Proun Room

Quite different to a prune room.

http://www.designishistory.com/1920/el-lissitzky/

Mac

I'm obviously as keen as the next GSA alumni that the Mackintosh School of Art be restored to it's former glory (albeit with a sprinkler system in place). However, I can't help but wonder whether the UK government would give 5 big ones to a Scotland that had just decided to vote for independence. Curious how politics can work in these situations...

http://glasgowschoolofart.cmail1.com/t/ViewEmail/r/0CC7CB0C3B56AE272540EF23F30FEDED/42CB3B35CBB0A8AC1726EA5DA1051479

Paradise Revisited

Worth a trip to Studio Rouge on Hollywood Rd. for these magic laterns!

http://www.artyy.com/news/detail/?16436.htm

Avenue of the Americas

A Gursky. For no apparent reason.

http://arttattler.com/archivethinkfirst.html

La Vie Claire

Ode to 'The Badger'...

http://www.donhoubicycles.com/in-the-booth/

Thames

All hail Industrial Romantic.

http://gizmodo.com/a-photographic-journey-down-the-old-industrial-banks-of-1471225736

Perspex Hi-Rise

In amongst the Deng Pots and Cartier diamonds were a few interesting nuggets at this weekend's Fine Art Asia. See Mrs BnB's more in depth post here:

http://eclecticeast.com/2013/10/06/hi-60s-eclectic-art/

Swedish Sci-Fi Suburbia

Spaceships & Volvos- a good combination.

http://www.simonstalenhag.se/

Turrellipse

Mmmm James Turrell- brings back memories of Chichu...

http://archidose.blogspot.hk/2013/09/james-turrell-inside-guggenheim.html

Ho Fan

On for the next few weeks in Chai Waaaan is what looks like a great photography exhibition featuring the likes of Ho Fan (above) and a couple of guys I've done some mini posts on in the past- Michael Wolf & Romain Jacquet-Lagreze. The cultural desert has some water.

http://www.aovertical.com/index.php/ex-all-about-hong-kong-details

Dollar

Funnily enough I didn't bump into Roman Abramovich at this weekend's Art Fair. It's all gone a bit right of center.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-21/jolie-gems-warhol-wine-lure-billionaires-to-hong-kong.html

Burtynsky Ship

This reminds me of a balsa wood dinosaur.

http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/

Gryzmala

Controlled explosion.

http://www.detail-online.com/daily/3d-tape-drawing-by-monica-grzymala-10441/

Warhol Mandarin

Apologies for posting about an exhibition that closed yesterday, but the above is a nice image all the same. It depicts Andy Warhol circa 1982 looking out from the Mandarin Oriental in Central Hong Kong. Although this was only 30 years ago, it looks like a different world out of that window. There's not a lot of point in dwelling on the exhibition other than to say 15 Minutes Eternal was a pleasant surprise, with a far deeper presentation of Warhol and his life that I, at least, have seen before. The 'Time Capsule' (Apple patent?!?) covering his HK & Beijing visit was of particular interest. Yes, he did go to Ascot Chang for his shirts. Some things really do not change.

http://hyperallergic.com/63434/revisiting-warhol-in-hong-kong/

Cinelli

I'm due an update to my virtual 'Bike Bookcase' below, especially since 'It's not about the Bike' moved into the fiction category. One recent purchase where such truths are not so pertinent to the book's message is this rather nice book on the history of Cinelli, including a foreword by Paul Smith. 

http://www.amazon.com/Cinelli-The-Art-Design-Bicycle/dp/0847838676

Flames

The world could do with some more Olympic cauldron experts- step forward Constantino Manias. Stepping up the artistic tree a little, Thomas Picklewickle did not disappoint for Danny Boy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PON7VJtJ4g

Bont Art = Bart?

I'm pretty glad my Bont shoes don't look like this. But wouldn't it be hipstertastic if they did! Donated by the Bradley Wiggins Foundation, these Bonts are up for auction as part of an exhibition on Le Tour happening right now in London town. Speaking of Wiggins, with just a few days remaining till the Grande Depart, how excited am I about the prospect of a Briton actually going into the Tour as a genuine contender??? With no Contador or Schleck it really is a case of now or never for Wiggins- go Brad!

http://www.snapgalleries.com/news/bradley-wiggins-foundation-modifications-auction/

Porcelainia

Quite a few of my recent posts have been about fairly high brow 'Art'. Time to bring it down a peg or 2, with these very, 'artistic' porcelain water bottles. Such are the delights of racing the Tour of Friendship in Thailand, where the trophies are custom made for each year's event, with a bike part as the theme. Previous years have seen porcelain cranksets and, another one in my kitsch cabinet of fame- a candy blue Selle Italia SLR complete with gold swirly '09 Thai trim. It certainly beats generic golden plastic cups, though the frightening thing is that these are probably hand made...

I rode the 30s this year, and while the race wasn't super successful for me, I did manage one podium with a 5th place on one of the sprint stages behind 'Vincent' Tam (ex Thai champion), earning me one Thai porcelain water bottle. The full race report is up on colossi.cc, but one thing to expand on a little, is the fact that in earning this trophy I reached a new max heart rate of 196bpm. This is 3 beats above my previous maximum- reached about 5/6 years ago. And it's not like I haven't been trying hard inbetween... Evidently conditions played a bit part in reaching this- sprinting in 40 degrees heat certainly makes you work pretty hard, but it really makes a mockery of the 220 minus your age nonsense you read in the gym. Maybe I'll hit 200 when I get to 40???

Vinyl on Aluminium

Nice.

http://ianmonroe.net/

Wheel

We're 99 years on from Marcel Duchamp peddling bike wheels as Art, but that doesn't seem to stop 'em. I've had one or two wheels that looked like this after a crash, but sadly I never managed to sell them at any Art fairs.

Worst ways to spend a Sunday afternoon.