by Tim Girvin | Artists, Places | May 25, 2007
Madison Park | NYC. 5.22.07 11.23pm People have asked me about the occasional address that I close mails with — TSG | madison park | NYC. What’s that, they say? Are you in a park? Well, sometimes yes. Girvin | NYC is located on 26th + Broadway, just off...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People | May 18, 2007
It’s interesting, studying the web, and learning something of the reach of those without, within. There are, in surveying the records, people reaching to me all over the world. And sometimes, I see them studying us, our world — the work that we do, and...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 23, 2007
I’d written a couple of weeks back about the enso, the zenga brush-drawn circles of the Zen masters, as a statement of satori and the enlightened condition. There’s more, to the notion of the symbology of the circle, as a gesture of containment and...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts | Apr 20, 2007
I still love to draw these: Finials — the finishing stroke on a letterform. Here’s one: f Even yesterday. One, long, calligraphic finial — standing there, alone: b —- finial (FIN-ee-ehl, FI-nee-) noun 1. An ornamental object on top of an...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 10, 2007
For maybe some 25 years I’ve been collecting zenga. These are the paintings of Zen masters. They are of the haboku style, which is the most captivating, to my aesthetic, which is called “broken ink”. It’s about saying something in nothing....
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Designers | Apr 2, 2007
I found this word, and thought of you, Cindy. Nice spending some time with you, exploring your ideas and home, there on 23rd, NYC, looking out to the sunny side of the street, from a dramatically darkening interior. A silky lingerie interior that, in its inherent...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, General, Places | Mar 30, 2007
Hi and good morning. I went to Gabellini Sheppard to talk to them about some things. And they’re right on the foot of Bond, in NYC. I walked over to 40 Bond, to see about Ian Schrager’s new venture with HerzogDeMeuron. And what’s happening, there? Or...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, General, Places | Mar 25, 2007
Okay, so I’ve been busy, and trying to fill out the remaining days has taken time. Days, right? Daze, right? Like a week or so, really. And there’s more, too. More learnings — and of course, so much more learning that it took me a couple of daze to...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People | Mar 11, 2007
There’s an unusual component to TED, driven by Chris Anderson’s visioning, and Sapling Foundation’s fueling of the ultimate goal of the event, and TEDs bigger planetary role. And what do I really know about it, being a TED virgin? Not much, but what...
by Tim Girvin | Artists, Cool People, Designers | Jan 2, 2007
I was thinking, for some time, about what would be a good opening to this year. Would it be some meditation on what the year might hold? About erecting yet another cairn in the wind and storm-riven shores of the island. The symbolism of incessant rain? Some writing...
