36 minutes of veiny florals

The Design Center of Philadelphia University | Alyson Provax

The Time Wasting Experiment project by printmaker and fiber artist, Alyson Provax, pairs nicely with swatches from the Design Center.

The Time Wasting Experiments are an ongoing series of letterpress prints I've been producing which document time wasted. These are in part inspired by tracking 'billable hours' but also come from the compulsion to always be doing things and producing objects. This series is a sort of audit of how I spend my time, but the prints could also be thought of as permission slips allowing you to spend a period of time in a wasteful way. This project is ongoing...made with hand-set 10pt Caslon lead type, and printed on an old Vandercook press that is affectionately known around the studio as Tony.

♫ Etta James You Got It

Tennessee ten

St. Louis, Fall of 2011   

Pentax K1000 SE; 35mm

Stopped to get a few photos of the hand painted lettering on the old Tenneessee 10 bar and was lucky enough to find Slaughter's Cleaners across the street! A few more shots here

♫ The Middle East Land of the Bloody Unknown

And all the people were singin

Dylan ticket stub archive

♫ Bob Dylan & The Band The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

transfixed by his uncanny way of seeing

A new venture for the new year; I'm aiming to fill a little 5.5" x 5.5" sketchbook with assemblages focused on various polaroids taken throughout the year, and hope to do the same for each year thereafter. I'm imagining a narrow shelf, archiving each year ...or at the very least a better way to have and hold my plethora of polaroids. I'll plan to share finished pages here and there. Michael shared a section from his current read after a walk through Carondelet Park last week. I thought it paired nicely with the shot I got of our leggy silhouettes that day.

The town which is alive, and beautiful, for me, shows, in a thousand ways, how all its institutions work together to make people comfortable, and deep seated in respect for themselves. ...A building or a town becomes alive when every pattern in it is alive: when it allows each person in it, and each plant and animal, and every stream, and bridge, and wall and roof, and every human group and every road, to become alive in its own terms. And as that happens, the whole town reaches the state that individual people sometimes reach at their best and happiest moments, when they are most free.

- an excerpt from The Timeless Way of Building, the first in a series of books which describe working alternatives to our present ideas about architecture, building and planning by Christopher Alexander.

Riding toward everywhere

Sinister Kid  |  Eylul Aslan

♫ Talking Heads And She Was

18. Stay Glad

Woody Guthrie's New Years Rulin's