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Drawing "Leviathan" with a palate of pale green, black and white, Harder loves to see things rendered, in both senses of the word. Beautifully designed sequences show tentacles flying, wood splintering and people flailing desperately in the churning sea. Between the scenes of oceanic chaos come surprising and strange tableaus, as when the whale somehow transgresses the bounds of the earth and floats in outer space. You don't read "Leviathan" so much as give in to its visceral sensation. Harder depicts the angry cetacean as, among other things, a metaphor for our fears of nature. But, while quite fascinating...
...Mahogany is a red wood; it's red like blood, it's red like shame." PAULO ADARIO, activist for the environmental organization Greenpeace, which the U.S. government is prosecuting for boarding a ship carrying endangered trees that were illegally felled. It is highly unusual for the U.S. government to press criminal charges against an advocacy group for civil disobedience...
...shining but it casts deep shadows. Many of his motifs are infused with a sense of solitariness: single people in rooms, lone houses by roads or railroads. House by a Road (1940) has windows like the eyes of a skull, filled in with pure black, and a thick wood huddles around it. The windows in House at Dusk (1935) are shaded or give onto rooms that are lighted but empty - except for one, where a woman looks out. Who is lonelier, the woman or the watcher looking at her? And what gives his work its unmistakable haunting atmosphere? Hopper himself...
...sainthood. Or at least Dean’s List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don’t just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of “contemporary decadence,” like Natalie Wood. If you can’t come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudo-facts...
Method brought groovy design to the dreary world of home-cleaning products with dish-washing soaps in bottles designed by Karim Rashid. Now aesthetes cum cleaners can stock up on the company's almond-scented wood polish and stainless-steel cleaner. Like the smell but not the scrubbing? Look for Method's scented candles and room sprays at Target stores later this month...