Daniel Wiener

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Introduction
Knives
Animated Vessels 1 - Soakies
Antoinette
Random Thoughts 3
Random Ideas 2
Modern Objects
Toys
A Baby's Toes
Intermediate abstractions.
Finial, Luxemborg Gardens, Paris
Candelabra, Vases and more
Finials Queens New York May 2002
Tip of the Tongue
Random Ideas
Architectural Elements
Objects, Tips, Children, and Art
Finials May 03
Reitveld's Chair
Flowers
Buildings
Tip of the finger
Weapons
Random Finials
Buds
Teeth and Tusks
List

Subjects

Animals
   Teeth and Tusks

Architecture
   Finial, Luxemborg Gardens, Paris
   Finials Queens New York May 2002
   Architectural Elements
   Finials May 03
   Buildings
   Random Finials

Body
   A Baby's Toes
   Tip of the Tongue
   Objects, Tips, Children, and Art
   Tip of the finger

Decorative Arts
   Candelabra, Vases and more

Domestic Objects
   Animated Vessels 1 - Soakies
   Modern Objects

Fonts
   Antoinette

Furniture
   Reitveld's Chair

Idea List
   Introduction
   Random Thoughts 3
   Random Ideas 2
   Intermediate abstractions.
   Random Ideas

Plants/Nature
   Flowers
   Buds

To Do List
   List

Tools
   Knives
   Weapons

Toys
   Toys

Introduction

(Rewritten Feb 20, Mar 3, 2004)
I have been thinking about tips, the end of things, the end of objects. I want to investigate the subject in depth and in the end to produce a visual essay. While blogs are meant to be personal diaries I use this blog to present and develop a work in progress. Much of "Tips - The End of Things" is devoted to photographic examples but this introduction dwells on the questions and confusions that shape my query. I would appreciate comments and suggestions for examples of tips.

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Posted by Daniel Wiener on March 20, 2004 | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Knives

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Posted by Daniel Wiener on March 17, 2004 | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Animated Vessels 1 - Soakies

Instead of a bulging tip there is a head. These plastic shampoo and bubble bath bottles for children are part of a long tradition of "animated vessels" (more of these later). The term of art for character bottles is "soakies". One soaky, many soakies.

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Posted by Daniel Wiener on March 07, 2004 | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Antoinette

In a rare exception to the rule that contemporary objects shun tips, some font designers have brought back the serif, the flourish, the arabesque, as in this instance to a pleasing excess.

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Posted by Daniel Wiener on March 05, 2004 | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Random Thoughts 3

Tips are embarassing. That is, body tips. The tip of the penis and the nipple are required, by custom, to be hidden.

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Posted by Daniel Wiener on March 05, 2004 | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Random Ideas 2

added feb 13, 2003
I was wondering if tips have anything to do with desire. It seems as if some kind of yearning is implicit in a tip but I am not sure that this is central or a helpful path to pursue. More important is that tips infer a relationship. I am not sure what the right word is - "make", "create", "require" "force" - but where there is a tip there is a relationship.

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Posted by Daniel Wiener on March 02, 2004 | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Modern Objects

A modern coathook is a rare example of modern/contempary design utilizing tips. An almost humorous, comic-like version of a bulging tip.

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Posted by Daniel Wiener on February 29, 2004 | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Toys

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Posted by Daniel Wiener on February 28, 2004 | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

A Baby's Toes

The tips of these toes seem more passive than other tips... not yet ready to grab the floor for balance and movement.

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Posted by Daniel Wiener on February 26, 2004 | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Intermediate abstractions.

In art we have tended to focus on the most abstract of abstractions. I want to look at a subject that is slightly less abstract (and all the more fertile for being so).

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Posted by Daniel Wiener on February 25, 2004 | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Finial, Luxemborg Gardens, Paris

Is this shape called a "finial" or is it called something else when it a sculpture on its own? What a strange thing... to isolate a decorative element and make it an autonomous object.

Posted by Daniel Wiener on February 22, 2004 | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Candelabra, Vases and more

A Design for a Candelabrum, by Micelangelo Buonarroti, c. 1535

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Posted by Daniel Wiener on February 22, 2004 | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Finials Queens New York May 2002

Finials from some homes in Queens, New York, taken on a walk in May of 2002.

Looking at these finials, one after another, makes me wonder "Why do we do this? What happens at the end of things that makes us want to decorate them, elaborate on them/with them?" It is as if something different MUST happen when a shape reaches it top. This does seem to happen more at the top than at the bottom of things. But it is mostly a feeling of astonishment at the fact of their invention and the need to invent "out on a limb".

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Posted by Daniel Wiener on February 21, 2004 | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Tip of the Tongue

Goofy's tongue and other famous tongues.

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Posted by Daniel Wiener on February 06, 2004 | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Random Ideas

Really random ideas. Collect them, then put them together later.

The tip as a kind of climax. As in the steeple of a church. Or a cross.

added Feb. 12, 2003
Tips seem to be lacking in the modern and contempoary periods in comparison to the faraway past.

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Posted by Daniel Wiener on February 03, 2004 | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)