i’ve been taking longer, leisurely bike-rides lately and have been considering taking some bike camping trips…have also been looking into driving around mexico and guatemala, so it was only fitting that my research brought me to ian hibell. one of the world’s greatest adventure cyclists, hibell spent 40 years of his life riding across...
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colorful deco linoleum floors from better floors for better business, published in 1936! thanks to john ptak’s incredibly informative blog, full of scans and musings on books from his bookstore.
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ever since i was kid, i harbored this midwestern dream of moving to southern california, becoming a marine biologist (save the whales!) having a surfer boyfriend and just chilling on the beach. but since living in the bay area, i’ve developed a slightly more jaded view of all things so-cal: hollywood, smog, porn, fake...
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i got an email this morning from a great friend of mine who has been living in paris with her french boyfriend. alison and i went to high school together in chicago and have since managed to maintain a long-distance friendship with letters, postcards, emails, and occasional visits in whatever town we may be...
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we’re excited to share pages from the december 2010 issue of san francisco magazine featuring elizabeth prost’s horsehair necklaces! thanks for the credit, sfmag! don’t forget to stop by the BIG THINGS SHOP to get yours!
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thanks to a tip from cp, we can add japanese artist, koichi kurita, to our list of dirt-lovers. koichi drives around japan collecting soil samples from various areas, spending the night in his pickup truck. after drying and sifting the dirt, he arranges it lovingly into “libraries” encased in glass tubes or installs precisely-arranged-piles...
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i don’t want to hate on the bay area, but the shopping is infinitely better in LA. sorry folks, it’s the honest truth! take iko iko for example- an inconspicuous storefront across from an exotic fish aquarium stocked with wabi-sabi japanese housewares, locally made clothing, jewelry, ceramics, vintage books, fabric, and other covetable objects....
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the shaft of babel, 2003. hans schabus dug a 15 foot hole in his studio in vienna, displacing the dirt and bagging it in his studio. his work often deals with size on a large scale, making us aware of and challenging our conceptions of space and our relation to it. images via ggeeoorrgg and...
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