2010/02/04 16:19 - Nowhere - Wyndam St (E) N Wellington Central Hong Kong
2006/07/11 20:16 - Gracefully - Av A (E) S 2nd St East Village New York
"The universe is my temptation, and I achieve being in an instant, with both hands plunged deep in the fire, where the single deed is hidden, the deed which aims me- now is the moment! Already the menace of the abyss is removed..." Martin Buber, 1923
"The universe is my temptation, and I achieve being in an instant, with both hands plunged deep in the fire, where the single deed is hidden, the deed which aims me- now is the moment! Already the menace of the abyss is removed..." Martin Buber, 1923
1997/10/23-g - St John's Wood Tube Station - NE Finchley Rd + Acacia Rd St John's Wood London
“Wish You Were Here... See More” sequenced on my computer today and made me think of the pub in the St. John’s Wood tube station for the first time in many years. For awhile, while I was a student at the American school, I was there almost every day. A group of us would show up on lunch break and dutifully down a pint of Guinness. This ritual we called “Belgian Brunch,” which I still don’t understand, as it occurred exclusively on weekdays and the beer is from Ireland. There was an old wooden phone booth in the back of the pub where, over the course of 3 or 4 days, using my 4” lock-blade, I carefully carved LABELLE ’79. The phone booths are gone now, as is the pub. It’s a flower shop today. A sign of more innocent times, no doubt.
“Wish You Were Here... See More” sequenced on my computer today and made me think of the pub in the St. John’s Wood tube station for the first time in many years. For awhile, while I was a student at the American school, I was there almost every day. A group of us would show up on lunch break and dutifully down a pint of Guinness. This ritual we called “Belgian Brunch,” which I still don’t understand, as it occurred exclusively on weekdays and the beer is from Ireland. There was an old wooden phone booth in the back of the pub where, over the course of 3 or 4 days, using my 4” lock-blade, I carefully carved LABELLE ’79. The phone booths are gone now, as is the pub. It’s a flower shop today. A sign of more innocent times, no doubt.
2010/01/13 11:51 Star House (Carl Michael Von Hausswolff) - The Land Sanpatong SW Chiang Mai Thailand
2010/01/13 11:44 Battery House (Philippe Parreno + Francois Roche) The Land Sanpatong SW Chiang Mai Thailand
2010/01/10 18:15 - State Tower / Sky Bar - SE Silom Rd + Charoen Krung Rd Downtown South of Rama IV Bangkok
2010/01/09 14:17 - BACC (Bangkok Art and Culture Center) - NW Rama I Rd + Phayathai Rd Siam Square Bangkok
2010/01/08 21:25 - Street-food place with special fried one thousand year old egg - near Gallery VER Khlong san Bangkok
2009/01/03 14:28 - Pirates' Alley Cafe & Old Absinthe House - Pirates' Alley French Quarter New Orleans
2009/01/01 16:00 - Devastated and Abandoned Apt Bldg - Southern Pl + Plantation Dr St Bernard Parish New Orleans
2008/12/31 13:07 - Hotel Le Cirque - NE Lee Circle + St Charles Av New Orleans
…to see thoughts of yesterday as present occurrences, and anticipations of tomorrow as present activities.
…to see thoughts of yesterday as present occurrences, and anticipations of tomorrow as present activities.
2009/12/28 14:26 - Cinema where Twilight New Moon was playing - NE Great George St + Patterson St Causeway Bay Hong Kong
2009/11/22 19:05 - Building where I thought Sense was.... - Wellington (N) W Cochrane St Central Hong Kong
2009/11/18 16:53 - Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences (1906) - Caine Rd (S) E Kui In Fong Sheung Wan Hong Kong
2009/11/12 15:56 - No. 163 Kwong Fuk Road (E-shaped Apt Bldg) ca. 1940s - Kong Fuk Rd (N) W Wan Tau Kok Lane Tai Po New Territories Hong Kong
2009/11/12 15:40 - Large Horizontal Slab (Apt Bldg) 1960s - Po Heung Square Tai Po, New Territories Hong Kong
2009/11/12 14:56 - Tai Po Complex 2004 - Heung Sze Wui St + Wan Tau St Tai Po, New Territories Hong Kong
2009/11/06 17:20 - Sui Fai Factory Estate - Shan Mei St (S) Fo Tan Hong Kong
The city as a specific place of technological production - and the city itself as a technological product - reduces architecture to a mere link in the production chain. -Manfredo Tafuri
The city as a specific place of technological production - and the city itself as a technological product - reduces architecture to a mere link in the production chain. -Manfredo Tafuri
2009/10/30 18:12 - Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre - Pak Tin St (E) N Woh Chai St Shek Kip Mei Hong Kong
2009/10/23 16:58 - Harbour Building (Government Offices) - Connaught Rd Central (N) W Gilman St Central Hong Kong
2009/10/21 19:38 - Bridal Tea House Hotel & Service Apartments - Aberdeen Main Rd (E) near bus terminal Aberdeen Hong Kong
2009/10/18 16:08 - Temple of the god who watches over the fishermen - Yung Shue Ha Lamma Island Hong Kong
2009/10/12 11:55 - Sol-Lewitt-like Apt Building (with 7 Eleven) - Street along N bank of river Haruyoshi Fukuoka Japan
2009/10/11 22:01 - Espace - Red-light District Nakasu Island Fukuoka Japan
Slender buildings with narrow openings, these strange Japanese sex clubs bring together fantastic architecture with a fantasy of identity and the body.
Slender buildings with narrow openings, these strange Japanese sex clubs bring together fantastic architecture with a fantasy of identity and the body.
2009/10/10 19:03 - Mode-Gakuen Spiral Towers (Nikken Sekkei 2008) - NE Hirokoji-dori + Meiliki-dori Nagoya Japan
2009/10/06 16:22 Kowloon Mosque and Islamic Centre Nathan Rd (W) @ Cameron Rd Tsim Sha Tsui Hong Kong
2009/09/29 14:54 Radiant Centre SW Jaffe Rd + Cannon St Causeway Bay Hong Kong
A city of spires, Hong Kong is something of a bastard off-spring of Corbusier's “Ville Radieuse.” So different from New York, where buildings are crammed together and saleable footage maximized in every floor plan, the urban fabric of Hong Kong reflects an asceticism that borders on excess: interior space is sacrificed in favor of a largess of open air and an aesthetic of whimsy. Structures whose footprint is the size of an East Village studio rise 30 stories and are perforated by windows on all sides. Staggered about the mountains and valleys in an almost chaotic display, they lend the landscape its fantastic quality; a marvelous mix of nature and artifice, brute force and grace.
A city of spires, Hong Kong is something of a bastard off-spring of Corbusier's “Ville Radieuse.” So different from New York, where buildings are crammed together and saleable footage maximized in every floor plan, the urban fabric of Hong Kong reflects an asceticism that borders on excess: interior space is sacrificed in favor of a largess of open air and an aesthetic of whimsy. Structures whose footprint is the size of an East Village studio rise 30 stories and are perforated by windows on all sides. Staggered about the mountains and valleys in an almost chaotic display, they lend the landscape its fantastic quality; a marvelous mix of nature and artifice, brute force and grace.
2009/09/28 19:32 Public Toilet near pier Sok Ku Wan Lamma Island Hong Kong
...grasping the point of rupture where political economy and libidinal economy are finally one and the same.
...grasping the point of rupture where political economy and libidinal economy are finally one and the same.
2009/09/27 18:36 Charlie Brown Cafe (Kok Pah Mansion) Cameron Rd (S) W Chatham Rd South Tsim Sha Tsui Hong Kong
"The principle of movement is 'that which exceeds" (aquello que excede)."
"The principle of movement is 'that which exceeds" (aquello que excede)."
2009/09/27 15:20 Green Building (with bakeries & underwear shops) Kennedy Town Praya Rd (S) E Sands St Kennedy Town Hong Kong
"...an a priori) that organizes the mystic voyage from start to finish."
"...an a priori) that organizes the mystic voyage from start to finish."
2009/09/25 20:53 Reptile Corner (formerly Poodle Pet Shop) Cannon St (E) S Glouster Rd Causeway Bay Hong Kong
2009/09/23 15:14 Little Coffee Place with Italian Sandwiches Hysan Rd (N) E Lee Garden Rd Causeway Bay Hong Kong
2009/09/22 18:19 The Masterpiece (new Hyatt Regency- opening Oct 1st) Hanoi Rd (W) btwn Carnavon + Mody Tsim Sha Tsui Hong Kong
2009/09/21 14:45 "Profit Harbour" Shopping Center Cheungtu Rd (E) btn Nam Ning + Lok Yeung Aberdeen Hong Kong
2009/09/21 14:31 Wonderfully Decrepit Old Style HK Bldg Tung Sing (W) btwn Lok Yeung + Aberdeen Main Rd Aberdeen Hong Kong
2009/09/19 19:33 Nick's House on the beach, next to the path leading up the hill .... Mo Tat Wan Lamma Island Hong Kong
2009/09/17 20:03 Monster Burger Stanley St (N) E Shelly St Central Hong Kong
"We are here within the zone of the immense problem of phenomenological intersubjectivity...."
"We are here within the zone of the immense problem of phenomenological intersubjectivity...."
2009/09/13 16:28 Hong Kong Space Museum Salisbury Rd (S) @ Nathan Rd Hong Kong
(a limit of space, not a space: the limit where space becomes pure time, but where pure time annuls the event.) No passage, no coming, no departure, no birth or death, no attraction or excitation of a new subject, and consequently no disappearance of the new, no abolition of its novelty in its other absolute novelty that is its empty place or its tomb. No not.
(a limit of space, not a space: the limit where space becomes pure time, but where pure time annuls the event.) No passage, no coming, no departure, no birth or death, no attraction or excitation of a new subject, and consequently no disappearance of the new, no abolition of its novelty in its other absolute novelty that is its empty place or its tomb. No not.
2009/09/12 18:00 Great Eagle Centre NE Harbour Rd + Fleming Hong Kong
Here, there is a deceptive penetrability. The interior is in truth still exterior, in the same way in which the gastro-intestinal track is really "outside" the body. You may enter but you are never inside.
Here, there is a deceptive penetrability. The interior is in truth still exterior, in the same way in which the gastro-intestinal track is really "outside" the body. You may enter but you are never inside.
2009/09/11 17:56 Star Bookcafe NE Sai Yeung Choi St + Argyle St Mong Kok Hong Kong
"...the cosmic opening of space that is coming toward us... signals with neither message nor destination, a universe of which the unity if nothing but unicite - open, distended, distanced, diffracted, slowed down, differed and deferred within itself. Open on nothing. From nowhere to nowhere." Jean-Luc Nancy
"...the cosmic opening of space that is coming toward us... signals with neither message nor destination, a universe of which the unity if nothing but unicite - open, distended, distanced, diffracted, slowed down, differed and deferred within itself. Open on nothing. From nowhere to nowhere." Jean-Luc Nancy
2009/09/10 18:28 City Cut Tung Sing Rd (W) S Sai On St Aberdeen Hong Kong
In what direction are we to take the step from a fragmented cosmetics to an aesthetics of sensible tracing [frayage], and beyond this to the fragile permanence of "art" in the drift of the "worldly"?
In what direction are we to take the step from a fragmented cosmetics to an aesthetics of sensible tracing [frayage], and beyond this to the fragile permanence of "art" in the drift of the "worldly"?
2009/09/07 16:46 - Abandoned and Ruined Bldg (old Mo Tat School 1932) - In the old part of the village at the foot of the mountain Mo Tat Lamma Island Hong Kong
In a way, every building is a ruin, a relic of some alien civilization that we stumble upon and must make sense of....
2009/09/04 12:09 Nam Shing Hang waterfront road @ the pier to HK Central Sok Ku Wan Lamma Island Hong Kong
2009/09/04 11:54 Tin Hau Temple south end of the path along the water Sok Ku Wan Lamma Island Hong Kong
2009/09/02 18:32 My New Home on the path from the beach, at the top of the hill, next to the shrine of the earth god, Mo Tat, Lamma Island Hong Kong
2009/08/29 21:44 Tatiana The Boardwalk @ Brighton 6 St Little Odessa Brooklyn NY
...along a line of escape... the transcendence of duty in the social field gives way to a nomadic immanence of desire that wanders all over this field.
...along a line of escape... the transcendence of duty in the social field gives way to a nomadic immanence of desire that wanders all over this field.
2009/08/28 15:25 West Side Deli and Grocery (formerly Jesus Taco) NW Amsterdam + 145th St Hamilton Heights New York NY
In Memoriam. When I first moved to NY in Jan 04 and for the 3 years after I lived around the corner from Jesus Taco- a guilty 3am pleasure on many a night.
In Memoriam. When I first moved to NY in Jan 04 and for the 3 years after I lived around the corner from Jesus Taco- a guilty 3am pleasure on many a night.
2009/08/23 21:12 Chinatown Brasserie (formerly Time Cafe) NW Lafayette St + Great Jones Noho New York NY
I went to find Time but found it had gone long ago….. Lost Time. Loss of time. What happens when time disappears, when the present is a static, ever-present? Isn’t our sense of loss itself paradoxically lost? And without an acute sense of loss how do we arrive at a certainty of being? Death carried in our hearts lends luminance to life. This surrender to the incessant and the immediate leaves us bereft of intimacy…
I went to find Time but found it had gone long ago….. Lost Time. Loss of time. What happens when time disappears, when the present is a static, ever-present? Isn’t our sense of loss itself paradoxically lost? And without an acute sense of loss how do we arrive at a certainty of being? Death carried in our hearts lends luminance to life. This surrender to the incessant and the immediate leaves us bereft of intimacy…
2009/08/21 19:34 Klee Brasserie 9th Av (E) N 22nd St Chelsea New York NY
"Really, nothing prevents me from finding all things inexhaustible and intact: where would art find its point of departure if not in this joy and this tension of an infinite beginning?" - Rilke, letter to Paul Klee
"Really, nothing prevents me from finding all things inexhaustible and intact: where would art find its point of departure if not in this joy and this tension of an infinite beginning?" - Rilke, letter to Paul Klee
2009/08/20 14:36 Building that made me think of the house in Blanchot's "Aminadab" (old school?) SW Rivington + Suffolk Lower East Side New York NY
"...but nowhere is nonetheless here, and this empty, dead time is real time.. the dead present, the present's double, the shadow of the present....."
"...but nowhere is nonetheless here, and this empty, dead time is real time.. the dead present, the present's double, the shadow of the present....."
2009/08/17 14:35 Optical Illusion 5th Av (W) btwn 11th + 12th Sts Park Slope Brooklyn NY
Encouraged to look but not to see, we follow the text of the city blindly and are led to places of illusory charms...
Encouraged to look but not to see, we follow the text of the city blindly and are led to places of illusory charms...
2009/08/17 00:05 Sherri's friend's loft (with the cat named either Grady or Louie) NE Berry + N 11th St Willamsburg Brooklyn NY
2009/08/14 10:35 Montauk Lighthouse (1792) Montauk Point Long Island NY
"I love these buildings at the end of the road, perched at the edge of the land and go out of my way to get to them. Their hubris conjuring death, their verticality exists in contrast to the limitless horizon beyond. They speak solemnly of a yearning for transcendence in the midst of all pervasive immanence: Being against Nothing."
2009/08/06 17:50 Cooper Union (Thom Mayne 2009) Cooper Square (E) btwn 6 + 7th East Village New York NY
2009/08/04 13:13 Kentuck Knob (Frank Lloyd Wright 1956) off Chalk Hill Rd North Hwy 40 near Ohiopyle PA
2009/08/01 14:50 PPG Place (Philip Johnson and John Burgee 1984) NE 3rd + Stanwick Downtown Pittsburgh PA
2009/07/23 14:28 Gothic Revival Church- Deconsecrated (former Limelight) 1848 NE 6th Av + 20th St Chelsea New York NY
2009/07/16 16:03 Bleeker Street Records Bleeker St (N) btwn Leroy + Carmine Greenwich Village New York NY
2009/07/12 15:40 Abandoned and Vandalized Admin Bldg Teen Drug Rehab Center (Pius XII) off Morton Rd Rhinecliff NY
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