today is my last day in tokyo. i am leaving early in the morning tomorrow for the US, on purpose, because i will be too tired to know what is going on and will be unlikely to get sentimental. there is something horrible about afternoon flights - you spend the entire day waiting, and waiting, and getting nervous, and preparing, and then the sun is ( Read more... )

this is obnoxious, but it is late and i am looking at the cottages where wittgenstein and heidegger managed to get work done.


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i'm in tokyo - it's a beautiful day, balmy, warm. i'm discovering hugo chavez's speeches. all sorts of beautiful and wonderful things fly around in them. i'm generally undecided about hugo chavez. i am sympathetic to his project but the chavez-ites seem not to have any kind of self-awareness about them. when i lived in chicago i went to an event ( Read more... )

telekommunisten is a telecommunications project based in berlin that is trying to democratize/socialize the use of technology/networks.

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What is Venture Communism?by Dmytri Kleiner ( Read more... )

finally settling down after about a week of bouncing between friends' houses and hostels... signed the lease on a beautiful apt. on dunckerstrasse, in prenzlauer berg near eberswalderstrasse u-bahn. i am excited and calm, calmly excited! it's a really beautiful neighborhood and i feel so much better here than i do in chicago - that orange sky, ( Read more... )

i'm in berlin - have spent the last couple of days looking for apartments. at first i did it kind of casually but i have since become more wired at my apartment searching, mapping each one and figuring out how far it is from the u-bahn, imagining based on streetplans, etc. the first apartment we saw today was in prenzlauer berg, of course where ( Read more... )

we are taking a roadtrip: south from chicago through kentucky, over through the west virginian hills, and into virginia. then to washington, dc. after that, berlin.

cleaned & packed up the studio the other night - we stayed late. there was an old japanese man walking around the studio with a young, white assistant and they were photographing everything. i was confused since it was after hours - i thought they might be tourists. i was shocked when i found out the following day that that was in fact fumihiko ( Read more... )

interview with ettore sottsass. i've been reading atelier van lieshout's the good, the bad, and the ugly. it's pretty amazing. also sophie calle's book exquisite pain. i would recommend all of them! i've been working weekdays in a studio. photographs soon!