27.7.09

transit-based musings [pt 1]


where: the L1, direcció hospital de bellvitge.
when: approx 5.24pm
what: fierce catalan woman unabashedly rocking...
1. a semi-billowing pinstripe blouse.
2. floor-length fitted & pleated black dress.
3. A BODICE FEATURING A SCENE OF DANCING CHERUBS.

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15 minutes of pietras


Kaitlyn and her garbage scoop are the current 15 Minutes of Fame iqonian on iqons.com. check her out. Hope those boxes are unpacked!
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25.7.09

website preview what what!


you'll be able to click on different ink blocks to find out info about the collective's projects, members, and current interests/infatuations. info will appear in the outlines derived from the polygonal lasso tool in photoshop that we used to clean up the drawing. (the drawing was done by temples' two year old niece.) Continue

24.7.09

some advice from the collective:



















some ridiculous text overlayed on an image from allendale, sc after a devastating tornado. Continue

22.7.09

Party Like It's 1811



You'd think that interpreting Victorian scroll work for a wedding invitation and branding would be fun. Actually, I'd hope you wouldn't. Given that the event's theme is inspired by Jane Austen's work (printed and set in the early 18oo's) and the scroll work is from a much later Victorian edition, this could only be fun if I were prophetically jacking the above late edition illustration of Sense and Sensibility  to make the 1811 first edition cover. In that case I'm there, because clearly some reverse Ghost/Whoopi Goldberg stuff would be going on.  
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19.7.09

I'm a Card Memba

DVF dishes out essential business advice in the nytimes. A must read!

Don't take any of other people's insecurity. 
Failure makes you better. 
The more you grow yourself naturally, the more you will have control of your own destiny. 
Finance from operations and have no debt. 
Independent. Independent. Financially Independent. 
Don't be all things to all people, fill a niche. 
Be very much who you really are. 


Check out her beautiful headquarters by Work Architecture here. 

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#47, 49, and 51. Bahhaha



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18.7.09

51 Flavors and Melting















Download the new pdf here. This madness will end soon, simple logos aren't so simple. Let the Flash fun begin. fun@supermanicecreamcollective.com.
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17.7.09

mother apparel

in response to an earlier dylan comment I present:






















get out your sewing machines, ladies. actual apparel coming soon...
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16.7.09

ice cream. ice-cream. icecream.



The Collective gets brandy Part 1...


We're talking typography, take your pick or tear it to shreds. 
Download the pdf here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/k7zs7h
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we're not kidding about this.
























making this felt like telling every graphic instinct you've ever had to shut the fuck up.

A promotional poster for our new website to be launched soon?
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Post Cut Test

Begin Here.
blah blah blah blah

End here.

Ask me about how to do this correctly later. k. bye

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15.7.09

Get Your Fans Ready


theCollective is in the process of becoming increasingly fierce. Find your fan & hang on, but keep posting.  It's going to get Very Multi. Very Local. Very Studio. Very Collective. Fast. 
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9.7.09

barcelona's odd behavio(u)r.

in keeping with never-ending surprises, it has been cloudy for the past two days in the catalan capital...and has been raining all day. i know what you're thinking. rain? remember the drought of 2007? it's feeling more like a crisp/wet fall day as i go to different neighborhoods looking at flats. i haven't seen many (more to come tomorrow), but all are typical 3 or 4 bedroom flats. my favorite so far being one occupied by a friendly girl from galicia, a proper british deb, and a french IT genius. the areas of sants & les corts (near my school) have a lot to offer in terms of affordable/shared/cute options.

for those curious...i'm including bcn construction updates straight from the Rambla del Raval, behind CCCB (a heine group), and la Barceloneta.

barceló raval hotel


library expansion

W hotel

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8.7.09

This is not a Morphallaxis

Don't worry, theCollective is far more meticulous than we may appear @ the moment. Undergoing a bit of alteration. 

Edit: HA! It seems the picture essay is under alteration as well. It has been removed do to the photographer's unreported digital manipulation. I still like it. 

While you wait, I recommend pondering Edgar Martin's haunting photo story for the New York Times Sunday Magazine. 
Edgar Martin for the New York Times Sunday Magazine. 
The series makes me wonder how much building and designing architects will do from nothing in the future. It seems pretty exciting to think that adaptive design will take on a whole new rich meaning. Gone is the "omg I'm so cool I live in a factory gentrification", and enter a whole new reality. What do you do twenty years from now with an unfinished multi-million dollar hotel complex, empty strip malls, malls, and unfinished suburbs?  Layers. Predicting better layers. 

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7.7.09

IT'S CHRISTMAS IN BARCA, YOU BITCHES

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Have fun gettin some sleep with all dem lightz
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5.7.09

Barcelona to the Moon


Casey returns to BCN! Make him feel welcome. Caption this story board, make a prediction, suggest the inevitable etc... 1.2.3.4.5 go! Continue

happy fourth, guys.




























from clemson, sc.
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3.7.09

Soaking Lima Beans STARTS@5:23



Introducing a new multi-local collaboration, SOAKING LIMA BEANS. For an indefinite period of time Andrew and Ros will be documenting the substance of human happiness, through time-lapse images and location-sensitive text. Soaking one, Black Beans. Two, Lima Beans. Next, pepper plants growing? Toes nails? Who knows. Make a suggestion & look out for live blogging.

(Print addition available, sometime when we decide to stop).
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2.7.09

a call for response: the collective does art.


























how many different ticketytac things can you find?
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1.7.09

She could be a farmer in those clothes.

Clearly I've been spending too much time with my niece, because it only took 5min of watching the Contemporary Strawberry Shortcake Cartoon (She's not the girl you used to know, uh uh. She's a heartless greedy ho, who grows her strawberries with some sort of nuclear fertilizer until they're the size of small huts in Africa at the expense of the starving children living there) to realize some very obvious influences. 

1. Someone in charge of this re-vamp was either, apart of the Clueless generation, or has bigger dreams of being Raven Symone's stylist. 

2. A reincarnated demon from Toddlers & Tiaras.

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29.6.09

28.6.09

vendi, venti, vintage: recent finds

1950s hat.
love.

50s house dress.
bought a sewing machine. shortened the sleeves and hemmed the bottom. j-crew silk scarf a la goodwill.

mama doesn't play.
move over, june.

1950s "marilyn" dress. needed minor repairs along zipper and various seams.
ruching. hot.
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make it graphic, kids!


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27.6.09

Bit Deliciousness


bit COMING SOON!  Continue

Bye Milano, Bye.

Milan posts have gone MIA, because frankly it was boring. Marni, Jil Sander, and of course Prada, were subtly all plenty innovative. It appeared that many more labels would be as well, with all the critics clamoring “omg real clothes, how interesting, etc…”. But it turns out "real clothes" aren’t that interesting.

After 200 or so years, I’d hope one could cut a suit with an espresso in one hand, and a smoke in the other. So, Paris onward! Current, stunning-non-boring-favorites: YSL and Kris Van Assche.


ysl van assche

Ciao!

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24.6.09

a penny for your thoughts folks...

keyword: obsession

go!


1.
Obsession is the pivot point between power and weakness.
2.
Obsessions are for the Gods.
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23.6.09

thank the travel deities!


new terminal T1 complete to further service that modest little coastal community of Barcelona. many of us remember the familiar slipping-on-the-floor/space-frame-bonanza/triangularly-jutting-terminals of the older Prat airport. however, thanks to a nice catalan postmodernist architect's vision, we can land and happily disembark via a silver-clad millennium falcon of a terminal.  ¡que todo me vaya bien cuando aterrizo en esa terminal tan desconocida! ¿ya habrán ampliado el metro para que llegue hasta la ciudad?... o por lo menos sants. jeje.

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