World’s Largest Model Airport Opens to Rave Reviews | USA Today
What’s being billed as the world’s largest model airport opened this week in Hamburg. It’s described in nearly every media account as a spectacular display with a stunning attention to detail.
The model — loosely based on Hamburg’s airport — took more than six years to build.
And, the price tag? Around $5 million, according to the Daily Mail of London.
—Ben Mutzabaugh, Today in the Sky
Photo: The World’s Largest Model Airport | USA Today Photo Gallery
The Record Books | by Christophe Gowans
Okay, first off. Gold star for the title. The Record Books for a series in which rock albums are reimagined as book covers? Perfect.
What about the designs? As Mother Jones writes:
The results are as idiosyncratic as the albums themselves. Prince’s Purple Rain is transformed into a sci-fi fantasy by one P. Rogers Nelson. The Beatles’ Abbey Road feels like a well-mannered Penguin Classic. Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs looks like a Book of the Month Club hardcover selection circa 1955. Patti Smith’s Horses trades its famous Mapplethorpe portrait for the look of a popular series of kids’ reference books. And the Sex Pistols’ Never Mind the Bollocks looks like something you’d stuff under your mattress (and then wash your hands).
Personally I prefer the titles where the “author” corresponds to an individual artist rather than a band (using their real names rather than adopted names — as in the above take on Purple Rain — is an especially nice touch). There’s no confusion between the title and the byline, which I feel is a shortcoming of the band-oriented ones. Take Abbey Road. This may in fact be my favorite design of the bunch, but it’s not clear whether The Beatles is the author or the title. But such a quibble, I hate to even bring it up. Check out all the designs. Very creative and thoughtful work, and whole lotta fun.
via Mother Jones
Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.
Source: thingsdeadpeoplesaid
So, if I buy this work of art at the Art Los Angeles Contemporary Event today, are the live models included?
Off to get cultured
It’s another perfect day in Southern California. (Sorry, everywhere else.) I’m about to hop on my cruiser and head on over to the Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2011 event in Santa Monica. A buddy of mine who owns and operates the Romer Young Gallery in San Francisco is exhibiting.
I’m fascinated by contemporary art, mainly because I’m not really sure what “contemporary art” is. To me — someone with little knowledge of art history or appreciation of art’s nuances — it sort of seems like the category captures anything that is “Not like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo or Rembrandt.” You know, the big names from the Renaissance.
Anyway, it’ll be interesting to see what cool, weird, awesome, hideous, [insert your adjective] shit is on display.
How about some more art? This pleasant little Picasso recently sold at auction for the modest price of $106.5 million. May have been the highest price ever paid for a painting, but seems a steal if you ask me. (What an embarrassment.)
