“… a new plan hatched by corporate cronies (e.g., Whole Foods) and wealthy friends of the mayors (e.g. Danny Meyer) will ‘renovate’ Union Square, cutting space for the farmer’s market in half and privatizing the pavilion.”
“Our goal is to capture data about every band to have been formed by teens with that perfect mixture of big dreams and questionable talent in suburban garages, high school music rooms, and college dorms across America.”
“But for dinner I make a cheese sandwich and I hate it. I want to spit on it and see what it does. But I eat it anyway. Everyone dies, but for now I must live.”
“Back in 1987, nobody could have guessed that a bunch of meatheads in a movie about an invisible alien with laser-beam eyes would someday be great American leaders.”
“A soupbox in Trafalgar Square will give anyone who fancies it a chance to do whatever they like for an hour. Arifa Akbar discovers the idea behind it and gets a taste of what may be in store.”
“Central Park was designed for refuge, discovery and communing with society. Not for running. Yet 150 years later, its 843 acres are a paradise for runners. Learn new trails inside Central Park and listen to experienced runners describe their favorites.”
01. “Recent Bedroom” by Atlas Sound
02. “Heaven” by Envelopes
03. “Midnight Vignette” by The Evangelicals
04. “Kenya Dig It?” by Ruby Suns
05. “Dark Leaves From a Thread” by Destroyer
06. “The Re-arranger” by Mates of State
07. “Can’t Say No” by The Helio Sequence
08. “White Winter Hymnal” by Fleet Foxes
09. “Tigers” by The Low Lows
10. “Georgia May” by The Harpeth Trace
11. “Astronaut” by Beach House
12. “Kim & Jessie” by M83
13. “Who Are You Now” by The Botticellis
14. “Said So What” by French Kicks
15. “Hymn” by Hello, Blue Roses
“I like the ampersand. I think it is often the most attractive punctuation mark of them all. This blog is an attempt to give this humble character the respect it deserves.”
Review of “The Flash Press.” “…a short-lived public outburst of suggestive talk, threatened blackmail, bare-knuckle boxing and ornate vituperation that swept through New York in the early 1840s.”
“…an activist art project which started as a mapping of all the public fruit in our neighborhood. We ask all of you to contribute your maps so they expand to cover the United States and then the world.”
“In the age of blogging, great critics appear to be on life support. Salon’s book reviewers discuss snobbery, how to make criticism fun and the need for cultural gatekeepers.”
“I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they’re trying their best to do something that they’re not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there.”
“The Red Hook Soccer Field Food Tents will look very different: out with the tents, in with the city-mandated mobile food vending trucks.” Boo! But at least the food’ll be there.
“Wistuba and her six cohorts (teen winners of the Scholastic Art Awards’ Portfolio Gold Award given out annually along with a $10,000 scholarship) will be on display until tomorrow at White Columns.”
“Allan, his friend Don Eyles, and about 300 others wrote their programs in the first high-order computer language, called MAC (MIT Algebraic Compiler), then compiled it BY HAND into assembly language, which they typed onto punched cards (there were no ter
“Using information provided earlier about their weekly routine, the photographer will arrive on the scene, and unseen, take shots of the subject. The subject will be photographed walking through the streets, going about their daily business.”
“There were many lesser ventures that either bombed or fizzled, among them an automated parking garage in Manhattan, a handwriting institute, a modeling agency… He inherited an estimated $90 million and lost an estimated $80 million of it.”
“…gorgeous photographic documentations of an anti-ballistic missile complex in North Dakota. … The U.S. anti-ballistic landscape as a subset of Land Art.”
“We need your help to rename the performance space formerly known as Galapagos. … Submit your suggestions here and you could win a $1,000 bar tab, plus a year’s free admission for you and a guest.”
“The way a butterfly’s wings can theoretically whip up a tornado, Carrie Bradshaw’s bite of a cupcake set an avalanche in motion. That mouthful of buttery sweetness begat tour buses, which begat trendy lines, which begat Marc Jacobs.”
“We gaze out at the skeletons of condos being erected in every neighborhood, with their toppling cranes and occasional shards of falling glass, and wonder aloud who is going to fill these expensive monstrosities?”
Wikipedia = 100 million hours of human thought. television watching = two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year, or 2,000 Wikipedia projects a year spent watching television.
“I will mail you the prints intermittently depending on how I feel. I may mail you one at a time as a post-card. I may mail you a whole weeks worth in one envelope. By the beginning of 2009 you will have 366 skies.”
“There is a constant murmur, hollow and deep: the traffic. And another sound, intermittent: the wind. It comes in gusts, and in the pauses I can hear it sighing, far away, against other skyscrapers.”
“Air pollution is killing the smell of flowers, possibly eliminating the ’scent trail’ that helps guide those terribly important pollinators, like bees, to the plants that depend upon them for survival, scientists believe.”
“…exquisitely renovated 1913 Tudor house, with six fireplaces, a solarium and a billiards room, which is well within their means, in part because they paid $65,000.”
Prison-camp pseudo-democracy: “The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners.”
“It’s a grassroots movement to get Nike to make available to consumers the futuristic-looking sneakers seen in the 1989 movie Back to the Future Part 2.”
“Its correct name is the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, though … oceanographers had another label for it: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. …some 3 million tons of plastic junk sitting on the surface of the gyre, with six times that much bobbing under
“At this summer’s Beijing Olympics, China puts a 50-year experiment to the test: Officials are betting weather modification can keep the sun shining on the Games.”
“A chap at the back bar of the Kings Arms, with long hair, sports jacket (slight rip in shoulder seam) and a pint of Waggle Dance at his elbow, is holding forth…”
“Kraftwerk and the linked Dusseldorf groups made a connection between German romanticism and Teutonic efficiency, allied it to a kind of tribute to 1950s whitebread America, and thrived on the resultant political ambiguity.”
“The maps visually represent the rhythm and structure of Kerouac’s literary space, creating works that are not only gorgeous from the point of view of graphic design, but also exhibit scientific rigor and precision in their formulation…”
“The house is off-limits to children, and adults are asked to sign a waiver when they enter. The main concern is the concrete floor, which rises and falls like the surface of a vast, bumpy chocolate chip cookie.”
“Although the service, called TXTmob, was widely used by demonstrators, reporters and possibly even police officers, little was known about its inventors.”
“An unknown artist fashions animals out of plastic bags and fastens them to subway gratings, and the hot air inflates them and makes them puff up and wiggle.”
“The only thing I don’t care for in this lyric is the ‘calcified charismatist’ — it just feels too clever. I’m known to make up words but this is too heavy-handed.”
“…the only bump on the road was the aroma emanating from the black plastic bags that Jack’s and other 99-cent stores use: they smell alternately like an electrical fire or a fish in transition.” Bring your own bag, jack!
“Galleries were once known for the artists they exhibit. Now they’re known for the clientele they represent. So they make more profit, but they have less power and influence.”
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