Muji's redesign

I am loving Muji's redesigned website. Ever since I discovered their store in London I have kept going back for more. I was ecstatic when they began opening stores in New York over a year ago. I haven't been to their newer, bigger store in the Renzo Piano designed New York Times building but I have to visit next time I need a no brand notebook.

via cool hunting.

on to the next...

Douglas Gordon, 24 hour psycho back and forth and to and fro, 2008. Video installation with two screens and two video projections, 24-hour loop, Courtesy the artist. Installation view, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2008.
© The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York. Photo: Kristopher McKay.
January 6, 10 a.m. - January 7, 10 a.m. Rotunda Floor, Free

So, here we are, 2009 space monkeys and flying cars and all. Its an exciting yet anxious year for me - finishing school and re-entering the working world at a time when people are suggesting our economy is tanking more then it ever has in my lifetime. So what do we do? celebrate? turn off the TV try to read the news a little less and hope Obama can jump start this economy with a full on Keynesian / New New Deal Plan.

On the bright side - there are no lines for bread and institutions like The Guggenheim are still very much alive and kicking out interesting events like the tomorrows-

from the Press Release:
24-Hour Program on the Concept of Time
Tuesday, January 6, 6 p.m. through Wednesday, January 7, 6 p.m.
Download a PDF of the 24-Hour schedule.

On the occasion of the exhibition theanyspacewhatever, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will present a 24-hour event concentrating on the concept of time in its myriad philosophical, psychological, biological, sociological, poetic, aesthetic, and economic manifestations. Constituting a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject, the program will bring together artists, architects, scientists, philosophers, historians, engineers, filmmakers, musicians, and other cultural producers.
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Also on view:
Douglas Gordon
24 hour psycho back and forth and to and fro
January 6, 10 a.m.-January 7, 10 a.m.
Rotunda Floor, Free

Serpentine Gallery Marathon Archive
New Media Theatre
Tuesday, January 6, 6 p.m. through Wednesday, January 7, 6 p.m.
Download a PDF of video descriptions.

I am really looking forward to this event but I am not sure when to go. anyone else going or have suggestions? I am really interested who will be staying up for the 4:30 - 5 am presentation by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, maybe it will be me?

Back in New York and all that

I'm finally back in New York and almost recovered from the August world tour. In August I went from Brooklyn to Paris, London Cape Town, Johannesburg back to Brooklyn for a week and then 10 days in Beijing with stopovers in the Narita International Airport and a night in Los Angeles. Now I have just about cough my breath and the i remembered this blog...

I promise I will get back into some posting soon. Speaking of posting has anyone read up on this Jill Greenburg fiasco?