On Friday, MESH's proposal for an office building was selected to be built on a site in a new high-tech-oriented developement in Seoul, Korea. It is a 10-story IT incubator building with a sleek media skin wrapping its E-W axis.

yesterday I visited PS1 where they were celebrating the inaugural PS1 show, Rooms, from 30 years ago. That show invited 78 artists to invade the sprawling former school building with their work. Currently there is "Time Frame," an assortment of mostly video installations. I'll admit that Video Art, the kind that started in the sixties but took off in the seventies, continues to make me overly self-conscious about what I am doing, kind of like crashing a party. You always come in in medias res, in the middle of something. What to do? Take a seat and figure it out, catch up? Smile politely, stay a polite amount of time, then politely exit? With neither the spectacle of film or the gravitas of sculpture, the video installation is in the middle.

However, the night before I saw the opening of Herzog and de Meuron's "Artists Choice--Perception Restrained." Almost the inverse of the PS1 show, this exhibition is a high-concept arrangement of both high modern art icons and scenes from provocative popular cinema (Cronenberg, Morrissey, Scorcese, et al.). The room is a black box, with horizontal viewing slits on each wall. Through the slits is a diorama of densely packed Art from MoMA's collection -- everyone who's anyone from Picasso to Barney, but physical media - painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, industrial design. Meanwhile in the box itself, vivid LCD screens, mounted on the ceiling in a grid composition, play movie loops - intense scenes from some great films. This is the only illumination in the black box. Like psychedelic office-grid-ceiling lights. The ipod-cute mirrors you can use to view the monitors are overkill and encourage the kind of "framing device" reading that the explication describes. But H&M's instincts are too good to go for this old framing rhetoric. They are provoking a direct confrontation between the moving image and the old-school art, except the "art" is exiled to these dioramas, as if the art museum itself is being exhibited, or stored in a time capsule. People crowded, half-heartedly, to peer into the slots, but after a few glances at the packed alcoves, they turned back to the flimclips,

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MESH is working on a branding agency's creative studio, designing a space to think and create.

On Tuesday, July 12, the StoryCorps booth at the PATH station at WTC opened for interviews. This is a glass box with a recording booth inside. It was a collaborative design of Eric Liftin/MESH and Michael Shuman/MASdesigned. Graphics by ORG and interactives by Local Projects.

Our team, OpenMeshWork.org, has been selected as one of 7 teams to submit proposals to design plans for the High Line.