Crosshatching

[imomus]

At school I used to doodle crosshatching patterns like these in the corner margins of my jotters. I didn't see them again for decades.



Suddenly, this same crosshatching pattern turns up the same month in three different places: on a tenugui Hisae brought back from Japan, in a tape-installation floor at the Jim Lambie show at GoMA (watch a time-lapse video of the tape being laid here), and on some biscuit tin lids at Ikea.

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[silkytooth.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

album artwork?
j

[(Anonymous)]

Speaking of which, do you have any artwork already?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

No, but we have some ideas.

[akabe.livejournal.com]

the last 2 seem somewhat closer in spirit to keith haring than to the ones above

[dabroots.livejournal.com]

That pattern as doodling must come from certain parts of the mind while it's engaged in either listening, or drifting off from listening. I did the same kind while sitting in classrooms during lectures, and years later I found myself doing the same on writing pads in business meetings. Interesting to see as floor designs and on other practical items. I also doodled seemingly infinite ranges of round-topped mountains and eventually I came across a roll of fabric in an Asian gift shop that had much the same pattern, but with with a pagoda-like structure in the middle of it.

[(Anonymous)]

When I was I kid I went through a phase where I would draw epic mazes using this kind of patterning. Intricate and ornate patterns are fun!

-adam b

[mamichan.livejournal.com]

I love this pattern. My mother has zabuton from the 70s with that pattern on them to this day. She actually sent me a very similar tenugui last month.

Record in the back

[(Anonymous)]

You have the Efdemin record!
I thought you hated club music. Is this why you're also featured on the RA podcast by Pigon?

Silas

Re: Record in the back

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Someone gave me that record -- the label, in fact -- and I like the sleeve. It's joined my collection of black and white analog record sleeves. The music isn't really my tasse de thé, though it doesn't offend me either. It's just a different musical language, and one I don't really respond to.

I'm in the Pigon podcast because my a capella version of What Will Death Be Like? is on a release they're associated with, a compilation.

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Thumbprint orgy.

[kenickeh.livejournal.com]

I love it.

Btw do you like Ikea Momus?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I like their commitment to non-chintzy design at low prices. But I mock them slightly in my NYT column today for belatedly discovering post-modernism (http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/the-post-materialist-ikea-embraces-chintz/). I also think they've become a diversity-destroying monoculture at this point, though a somewhat more benign one than, say, Microsoft.

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[(Anonymous)]

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