of paper and things

krystian czaplicki is an urban intervention artist, painter and sculptor. for four years he has been working on the project truthtag ~ a multi-leveled urban experiment: his works vary in form, style and meaning depending on the situation and circumstances. they embody a history of illegal break-ins, also of aesthetic ones. most of truth’s works discretely sabotage and soothe uncontrollable elements of degradation and accumulation. his interventions are little cracks, laconic and poetic displacements. in the constantly changing urban view he tests the citizen's perceptive potential and reaction to urban landscape.

have you seen this? love it! a diy project template from tina roth eisenberg (aka swissmiss ), complete with an mp3 yodel! yes! instructions here .

weather report by antony hart . a series of 9 letterpressed watercolor rainclouds, created by hanging on a fence prior to rain. i just love this!

unique, modern urban hats from claudia schulz . {via design for mankind }

{bookmarked for a long time, and i'm afraid i don't know the source - an exhibition in '07?} isamu noguchi was a prolific artist, designer and landscape architect, but his best know works are the beautiful akari light sculptures, made of mulberry-bark paper and bamboo. he began designing them in 1951, after a visit to japan when the mayor of the city of gifu challenged noguchi to modernize the traditional candlelit paper lanterns. his solution embraced the traditional production techniques, using locally-sourced materials and essentially revived the declining lantern-making industry of that region. of the akari lamps, noguchi states: its very lightness questions materiality, and is consonant with our appreciation today of the less thingness of things, the less encumbered perceptions. the quality is poetic, ephemeral, and tentative. looking more fragile than they are akari seem to float, casting their light as in passing. they do not encumber our space as mass or as a posse...

i might be quite easily persuaded to listen to fm radio if i had this ~ the white fruit radio by swann bourotte. made from sycamore (generally reserved for orchestral instruments) with an led substrate. the ridges on top respond to touch to adjust both channel and volume.

jump test via color me katie here's hoping your weekend is filled with quiet, joyful moments like this (in between the mad dash of holiday season preparations, that is)! street with a view oh. wow . so, so pretty .