red black / the cyclical nature if the practice of architecture
by viktor timofeev
enamel, gouache, watercolour on paper.
9.5’ x 13’ in 48 parts.
song: porcherie - live @ l’olympia
band: bérurier noir
france - 1989
called themselves “noir” (black) for the color of mourning (because their 1st concert was planned to be also their last) and for anarchy and “bérurier” after the character from the novels of frédéric dard. instead of being an end, the success of their 1st show inspired them to continue. a cult band, they were loved by a generation of youth and feared by concert organisers for the riots that followed their shows.
le monde est une vraie porcherie
les hommes se comportent comm’des porcs.
la jeunesse emmerde le front nationale!
“shhh… portrait in 12 volumes of gray”
3960 books with 12 different shades of gray make a giant sculpture.
by christian moeller
walnut creek library
northern california, usa
d-day: june 6th, the 66th anniversary of the successful 1944 allied invasion of france.
the largest amphibious invasion in history - over 160.000 troops landed, assisted by over 5.000 ships, aerial bombardment, gliders and paratroopers.
up:
left: 13 liberty ships, deliberately scuttled to form a breakwater for invasion vessels landing on the normandy beachhead lie in line off the beach, shielding the ships in shore. the artificial harbor engineering installation which was prefabricated and towed across the channel. 1944 photo.
right: u.s. soldiers approach omaha beach, their weapons wrapped in plastic to keep them dry, june 1944.
down:
left: allied soldiers, vehicles and equipment swarm onto the french shore during the normandy landings, june 1944.
right: the sight of a low-flying allied plane sends nazi soldiers rushing for cover on a beach in france, before d-day june 1944. the aircraft was taking reconnaissance photos of german coastal barriers in preparation for the june 6th invasion.
+: the big picture
