It’s been a while, dearlings. You can blame a trip to Montreal with some of my favorite people in the world, which was beyond lovely, except that on the journey home I contracted Tim Horton’s Revenge and lost a week to fever and despair.  REGARDLESS, I have emerged from the flu and I would like to share the following because they are rad.

First is from my Montreal trip:

This is Habitat 67, a modern housing complex on a skinny peninsula in Montreal with 354 cold concrete cubes stacked on top of each other such that people might live within them.

We didn’t actually see any people, but there are definitely signs of life:

If Escher had been an architect I imagine his building would like a bit like this place.

and THEN, just the other day, on Core77, I saw the following house-tree, which reminded me of the above:

Artist Wannes Goetschalckx from the Dutcherlands: “Nest (Home Part 2)“.

I’m not 100% sure why photographer Joe Steven’s “Vans and the places where they were” project brings me as much joy as it does, maybe I don’t want to know, but either way, I’d like you to:

1) find some headphones
2) press play below and slowly scroll down…

Orange Dodge with Woodgrain Stripes
Watts, Los Angeles, CA
Winter 2008

White Tradesman with Stripes
Near the Airport, Burlingame, CA
Winter 1996

Brown VanDura with Tan Stripes
Campground in Deming, NM
Winter 2009

Blue Dodge
Centinela Plaza Shopping Center, Los Angeles
Winter 2008

White Dodge with Red Wheel
Beneath the 110 Interchange, Los Angeles
Fall 2008

Tradesman with Candy Paint Stripes
Hollywood, California
Winter 2009

… magical …

check out the rest here.

Now, I’ve been to my fair share of performances and I think I can say, with some degree of authority, that there are humans with less guitar-talent than these zebra finches:

by French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, via rebel:art.