NisN IRL : Depero Futurista

IRL (in real life) at the Wolfsonian Library this Monday I was turned on to Depero Futurista. A book created by Futurist founder Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in honor of his colleaugue & friend Forunato Depero. A total inspiration! Please excuse my wonky photographs—I got too excited. A big thanks to librarian Frank Luca for pulling [...]

COMMUNAL SPIRITS.

There is a lot to learn from community living of the 1960s and 1970s. One of the largest communes of its day was located in a small town in Western Massachusetts. Brotherhood of the Spirit (renamed Renaissance) was started by Michael Metelica and birthed the band — Spirit of the Flesh. The most inspiring story [...]

MS. HEYMANN.

Margarete Heymann—Bauhaus bad girl—unhappily left the school after one year. She appealed to founder Martin Gropius for permission to study ceramics. Bauhaus/Gropius strongly encouraged women to study textiles and most did. But Heymann refused, rocking the Bauhaus boat. Read more about her life via NYTimes Thanks to Carl Williamson for sharing this portrait. So so [...]

ALEXANDER GIRARD is not new.

I found a perfect quote for NisN while reading about Girard today. Nothing is new, but personal interpretation can often be so. – Alexander Girard, 1956 via SFMOMA