Shakkei (emprunter le paysage), 1985
Watch the Doors Please!, Chicago, 1980-81
Daniel Buren
Fisherman, wash house women, farmers, and people of the countryside wearing conceptual fashion pieces.
from Sonomama: High Fashion in the Japanese Countryside by Taishi Hirokawa (1987)
Site: Sculpture in the Environment
for Best Products, at the time the largest catalog showroom merchandiser in the United States.
c. 1980
Bloomingdale’s Shopping Bag designs
Summer 1989, Robert Valentine
New Year’s 1991 Shopping Bag
1983, Melanie Marder Parks
First Flush of Summer Shopping Bag, 1990
The Creatures of Comfort studio is looking for our next superstar summer intern!
Interns work with the small staff at our New York design studio on a variety of aspects of clothing design, production, and management.
If interested, please send a cover letter and resume toinfo@creaturesofcomfort.us.
An experimental meditation on Times Square marquees and iconic advertising, Klein’s first film captures the concurrently seedy and dazzling aspects of New York’s Great White Way. Illustrative of Klein’s transition from photographer to filmmaker, Broadway by Light was declared by Orson Welles to be “the first film I’ve seen in which color was absolutely necessary. —calendar.walkerart.org
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World
By Erica Ho
April 18, 2011
The survival of an endangered language may depend on two people — and all they want to do is ignore each other.
Manuel Segovia and Isidro Velazquez, the last speakers of a language called Ayapaneco, live less than half a mile away from each other in Ayapa, Mexico. But no matter how precious the cultural implications of keeping their language alive are, they are not going to speak to each other.
The Guardian notes that, “It is not clear whether there is a long-buried argument behind their mutual avoidance, but people who know them say they have never really enjoyed each other’s company.”
Ayapaneco is one of many dozens of indigenous languages remaining in Mexico. Perhaps the most extreme case, it managed to survive the Spanish conquest in Mexico. Sixty-eight native languages are still in use today, although a handful are on the verge of extinction.
Regardless, linguists are still attempting to preserve the language despite the lack of communication between the last two fluent speakers, who no longer converse with anyone regularly in their native tongue. When Segovia, 75, and Velazquez, 65, both die, their language will pass away with them.
Still, Daniel Suslak, a linguistic anthropologist, sums up their relationship succinctly: “They don’t have a lot in common.”
