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Stella Bella

To explain my rather long absence from this site - I will simply say that STELLA BELLA SANDMEIER-STEELE was born 31 May 2006. (Her official due date was TODAY). She weighed 6 pounds 10 ounces (or 3.02Kg), 51 cm long and has been keeping us busy every since. Postings will likely be even more sporadic then they were before - but I'll soon get back into the swing of things. Pics of the babe over on the flickr account - click the thumbnails at the right to head over there.

OMA - NY

OMA amputates it's New York office - see New York Times for the full article. Reading the article, you sense a fairly deep conflict with former OMANY's director, JP-R He speaks of being a true collaborator and not being interested in authorship - yet wants to split from OMA to work under his own name.

Pecha Kucha in London

a big Pecha Kucha event at the Sadler's Wells Theater on 25 June - billed as the world's biggest will feature a long list of architects and artists.

10 LIGHTS

Inter 3 students put their unit work on display for the 2nd year in a row. The show, 10 LIGHTS is on from 29 April - 26 May in the AA Back Members Room and showcases their 1st term work and installations exploring their proposals, experiements and prototypes as they experimented with ways to manipulate the effects of artificial and natural light.
www.aainter3.net

Videos - oma +

LINK to video of OMA's Design Museum Plaza in Louisville, Kentucky

And a couple other totally unrelated videos @ YouTube
>>if you haven't seen the crazy dog yet, here it is. bizarre.
>>the most rubbery kid in what looks to be a high-school competition. he appears halfway through the vid...and is worth the wait.

Z. ISLAND

zaha's new kitchen launched this week at the milan furniture fair. Z. Island

Taco genius

I've read about this blog in a few places recently - I think first over at Kottke's site but didn't get around to reading it until about 20 minutes ago - having now read through some of the entires - I'm imagining a trip to LA in the hopefully not-too-distant future. It reads deliciously.
THE GREAT TACO HUNT
>> In a related note, many foodblogs are commenting on the increased sales of Mexican Coke in the US after it was linked in google news the other day. just think, 80 degree weather, a couple of tacos and a mexican coke.

Lily Yung

Just found Lily Yung's website - with an interesting range of jewelry - many pieces of which are rhino-modelled and digitally machined + fabricated.

text city

a new reading of New York City via text-based information online. Searchscapes Manhattan
(via Design Observer)

Fake model tutorial

Just found this link via Flickr for a fake model photograph tutorial. Makes a good bird's eye photograph look as though you've spent ages building a life-like model in your attic.....

some trials using the tutorial:

Bucky

The Buckmister Fuller Institute pays homage online with a fairly comprehensive catalogue of works - and newer derivatives.

foster slivers (slithers?) next to mies

Foster's new proposal for a tower adjacent to Mies's Seagrams Building

China everywhere you look

Travelling down oxford street yesterday I counted 7 buses (including my own) with full rear surface advertisements for China, and China 2008 / London 2012 banners running down the length of the street. Selfridges west corner window looks like my handbag exploded in there - with top to bottom chinese paraphernalia and do-dads, and now everwhere I look I'm finding more and more references china china china beijing shanghai. Last month you couldn't excape ads for Dubai - this month China.

Branded London

TUBE MAP rebranded. Strangely reliant on candy bars and confectionary as a source for tube stop renaming. Could be an interesting affect of tube privatisation.

via kottke who via'd it from boingboing.