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DEC.31.11 Top 10. My favorite records of the year.

JUL.7.11 A beautiful summer evening by the river Warnow in Rostock, Germany.

MAY.31.11 Full house at the studio.

APR.13.11 Kumquats. I discovered two public Kumquat trees at the Central Library in Downtown Los Angeles, heavy with fruit.

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APR.10.11 CicLAvia. For most of Sunday, 7.5 miles of streets in Los Angeles were closed to cars and taken over by more than 100.000 bicycles and pedestrians.

This event makes me proud and happy to live in Los Angeles.


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MAR.31.11 Bicycle Lights. A new glow-at-night addition to my bike from the people at Bike Glow.

FEB.25.11 Working outside at the Schindler House.

OCT.22.10 New Studio Space. 999 N Hill Street in Chinatown.

At the end of this summer, Erin Hauber, Yasmin Khan, Mike Daines, Justin Gier bonded together and I moved into a lovely new studio space, where we each purse independent design practices. After working from home for the last three years it is nice for me to have a designated work place and be among creative people. [-] [+]

SEP.22.09 Mammut Magazine Issue 4: Solastalgia. Now available at mammutmagazine.org.

JUL.3.10 Argentinien:Deutschland = 0:4. World Cup celebration in Rostock after the quarter finals game against Argentina.


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JUL.1.10 Warm summer day. Waterfront. Rostocker Pils. Vacation.

JAN.23.10 Bread Baking. Starting to fullfill one of my resolutions for 2010... becoming a good bread baker.

The Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book has been very inspiring.

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NOV.9.09 20th anniversary of Berlin Wall fall. Los Angeles celebrated the event with a wall across Wilshire Boulevard that was toppled at midnight.

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Nov.6.09 Mammut Magazine Issue 3: Twilight of the Megafauna. Now available at mammutmagazine.org.

AUG.24.09 A beautifully designed election ballot arrived from Germany for the upcoming federal elections.

AUG.1.09 Fruit Foraging & Jam Making. Inspired by the Fallen Fruit collective and armed with their Larchmont map I went foraging for public fruit.

The bounty: plenty of figs, one avocado, two pomegranates, a few rose hips, and red pepper. Although I sadly missed Fallen Fruit’s 4th Annual Public Jam, I had a private jamming event that included backup fruit from the farmer's market.
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JUN.22.09 Ah, the homeland!

MAY.17.09 Mammut Magazine Issue 2 Launch Party at Redcat.

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JAN.5.09 Visit at the Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany. [-] [+]

NOV.4.08 A new beginning.

OCT.9.08 My video piece Sign People II has been included in Hollywould... Freewaves 11th Festival of Experimental Media Arts.
The festival takes place from Oct 9–13 along Hollywood Blvd. More info at freewaves.org.
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SEP.9.08 Mammut Magazine Launch. Matt Merkel Hess and I have coedited a new magazine. Issue #1 is out now.

Mammut is a biannual magazine dedicated to exploring the intersection of art and nature. Issue #1, entitled "Leave the Land Alone," can be downloaded for free or ordered in paper format from lulu.com. More info at mammutmagazine.org.
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JUL.20.08 Tract House Article in LA Times Book Review. Lisa Anne Auerbach wrote a great piece about tracts in conjunction with her Tract House project, which she and I collaborated on.

The Tract House is currently on view at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore.

Other press for the show:
Emphasizing Inc. as an Artistic Medium, Washington Post
Sales Figures: Six Artists Get Down to Business in New Exhibition, Baltimore City Paper
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JUN.3.08

MAR.26.08 Gardening at Night. In the spirit of Fritz Haeg's Edible Estate projects, I planted a little garden in my apartment complex.

After a while, I was joined by my neighbor Carlos and his son. He got the light that made it possible to work after sundown.

Carlos and I continued the next day...


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MAR.14.08 In conjunction with the Anytime, Anywhere conference, I took part in the tour “Touring Olympia - Exposition Park” by Temporary Travel Office. Ryan Griffis and Sarah Ross led an informative and whimsical tour of Los Angeles Olympics sites at Exposition Park, set in a fictional near future of 2030.




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JAN.28.08 Inlandia Exhibition opens at Wignall Museum. The exhibition, which runs until March 1, includes a new project of mine: a video installation named "Sign People II." It is a continuation of a project that started as a photo documentary a few years ago. Again, I took to the streets to document and interview people that twirl signs by the side of the road.


The Wignall Museum is located at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga. More info here...
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JAN.1.08 Happy 2008!
(12:32am Toitenwinkel, Rostock, Germany)

DEC.1.07 Launch Party for Elana Mann's book "GIVE IT TO ME, DO IT TO ME, MAKE ME." Elana and I collaborated on this book. It documents a series of sixteen performance scores that Elana performed at the California Institute of the Arts in 2006. The book launch will be on Saturday, December 1, 2007 from 7-9pm at the Mountain Bar in Chinatown, Los Angeles. More info here...
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OCT.27.07 Took part in a massive anti-war rally in Downtown Los Angeles today. More than 10,000 people marched through the streets and took part in a symbolic die-in. [-] [+]

OCT.5.07 Beautiful sign on the way to the apple orchards of Oak Glen.

SEP.21.07 A walk in my neighborhood yielded two discoveries today: I witnessed a Park(ing) Day intervention at the Los Angeles Eco-Village. I've been admiring the Park(ing) Day project (started by collaborative group Rebar in San Francisco) for a while, also mentioning it in my book Reclaim+Recover. It was great to be able to see these temporary gardens pop up in Los Angeles for one day. I had never heard of the Eco-Village before. It's exciting to have this community, which seeks more cooperative and ecological living patterns, right around the corner. [-] [+]

SEP.14.07 Recently, I spent two days working with Barry McGee on a zine for his new exhibition at Redcat, which opened tonight. I set up shop with laptop and scanner in the gallery, while Barry was excitedly hopping back and forth grabbing this and that to be included in the zine. A fun way of working! [-] [+]

SEP.13.07 Evelyn Serrano invited me to participate in the "Town Hall Meeting" as part of The Other Project, for which I also designed the poster. This event brought together officials from the City of Santa Clarita and CalArts to converse about furthering the connections between the Institute and its immediate communities. I started out the discussion with a presentation about the Re:Valencia project that had confronted similar questions about a year ago.
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JUN.6.07 Good-bye CalArts. [-] [+]

MAY.29.07 A visit to Portland, Oregon, made it possible to swing by a few Intersection Repair projects (which I also included in my book Reclaim+Recover). Intersection Repair, an initiative from the City Repair Project, encourages and enables neighbors to transform anonymous street intersections into thriving public spaces. [-] [+]