Always Two Sides



Over at 4Q Conditioning.
“Everyone’s worried to death.”
“My wife, she’s good. But with money, she blames on me, I blame on her. It makes your life more of a struggle.”
“I haven’t seen powdered milk since the refugee camps.”
“BP took our life away.”
“I don’t want nobody to have this miserable life.”
Read: Cleanup Hiring Feeds Frustration in Fishing Town by John Leland, NY Times
REF: FOOD, INDUSTRIAL, NATURE, PEOPLE, SMALL TOWN

NY Times:
"The Food and Drug Administration is seriously considering whether to approve the first genetically engineered animal that people would eat — salmon that can grow at twice the normal rate."
REF: FOOD, INDUSTRIAL, MADE IN USA


Inventory Books is edited by Adam Michaels, designed at Project Projects, published by Princeton Architectural Press, and launched with a party.
Inventory Books Series Launch Party
Sunday, June 27, 2–6 p.m.
186 Orchard St. (bet Houston & Stanton)
New York
REF: ARCHITECTURE, BOOKS, CITIES, FRIENDS
"I don't think the University of Kentucky can be so ostentatiously friendly to the coal industry ... and still be a friend to me and the interests for which I have stood for the last 45 years. ... If they love the coal industry that much, I have to cancel my friendship." —Wendell Berry
Read: Lexington Herald-Leader and/via NY Times

Stan Bitters' own sleeping bags from "The Total Tote Bag Book" over at Wary Meyers.

Billy Ray will work hard and his farm will earn him a living, and he will be happy and his life will be fulfilled, and he will know a great peace in his soul such as few men have ever known.... There will be dogs, and life will be good.
Read: Billy Ray's Farm by Larry Brown
Watch: documentary by UM Southern Studies Class
via/more: A Modern Dairy Tale [NY Times]



ARE WE HAVING FUN YET!?
Opening tonight, June 10th at W/----, “APPLAUSE COPYRIGHT ©1966 BY BRUCE CONNER. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED” is revisited by Stand Up Comedy. Focusing on one signal, the installation is a relic made to fit the confines of the project site. W/---- as a place for entertainments and openings as recreation, or objects as performance. The audience will often define the space.
REF: ARCHITECTURE, ART, FRIENDS, SIGNS, TO-DO