Image 13 of 15 from gallery of Davis Road Apartment / DS2 Architecture. Fifth Floor Plan
Posted on May 15, 2019 On this date in 2017, James Turrell opened the monumental art project he's been working on for more than 40 years to guests making big donations. An art project called Roden Crater. Roden Crater was a cinder cone - the remains of an ancient, extinct volcano - located in the Painted Desert of Arizona. And it wasn't for sale. This was back in the early 1970s. Artist James Turrell wouldn't take "no" for an answer; after working on the purchase for three years, he was able to buy Roden Crater. And then he was able to start building a naked-eye observatory for viewing the sun and the moon, winter and summer solstice, and other sky sights. What's the connection between a cinder cone and an observatory? Turrell is utilizing the remote location as a way of gaining darker night skies than most of us are used to. He's using the desert location as a way of gaining more sunny days and clear night skies than many other locations. And Turrell is utilizing the inner cone of the crater as a way of focusing our sight of the wide Western skies into a smaller viewpoint, a more narrow aperture. The observatory is not something that intrudes much into the desert landscape - it's what is called "minimally invasive" - and the tunnels and viewing spots inside the crater are specially engineered to create a truly different way of experiencing and seeing light. Now, when I first discovered that such a cool naked-eye observatory was being built - and so near me! - I assumed that there were one or two viewing spots within the crater. But there are TWENTY-ONE! And it may be that Turrell is planning an eventual 23 different viewing spots, plus six different tunnels connecting them! You can browse some of these spots, right now, before the observatory opens to the general public some time in the next five years, on this website. The lucky folks who already got to experience the Roden Crater had to pay quite a bit for their luck - they made $5,000 donations to Turrell's non-profit organization to fund further work. Some people kicked in another $1,500 for a hotel room, onsite dinner, and breakfast the following morning! Check out this video and this other video on Turrell's Roden Crater project, and this video that shows one of Turrell's other works (also seen in the still photo below). Also on this date: San Isidro Day in Madrid Straw Hat Day Archeologist Marta Rieche's birthday Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum's birthday Paraguay's Independence Day National Slider Day Birthday of activist Diane Nash Turn Beauty Inside Out Day (Third Wednesday of May) Plan ahead: Check out my Pinterest boards for: May holidays May birthdays Historical anniversaries in May And here are my Pinterest boards for: June holidays June birthdays Historical anniversaries in June
Image 2 of 16 from gallery of Kunsthalle Mannheim Building / gmp Architects. Photograph by Hans-Georg Esch
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What I've got for y'all today is an ensemble brought to you by the exquisite fabric known as pleather. Which I have decided can only be pronounced as "plehh-thahh" in a deep and gravely Barry White voice, preferably followed by a "baby". As in, "I wanna wrap you in plehh-thahh, baby, plehh-thahhhhh." And just who doesn't want be draped from head-to-toe in leather fauxness with Barry White at their beck and call, hmmm? Little known fact: pleather actually comes from the rare and annoying creature known as Twilight Sparkle. Hence the smell of plastic and rainbows shot from unicorn anus. So I got this idea to draw all over my clothing from one of my fave artist blogs Alisa Burke. Y'all. I totally hate it when chics say the have a "girl crush" so, well, lemme just put it this way: I totes have the lady hots for Alisa. She's like a Super Crafty Genius. Sometimes, I visit her site and I'm all "GAH! She's done it AGAIN!" and commence shaking my fists at the heavens wondering why some folks be all touched with the crafty-gene and I ended up with hammerhead toes. HAMMERHEAD TOES, Y'ALL (and, to that freaky-deaky person who keeps messaging me about wanting to see more pictures of my feet, STOP. It's not gonna happen, 'kay?). Life just ain't fair, y'all. As soon as I saw Alisa's jacket, the idea of doing the same with a Keith Haring theme popped into my head (along with "squirrel!" and "unicorn anus!" but that's pretty normal). I scoured the interwebs for super cheap plehh-thahhh (see, I told you, I can't say it any other way. Bet you won't be able to either after this post) and found that Forever21 had this circle skirt on the cheap. Not wanting to pay shipping costs, I decided to venture to the mall (anyone else abhor the mall? Gah, I feel like I'm stepping back into a 1990's time machine each time I enter one. Orange Julius, anyone?) and scooped one up. I gotta tell ya, the last time I wore a plehh-thahh skirt it was my 11th birthday, I was in 6th grade and we were bringin' the house down at Chuck-e-Cheese. I tried my hardest to find a photo from the occasion but, alas, I think I may have taken one look at it, thought, "OMG, why am I wearing maroon pinstripe pleather?!" and tossed it. Sorry, y'all! After my shopping fun at the mall, I popped over to the craft store and scooped up a coupla of Sharpie oil-based pens. I also picked up a couple of terrible fabric makers which sucked unicorn anus. Thusly, I don't recommend them. Once I got home, I did a quick search for Keith Haring/black and white and this is what popped up. I loved it so much (look at the scissor people, people!) I decided it would be the perfect inspiration. I began by sketching out my Haring-inspired designs in chalk but that proved to be too time-consuming and did a number on the tip of the Sharpie. Since Harings designs are pretty simple, I decided to just let it goooo and draw 'em with reckless abandon. Are y'all fans of Keith Haring? I feel like he was such a revolutionary artist not necessarily because of his style but because of the boundaries that his artwork removed. In the 1980's his graffiti artwork could be seen by anyone who happened by it, not just those "in the art world". He removed the mystic of the artist by working out in the open on grimy subway walls in his cartoonish hand. Not only that, but his artwork brought to light issues that were close to Haring's heart: AIDS awareness, sexuality, apartheid and war. Dude was Banksy before Banksy. Suddenly art became by the people and for the people, thanks to Keith Haring. Once I was finished with the plehh-thahh skirt, I decided a biker jacket was needed to top it all off. Barry White insisted. Gotta tell ya, I've been wanting a vintage biker jacket for ages. However they cost exactly One Million Dollars and, despite my ginormous art teacherin' paycheck, I just ain't got that kinda dough. So a plehh-thahh biker from Forever21 it 'twas (dude. Do you know how awkward it is to shop in a place called Forever21 when you are really Forever 39?). For this jacket, I really wanted to stress Harings more popular images like the people holding the heart, the barking dogs, the radiant baby and the cartoon face on the television. Other than that, I had seriously no plan at all, didn't draw in chalk or nuthin. I just went at it. And the result is pretty busy, I gotta say. However, I kinda dig that it doesn't match the skirt. I like that the skirt has more negative space so you can see the images better. By the way, do you even know how stinkin' hot head-to-toe plehh-thahh is?! And by "hot" I don't mean "hawt", I mean butt-sweat hot. You can thank me for the visual imagery in the comments. Once the temps dip a pinch, I think this will be so much fun to wear. I'm thinkin' I will get a lotta mileage outta that jacket. OMG, I just realized, I look like The Fonz! Who has two thumbs and loves plehh-thahh?! Eeehhhhhh. This guy. Oh, Fonz. You so cray. And with that, one more artist-inspired ensemble in the books!
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