MUTO
You'll like this: MUTO a wall-painted animation made in Buenos Aires and in Baden. Read more about Blu. Don't miss the drawings.
Thursday, May 15, 2008 @ 9:34 pm
Kanye
Website I'm check the most lately? Kanye West's blog. No joke, it's awesome.
Thursday, May 15, 2008 @ 9:26 pm
Alanna Heiss's P.S.1
Great article in New York Magazine describing the tensions between MoMA and P.S.1 and the impending retirement of its founding director Alanna Heiss. Over 32 years, she built P.S. 1 into one of the city’s most refreshingly unpredictable venues for contemporary art, drawing crowds of young, aggressively hip visitors to see its exhibitions and join in its boozy summer dance parties. But former MoMA curator Rob Storr says that while Alanna has built something that is very important to New York. She should be very proud of it and she should be lauded for it, but it has outgrown her, and she needs to graciously let it go. Since the merger with the Modern, he adds, it’s become a semi-museum institution, where what it really needs to be is the sexiest, fastest-moving, most dynamic non-museum institution in town.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 @ 10:23 pm
Elizabeth Fleming
You should look at Elizabeth Fleming's photographs. With beautiful photos of the smallest details of family life in her series Life is a series of small moments, it's almost as if Fleming is answering Sally Mann's rustic, humid Southern life lived outdoors with her own suburban New Jersey interiors that are no less delicate and attentive.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 @ 9:00 pm
Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg has died at 82. Read his obituary in the New York Times. See MoMA's collection of Rauschenberg works and take a look at his covers for Time Magazine.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 @ 6:46 am
Play the Building
David Byrne will be turning the Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan into a very large musical instrument this Summer. Devices will be attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound.. The building will be open and free to be played every weekend for 11 weeks this Summer.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 @ 7:41 am
Henry Moore: $2.45/lb
As copper price have risen to $4 per pound, scrap thieves are starting to nab public sculptures. The Orange County city of Brea has lost 3 public bronze sculptures in the last 18 months, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Friday, May 2, 2008 @ 2:53 pm
Guston Drawings at the Morgan
An exhibit of more than 100 drawings by Philip Guston opens today at the Morgan Library in NYC. It's the first major survey of his drawings in more than 20 years and the only U.S. appearance for the exhibit. Nice review of the show in the New York Times.
Friday, May 2, 2008 @ 1:55 pm
Ian Baguskas
Philly-born photographer Ian Baguskas has some great pictures viewable online for his current exhibit at the Jen Bekman Gallery in NYC. I like the dry quiet in these. Also, you should really check out all the sets in his series South Korea: Below Line 38. Fantastic stuff.
Thursday, April 24, 2008 @ 11:02 pm
Being Frank About Frank
Great article on Robert Frank by Charlie LeDuff.
Thursday, April 24, 2008 @ 10:28 pm
Arakawa + Gins
Husband and wife architects have built a house in East Hampton that has undulating floors, disorienting colors, off kilter fixtures and a somewhat dangerous layout. The house purposefully cradles tentativeness with its bumpy concrete hills in the kitchen and if you feel tentative and challenging in the house, Gins and Arakawa believe, you'll achieve a youthfulness and elation that may defy death. But you have to sign an injury waiver to enter the house, just in case. Check out an audio slide show tour. Or see more at Arakawa + Gins' site, reversibledestiny.org.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 @ 8:26 pm
Never Gonna Give, Never Gonna Give
I'm jumping on the bandwagon here, but only because it mesmerizes me. Chambray on denim, it was a trope for our innocence.
Monday, March 31, 2008 @ 9:52 pm
Shorpy
At Fireman School in 1920 you had to jump off a few buildings. See more great hi-res old photos at Shorpy, the 100 year-old photo blog. The site's also got a some nice collections from great photojournalists Walker Evans, Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange.
Friday, March 21, 2008 @ 11:35 am
Web Trend Map
Another way you could browse the web is by thinking of it as one big subway map. Next stop Gmail, transfer here to Gmaps, Gdocs and iGoogle. Standcleardaclosindoors.
Saturday, March 15, 2008 @ 11:44 am
Emilio Morenatti
Great photo by AP photographer Emilio Morenatti in the New York Times of a lawyer at a protest in Pakistan.
Sunday, March 9, 2008 @ 10:59 pm
Garfield
Here's a couple of reasons why it's really all about Garfield lately. If Garfield minus Garfield doesn't inspire, try LasagnaCat.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 @ 12:46 pm
Reason 1,206 That I Will Always Love Brooklyn
At the The Main Event Brooklyn Boy Scouts sold hamburgers for $1.50. See more about this night at a Brooklyn Bingo Hall. And take a look at more great photos from Bryan Derballa. Don't miss his blog as well.
Monday, February 4, 2008 @ 7:30 pm
Time Stands Still
Great video of 207 people frozen in place for 5 minutes in Grand Central Station.
Friday, February 1, 2008 @ 9:33 am
Pelican Project
The Pelican Project puts six decades of Pelican Book covers online! They are quite something when you seen them all a decade at a time. Read more about this gallery put together by Things Magazine.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 @ 8:31 am
Mike Davis Hates Sprawl, Loves Avocados
Urban critic and apocalyptic exaggerater Mike Davis offers his reasons why seasonal wildfires keep getting worse. The loss of more than 90 percent of Southern California’s agricultural buffer zone is the principal, if seldom referenced, reason why wildfires incinerate such spectacular swathes of luxury.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 @ 7:30 am
Jeff Scher
You'll like the work of Brooklyn artist Jeff Scher. You should watch both L’Eau Life and White Out.
Monday, January 28, 2008 @ 8:21 pm
AirMail
Well that was quick. Here's a manila envelope sleeve fer yer MacBook Air.
Monday, January 28, 2008 @ 7:25 pm
United Slices of America
While you thought you could find this on Wikipedia, what you really need is some subjectivity to come up with a good, fairly complete list of regional pizza styles. And check out more good foodblogin' at Serious Eats
Friday, January 25, 2008 @ 8:59 am
Color Photos From the 30s & 40s
The Library of Congress recently uploaded more than 3,000 photos to Flickr. And many of them are vivid color images taken by photographers working for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and the Office of War Information (OWI) between 1939 and 1944. By putting them on Flickr, the LOC is hoping to have the public tag, notate and add information about the copyright-free images. Read more about the project on the Library of Congress blog.
Thursday, January 17, 2008 @ 1:12 pm
Chris Harris
Here, enjoy the warm comfort of Chris Harris's blurry pinhole photos. Along with his landscapes and seascapes, don't miss his shots of mall windows
and a collection of scratched photos.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 @ 7:12 am
Beer, For Dogs and Kids
Mmm beer--dogs love it and now the Japanese company Petcomyu is finally giving dogs what they want. Happy Lager, is a beer designed for dogs that is non-alcoholic and flavored with beef extract. Looks like they love it. It's almost as funny as Sangaria's beer for kids. Personally, I like the looks of the stout this one kid is drinking. It could be fake beer, I don't know. Watch more here. Kampai!
Sunday, January 6, 2008 @ 6:36 pm
Ork Posters
Great hand screen print posters of San Francisco neighborhoods. Too bad it's sold out. More cities from Chicago design firm Ork.
Thursday, December 13, 2007 @ 8:20 am
Google Charts
A new API from Google lets you dynamically generate information charts. Along with pie charts, like this useful one, you can create line charts, bar charts, Venn diagrams and scatterplots. Learn how at the Googles.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007 @ 6:14 pm
Pashley
Some great classic bikes from English manufacturer Pashley. I can't decide between the Guv'nor or the Phantom.
Monday, December 10, 2007 @ 8:16 am
Liz Hickok's New Skyline
New San Francisco skyline in Jell-o as seen from Alcatraz. See it big and see more of Hickock's great Jell-o work.
Friday, December 7, 2007 @ 8:30 am
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