Slog - Comments on Sex and City Images http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images This is not a defense. It is a declaration of a debt. My debt to this book: Every answer for how and why I blog (sexy images, buildings, bursts of words) can be found in Rem Koolhaas' massive S M L XL. (Bruce Mau is also a part of this book, but a very small part of it: I came to this conclusion--of his minor creative role--after seeing his dull exhibit Massive Change at Vancouver Art Museum two or so years ago.) S M L XL--which is packed with short essays, failed proposals, porn, buildings, images of emerging cities, a... Copyright 2008 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:05:00 -0800 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 22:44:03 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by terry miller that would be donald duck, charles.

]]> terry miller http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793262 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793262 Arts Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:13:27 -0800 Comment by Jude Fawley Yeah dude: All ducks are not created equal. Back to the drawing board!

]]> Jude Fawley http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793274 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793274 Arts Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:20:10 -0800 Comment by L-Train8 I don't see the duck as either a god or a rapist. Maybe Bugs Bunny, but if I say that, I'm continuing Charles' mistake of mixing up Warner Bros. and Disney. But both ducks are share more similarities than just having a rodent for a foil.

They are incompetent, stupid, and have a much higher opinion of themselves than reality warrants. They want to be like a god, but they fail at every turn, thwarted by their smarter and more skilled co-stars.

That picture is the duck's fantasy. He sees himself as an object of desire, as worthy of worship. But it is nothing but a dream.

]]> L-Train8 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793285 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793285 Arts Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:30:06 -0800 Comment by Horace Yeah, but Donald Duck at least joined the Navy. Daffy stayed at home and tried to make money. Typical Yellow Elephant!

(Or little black duck)

]]> Horace http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793290 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793290 Arts Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:40:33 -0800 Comment by brad Rem Koolhaas designs beautiful buildings, but his ideas about what a city should be are infuriating. Are you not angry? Rem Koolhaas would rather Cape Town be leveled and replaced with a gleaming, conceptual, history-free campus.

And in SMLXL he has the nerve to knock city planners who concern themselves with architecture before he goes into his own self righteous and wild argument about what a city should look like. He includes sketches. They all look approximately like the master plan for Evergreen State College must have looked when that atrocity was conceived. Fuck him.

SMLXL looks awesome in my book case, though. Thanks, Mr. Mau!

]]> brad http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793296 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793296 Arts Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:46:42 -0800 Comment by brad Oh, you were talking about the format of the book (sorry, I normally have to skim your posts). In that case, never mind. The book is cool and the design seemed very special in 1999. A second kudos for Bruce Mau.

]]> brad http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793301 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793301 Arts Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:51:20 -0800 Comment by Emma Leigh How best to understand Mudede's persistent expurgation of the title he purports to adulate? How can we competently commiserate with the cut cohort of common punctuation? with their erasure, with the substitution of spaces?

Why does Charles fear and oppress commas?

]]> Emma Leigh http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793343 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793343 Arts Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:49:14 -0800 Comment by delfina jonesr "... The porn, the buildings, the words, the theories—all of it flowing from one page to the next. The space of a page as something that happens and then passes..."

Hmmm-sounds like scrapbooking.

]]> delfina jonesr http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793397 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793397 Arts Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:21:50 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe ...so Charles didn't know that...he didn't know...uh...never mind. I base all of my opinions on pictures from books that I never care to understand, too. All of the time. Oh wait. No I don't.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793433 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793433 Arts Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:45:37 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave Where fuck does chaz get ideas about what donald duck wants? is he projecting what he wants on donald duck?

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793436 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793436 Arts Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:58:21 -0800 Comment by arandomdude It's funny to come to slog and see a debate about what Donald Duck wants.

]]> arandomdude http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793463 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793463 Arts Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:56:02 -0800 Comment by Matthew Stadler A nice tribute to a superb book. Skeptics really ought to read it and live with it for awhile. Koolhaas calls it "a novel," and, Charles, I am curious what you make of that. You have expressed skepticism about the relevance of novels.

But I'm commenting mostly to remind everyone that the more important collaborator here was Jennifer Sigler, credited as "editor," but who functioned as a co-author. She wrote all of the marginal notes, a fascinating alphabetized index that runs through the whole book. Why is she always forgotten? It's like that third person, I can't even recall the name, who co-wrote "Learning from Las Vegas" with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. Who was that?

]]> Matthew Stadler http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793492 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793492 Arts Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:07:35 -0800 Comment by -B- Maybe donald duck wants to be a woman.

]]> -B- http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793516 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793516 Arts Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:28:45 -0800 Comment by -B- I always find your postings entertaining. That hyper heterosexual viewpoint. I know Dan covers most of the homosexual postings but even he is more well rounded in his writing since he often writes about hetro subjects too and how everything has it's place and contributes to a well rounded view of the world. But your postings usually concern themselves with buildings, typical sexualized images of women and intellectual muscle flexing in the form of quotes. To me they always seem like you have an idealized view of the world where you have to define your heterosexuality over and over by posting that seem to read and look the same most of the time.
The world is not just comprised of buildings and sexualized images of women and writings that tie them all together in a nice package void of anything that threatens that macho viewpoint. Women do not have to be defined by images of them being sexy all the time. The "enormous size of the book" (S M L XL) reference comes across sounding more like a cock reference. The bigger the book I read the more of a man I am.
I get the impression that only men build things and write something intellectual and women are to be sexualized most of the time from your postings.
But really to step outside of that view you would have to write more about women contributing something more than just sex and men would have to be far more equal they would have to be sexualized too and share achievements equally with women, even be allowed to cry once in awhile.
Sometimes I feel you should be one of the subjects in the Édouard Manet painting " Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe". A beautiful idealized world where all the men are clothed and talking and women are sexualized and silent.

]]> -B- http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793531 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793531 Arts Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:22:20 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave -b- for the win!

-b- 100, chaz nil

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793580 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793580 Arts Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:44:42 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle I think the Donald is the rapee in this image.

He can't help it if his bill sticks out.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793599 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c793599 Arts Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:13:08 -0800 Comment by dinesh pls send all the top site about sex and vedios to my mail

]]> dinesh http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c795205 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/sex_and_images#c795205 Arts Sat, 01 Sep 2007 22:44:03 -0800