In my first night around Seville I made one significant stop (which was non-food related). I visited the Cathedral in Seville, final resting place of Christopher Columbus. Read the rest of this entry »
Today I used Renfe’s Ave train as a means of transportation from Madrid to Sevilla. I had heard a lot about it before, but I had never used it. I have to say that I am very impressed with it. More so, I am even more impressed with the graphic and visual landscapes which are born when the train reaches very high speeds. Probably I am the only person in the world who like it but you can be the judge for yourself.
This past thursday 3M Company of Puerto Rico held a fashion show to promote some of their Post-it products. For the event, I was commissioned by my friend Lorna Ramos to execute the event’s decoration… all of it made out of Post-its.
This video documents, in under 2 mins, the 15 hours spent playing with squares of colored paper. For photos of the setup, see here.
I want to point out that frame after frame you will consistently notice the collaboration of Miguel Ortiz, a young architect with whom I am currently working on a series of projects. I also want to thank Lorna, Juan Carlos Rubayo, Denisse Rodríguez and Sofía Acevedo who came out to help.
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To make the video more interesting, I used the music track Again and Again by The Bird and the Bee. As of October 11, 2009, the official website of the band is offline and the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine was not useful in accessing its contact information. I will keep trying so that I can ask for a formal permit to keep the song in the video. If it is not granted, the song will be removed immediately.
Recently I have been playing with a new toy that has me thinking I am Eadweard Muybridge. So far I am only playing to learn the features and its quirks (as in the timer is always on). Here a small peek into this morning’s sunset.
Before Sports Illustrated, Life and the image-based version of National Geographic (can you believe it began as a text-based academic publication?), Puerto Rico had it’s very own image-based weekly: Puerto Rico Ilustrado.
It was published from March 6th 1910 through December 27th 1952, a length of time during which it amassed a collection of 2227 issues. Content wise, the pages primarily chronicled life in the island, while it also included writings and images on international events of the time.1 On average, these were about 16 pages, with about 6 of them dedicated to advertisements (which are fabulous in their own right). It was printed on a kind of dull paper, originally in black and white, but slowly 2 color printing makes its way into the covers. In the later years, covers are then produced in full color (which in many ways diminished the visual impact of earlier compositions)
During the last few weeks I have been scanning directly from about 15 years worth of issues, and the more I look at it the more I marvel at the typography contained in the mastheads of the issues, particularly their visual exploration which shows a struggle between looking man-made and machine-made, with an observed preference on the former.
My study on this publication is only beginning, but I have scanned a series of typographic treatments from a few years’ worth of the publication to begin a process of sharing them. Read the rest of this entry »
My friend Seth commented on my previous photos from Spain: “I see your usual fetish for textures.”
(Or something very close to this and the idea that I mostly shoot textures.) So in response to his comment, I decided to place myself upon this setting and wait for random people to become characters or actors in my composition. Some of them came out great… Read the rest of this entry »
After the closing ceremony at the Moulin, we came to Grasse, where Cynthia took us on a tour of a perfume factory which was very nice. Read the rest of this entry »
Cynthia and Armando begin a tradition of planting an olive tree with every seminar they host in the Moulin. Here Massimo, Lella and Roger begin the tradition by symbolically helping in the planting of the tree. Read the rest of this entry »
Armando Rigau currently pursues a Master in Architecture I at Cornell University. He received his bachelor's degree in Philosophy with History and Spanish minors from Georgetown University.
