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Jeremy Schneyer has big plans.

The Seattle, WA transplant recently relocated to the relatively familiar climes of the Willamette Valley in hopes of establishing the most significant collection of vintage modern and mid-century furnishings in the region.

It's a hefty task, but 5 minutes in his new Grand Avenue studio in SE Portland confirmed that he's well on his way.

With space-a-plenty, and channels established up and down the western seaboard and beyond, Schneyer has an operation that appears to be bottomless in its diverse inventory, and limitless in its ability to deal globally.

The Gustav Zander's institute in Stockholm, founded in the late nineteenth century, featured 27 of the physician's custom-built machines.

Via Hugo Strikes Back! and boingboing. More images and information in Cabinet Magazine.

This morning the terrific team at JetSet Graffiti put up on Youtube some fantastic footage shot over ten years ago showing KAWS doing his first bus-stops in New York City and Tokyo.

The following is a possibly entertaining but highly unedited rant, thank you:

Brooklyn, NY: The inner-sanctum of Hipster-dom, along with it's spiritual annexes; Austin, Minneapolis, Seattle, Hollywood etc. tends to house avenues and streets that bleed fresh creative explorations before vulturous bacterias grow within and feed off of the collective right-brain hemorrhages. Well, maybe not Hollywood, anymore.

Hollywood seems to have been reduced to having it's heart valves that used to gush blood for the sake of flowing become clogged with festering deleterious dyssocial disease long-time go.
The reasons for why Hollywood, unlike some other metropolises that house a constant, age-old war of what reduces down to Jedi versus Sith, has chosen to become a breeding pen of cultural ouroboros remains unclear.

The Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo in Sevilla is currently running an exhibition dedicated to Ant Farm, a group of experimental architects and critical artists active mostly in the '70s. The exhibition includes videos, models, original drawings, inflatables and all the quiet you can expect in a cultural center located inside a stunning monastry on the bank of the Guadalquivir River, the Monasterio de la Cartuja de Santa María de Las Cuevas.

Monasterio de la Cartuja de Santa María de Las Cuevas

Found on the flickr sets for unofficial 'favorite photos' of the staff of the Otis Historical Archives of the National Museum of Health and Medicine, in Washington DC: set 1, 2 and 3.

Orthopedics; feet of Chinese woman, bound, compared with tea cup and American woman's shoe. World War 1 era

See also: Four x-ray views of footbinding, ca. 1948

Was taken last week at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies at La Jolla, California which Kati London and I visited courtesy of Lev Manovich and Jeremy Douglass. The institute was built by architect Louis Kahn as two symmetric concrete buildings with a thin stream of water flowing in the middle of a courtyard that separates the two. Too bad my images don't do justice to this amazing building.