tsarstepan
 
Reply Sat 7 Nov, 2009 09:06 pm
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept09/ListeningCone.jpg
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Monday, November 2, 2009 at 11:00 AM EST
Maya Lin’s ‘What Is Missing?’

Maya Lin's memorial endangered and vanishing species:

http://caitlinparker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/ListeningCone-_3596_2.jpg
http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/11/maya-lins-last-memorial

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Maya Lin, "What Is Missing?" Listening Cone, 2009, installed at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. (Photo: Bruce Damonte Photography, Inc. © Maya Lin Studio, Inc., courtesy PaceWildenstein, New York.)
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Architect, designer, and environmental artist Maya Lin carved a permanent, powerful place in the American heart with her Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC.

She was 21 when she drew that black granite line in history, and she went on to a wide-ranging life in design.

Ten years ago, Maya Lin announced she was out of the memorial business entirely. But now, she’s done one more: to all the species vanished or vanishing from the Earth. A king-sized listening cone, filled with the sounds of birds and frogs and primates slipping away.

This hour, On Point: Maya Lin and “What Is Missing?”

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dlowan
 
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Reply Sun 8 Nov, 2009 01:53 am
@tsarstepan,
Wow,

She's something.

That Vietnam memorial is the best war memorial I have ever seen.

And that cone is very powerful.
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Sun 8 Nov, 2009 01:55 am
@dlowan,
They say there is a traveling exhibit as well but they didn't say where it was travelling to and from.
dlowan
 
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Reply Sun 8 Nov, 2009 01:56 am
@tsarstepan,
Ok...now I'm on a Lin journey:


http://cubeme.com/blog/2006/05/26/maya-lins-systematic-lanscape/


(drooling)


http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/lin/clip1.html
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farmerman
 
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Reply Sun 8 Nov, 2009 08:39 am
@tsarstepan,
Shes a real treasure
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Izzie
 
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Reply Sun 8 Nov, 2009 12:10 pm
@tsarstepan,
Uber cool.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Tue 17 Nov, 2009 10:02 pm
I'm a maya lin fan - just checking in while sleepy. Thanks for the heads up, Tsar.
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Tue 17 Nov, 2009 10:09 pm
@ossobuco,
You're very welcome! Very Happy
ossobuco
 
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Reply Tue 17 Nov, 2009 10:15 pm
@tsarstepan,
I've followed her for years, but I'm a sloppy architectural follower, and miss stuff.

I have always loved it that she got (I think) a B- for her Vietnam Memorial design in some class.
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Tue 17 Nov, 2009 10:18 pm
@ossobuco,
I must have forgotten or never heard that little fact. I should rewatch that great Oscar winning documentary on her... Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1994)
ossobuco
 
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Reply Tue 17 Nov, 2009 10:21 pm
@tsarstepan,
Eh, I just read stuff at the time, so I don't know where I read that. So, she is being sanctified? I'd figure she'd take that as constraining. I must perk up on my arch news.
ossobuco
 
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Reply Tue 17 Nov, 2009 10:24 pm
@ossobuco,
Let me pump this source -
archnewsnow.com
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Tue 17 Nov, 2009 10:27 pm
@ossobuco,
Thank you very much. I already get their daily email newsletter/daily collection of architecture news. Smile
ossobuco
 
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Reply Tue 17 Nov, 2009 10:31 pm
@tsarstepan,
All right then, I like the woman who runs it and the woman who runs arcspace (not sure I have that name right).

I've followed archnewsnow for years and ignored it off and on. I'm in an off period, but I respect the site.
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Tue 17 Nov, 2009 10:36 pm
@ossobuco,
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the woman who runs it and the woman who runs arcspace

You don't have to name drop ... I'm already impressed! Cool

I used to follow http://www.architectureweek.com/today.html. Or one of the sites affiliated with such... I got in on the student subscription but since I'm no longer a student nor do I have the money to waste I haven't returned to the sites. Too much of a academic luxury rather then something I could use in practical terms.
ossobuco
 
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Reply Tue 17 Nov, 2009 10:42 pm
@tsarstepan,
Don't be impressed by me, I'm a sort of omnivore within my own zones of interest. Never trust me on anything, but I'm occasionally right.
We could play who is poorer - my online connection is my key expense.
I get a kick that you know archnewsnow.

Eh, we will argue in the future, it's inevitable. But I'm enjoying our agreements.
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msolga
 
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Reply Tue 17 Nov, 2009 11:23 pm
@tsarstepan,
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A king-sized listening cone, filled with the sounds of birds and frogs and primates slipping away.


Beautiful, in form & the concept.

Thanks for this thread, tsar.

Her work is just wonderful.

I've been checking out some of the links on this page. Look at this. Stunning! It's called "Desert".:

http://cubeme.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/deset.jpg
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Wed 18 Nov, 2009 12:08 am
@msolga,
Maya Lin definitely has her own unique aesthetic personality. Very Happy

Sweet odes to Mother Earth and nature!
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