Happy Memorial Day from Filosofia

    Here's hoping your Memorial Day is not only relaxing

 

    but also involves
    something patriotic like flags...

...

     fighter jets

     and soup!

   

Filosofia Joins Whiteboard Journal

    Hooray!
    Filosofia's review of the new Ai Wei Wei show in Berlin
    and the contentions surrounding it was just published at Whiteboard Journal.
    Click here to read the full article.

A House Is A Machine for Living...

 
    and...

  
    Well said, my old Southern California Institute of Architecture couch!
    Le Corbusier would be proud.

A-B-C easy as 1-2-3

  
    I just spent a titillating morning at the Ausländerbehörde (Foreigner's Office)
    and was absolutely mesmerized and humbled by their unbelievably
    complex numbering system.

    This is the waiting room and number board.

  
    My number is 784.

  
    I know it might look like I missed my turn,
    but my number actually wasn't called yet.
    (Obviously)

    Nope, still not yet.

    Some things, I've learned,
    are really far beyond my limited comprehension skills.

    On that note,
    let's take a break and enjoy something that everyone (except
    for the Ausländerbehörde) can understand.
    (No offense, of course. I'd still like to get my visa.)

Apocalypse Now

    
     whoever said today is the rapture
     was probably just confusing it with 1984...

    now go eat some chocolate and celebrate the world not ending!

SofiScript

    If your boyfriend decides to learn scripting,
    and you begin to worry that he might be spending more time with his computer
    than with you...
    and that maybe he might even like his computer more than you...
    and since he feels that way maybe he should just go marry it...

    Perhaps a nice alternative would be to instead
    have him incorporate you into the variables of his scripts.
  
    That way all the time he spends on that machine
    actually becomes a geometric homage to you!

    Kind of the pinnacle of geeky romance, no?

Bears in Trees and Fish in Boxes: Art Night Berlin

    

    If you took the time to slog through April's open gallery weekend,

    you might have found a handful of really interesting pieces.

    Here are some of my favorites.

    Mesmerizing pencil drawings on the walls

    

    Mesmerizing pencil drawings on the floor 

    (complemented by my glitter shoes)

    Fish in boxes

 

    An elephant stuck in a tree that really looked like a bear from the back

    Ai WeiWei's trees sans bears and sans Ai Wei Wei

    

    Some impressively large and layered collage drawings

    (use the feet for scale)

   
    And my winner of the night ended up being this extremely beautiful
    short film that used reflections to create what ended up looking like
    an animated impressionist portrait.

    Gorgeous!