"I’m not saying that I don’t think about business, but a good businessperson probably doesn’t try to sell cut out buttholes hanging on expensive rods."

Tracey Emin, Exorcism of the Last Painting I Ever Made (detail) (fywa)

Keymo, Untitled Photograph V (2009) (insalatadp)

David Hammons @ L & M, New York (2011)

David Hammons @ L & M, New York (2011)

Nicolas de Staël, The Road (1954) (mianoti:yb:pr)

(via mianoti-deactivated20110615)

Lisa Tan, Two Postmodern Conditions (2006) C-print. (reference)

Deke McClelland (reference)

Lorna Simpson, Guarded Conditions (1989) (tob:ran)

Lin Zhipeng

Lin Zhipeng

Jean-Michel Basquiat, To Repel Ghosts™ (1986) (nvvr:a-h)

Tracey Emin (2004) (objectivecorrelative)

(Source: rachelwetzler)

Michael Hansmeyer, Subdivided Columns - A New Order (2010)

This project involves the conception and design of a new column order based on subdivision processes. It explores how subdivision can define and embellish this column order with an elaborate system of ornament.

An abstracted doric column is used as an input form to the subdivision processes. Unlike the minimal input of the Platonic Solids project, the abstracted column conveys a significant topographical and topological information about the form to be generated. The input form contains data about the proportions of the the column’s shaft, capital, and supplemental base. It also contains information about its fluting and entasis.

The input form is tagged to allow the subdivision process to distinguish between individual components. This allows a heterogeneous application of the process, with distinct local parameters settings. In addition to distinguishing among tagged components, the process parameters can be set to vary according to the input form’s topography as well as its topology. Finally, an environmental specification of parameters is possible to allow regional phenomena to occur.

The result is a series of columns that exhibit both highly specific local conditions as well as an overall coherency and continuity. The ornament is in a continuous flow, yet it consists of very distinct local formations. The complexity of column contrasts with the simplicity of its generative process. [from his website]