http://www.bodkin.us/blog Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:21:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said." 1911-2010 [caption id="attachment_220" align="alignleft" width="460" caption="Cumul, 1968"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_219" align="alignleft" width="360" caption="In her studio, 1946. Courtesy Louise Bourgeois archive"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_214" align="alignleft" width="397" caption="Behind her sculpture Eye to Eye, ph. Raimon Ramis, 1990"][/caption] http://www.bodkin.us/blog/?p=215 Spring 2011, here we come... One of some 300 portraits of the artist taken by her husband Alfred Stieglitz. [caption id="attachment_208" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Georgia O'Keefe, 1958, by Don Worth, Oklahoma Arts Institute"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_209" align="alignleft" width="316" caption="Alfred Stieglitz, 1918"][/caption] http://www.bodkin.us/blog/?p=210 [caption id="attachment_204" align="alignleft" width="177" caption="Green Mountain Energy"][/caption] Did you know there are wind farms in upstate New York? Now, you can directly buy wind power. It doesn't mean your particular apartment gets power sent straight from the farm (a grid is a grid), but it's more direct than the "green" option ... http://www.bodkin.us/blog/?p=203 [caption id="attachment_195" align="alignleft" width="348" caption="All photos by Bruce Buck for the NY Times"][/caption] Can we move in here? http://www.bodkin.us/blog/?p=194 For reasons that are temporarily top-secret, I was around the German-Swiss-French border two weekends ago and discovered the headquarters of Vitra, the Swiss-German manufacturer of visionary furniture and object design. The manufacturing facilities are designed by the likes of Tadao Ando and Zaha Hadid. And then there's the newest addition, ... http://www.bodkin.us/blog/?p=173 Even if you don't know about it, many small clothing lines are, by necessity, scavengers or recyclers. The little guys often end up buying big companies' leftovers. Case in point: These buttons, soon to appear in the FW10 collection, are part of an unused lot once made for Eddie Bauer. ... http://www.bodkin.us/blog/?p=168 Sorry for the lack of posts, but between the holiday and getting the AW10 collection ready, there's little time to do anything besides TCOB (in Bodkin office parlance). One of the many time-consuming tasks is preparing all of the shibori-dyed T-shirts and bustiers for spring production (in stores soon!). This ... http://www.bodkin.us/blog/?p=159 I periodically visit a multi-disciplinary holistic health practitioner (the amazing Katinka Locascio; New Yorkers, she will change your life, write in for contact info) who also grows and blends herbs. During our first session, she told me that my body was "asking for nettles," and that taking them would help ... http://www.bodkin.us/blog/?p=149 Here at Bodkin, we embrace our dorkiness. We tend to send each other pictures of funny animals all day, and today our studio-mate Jacqueline said, "why don't you add that to your blog?" And why not? Learning about animals is, after all, a way to learn about your world, and ... http://www.bodkin.us/blog/?p=145 Domus is an Italian architecture and design magazine. My dad collected it in the 70s and I've saved a few copies. That woman is so cool that I don't even know what else to say. http://www.bodkin.us/blog/?p=133