Shelley Lambert

In Stockholm, you can use your phone to control a light sculpture. It is pretty cool that you can alter the cityscape by dialing your phone.

Colour by numbers is a 72 meters high light installation at Telefonplan in Stockholm. “A tower stands at Telefonplan. Austere, slim and dark; rising towards the sky like an exclamation mark. A tower is an archetypical creator of place: it breaks in and becomes an event in a continuous landscape. This characteristic is emphasized by the illuminated windows of this particular tower - but the patterns and colours also vary constantly. The tower speaks in a sign language composed of light. But what is the tower at Telefonplan saying, and who gives the architectonic form meaning?”. On the website under live video you can see a live video image of the tower and also read instructions for how to control the light installation over the phone.

The fascinating architecture of the Incan Empire astounds me! So I am very excited to be able to see some examples of it in March.

The geometry used is fascinating: Often, doors and windows are perfectly aligned one behind another. They are not only beautiful to see, but also functional, as they are built following severe and effective rules to limit damages from earthquakes (the earthquake that hit Cusco about an half century ago, destroyed many Spanish buildings, but not Inca’s).

These rules include the inclination of the walls, the trapezoidal shape of doors, windows and walls itself, the accurate cutting of the stones, which are also joint using a precise / alternate pattern and often firmly tied internal reinforcement (as already seen in Tiahuanaco). Last but not least, the buildings are built over foundations usually one meter deep, made of sand and gravel, in order to compensate and movement.

To destroy them, spanishes often had to use the dynamite.

Amazing!

Boing Boing’s article on Ikea ‘flat pack’ housing is as good as any place to start. This won’t be a high brow view of art. My views and opinions on art is on the platter. This blog will most likely never be reviewed as ‘deeply thoughtful’. It may favour the surreal or the silly, like words that sound funny, like BoKlok…

which roughly translated means smart living

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So it begins.