Love your children

No society that loved its children would divorce them so completely from contact with soils, forests, streams, and wildlife. No society that loved its children would create places like the typical suburb or shopping mall. No society that loved its children would casually destroy real neighborhoods and communities in order to build even more highways... No society that loved its children would build more shopping malls than high schools. No society that loved its children would leave behind a legacy of ugliness...

Loving Children: A Design Problem by David Orr

via Stork Bites Man

So, in 2013, ...

"Energy, action — and patience."

BEACH

Happy Thanksgiving from the Beach family.

Important and Importanter —

Posting on Reference Library is on hold.

Hurricane Sandy may have passed but the storm is just beginning. The situation around New York is not over and is in fact getting worse for many people. If you can't get someone food, water, candles, coats, gloves, bleach, gas, or a place to sleep then donate to the Red Cross. Don't forget that many people in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and parts of Pennsylvania are still hurting and in real need.

And don't forget to vote on Tuesday. I am not just voting for the next four years, I'm thinking about the next forty. I'm voting for the kind of place I want my daughters and son to live in. I don't need a CEO of America, Inc. I'm voting for a president for the people. Find your polling place here.

Traffic Cone Planter

via Tokyo Green Space

Related: Royère and Royère

Tonight in NYC —

Eric Kvatek
Carrera do los Charros
Nepenthes NY Gallery

Day and Night —

In SF.

Alone Together

Belle de Wit (via Jabari)

Reminds me of: Nan and Arthur

New Waves

Relax magazine #75.5
New Waves by Takashi Homma
$45.00 (ebay)

Bear Hug

via rogre

Curves, Outside and In —

At Wharton Esherick's house.

3/11

The Japan Tsunami, months later (Eric Kvatek)

Great Lakes

Re-Wilding

Photographs by Lucas Foglia

Only two more weeks —

"Luster seeps through hairline cracks; others seem to channel the source of their illumination from a hidden presence behind the wall, in a way that evokes Dan Flavin’s fluorescent tubes... In this show... painting is a vehicle for more than mere contemplation, and something greater than a state of mind." Art Forum

Lesley Vance
Through August 13
David Kordansky Gallery
Los Angeles

Also: LA Times

Don’t just do something. Stand there!

Margie Ruddick's landscape (NY Times)

Sehnsucht

Sehnsucht is "a compound word, originating from an ardent longing or yearning (das Sehnen) and addiction (die Sucht). It is sometimes felt as a longing for a far off country, but not a particular earthly land which we can identify." (at/via Jennilee)

Photos: PJ Chmiel and Jason Rosenberg

Opening Saturday —

Lesley Vance
June 25–August 11, 2011
at David Kordansky

It's going to be good.

1955, The Architectural Press

Available in the Wary Meyers shop.

WOOD WORKERS