August 11, 2010
I've been trying for months to figure out the designer of what I think is one of the slickest phone booths around, the Deutschen Bundespost Typ TelH78 Telefonzelle. You know it when you see it. It's bright yellow, a fiberglass...
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11:18 PM
July 5, 2010
Photomultiplier Tubes, or PMT, are vacuum tubes used to detect electromagnetic energy. In 1979, Hamamatsu Photonics began development of the world's largest PMT, 25 inches across, which would be used in the Kamiokande proton decay detector being constructed by the...
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2:15 PM
May 21, 2010
That is so Epic. From Epic Brewing Company, Salt Lake City, Utah. Spiral Jetty IPA | Epic Brewing Company [epicbrewing.com via the freshly relocated tyler green] Related? The Shoppes at Rozel Point, from Visiting Artist (sic), a lecture involving Smithson...
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10:02 PM
May 20, 2010
The ad's been running for a while now, but Jean just spotted this disclaimer at the end of AT&T's "Blanket" commercial last night: "The artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude have no direct or indirect affiliation or involvement with AT&T." I...
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7:59 AM
May 18, 2010
Do you find yourself wanting to talk about Group Zero, but the only names you can pronounce are Fontana and Klein [and Westwater]? Do you ever call galleries you're about to walk into, just to hear them say the artist's...
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6:04 AM
May 16, 2010
I saw a citation in a footnote somewhere, but in the three weeks it took for the Design Review: Industrial Design 23rd Annual, 1977, to arrive, I'd completely forgotten why I'd ordered it. No matter, this insane image of...
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4:12 PM
May 14, 2010
First up, let me just say these are fantastic; I would love to see this row of bombardier training simulators parked in any gallery in the world, right next to Chris Burden's homemade B-Car. But then you'd have to...
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8:07 PM
April 22, 2010
When I still lived in the neighborhood, a real estate broker once mailed me a thick brochure for Bob Guccione's East Side townhouse, which touted its grand entry made entirely of Carrera [sic] marble. Now, by finding someone only very...
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7:19 AM
April 16, 2010
They're both under-known, and so they probably deserve their own posts, but the uncanny similarity of these two Alcoa Forecast program designs requires me to put them together. Greta Magnusson Grossman was a Los Angeles-based Swedish industrial designer. According to...
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8:45 PM
April 4, 2010
the sidebar is now the footer. Looks like my vintage html blog templates may not survive the game change....
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8:49 PM
February 20, 2010
You may recall how Google Maps recently changed the polygonal camouflage on one of the Dutch landscapes I was using for my painting project. I was back there, getting a clean shot of the nicely distorted grid plaza--the site...
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9:45 AM
February 8, 2010
I guess that's the whole point of camo, you just never really know what you're gonna see. In February 1942, the Dutch minesweeper the HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen survived the Battle of the Java Sea, in which the Japanese Navy...
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7:22 AM
January 9, 2010
Another in an unanticipated series of instances of projection of emotion upon inanimate objects: To the cashmere sweater who falls from the closet shelf onto the back of your clothes, the tips of all those dry cleaner hangers you haven't...
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4:54 PM
Last month I watched the essentially sculptural process of designing and making fiberglass Eames chairs, and I wondered "how design and art ever stayed separate in those days." The answer, of course, was that it didn't. David Zwirner just...
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12:29 PM
My first reaction on reading the BBC's 2009 list 100 things we didn't know last year for 2009 was, "What you mean 'we,' Kemosabe?" But seriously, the "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster was never actually used in WWII,...
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9:13 AM
January 8, 2010
Sometimes I worry about the dishes. I think we have half our dishes out, and half in storage. Not fancy china, which we felt right off was a pointless wedding scam, but the everyday stuff, which we still have a...
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1:00 PM
December 10, 2009
I'd ignored the whole "this is what Earth would look like with Saturn's rings" thing until Jason grabbed this screen of New York from the video. Roy Prol made the various photos using the lat/long of various cities. With...
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9:41 AM
November 24, 2009
For years, I've driven past the revival palazzo--the one with the Hummer and the Ferraris and the Porsche, the one that's just the exactly wrong color of chiffon yellow--on my way in or out of town, and I've wondered...
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12:12 AM
November 21, 2009
I'm diggin' the crazy cats at WNYC and The Jazz Loft Project. After abandoning his family in Westchester, longtime LIFE photographer W. Eugene Smith wired his 6th Ave loft for sound and recorded the hell out it for several years...
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2:25 PM
November 14, 2009
This has to be one of the funniest pullbacks ever....
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6:43 PM
October 5, 2009
I took two main factors into account when I signed up for Google Voice: I know it's old-fashioned, but I wanted the area code's geography to have some significance. I wanted something catchy, brand-y, not just easy to remember, but...
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1:18 PM
September 23, 2009
1. Pop open a Diet Coke. 2. Eat all the Red Vines you want. 3. uh, actually that's as far as I've gotten....
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9:08 AM
September 19, 2009
So I'm just walking back in from the hardware store, when I realize I missed a call from a Utah number. I call it back, the ringer goes all funny, and it turns out to be the cell phone...
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4:46 PM
September 17, 2009
In the past, people criticized fashion shows because the looks from the runway never made it to the street. Well, Thom Browne sure showed them. Tommy Ton's photoset of Browne models waiting to enter his show is an instant...
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7:33 AM
September 16, 2009
For a month after being beaten and detained by Chinese police, artist Ai Weiwei had complained of constant headaches. While in Munich to install a show, he went to a doctor, who sent him into emergency surgery to alleviate a...
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11:12 AM
September 14, 2009
From Henry David Thoreau's Walden, quoted by Mark Noonan in the Columbia Journal of American StudiesBut while we are confined to books, though the most select and classic, and read only particular written languages, which are themselves but dialects and...
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8:45 PM
16 Miles found the money quote [heh] about his upcoming US retrospective in Luc Tuymans' TAN interview : "The US tour should lead to steady sales." But wait, there's more! That guy has had it up to _here_ with...
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11:58 AM
September 10, 2009
Look, I dragged out my old Topsiders, too, same as the next guy. But I've just about had it up to _here_ with the obsession with "authenticity" that is the uncritical core of this dragging-on moment in men's fashion. It...
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10:28 AM
September 6, 2009
While we contemplate the Colombian Heart Attack that has befallen Washington DC, it might be worthwhile to remember the good old days, such as they were, when the National Mall was the site of ambitious public art projects. Projects...
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1:48 PM
September 5, 2009
W. T. F.??? The National Mall is ringed with Smithsonian museums, none of which seem to have programmed a piece of public art or sculpture outside their own walls in at least a generation. Washington DC has no public art...
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10:40 PM
September 4, 2009
For anyone interested in improving his chances of running into Brian Sholis at a brainy and/or arty event, he has compiled a rather awesome calendar of openings, symposia, talks, readings, screenings, and other happenings in New York. Me, I just...
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10:23 AM
September 1, 2009
Ryan McGinley in Vice:[Dash] and Earsnot also loved to tag bums. They would give a bum $20 to let them tag all over his clothes. Bums never change their clothes, so the tags would never get buffed out like on...
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4:47 PM
August 30, 2009
After blogging about it the other day, I thought it was high time I get the real story on the msyterious Walter de Maria stainless steel edition I'd been watching for all these years, the one which has never...
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2:55 PM
August 26, 2009
Three people--a 59-year-old phony aristocrat and an art dealer couple in their 60's--were arrested in Stuttgart, Germany for fraud and copyright infringement [!] after police broke up an international Alberto Giacometti forgery operation. Over 1,000 fake Giacommetis were confiscated...
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3:03 PM
August 25, 2009
Caught this on the CBC last night. I always assumed a kilogram is equal to the mass of a liter of water. But it turns out to be messy/tricky/complicated to measure water accurately enough, plus, some scientists decided to...
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7:31 AM
August 19, 2009
Maybe it's just me who figured at the time, everyone was caught up in the giddy, optimistic hype of the World's Fair. I guess I hadn't counted on E.B. White. His nonplussed review of the 1939 New York World's Fair...
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1:25 AM
August 15, 2009
I've never thought much of Ai Weiwei's work; despite some of its undeniable power, he'd been compared to Warhol a few too many times for me to take him seriously. Well, it's time for me to rethink that. First and...
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1:46 AM
August 6, 2009
When you watch this 1950s newsreel footage of an [the?] Italian police motorcycle drill team, turn off the music [it's not original anyway] and instead, just make motorcycle noises, and occasional exclamations of "Mama mia!" and "Magnifico!" maybe slip...
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6:39 AM
August 3, 2009
The funny thing is, I think my problem is I couldn't have made something like this up:Hi Greg, Here's a trend and story idea for the growing number of architecture company cars piling up from economic downsizing: The majority of...
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12:59 PM
July 28, 2009
Hah, Shatner reads Sarah Palin's exit speech on Conan. I'd love to see this poem set to music. And then flash-animated. Holy smoking man, I'd forgotten about his "Rocket Man": [via felix]...
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11:04 AM
July 27, 2009
I'm surprising myself by how much I feel the loss of Merce Cunningham, or more precisely, how much more acutely I'm feeling an appreciation for his work right now. From the LA Times' obituary by Lewis Segal:"When you work on...
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8:43 PM
Was watching this ancient panel discussion, "Time and Space Concepts in Music and Visual Art," from Pleiades Gallery in 1978 with Merce Cunningham, but then I totally fell for Nam June Paik all over again instead. A couple of...
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1:20 PM
July 21, 2009
Saturday night we went to the Kennedy Center in Washington for the National Symphony Orchestra's commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, Salute to Apollo: The Kennedy Legacy. It was the wackiest cheesefest of a concert I've ever...
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8:45 AM
July 19, 2009
Left behind on the moon:This commemorative plaque, attached to the leg of the Lunar Module (LM), Eagle, is engraved with the following words: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon July, 1969 A.D. We...
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9:40 PM
June 27, 2009
Artforum's William Pym covering the extremely non-chalant X-Initiative opening this week:Jordan Wolfson, hovering by Barcelona's Latitudes, took several prods before he could even remember that he was participating in a group show with healthy buzz opening at I-20 Gallery round...
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12:13 AM
June 26, 2009
"They'll kick you, then beat you, Then tell you it's fair" Spectacular video from Michael Jackson, Iranian Freedom Fighter. [via the awl]...
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12:39 PM
June 23, 2009
On June 19, 1885 Gaston Tissandier and Jacques Ducom set off in across Paris in a balloon. They were on a photo expedition, and managed to get seven shots. This one, of the pont Louis-Phillippe, at the western tip...
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8:09 PM
June 18, 2009
Lot 706: A PAIR OF SILVER LEATHER BEAN BAGS, LABELED 'MARC JACOBS', est. $300-500, "from the runway fashion show". No reserve. Winning bid: $550, plus premium. For future reference, having a lot open in your browser tabs for two...
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10:41 PM
June 11, 2009
I was a bit skeptical when Nannette Brown and her husband Jeff Lubin bought Mrs John L. Strong, the venerable Madison Avenue stationer in 2002. But if Mrs Lewis, who'd been seeking to retire, was willing to sell to them,...
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7:09 AM
June 10, 2009
I just got my first edition of Untitled (300 x 404, after Untitled (Cowboy), 2003 by Richard Prince) from the printer. It's a 1px = 1mm version, which came out to be 12 x 16 inches, inkjet printed on...
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2:59 PM
June 9, 2009
I'd never much thought of it before, even when I was reading Mondo 2000, and I don't know enough to say whether splitting blocks and products will help. But for the record, I too want to register my concern "about...
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7:58 AM
June 8, 2009
Hmm, looks a little familiar? Ben Jakober created "Bucky Life" for the Swarovski exhibit at the 2004 Milan furniture fair, where it was overshadowed by Ron Arad's LED crystal news ticker lamp, the Lolita. Says the press release:Renowned sculptor Jakober...
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7:50 PM
June 7, 2009
Enzo Mari x Ikea - Joinery, originally uploaded by gregorg. The tile in the guest bathroom in North Carolina was handmade and sun-dried in Mexico, as you can tell by the single square with the artful flaw, a footprint...
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11:00 PM
June 4, 2009
Incredible updates to the Tank Man photographs story from yesterday's NY Times Lens blog. After twenty years of just telling friends about it, Terril Jones, a former AP reporter who had been covering the Tienanmen Square demonstrations for several weeks,...
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11:55 PM
June 3, 2009
The NY Times' Lens blog has absolutely riveting accounts of the four journalists who shot photos of Tank Man, the still-unidentified man with two shopping bags who confronted a column of People's Liberation Army tanks rolling into Tienanmen Square...
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7:31 AM
May 29, 2009
And in other "laughable corporate attempts to build brand equity through campaigns designed to intentionally genericize trademarked-but-tangential phrases that rhyme with ding-a-ling" news:Microsoft's marketing gurus hope that Bing will evoke neither a type of cherry nor a strip club on...
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9:40 AM
Dear Sirs and/or Mesdames: I recently purchased [Brushes/ Red/ a stack of legal pads] after it was featured [all over the Internet and newyorker.com/ Cannes/ in every author Terry Gross has ever interviewed]. It is with great disappointment that I...
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12:04 AM
May 26, 2009
I guess the "and that's half the battle!" view of MTV's relentless pursuit of their demo is their success in completely baffling someone who's aged out of it. I hadn't watched MTV once in the last five years, at...
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9:22 AM
May 24, 2009
The Neue Sammlung design museum in Munich has organized the first [??] exhibition of the history of Ikea design. The idea of vintage Ikea fascinates me, and not just for the incongruity of it. Alright, mostly for the incongruity...
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2:29 PM
May 23, 2009
Résultats de la vente 1567, Livres et manuscrits modernes, Lot 73, Enzo Mari PROPOSTA PER UN AUTOPROGETTAZIONE Milan, Galleria Milano, 1974. Cat. in-16 à litalienne, Vendu EUR 497 [artcurial.com]...
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5:09 PM
May 22, 2009
Fritz Goro was the longtime science photographer for LIFE magazine. He covered the Manhattan Project, including shooting at the original Ground Zero. His image of a fetus in an artificial womb inspired Kubrick's 2001. He crafted photo-simulations of x-ray...
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8:03 PM
May 21, 2009
Though I suspect the easiest thing would be for Michael to let Cerre know where he scanned the image from, here's what I can figure out about this dress made by Ellsworth Kelly in Sanary, France in 1952: Sanary,...
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9:22 PM
May 16, 2009
Hans Ulrich Obrist - Yes, I see here - there's a vehicle, a truck, in the picture. Enzo Mari - The editor [of Bompiani] had a problem, and we're speaking about the fifties, in that he needed to transport...
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12:26 PM
May 11, 2009
Ever since discovering Mister Jalopy's blog Hoopty Rides a couple of years back, I've been low-grade obsessed with vintage tools and vintage toolboxes. There's something about the combination of lost quality, survival, and embedded history that makes an intact...
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11:53 PM
May 7, 2009
Yo te amo, Cintra Wilson:One $75 T-shirt bore the word ARTIST across the chest in a bold glitter font. Now, any artist I know who's worth his salt would print the shirt himself if it cost more than $22 --...
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8:12 AM
April 25, 2009
Until they start re-enacting Metropolitan Diary anecdotes with sock puppets [OMH! BRB!], the pinnacle of NY Times multimedia achievement is Bill Cunningham's weekly narration of his On The Street fashion photos. Normally, he lays down the audio back in the...
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11:10 AM
April 14, 2009
On one block of West Robinson Rd West Robinwood Rd in Detroit, all but five of the houses are abandoned. Jim Griffioen took photos of both sides of the street. His massive, stitched together photos are on Sweet Juniper...
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11:20 PM
April 12, 2009
Dan has been my main source of Postopolis! LA coverage this year. Design theorist Benjamin Bratton wrapped up the event's discussion with an interesting, twisted bow of a speech. He talked about "Post," but in the sense of Post-/Pre-, not...
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9:27 AM
April 6, 2009
Seriously, who had the hubris to come up with that phrase? Unbelievable. The irony, of course, is that early spring and fall are the times of the year when you, the pre-war apartment dweller, realize how little control over your...
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11:55 PM
March 26, 2009
Apparently, with all the digital technology and whatnot, they hold onto that stuff at Bloomberg News, even if you're not indicted immediately. Art Dealer Charged With Stealing $88 Million [image: chip east/bloomberg news, photographed in 2007]...
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11:38 AM
But not that Bill. The Obamas Get Up Close and Personal In DC [nyt's automated related link generator]...
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7:50 AM
March 22, 2009
I'm not interested in the so-called PC aspects of discussing hair loss. The parody of an apologetically sensitive term like "follicularly challenged" is still of a piece with the negative connotation baked into the term, "hair loss" itself. Same with...
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10:16 PM
The report this weekend--from Apartment Therapy--about Apartment Therapy getting a takedown notice from the NY Times legal department for unauthorized use of the Times' IP reminds me of the Apartment Therapy story from June 2004 about Apartment Therapy getting an...
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9:48 PM
March 16, 2009
On the way to the gym, I was really enjoying a news report on the radio about the political unrest in Madagascar. [Capital: Antananarivo, (AN-tan-uh-Na-REEV] The about-to-be-deposed president must be pretty bad; why else would they give up such an...
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11:14 PM
Like everyone else in the country, I was glued to the screen September 11th, 1998, scrambling to download the massive Independent Counsel's Report, aka the Kenneth Starr Report, from a still-scrawny Internet. I finally printed my copy in time for...
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1:42 PM
March 10, 2009
Holy smokes, we have seen Sprockets, and they are US. And all this time I thought the weird-awesomest Monks were the guys publishing Monk Magazine from their motor home. This reminds me of the Pink Floyd track over the opening...
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9:51 AM
March 7, 2009
Pet Shop Boys - Love Etc. (HD) [youtube via andrew sullivan] For the moment, "Love etc." is playing largest on the PSB's homepage [petshopboys.co.uk]...
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7:33 PM
March 5, 2009
Every time I log in to check my eBay links, I'm like, "Obama!" See how he embraces John McCain's strategy for the economy with no pride of authorship?...
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10:47 AM
March 3, 2009
Another thing that caught me off guard looking through piles of photos from the Civilian Conservation Corps, was the camps. My interest in the CCC didn't come from the New Depression unfolding around us, but from learning over Christmas...
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10:27 AM
February 17, 2009
Whether it's right or not, this book sounds fantastic:Making art provides uncomfortably accurate feedback about the gap that inevitably exists between what you intended to do, and what you did. In fact, if artmaking did not tell you (the maker)...
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10:50 AM
February 5, 2009
From a Boston Globe article, "Stimulus funding for arts hits nerve":Representative Jack Kingston, a Georgia Republican, wants to transfer the proposed NEA funding to highway construction. He failed to get the House to vote on his proposal, so he is...
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12:05 PM
February 3, 2009
Priceless."I have a strange and unpleasant announcement to make," host Dave Hill, a comedian...announced. "There are too many women and not enough men. We're not sure what to make of this, but we have to close the registration to women."...
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11:46 AM
February 2, 2009
The whole thing about the only human construct you can see from space is the Great Wall of China will be amusing to people growing up in the Google Maps era, where you can't hide anything from the satellite's...
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6:08 AM
January 31, 2009
Greg Allen's 25 Rules For Creating Good Theater [neofuturist.org via x-reference]...
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12:22 AM
January 24, 2009
Do not adjust your speakers. After hearing Bill Cunningham narrate his photos from the Inauguration, I don't know how I ever got by just looking at the newspaper. [nyt]...
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9:10 AM
January 16, 2009
The only thing worse than daytrippers is being one.Every week, we'd drive into the city, parking our cars in another section each time and walking till our legs gave out. It was revitalizing just to see the differences! The differences...
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5:47 PM
January 15, 2009
I just have get this out there, even though I know it drives Jean quietly crazy. I like wearing clothes with holes in them. I just do. Not cutouts, obviously, and not really rips, but stuff that wears out,...
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10:11 PM
January 3, 2009
Muji has teamed up with real estate developer Mitsubishi Chiso [Mitsubishi Estate] to create Muji Village, a three-building condominium complex in Chiba Prefecture, the New Jersey of Tokyo. Or maybe it's the Westchester of Tokyo, and Saitama's New Jersey,...
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10:28 PM
January 1, 2009
Even he had to admit that this was as pleasant a concert setting as could be imagined. The stage was a flatbed trailer set up in front of a log cabin; it was a breezy summer afternoon, and people brought...
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11:50 PM
December 31, 2008
Paddy Johnson does great work at AFC. By contributing today--right now, in fact--you can help support the expansion online of art, its creation, exhibition, and its thoughtful interpretation. And thanks to her collaboration with Momenta Art to manage AFC's fundraising...
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11:48 AM
December 7, 2008
In what has apparently become an annual feature here on greg.org, I present Rare And/Or Unique Buckminster Fuller Objets. This time last year, it was the Perspex prism chandelier Fuller [had] made as a wedding gift for Princess Margaret....
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8:47 PM
December 3, 2008
So we go to Costco for lunch and formula Friday, my dad, the kids and I, and it's a flatscreen frenzy. Like Rodney King-grade looting frenzy; every cart has a flatscreen and a bale of toilet paper, and I'm like,...
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10:32 AM
November 28, 2008
If you shop at only one blogger-curated pop-up store this holiday season, make it Andy Beach's Reference Library Mini-Exhibition at Kiosk in SoHo. Despite his fame as a retail artist/design guru/dad/ex-DT guest blogger is probably best known for his...
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4:36 PM
November 11, 2008
I know there's really no other way for Lucas & co to justify the existence of a Darth Vader Toaster than to just embrace the idiocy and hang on for dear life, but still. Holy smokes:If there's something every...
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9:34 PM
November 5, 2008
In 1988, a police riot broke out at Tompkins Square Park in the East Village. Police beat, among others, people defying a 1 AM curfew imposed by Mayor Ed Koch in an attempt to curtail, among other things, late night...
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9:14 PM
October 31, 2008
This morning I was buying a Diet Coke at the gas station, which forced the lady to get up from her chair by the radio. "Arlo Guthrie! I didn't even know he was still alive!" "Really! You know who I'm...
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5:38 PM
October 25, 2008
Spectacular. ITV took an underground tour of Paris with l'UX and the folks from Untergunther. They started in the sewer, went deeper into the quarries that provided the stones from which medieval Paris was built, and ended up--well, I'll...
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11:05 AM
October 8, 2008
It's like unfinished project night around here. Hermes unveiled its reskinned a 1989 Citroen 2CV6 Special at the Paris Auto Show to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Deux Chevaux. Not that anyone needs a reason to luxe out...
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10:05 PM
September 29, 2008
From the AP Bureau in Utterly Incongruoustan:Paris designers defy economic woes Filed at 11:34 p.m. ET PARIS (AP) -- As retail stocks plunged on Monday, Paris designers came up with antidotes to the economic blues plaguing the luxury industry. British...
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11:46 PM
September 20, 2008
From the i-banking obit the NYT has waiting on the shelf for just such emergencies: "I hate to use the phrase 'masters of the universe,' but they're not in investment banking anymore, they're in hedge funds," Mr. [Tom] Wolfe [who,...
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7:54 AM
September 19, 2008
someone died across the street, originally uploaded by gregorg. This morning I watched as a masked and gloved demo crew emptied an apartment in the building across the street. Shitty traditional furniture from decades, not centuries, ago; an emptied...
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6:00 PM
September 9, 2008
I'm not sure, but I think the references to porcupines and garage doors in this editorial in the Anchorage Daily News is some kind of GOP code. Keep right, quills I've never seen a porcupine sprint. The other night I...
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4:26 PM
September 5, 2008
I'm sorry, but I think the deracinated, uncredited, untraceable image orgy Ffffound to be the nadir of the eye candy, surface-uber-alles design world. And the people at Things offer my contempt a half-full glass of niceness:We've always known that the...
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8:23 PM
September 4, 2008
"Just from what little I've seen of [Michelle] and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they're a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they're uppity," Westmoreland said. Asked to clarify that he used the word "uppity," Westmoreland said, "Uppity, yeah."...
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11:37 PM
August 28, 2008
I've had some intense conversations with people who wanted to know what the US presidential candidates thought about the arts, who is advising them, and what their policy statements were on the matter. Frankly, I couldn't have cared less at...
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12:54 AM
August 24, 2008
These British losers sound awesome, but I guess I missed the part of the article where they force the bars to sell them eight drinks for a euro or whatever:Reports of scandalous incidents rumble on regularly here [in Greece's Redneck...
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1:25 PM
August 23, 2008
That's a very non-elitist-yet-gravitassy typeface you got there, Senator....
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6:21 PM
August 21, 2008
Wow. Turns out the arrangements of the national anthems being played at the Beijing Olympics are unauthorized, uncredited, and uncompensated copies of the 2004 Athens games. The Beijing Olympic Committee apparently transcribed and re-recorded the unique orchestral arrangements, over 200...
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11:43 PM
August 10, 2008
Just, wow. John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Louise Nevelson, and yet the sycophancy and superciliousness of this 1974 interview in SoHo by a couple of early Interview contributors is almost unwatchable. Almost. I just watched it again:R. Couri Hay: My...
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12:00 AM
August 9, 2008
I've never been enough of a fashion trender or a socialite for him to really need to know me, but my office used to be on 57th street, and I'd see Bill Cunningham all the time. Then I'd see him...
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12:15 PM
July 25, 2008
We're in Southern Utah at the moment, visiting family outside St. George, which you may know as the city with the Polo Outlet outside Zion National Park. Last night, we went to my second cousin in-law's wedding reception at...
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12:44 PM
July 9, 2008
HE never got in to Juillard, which always rankled, but still ended up with an entirely respectable Ph.D. in Music History and stints as both Associate Professor of Music and Composer-In-Residence at two midwestern universities. He had even had his...
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1:12 AM
June 28, 2008
Look, I love Car Talk as much as the next guy, but holy smokes, the excerpt from their new, animated sitcom for PBS, Click and Clack: As The Wrench Turns, is utterly unwatchable. It's three minutes long, and they have...
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8:03 PM
June 26, 2008
Piggly Wiggly Updates Tagline For Teh Internets Age, originally uploaded by gregorg. spotted while driving back from the Outer Banks yesterday....
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9:56 AM
I haven't bought any yet, but since Jil Sander was sold to Change Capital Partners a couple of years ago and Raf Simons began designing it, the label has mostly moved out of the way of my grudge against...
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8:00 AM
June 13, 2008
In a guestblogger post on the NY Times' The Moment, some guy in Berlin named Nick Currie, claims that the Japanese word for Muji addicts is Mujirers. This is wrong. And by mixing up the L and R, it is...
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5:04 PM
June 1, 2008
Oh my heck, if you read the Washington Post's article on black folk in Utah, be sure you read it to the end. I love my people and all, but seriously, it is time to wake up:When [Rodger] Griffin [an...
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11:49 AM
May 15, 2008
The Suck Cola Registry # SC0005, originally uploaded by gregorg. In 1996, I went to some weird little Internet expo at the New York Coliseum. The folks from Suck.com were there, and I got this bottle of Suck Classic...
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10:45 PM
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11:23 AM
February 14, 2008
Cintra Wilson's takedown of Victoria's Secret in the NYT's Critical Shopper column is more fun than a runwayful of pouty supermodels:“Dream Angels,” according to Victoria’s propaganda, is America’s No. 1 fragrance, which makes sense in an obese nation with no...
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8:46 AM
December 20, 2007
There's nothing I can say that isn't already said by the licensee:We are pleased to introduce you to 1600 for Men®- Formulated with the finest of ingredients including naturally derived botanicals and skin enriching vitamins. 1600 for Men™ is...
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9:59 PM
November 25, 2007
You don't need to read French to get the gist of the Le Monde headline about how government prosecutors' thrown-together case against UnterGunther for secretly restoring a 150-yo clock in the Pantheon is doing: "la patrie... très énervée" Four members...
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12:47 PM
November 14, 2007
Ho-ly Mackerel, this is incredible. Street and Gangland Rhythms: Beats and Improvisations by Six Boys in Trouble is a 1959 urban field recording LP from Folkways Records, a pioneer in folk music, field recording, and world music. A rare...
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3:07 PM
October 9, 2007
l: Pantheon r: Pantheon w/Ernesto Neto's 2006 installation, Leviathan Thot Wow, worlds collide, I feel like I'm in an Umberto Eco novel. At nights over the course of a year, a group of urban explorers in Paris who call...
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3:41 PM
September 27, 2007
A support campaign for the marching monks of Burma, including this stencil, which is downloadable as a pdf [saffronrevolutionworldwide.blogspot.com via monoscope]...
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10:26 PM
September 14, 2007
So someone on Gawker thought they just saw Tripp Darling eating at 63rd & 5th? No way! That's so funny! Because I thought I just saw the pantsless pothead professor from Animal House! But it wasn't 63rd & Fifth;...
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4:57 PM
August 14, 2007
People, please. So with 30 million page views x 4 units x $30/page ratecard, Gawker Media's annual ad inventory is priced at $52 million retail. How much inventory do they sell? 50%? 70%? 40%? Every time you see a Gawker...
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9:31 AM
August 13, 2007
So for 15/20ths of my time on the elliptical machine yesterday, CNN was, in their words, "Remembering Merv", all while apparently forgetting his sexual harassment and palimony suits or his closeted, right-wing conservative support of Reagan and his sudden lack...
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1:16 PM
August 2, 2007
"Oatsie Charles had John Peixinho recover her late husband's Barcalounger in printed linen." "Shanghai" from Scalamandre, as it turns out. Updating Newport, Ever So Slightly [nyt]...
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4:50 PM
July 21, 2007
I only discovered the Chinese government's published evisceration of Michelangelo Antonioni's 1972 documentary Chung Kuo - Cina after I thought I'd finished my Cabinet article on Scott Sforza. Jonathan wondered if Susan Sontag's On Photography might have a relevant...
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11:06 PM
July 20, 2007
From Theresa's blog, The Wit of the Staircase:From the French phrase 'esprit d'escalier,' literally, it means 'the wit of the staircase', and usually refers to the perfect witty response you think up after the conversation or argument is ended. "Esprit...
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1:03 PM
July 13, 2007
1) What the public affairs office of the LDS Church finds itself in the middle of because of the presidential candicacy of church member Mitt Romney. The deluge of media inquiries is to be met by an army of interns....
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8:05 PM
June 9, 2007
greg.org, based on flickr user reutc's original image This report from Church Solutions ["formerly Church Business"] Magazine:Faith-Based Amusement Association Launches Posted on: 12/07/2006 With the goal of providing "influential amusement" in their industry, a group of 48 met last...
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5:25 PM
June 2, 2007
Just as he has done for insurance executive Robert Rosenkrantz's thoughtful affairs, for just a few basis points, Christopher Hitchens will pepper your next client-heavy dinner party with not unfollowable latin legalisms:“I think there’s a big incentive among people in...
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3:31 PM
May 30, 2007
See it's alright for Australians to give the little animated sushi character buckteeth--because they're Asian, too! Wrigley's Extra commercial Dir. Jonathan Baker Agency: DDB Sydney [atwinthing.com via coudal, I thought]...
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9:03 AM
May 19, 2007
Most of the time we're never aware of it. But at some level, it's gotta be deeply disturbing to find out we're as much a type as a person. And by that, I don't mean "Mac" or "PC"; I mean...
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10:59 AM
I've been wondering for a while now what I could get laser-etched on my MacBook that would be sustainably cool, conceptually tight, not too annoyingly arty, but that wouldn't be a total 19th century lemur etching knockoff, you know?...
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10:52 AM
May 3, 2007
In the pre-opening press for his new shop, Tom Ford was in. sufferable. But it was all worth it, if only as a set up for Horacio Silva's shopping review in the NYT:“Sir, this area is for appointments only,” said...
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12:55 AM
April 8, 2007
By which she means, I assume, that only in DC could virtuoso violinist Joshua Bell perform at a subway station during rush hour and be recognized by only one of the six people who stopped for more than a moment...
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10:21 PM
March 18, 2007
I assembled a table from Italy the other day. From the accompanying instructions, I learned a Phillips screwdriver is called a cacciavite inglese, or English screwdriver, in Italian. [vite is screw.] Which is odd, because Phillips was American. I did...
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11:12 AM
March 17, 2007
But for some reason, the BYU Alumni Association recently deleted their 2002 Alumni Spotlight profile of one of the most powerful and prominent BYU Cougars out there, one who "oversaw all of President Bush’s lawyer-related appointments. Last year, he...
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6:38 PM
March 14, 2007
Muji has always been a luxury of a simple, affordable sort. On March 30th, Muji will open a new store in the Tokyo Midtown complex. Instead of the standard, aggressively humble, utilitarian Muji products, though, they will feature high-design, high-touch...
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11:49 PM
March 7, 2007
I did something yesterday on the train I never do anymore: I read a print copy of the newspaper. I was reminded how, by scanning the page, I used to discover articles about fascinating new things, insights, or perspectives, things...
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3:30 PM
January 18, 2007
From the Jan. 07 issue of Esquire: What I've Learned -- Producer Rick Rubin [Johnny Cash, some other stuff]:Here we were in Mr. Chow's, and literally, it was like World War III had broken out. And when I really thought...
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11:29 PM
January 4, 2007
Something noticed last week: No, Warranties are not “boring,” Princess. When I went to buy my new coffee grinder recently, I was comparing two grinders, different brands, similar prices, and I wanted to see the warrantee information, right? This is...
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8:38 PM
November 27, 2006
A question to Mac heads out there: I'm thinking of getting a new machine, and I want to hear how/what people have decided: I want a new laptop, that will run Final Cut Pro, obviously, but that's easy and portable...
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9:00 PM
November 11, 2006
I was just working with a John Cage recording on in the background which included his reading of excerpts from his journals. It included Cage telling this story, and it made me want to see what "going out of Holland...
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2:59 PM
November 6, 2006
Speaking of the 80's, that was the last time I remember cracking open a copy of Interview Magazine. Judging from the excruciatingly tired art and pop culture names peppering this quiz given to prospective Interview employees, I guess I...
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2:07 PM
September 4, 2006
Or, as I prefer to call it, "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Andrew Hultkrans Would Like To Get Closer To."...
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5:45 PM
August 8, 2006
Inspired by Jason's recent cross-country burger-thon, I'm in the middle of a back-to-back In 'N Out/Shake Shack smackdown attack myself. [Tomorrow's the 'Shack.] What would make the taste test a lot easier: an In 'N Out Mobile Unit. Whaddya...
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11:08 PM
July 29, 2006
Dateline: The 'Bu -- Holy Moses. Oh wait, no, not Moses. Seems he was a Jew. Holy Frank Rich. D'oh. Holy-- Never mind. Just sayin', Mel Gibson. WOW. Gibson's Anti-Semitic Tirade -- Alleged Cover Up [tmz] Previously: Mel Gibson and...
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1:12 AM
July 8, 2006
Red Paper Clip Day could become an annual party, with residents encouraged to wear red paper clips as a Town symbol. The Town is in the process of designing a new logo which is to include a red paper clip.-...
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3:12 PM
June 11, 2006
The Primer was compiled by the Utah State Attorney General as a resource for state agency personnel who deal with polygamist groups and individuals. It details the known polygamist groups in and around Utah and Arizona and provides background on...
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8:06 PM
May 3, 2006
Of course, it's actually called a yukata, and it's for wearing on summer evenings or hot days. And of course, it's actually Marc by Marc Jacobs, the bridge line, but still. It is the only authentic Marc Jacobs logo...
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9:31 AM
April 21, 2006
Dear Representatives of, I visited you site as was interested in film Black Book's riotous Inside the Actor Love/Hate Studio session... by Screenwriter Paul Thomas Anderson. I was very surprised and disillusioned to find out the link to the cigarettes...
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7:23 AM
February 6, 2006
Back in the day, Spy sent phony letters and checks for piddly amounts to various rich and famous New Yorkers to see what the response would be. Trump cashed that one, too, for thirteen cents. Trump v. Trump, Bryan Singer's...
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8:31 AM
January 30, 2006
How 'bout that, TMZ looks the blog it's screwing, too. How Brad morphs into his lovers [1/30: tmz via rw] Brad Pitt is a Chameleon [1/27: the superficial via kottke]...
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7:41 AM
January 27, 2006
Some 264 magazine launches were announced in the US in 2005. The Magazine Publishers Association published highlights from that list. Here are some highlights of the highlights: Boink: "Boston University students will now have their own Adult magazine covering issues...
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5:03 AM
Football team owner Gigi Becali [aka the Woody Johnson of Bucharest]'s car got sideswiped. So he and a henchman opened the door like they do in the old country: with a couple of crowbars and a sportsnews camera crew watching...
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3:00 AM
January 23, 2006
For the autumn sports festival season, many schools and kindergartens sang out "oh-ha!" and danced along to Shingo Mama's song. The word was awarded a grand prize for trendy word of 2000. In the twenty-first century, "oh-ha!" just might become...
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10:04 AM
January 22, 2006
Because there have been helicopters flying over the house in DC every five minutes for the last hour, apparently. Maybe we're in the flight path to Camp David, or maybe we're too close to Cheney's house, which is where I'd...
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9:35 AM
January 5, 2006
Is that you CANNOT get Red Vines at a NYC deli. You have to go to freakin' Target in Queens somewhere, and that's only if you're lucky. DAY-UM....
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9:35 AM
December 29, 2005
I was out of town for the holidays [anything big happen while I was gone?] Anyway, for one dollar, less than the price of a subway token, I scored this sweet Transit Workers Union commemmorative t-shirt at the D.I....
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10:20 AM
December 16, 2005
Like a planet of xenophobic aliens on Star Trek, Typepad has erased the last week from everybody's memories blogs. Most unusual....
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1:54 AM
December 13, 2005
I know that any day now, hundreds of readers will be emailing me, asking for suggestions on how I'd like my gifts wrapped. The answer is below. To the swiftest 150 or so of you, I suggest Cool Hunting's...
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8:48 AM
December 10, 2005
Want to see whose naughty and/or nice? Check out the greg.org advertisers; there's a little of both: NY Doll: The Movie Backstage: The Magazine Nokia: The Mobile Phone Lifestyle Company Aqua Teen Hunger Force: The Badass Animation MSNBC: The TV...
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10:35 AM
November 30, 2005
Living in both towns for a few years, I should be used to this by now, but it never fails to amuse. The Washington Post dispatched a correspondent to uncover rumors of hipness in Williamsburg. Brooklyn. You know, to distinguish...
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10:48 AM
November 10, 2005
I'm totally with her on the Calypso Hamptons hegemony, but for someone with spreads in Southampton and Montana [or is it Wyoming? or both?], Alex Kuczynski sure spends a lot of time thinking about Pottery Barn. In the Sort-of Ethnic...
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7:58 AM
October 13, 2005
Regine posts about British designer Tom Hawes' line of skateable street furniture which, despite having come about "by recognizing skateboarding as an unstoppable urban pathology," makes me feel good. Finally, someone's thinking of the children. skateable furniture [via wmmna]...
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2:26 AM
October 6, 2005
The sagest exegesis, however, comes from one of three short, squat, mushroom-Afro'd white teens who emerge from Royce Hall in Acid Mothers Temple T-shirts with ehhh-whatever sneers on their faces. "It's not that I don't like feedback," one of them...
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11:03 AM
September 30, 2005
Rang dang diggity dang-de-dang... Just when you think this remix of George W. Bush covering "White Lines" couldn't get any better, comes this line about two minutes in: Some a**hole took a picture of Kate Moss doing lines, And now...
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8:37 AM
September 18, 2005
This is apparently going down tonight, 9/18. I hope someone called craft services. Remember, you heard it here third:The Los Angeles Lunar Society advocates the secession of Venice from the city of Los Angeles, and does not preclude the use...
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9:30 AM
September 14, 2005
Garrison Keillor is going after Rex for his "A Prairie Ho Companion" t-shirts. As if Keillor wasn't unfunny and annoying enough already. A Prairie Homeboy Companion [mnspeak, via fimoculous: "oh yeah, I got cease and desisted."]...
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9:54 AM
September 6, 2005
They came up with t-shirt slogans that would've sold like hotcakes at the time. While some, like "Its not whoring if you do it for free." and "At least my publicist loves me." are timeless, most remind me of a...
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2:32 AM
September 1, 2005
And you can't even see the smoke from Rome, much less the fires...Just moments ago at the Ferragamo on 5th Avenue, Condoleeza Rice was seen spending several thousands of dollars on some nice, new shoes (weve confirmed this, so her...
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1:49 AM
August 31, 2005
For several months in 1999, it seemed the only reason I even had an email account was for sending and receiving copies of this article from The Onion. Then the chain was broken, The Onion had no online archive, &c.,...
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9:47 AM
August 22, 2005
"Reasons for ever wearing anything like this have nearly disappeared from my world, and yet I love this pervy and glam Christian Louboutin shoe." A quote from artist/screenwriter/NY-expat Theresa Duncan's newly launched blog, The Wit of The Staircase [named after...
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2:24 AM
August 16, 2005
The other Greg Allen, I mean. The Chicago one. The Neo-Futurists, of which that Greg Allen is a co-founder, are performing next week at the Fringe Festival. What are they doing, you ask? The Last Two Minutes of the Complete...
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11:29 AM
August 10, 2005
Walking along the street dividing Shibuya-ku and Minato-ku (ku's are wards, as if the Lower East Side had its own government bureacracy), I was startled to find a life-sized bronze cast of Michelangelo's David, as the central element in...
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11:01 AM
This is the entrance to the Women-only train car on the Tokyu line. There are enough pervs to require this sort of thing, it seems. Meanwhile, although the Japanese have 42 different words for "excuse me," there is no...
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10:57 AM
August 4, 2005
I still have a place in my heart--and fortunately, a spot in the old collection--for Takashi Murakami. The Louis Vuitton thing was rather masterful, and the sheer superfluity of luxury and fashion maps rather well onto some of the more...
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3:36 AM
This is the Tadao Ando building complex that the ego-mad developer Mori Minoru is finishing on Omotesando, what was once the heart of alternative cultural Tokyo. With a slew of LVMH brand glass curtained flagships all around it, it should...
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3:18 AM
Muji doesn't inspire ecstatic fandom so much as subdued dedication. Otherwise, I'd turn into a screaming screaming junior high school girl every time I walked into one of their stores. This Muji modular shelving system is one of five Muji...
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3:03 AM
A gravestone shop I pass on the way from the hotel to the supermarket offers cute gravestones as an alternative to the traditional obelisk variety. I asked, and they're not just for decorating your Japanese garden. Couldn't bring myself to...
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2:53 AM
My thumbnail generator's on the fritz, but here are some pictures I've taken around Tokyo using my Sharp TM-150. It's pretty sweet for a phonecam, because it has a rather rare combination of decent megapixel camera and removable SD memory...
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2:35 AM
August 2, 2005
First of all, this whole Bathing Ape thing? Chill the flip out, people, it's just not that cool. Bape is just Gap for the overly self-involved. Anyway, TMN's mention of hopstop.com, a site for figuring out subway-to-subway trips in the...
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9:34 AM
July 25, 2005
Hedge funds are a lot like trucking companies: they're usually started by one rather strong-willed guy who gets fed up with his bosses and decides he's going to work for himself. One of the first things these egotistical entrepreneurs do...
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9:21 AM
July 23, 2005
This afternoon just after 4:30, we heard a low rumble and felt everything sway and tremble for about 15-20 seconds. It was strong enough to make you stabilize yourself, but not so powerful that people realized it right away. We...
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4:58 AM
July 17, 2005
A man can go his whole life waiting in vain for a week such as this one, where he has occasion to thank both Hulk Hogan and Pauly Shore for their [advertising] largesse. From now on, I'll just have to...
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11:55 AM
July 13, 2005
Raw, sliced thin, and artfully arranged on a large platter, studded with fresh jalapeno. cf. Richie Notar, the manager of soon-to-open Nobu 57, who long ago left his sense of humor in Queens:"I think a lot of the wealthier people...
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11:37 AM
July 12, 2005
So maybe you've noticed the "1 in 12 wins!" promotion campaign on the lids of most Coke products the last few months. As a pathetically, alarmingly addicted, inveterate loyal Diet Coke drinker, I know I have. The lids are on...
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10:26 AM
July 11, 2005
Gotta give a big shoutout to the folks at NASA and JAXA, the Japan Space Agency, for the successful launch Sunday of Astro-E2, the next generation of X-ray telescope satellites. Astro-E2 was the working name of the satellite on the...
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11:53 AM
July 8, 2005
"I mean, my first thought when I heard -- just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, 'Hmmm, time to...
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10:28 AM
Credit where it's due: one summer in the Hamptons, a housemate picked up Zsa Zsa's autobiography at the Southampton library booksale--the one written in response to her Beverly Hills copslapping incident, not the other one--and it was hi-larious. Lots of...
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8:16 AM
July 7, 2005
Nothing like a terrorist attack to whipsaw our sense of context, priorities and emotions. From Kottke's links this morning [note: the older, carefree links are at the bottom]:# A series of explosions in London this morning during rush hour; at...
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3:20 AM
July 4, 2005
A scene this past weekend at a wedding in the Hudson River Valley: At dusk, a 6-year-old boy would charge up to the younger kids and, with his fists full of sparklers, he would roar and shake his hands until...
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7:02 AM
June 15, 2005
The Times' Kelefa Sanneh sounds pissed off, but weary, as he unpacks the contradictions and outright hypocrisy of mixtapes and the RIAA's stunt raid on Mondo Kim's last week:So while record labels donate money to honor a man who helped...
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11:20 AM
June 3, 2005
Mr. Chris Lehman is apparently the sort of well-intentioned but misguided gentleman who fancies himself a champion of the lower classes and enjoys getting his own hands dirty my laboring in the muck. I do hope, for Mr. Lehman's valet's...
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11:43 AM
June 1, 2005
While I smirked at the transparent publicity-hounding of Nike's store-you-can't-go-in-unless-you're-cool-enough when I first saw it a few weeks ago, I figured it couldn't work; no one'd fall for it and actually care because--hello!--it's such an obvious stunt. I mean, the...
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8:00 AM
May 26, 2005
So according to the NYT, Helmut Lang's business sucked so bad, that sales dropped 60%--from $100 million to $37 million--over five years, and Prada rattles off a whole host of reasons why. It's terrorism, Lang's lack of business sense, he...
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11:15 AM
May 24, 2005
I just got back from a visit to the new conservation department digs at MoMA [one word: AWESOME], and they'd just taken down the Richard Tuttle Letters sculpture today, to get it ready for the SFMOMA retrospective, and it was...
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11:25 AM
May 22, 2005
Fear and self-loathing in Cannes [guardian] A step up from when they the Guardian crew would just complain about the shortage of open bars, Mark Lawson looks for the big themes in Cannes. The result: 1) guilt, 2) loser fathers....
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9:18 AM
May 16, 2005
Just as there's hardly an actor/waiter left in New York who hasn't made rent by doing a couple day's work on some Law & Order spin-off or other as an at-first tearful but increasingly suspecious relative or a neighbor who...
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10:45 AM
May 9, 2005
"Don't ask Nick Denton, publisher of Gawker Media and its growing list of popular Web logs, about his empire... ...If his reluctance to be interviewed is theater, it is deft theater." - Excerpted from Nick's eleventh NYT profile. A Blog...
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11:42 AM
April 28, 2005
It turns out I've got about 1,000 words a day, maybe 2,000 if I'm just doing stream of consciousness. Anyway, as you can guess from the last few days' posts [sic], that wordstream has been gobbled up by another project....
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1:09 AM
April 17, 2005
While the Republican Sanhedrin was proclaiming their own--and Tom DeLay's--righteousness on the Sunday morning political talk shows, I spotted Harry Reid, Senate leader of what Bill Frist calls the "anti-faith" movement--at church. They probably have to look up the address:...
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9:48 AM
April 14, 2005
Since all the pros are weighing in on it, let me say that Laura Shin's umbrella review in Slate is wack. What purports to be a The New York Review of Umbrellas's ignores some key aspects of New York City's...
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8:53 AM
April 12, 2005
"12 WHEREAS, the Preston High School administration and staff, particularly 13 the cafeteria staff, have enjoyed notoriety and worldwide attention; and 14 WHEREAS, tater tots figure prominently in this film thus promoting Idaho's 15 most famous export; and 16 WHEREAS,...
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7:18 AM
April 11, 2005
...in every second of coverage on every channel of the conservative mass media deathwatch, thanks, Frank Rich, ...in this odd music video, "Amer-uh-kuh, we stand as one," by a former Star Trek stunt coordinator from the Jersey Shore. [thanks, TMN]...
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11:03 AM
April 6, 2005
Jason Cala-who? Nick's raising, er, lowering, er, his sights and going after Drudge. His secret weapon: the awesome pithiness of his Choire Sicha-lator, now transformed into an automatic NY Post Headline Generator. Actually, the first day's batch of heds sounds...
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5:19 AM
April 5, 2005
And the only place it's spring is in the corner of the garden where there was a Whole (Foods), and all the children started drinking Jamba Juices for breakfast. Google's satellite image map of Manhattan is stitched together from two...
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10:45 AM
April 4, 2005
First Bjork moves to New Jersey, and now this:I incorrectly assumed that Time Warner would be our cable carrier, as we are in the Time Warner building. Guess what? Not available! RCN is the cable company for this building.- Trippy...
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6:11 AM
March 16, 2005
"Customers who bought this DVD also bought: DVDs from The 21 Jump Street Series. Full House - The Complete First Season DVD (Rate it) DVDs from The Home Improvement Series. Who's the Boss? - The Complete First Season DVD ~...
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11:48 AM
google.com/search?q=the.doogie.howser.of With thanks to advertiser Doogie on DVD, a nod to NTK and Robot Wisdom who have the funnest with Google, and Neil Patrick Harris, who spends part of his "lost years" at my gym....
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7:02 AM
March 11, 2005
So you mean this whole "HBS rejects applicants who 'hacked' into admissions site" hubbub is about people seeing what happens if they truncate the URL for their account? I guess they've got a brand image to protect as the home...
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8:01 AM
March 10, 2005
Several years ago, at the opening dinner of a sculptor friend's debut 2-person show, I found myself playing the oh-so-sophisticated New York collector at a giant round table in a Chinese restaurant for a mix of folks, including the other...
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8:15 AM
March 5, 2005
Poss. alt. title: greg.org reads the NYT to you. The Short Film, an Art Deserving a Longer Life [nyt]: After watching the Oscar nominees, Margo Jefferson finds short films to be highly concentrated joys. Even the worst short is better...
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1:54 AM
February 22, 2005
[2/23 update: for Jason's sake, I hope having thousands of micropatrons is not the same as having thousands of microbosses: "Eyy, get to work, Kottke, it's 9:30 already! I wanna see some posts!"]...
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10:53 AM
February 10, 2005
Do not think of Alien....
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12:49 PM
October 19, 2002
"The city belongs to the hoodlums, the pimps, and the hookers. Bickle starts hoping that 'some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.'" [via]Tourists marveled at the multicolored glass skyscraper, but also...
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