nicholas latkovic

“Me & My Chair”
Music by David Archibald. Lyrics by Luis Santeiro.

“Episode 1706″. Sesame Street. CTW, New York City. 22 Nov. 1982.

*Note how this scene is filmed in one take, without any cutting.

“Nice Work If You Can Get It”. Music by George Gershwin. Lyrics by Ira Gershwin.

A Damsel In Distress. Dir. George Stevens. Perf. Fred Astaire, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Joan Fontaine. RKO Pictures, 1937.

Photo Illustration: Horacio Salinas

Vlahos, James. “Is Sitting a Lethal Activity?”. The New York Times. 14 Apr. 2011.

Design: Richard Horton

Take the Pierley/Redford diagnostic here.

“The cause of each death is as individual as the life which preceded it. But, the order in which the body shuts down is always the same.”

“Episode 6: Shut Down”. Dir. Leanne Klein. Nar. James Nesbitt. Body Story. UK: Channel 4. 17 Dec. 1998.

Government of South Australia, 2009.

“Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.”

- Natalie Goldberg, author

“When you land on something that’s like a crutch, it’s going to feel like a crutch. When you land on something that has a bendable or an energy-absorbent membrane, it’s going to spring with you.”

- Van Phillips, athlete and designer

The interlocking shape of Henriette Melchiorsen’s magnetic dumbbells evoke the fibrous structures of tissue they aim to build.