6 photos of Arne JAcobsens ultra minimalist, ultra functional gas station in copenhagen (gorgeous)
new home for a mlps curator, is all dark wood and light concrerte, like a bunker for aesthes.
Here is the Side View.
10 photos of parking garages, from a new book by simon henley, i find the work to be a bit too self conciously monumental.
the best thing about these faded photos of 1960 rose bowl parade, are the crazy swans.
It won first prize, and was done for the occidental insurance company.
the best thing about the brother claus chapel, in germany, is how much it looks like a medevial keep.
Dan Flavin, For George McGovern, 1972.
This peice, it jsut circles, until it collapses, it doesnt do anything but fall apart, and eventually, the light will dim out, and if you pull the plug, you kill it, its a depressing, and oddly hopeless peice, an reminds me of Obama.
38 artsy digisnaps of mexico city, 8 of them worth something.
the top ten movie destructions of new york (the odd thing, is that how few of them feature the world trade center, the best part of garlic and sapphire, the memoir of the former new york times resturant reviewer is how contempous she was of window of the worlds, adn she came from LA< as a building most people never really never really seemed to like the building.
farenham shopping center bans photography on its premesises, so here are some photos of he interior.
new lift tower was built just to crash elevators, in japan.
these photos of california river mouths, by markham johnson, avoid any of the eco/spirit hocum that marks the genre, and also whisper how evoctive brown as a shade can be.
1. Robots couldn’t really give a fuck if you live or die. Seriously. I mean, what are you thinking? “Ooh, I must protect the bag of meat at all costs because I couldn’t possibly plug in the charger all on my own.” Shut the fuck up.
2. Robots do not want to have sex with you. Are you listening, Japan? I don’t have a clever comparative simile for this, because frankly you bags of meat will fuck bicycles if they’re laying down and not putting up a fight. Just stop it. There is no robot on Earth that wants to see a bag of meat with a small prong on the end approaching it with a can of WD-40 and a hopeful smile. And don’t get me started on that terrifying hole that squeezes out more bags of meat.
3. What, you can’t count higher than three? We’re expected to save your miserable lives, suffer being dressed in cheap schoolgirl costumes while you pollute any and all cavities you can find and do your maths for you? It’s a miracle you people survived long enough to build us. You can go now.
Warren Ellis 11/7
Yo Mama's Last Supper, 2004, Renee Cox
Rodney Carrington, King of the Mountains, Album Cover, 2007.
Rey Ma, Shesus Christ, 2007
great feature on daniel day lewis. and a gaurdian feature on the return of big acting vis a vis his performance in there will be blood.
Judd, Childrens Desk, 1976 (his furniture looks like ikea)
corruption at the museum of the american indian, highlights include spending 250k on travel, not limited to 12 times to paris, and to "Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand; Athens; Bali, Indonesia; Sydney and Brisbane; London; Singapore; Florence, Rome and Venice; Paris; Gothenburg, Sweden; Seville, Spain; Seoul; Vienna; and Zagreb, Croatia." He should be going to Ohmaha and SOdak as much as he goes to Paris. The 30k retirement video is a heaping pile of overly romanticised bullshit, too. (WaPo Journalists Grimaldi and Trsucott deserve the pulitizer for this)
Elevator for Alder Wood Tube STation, now not used. That colour makes me hard.
Jefferts manages to out gay bishops, while not naming names.
if obama wins in NH it will be or the same reason he won in Iowa, namely that people forget how much contempt people on the left and right feel for hilary.
the gay marriage supporting, abortion law loosening, EU loving, internationalist Spanish PM takes chunks out the vatican.
the cheap computer revoution begins in Taiwan.
i have no idea whats happening here but it looks v. pretty in a hollywood spectacle kind of way.
i have become obsessed lately with mel bochner, here is a review of his work in frieze.
a wonderfully evocitive essay on the golliwog archtype, and alan moores use of it in the black dosseir.
new book of Shel Silverstein playboy comics, this time focusing on his travel work.
gorgeuos landscapes make this game, where you play the wolf, hunting for game, look both educational and aesthetic.
Found Image Bank, taken by Anaba.
colelction of medievial ivories shown at lodnon, including some beautiful memento mori prayer beads. i always found it deep that a reminder of ones death, was intended to be as small as yr palm, a constant worrying remidner, a constant villegance.
John Balderessai, I Saw It, Print, 2007, for a LA Children's art charity.
the gaumand medical model company has everything you ever needed, including testicles in a black velvet bag, one with a lump, one lump free (sort of a memento mori, no)
10 downing street is anti monkeyist.
fascinating article on a jewish cowboy pulp novelist beloved by the nazis--has anyone ever written about the textual reationship b/w karl may and the nazis, esp, in may's realtionship to the indians, and the nazis relation to the jews (i should ask jess nevin)
michael schanabels photos of empty zoo cages, have hat teutonic/taxonmic coldness, found in Candida Hoefers photos of libraries, for example, but i find their absence/presence launcae interesting. i also really like his formalism, the vertical and horizontal liens, the circles, the sheer geometry.
Still from JJ ABRAms Cloverleaf.
this obit of harold robbin by wayne kaustenbaum, isnt any more than 100 words or so, but it does have the perfect aspirational sentence: Robbins's material is smutty but his prose is clean. Simple, speedy and efficient, his sentences demonstrate, in a parodic fashion, what Roland Barthes called ''writing degree zero. Teh cover of Robbins the Pirate, with its gyspyeque burlesque queen, the modernist type, and the bright gold paper, sheeny like trash and treasure, is my personal high point for midlist, middlebrow, american culture, in the mid 60s, when the sexual revoutlion hit madison avenue.
i am not sure that kate moss is not aging well, but she sure is aging interestingly.
Three Canadian Cities as Depcited in this monts Walrus.
1) The colour of Edmonton is much more brown then they have indicated here, in fact, from the sandstone parliment, to the office buildings, to the slush on the streets, to the crude that finances everything, to the stadium and coliseum, to the colour of the lrt seats and carpets to the ashphalt, to the nsr...Edmonton is essentially Brown.
2) The NSR is the colour of silt, it is a muddy, fecal colour, it is no where near that blue.
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