Hundertwasser on 99% invisible

Another podcast plug. This week 99% invisible did a story about one of my favourite eccentric artists and outside the box thinkers. I have always loved this man's out of the box thinking and bright colours, but when I was in New Zealand I bought his book "The Art of the Green Path" and really got deeper into his philosophy, which guided all of his wild and resonant thinking. Here is a story that does a beautiful job of summarizing this indescribably wild person. http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-straight-line-is-a-godless-line/

Pre fab ponderings

Lately I have been thinking about the allure of Pre fab. Some friends of ours recently put up their house in just 8 days which, even in the most energetic of cases on Haida Gwaii is legendary.

I have had a couple of sites reccommended to me based on their price point, which is nice. One is Allpro the other is Norpine. Neither of these sites actually show pricing, so I imagine I will have to call the numbers to get the skinny.

As far as design, the nicest ones I have come across are on this site which at least give a rough estimate of $100-$140 per square foot.

Artists

think it is time to switch from food to something else...art. I have seen a fair bit of pretty boring art projects in the public school system. There are glimmers of hope out there and I hope that I and my colleagues will help to change that...Here is a starting place. I am going to just start putting up links to some of my favorite artists.
The first is a guy who's name I can almost never remember, but who is an incredible inspiration. I love his colours, I love his eccentricity. Check him out Friedensreich Hundertwasser.