Russian Connection

Just in time to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Mathias Rust’s famous vacation to Moscow, Russian Magazine Project International features this month an old cartoon from this blog. Actually -unlike Mr. Rust- I came in as a guest. Last month, Sergei Sitar, from Project Russia, contacted me in order to publish one of the Latour&Sloterdijk

Mostafavi vs. sanford Kwinter. Hairstyles 3 (- Building Services 2)

Mohsen Mostafavi and Sanford Kwinter: Hairstyles

Mohsen Mostafavi and Sanford Kwinter, “On Conjecture”: http://sorcerer.design.harvard.edu/gsdlectures/f2008/onconjecture2.mov From the Archives of Trays: http://72.167.142.101/index.php (enhanced version) Sanford Kwinter: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://farm1.static.flickr.com/180/417104691_6d9992cd00.jpg%3Fv%3D0&imgrefurl=http://flickr.com/photos/katriarchy/417104691/&usg=__W_xcxGKHH3APydPyO_HbPuWtMlE=&h=500&w=450&sz=220&hl=en&start=10&sig2=sCb08mmVDoIbr3qZS8Ot_w&um=1&tbnid=5ckGydVrHrkpwM:&tbnh=130&tbnw=117&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsanford%2Bkwinter%26hl%3Den%26um%3D1&ei=Lrk3SuqSAszMlQeU4JTpDQ Mohsen Mostafavi: http://www.harvardclubofjapan.org//public_img/events/539w.jpg and… Alan Altshuler: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/people/faculty/altshuler/images/idlarge.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/people/faculty/altshuler/pub.html&usg=__edvw35LM_WtnFbbJYLItknz3LQY=&h=216&w=252&sz=76&hl=en&start=4&sig2=V2OlMchuNX4xfEpdrVsAOw&um=1&tbnid=fVheIgsIMtMboM:&tbnh=95&tbnw=111&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dalan%2Baltshuler%26hl%3Den%26um%3D1&ei=Abo3SpyrCoOFlAfavMjpDQ

Iterations (II): Changes Step by Step

For those of you that wonder how these things are done, here you can have a hint of the process from pencils to finished cartoon. 1. On top:  Breakdowns/pencils on sketching paper. 2. Inks ontop of blue lines printed on a thicker paper. 3. Final drawing with grey halftones added with the computer.

Past Events: Changes in the GSD

MOHSEN MOSTAFAVI APPOINTED NEW DEAN: http://sorcerer.design.harvard.edu/gsdlectures/f2007/moshen.mov “ON CONJECTURE” MODERATED BY SANFORD KWINTER: http://sorcerer.design.harvard.edu/gsdlectures/f2008/onconjecture2.mov

Building Services (I): How to Reserve a Room in the GSD (goes wild)

APPROVED BY PAUL SCANNEL, CREATOR OF THE ORIGINAL CRAZY FLOWCHART:

Latour and Sloterdijk (III)

Click to enlarge What would be amusing, if it had not been such a waste of time, is that “spiritualists” have exerted themselves for three centuries trying to save from the diluvium the little arch of the human soul floating on the vast ocean of the ever-mounting res extensa, without realizing that this ocean was

Bruno Latour and Peter Sloterdijk (II)

Click to enlarge The opposite strategies of naturalization and socialization are able to stupefy the mind only because they are always thought of separately. But as soon as you combine the two moves, you realize that nature and society are two perfectly happy bedfellows whose opposition is a farce, and that what Peter and I

Bruno Latour and Peter Sloterdijk (I)

Click to enlarge I was born a Sloterdijkian. When, thirty years ago, I was preparing the proofs of Laboratory Life, I had included in the pictures, to the disgust of my scientist informants, a black-and-white photograph of the air-conditioned machinery of the Salk Institute in which I had done my fieldwork. “What does this has