Amateur Architecture Studio. via Architecture Biennale 2010. A bit more here and here.
Built spontaneously, illegally and temporarily, amateur architecture is equal to professional architecture. But amateur architecture is just not significant.
An early version of dome.
A short interview of Wang Shu in Domus.
Rent:Buy ratio of America’s 50 largest cities.
Shoutout to Aloe Blacc, cause I need,at least, a dollar.
An exhibition at the library.
Assembling an Era
The Miami-Dade Public Library System, 1971-1989
January 20 – March 27, 2011
Main Library, 1st and 2nd floor exhibition space, 101 W. Flagler Street, Miami, 305-375-2665
Reception and 40th anniversary kick-off event: January 20, 6:30 – 8:30pm
The 1970s and 80s represented a period of great progress, upheaval, and change in Miami-Dade County. Miami hosted both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. The Mariel Boatlift and McDuffie Riots happened simultaneously. 1983 saw both Surrounded Islands and Scarface. In 1971, at the very beginning of this important and volatile period, city and county libraries joined forces and formed the Miami-Dade Public Library System. In 1972, the Decade of Progress Bond expanded it with thirteen new branches.
Assembling an Era celebrates MDPLS’s 40th anniversary, bringing together materials from the Library’s special and reference collections to document this fascinating time and build associations between its popular culture, Miami history, and library stories. The show tells these stories through works on paper by Miami artists, Purvis Young canvas banner pieces, books, newspaper articles, a snapshot timeline, a special installation of every 1971 reference volume in the Library’s collection, a slide installation by Kevin Arrow, a sound station, and more.
I am included in the “and more”.
The Overtown Music Project invite us all to a night of music and Langston Hughes. $25 donations to OMP benefits their music scholarship funds.
January 22, 2010
Wynwood Kitchen and Bar
2550 NW 2 Avenue
RSVP : amy@overtownmusicproject.org
Miami-Dade Art in Public Places, in collaboration with the ArtCenter South Florida, is hosting an exhibition of “new” public art in Miami-Dade County.
Gallery
800 Lincoln Road
Opening Reception
January 8, 2011 7-10 pm
Jay Smooth on Waka:
Waka Flocka Flame simply shouts the simplest couplets imaginable at the top of his lungs, often mixed with wordless grunts and growls and screams over a beat that sounds like the marching band that would come with the four horsemen of the apocalypse as they destroy the earth.
story. transcript. ‘Hard in da Paint’ is produced by Lex Luger.
What will you listen to, during the apocalypse?