getting the mega-warehouse view as we bank south over..
…on my way ..
…is an adrenaline producing high, nothing like it to get you really jazzed for some time on the streets and avenues, especially coming from LA but having lived in NYC in my 20’s, when I never felt more at home anywhere (like a comfortable old shoe), and probably never will again, in a way you ..
…beginning to emerge as the pilot announces our descent into the city somewhere over 29 Palms, then Palms Springs, then the endless Inland Empire – welcomes me back home to the wild urbanized west for a ..
…flying over a picturesque landscape of Soviet housing blocks on our way up and out yesterday, and then anticipation to finally get home at long long long last..
…old and new are in vivid contrast all over town – as in many of the European cities I’ve been visiting lately – most vividly evidenced on visits to the super long and lively ‘Women’s Market’ that runs all the way up Boulevard Stefan Stambolov and then past the nearby supermarket with mega plastic graphics ..
…from above is my welcome back t..
…on the connecting flight from Amsterdam, seated by a drafty exit row window with -53 degrees on the other side, had me all bundled up in almost everything I had packed in my carry on….but looking forward to my first visit to Poland, for the Łódź Design..
…was what we were treated to as we descended from the boring grey top landscape of clouds, into a thin sandwich of ethereal clouds full of a glowing tint from a sun just about to vanish, that for a moment cast a warm spell over the interior of the plane (and probably making everyone who ..
…my kindly taxi driver said as I took a few last pictures of the city from the back seat of his cab on the way to Ataturk Airport and Amsterdam, after another long day up and down the cobblestone streets of Beyoğlu and Karaköy – more biennial, more Ficcin, more running into art-worldy friends on ..
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