Author: Marcus Trimble

  • An amusing round-up of the Venice Biennale

    An amusing round-up of the Venice Biennale the author of which appears not to be at all impressed with Patrick Schumacher. “When I see Patrik Schumacher (business partner and factotum of Zaha Hadid) speak about architecture, I get very sad for him. He looks like a member of Kraftwerk trapped in one of those kidnap…

  • Fitter, Happier, More Productive

    Brad Rhoads, a computer programmer and missionary in Princeton, Ill., faces a computer monitor on a file cabinet and gets in about five miles a day on a treadmill while working in his home office. “After a while, your legs do get kind of tired,” said Mr. Rhoads, 40, who started exercising in March, when…

  • Synecdoche, New York

    The trailer for Charlie Kauffman’s new film Synecdoche, New York is up online. The film concerns the staging of a play set within a life-size simulacrum of New York City inside a warehouse (shades of The Remainder?). Jimmy Stamp has pics and some thoughts on the film.

  • Build me an Art Crusher

    Build me an Art Crusher. Edward Lifson proposes ratcheting down the roof of Mies’ New National Gallery; crushing the works of Jeff Koons within. This is a very good idea.

  • Ready to Wear Pac-Man

    Is Pac-Man to fashion what Star Wars is to architecture?

  • A print-on-demand ‘ATM’ has been installed in a Melbourne bookstore

    A print-on-demand ‘ATM’ has been installed in a Melbourne bookstore giving access to books long out of print. A book takes mintutes to be printed and bound and they anticipate having 10,000 titles available in 18 months.