27 May
1846 death of Antoine Laurent Thomas Vaudoyer
Not There
1997.05.27
database organization
Quondam
1998.05.27
Re: aesthetics market research
1998.05.27 17:02
interview 2.1ab
1999.05.27 08:45
the art of architecture
1999.05.27 13:13
space architecture
1999.05.27 13:15
1999.05.27 16:20
gallery 1999
1999.05.27
QA002: the PSA of CRI
2001.05.27 19:02
virtual portraiture
2002.05.27
virtual faith
2002.05.27 12:16
real/virtual existence
2002.05.27 18:52
ideas
2003.05.27
Content
2004.05.27 13:05
virtual and real
2004.05.27 17:56
Archinect's Robots
2005.05.27 09:35
from our Savior...with love!
2005.05.27 09:43
2005.05.27 11:45
hotrod architecture
2005.05.27 10:33
2005.05.27 11:16
2005.05.27 11:40
VALU-PLUS
2006.05.27 11.27
The Official Paradigm Shift thread
2008.05.27 12:02
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real/virtual existence
2002.05.27 18:52
On this month's (May 2002) cover of the magazine Artforum is a picture of the Altar of Zeus from Pergamon as it is presently in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. Not only is this architecture that has moved, but the (now over a century old) installation is a true example of the composite of the real and the virtual. A whole new virtual Temple has been reconstructed utilizing fragment remains of the original--a part real, part virtual building in a sense, or is it now a part Greek, part German building? For sure it is a mostly virtual building within a real building. It is also a part real, part reenactment building within a real building.
www.quondam.com began as a further extension of the above real/virtual lines, yet also took it to the real/virtual to an extreme in that the virtual buildings in Quondam's collection are all virtual and kept within a completely other virtual building, i.e., www.quondam.com itself.
One advantage that fully virtual buildings have over real buildings is that virtual buildings can move around this planet with relative ease via the Internet. Moreover, virtual buildings digitally made 'physically' come to you rather than you 'physically' going to them.
from our Savior...with love!
2005.05.27 09:43
Now read something where you will actually learn something:
The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion
In retrospect, what I really learned about was the pervasive existence of modern oblivion. Not just the obliviousness to the sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art, but the overall condition of modern oblivion that most of humanity (especially most "Christians") don't even know that they exist in.
It's ironic how Rumsfeld says that part of the fight against terrorism includes the fight against religious extremism. Yet, at the same time, religious extremism in the USA no doubt believes that Rumsfeld is right. That's modern oblivion for you.
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