ARTOPIANEWS: Westbeth, NYC’s pioneer artist-housing, is now an art graveyard, thanks to Hurricane Sandy. Bring back conceptual art!
Via NYT> http://tinyurl.com/armbz8t
Other news> http://artopianews.blogspot.com/
Shipping containers to be used for NYC disaster relief.
Story via archdaily> http://tinyurl.com/aphcbpp
More architecture: http://artopiatecture.blogspot.com/
Chinese-highway, survivor house demolished. Owner settled for $41,000.
Via archinect> http://tinyurl.com/b3spg55
Oceans rising 60% faster than expected!
inhabitat: http://tinyurl.com/c72xn4d
The ice is indeed melting —- and faster and faster!
The only tree tents you will ever need!
Txt & slide show via inhabitat: http://tinyurl.com/bodnfw7
ARTOPIAPIX: The End?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/opinion/sunday/is-this-the-end.html?hp&_r=0
Lesson taught by Sandy —- store all your digital info in the cloud. Eyebeam story and video on hyperallergic.com is a wake up call. Yuk. Salt water is not good for computers, disks, tapes, etc.
hyperallergic.com story and Eyebeam video:http://tinyurl.com/cufpn8s
Apollinaire (live! - on the left) and Andre Rouveyre at a Biofix studio which housed “une petite machine animee” in Paris in 1914 from a 1944 flip book reprint, Apollinaire: Filme en 1914.
“The Marriage of a Gazebo and a Swing,” Mothers’ Beach, Bellport, New York. After hurricane Sandy on the northern shore of The Great South Bay, across from Fire Island. Photo: John Perreault