2007 Blog Archives - January
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Are you Looking for Handwork?
Thursday January 4, 2007 by Eames Demetrios
Every week we are going to screen a new video on this site. now we have Citizen Starck playing, but if you came to see Handwork on the Eames Lounge Chair, you can click here to watch it.
TED Conference
Sunday January 7, 2007 by Eames DemetriosI am thrilled to report that I am on the mainstage as part of the TED Conference this year in Monterey. It is a real honor and I look forward to sharing more about it with you here on this site.
Comment [427]A Bell Foundry in Whitechapel
Thursday January 11, 2007 by Eames DemetriosPeeking into the courtyard of the Whitechapel Church Bell Foundry (in the Whitechapel area of London), you can see artifacts of the trade.
There is a little museum there which is quite charming. They have been doing this since 1570 and this is where the Liberty Bell and Big Ben were made.
Lucy Newman-Cleeve of Man and Eve Gallery and I discovered it while researching the London manifestation of the Kymaerica project (which should emerge in a couple of months).
Here’s the facade:
Sculpture Key West
Sunday January 14, 2007 by Eames Demetrios
Sculpture Key West is a wonderful outdoor sculpture festival in Key West, Florida. I’lll be posting more on this in the next month or two, but this is a sculpture (still being assembled in this picture) called Trojan Duck.
It is being installed next to the East Martello Fort (not far from Key West Airport).
The New Space
Saturday January 20, 2007 by Eames DemetriosThough this new blog concerns many different topics, I have to admit that, with the new Eames Office space getting closer to the opening, the Eames world will dominate for a bit longer (I suspect that will always go in waves).
We are madly putting the finishing touches on our space. It will showcase things from the family collection. Here’s a beautiful sign from the Griffith Park Railroad:
The Eameses designed it in the mid-1950s for Los Angeles’s Griffith Park.
A Daunting Map
Sunday January 21, 2007 by Eames Demetrios
This is a map of the world showing how many years of the next 20 will be the hottest ever at their respective locations. Dark red is 19—and it is basically all red.
This speaks to the extremes of weather we will be experiencing during climate change. Here is the whole article in the New Scientist.
Opening Tonight
Wednesday January 24, 2007 by Eames Demetrios
These are new miniatures of the molded plywood elephant that Charles and Ray designed.
We have them in our new Eames Office 850 space. Won’t you come say hello?
The opening is tonight (wednesday)
Here he is, dwarfed by Eiffel Tower prototypes.
And in beautiful light:
Dervaes Farms
Thursday January 25, 2007 by Eames DemetriosI’ll post about last night’s party shortly, but an article in today’s LA Times is worth checking out.
It is about Dervaes Gardens, a family run farm in the middle of Pasadena (part of the LA metroplex for those outside of Southern California). They are farmers, but also leaders in teaching about sustainability—here’s their site about that!
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Thursday January 25, 2007 by Eames Demetrios
This was the scene Wednesday night at the opening of the new Eames Office space in Santa Monica, CA at 850 Pico Boulevard.
500-600 people jammed the new space and it was a lot of fun. Next week’s video will show you more of the event and what we’re doing there. Hustler of Culture was there and those of you on MySpace should check out the comments on my profile there, because Beatgrrrl posted a picture of her Dot Pattern tattoo.
People really enjoyed sitting in the stainless steel lounge chair by Cheryl Ekstrom
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Friday January 26, 2007 by Eames DemetriosThere will be some obituaries (link to LA Times, reg. req), but the passing of Rysard Kapuscinski will likely not be front page news (except perhaps in his native Poland) but it should be. He was one of the most magical non-fiction writers around.
He came of age professionally during the Cold War and as Polish journalist had a unique vantage point. By traveling constantly as a foreign correspondent (he covered some 50 wars or something like that) he had an independence that few reporters in the Soviet bloc had. And yet I think because he was Polish, most people knew that his country had suffered as well.
All that would not be enough, but it gave him a context as he visited the (very often) third world countries that he wrote about. It was a perfect match to his impeccable writing style and you have works of contemporary description that truly stood the test of time in the same way as Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia.
I said “magical non-fiction” for a reason. His books have a fascinating, compelling, but above all credible surrealism that is wonderful to read.
I encourage you to try the following books:
About Africa: The Shadow of the Sun
About the fall of the Shah: Shah of Shahs
On Haile Selassie of Ethiopia: The Emperor
A wonderful collection of writings (and the first one of his I read):The Soccer War
And there are many other wonderful books of his too . . .
A Flickr Set
Friday January 26, 2007 by Eames DemetriosHere is Hustler of Culture’s Flickr Set on Wednesday’s reopening of the Eames Office at 850 Pico.
CommentHousekeeping
Tuesday January 30, 2007 by Eames DemetriosWe are still furiously editing our piece on the new Eames Office space, so it will be posted this evening—thanks for your patience.
CommentWe're Live!!!!!!
Wednesday January 31, 2007 by Eames DemetriosTell a friend we finally posted the video of the Eames Office opening at 850.
A little bit late, but our first project edited specially for the site.
Enjoy
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