a beautifully written history of inuktikuk.

the most interestnig thing about this mini war b/w columbia, ecaudor and venezula, is that cocaine seems to be a more stable currency then oil. (link goes to LA times, which not suprisingly, has the most thorough and the best written coverage of these things)

beautiful hand crafted work for children, from swedish artisans, divided by material, the robot hooks, ape hangers, and cermaic statuettes are all worth buying (a krona is worth about 16 cents canadian)

the ulitmate minimal cube house some where in ecuador (would look great, but the wind would kill it, in the middle of saskatchewan)

though this project qoutes heavily from de maria's lightening field project, i like how it makes the invisible visible...richard box planted a grid of floruscent tubes underneath a pylon and watched them glow.

the new still musuem in denver looks a lot like the the old aga.

must read editorial from a working farmer, on how fucked up the american ag policy is. highlight:

Last year, knowing that my own 100 acres wouldn’t be enough to meet demand, I rented 25 acres on two nearby corn farms. I plowed under the alfalfa hay that was established there, and planted watermelons, tomatoes and vegetables for natural-food stores and a community-supported agriculture program.

All went well until early July. That’s when the two landowners discovered that there was a problem with the local office of the Farm Service Administration, the Agriculture Department branch that runs the commodity farm program, and it was going to be expensive to fix.

The commodity farm program effectively forbids farmers who usually grow corn or the other four federally subsidized commodity crops (soybeans, rice, wheat and cotton) from trying fruit and vegetables. Because my watermelons and tomatoes had been planted on “corn base” acres, the Farm Service said, my landlords were out of compliance with the commodity program.

I’ve discovered that typically, a farmer who grows the forbidden fruits and vegetables on corn acreage not only has to give up his subsidy for the year on that acreage, he is also penalized the market value of the illicit crop, and runs the risk that those acres will be permanently ineligible for any subsidies in the future. (The penalties apply only to fruits and vegetables — if the farmer decides to grow another commodity crop, or even nothing at all, there’s no problem.).

Sam Weber, Dragon and Tiger, 2007

the condiment packet gallery

chris from council bluffs iowo will be my new lds soilder lover/husband. we shall be danites together.

i sort of love david lasky's not-quite-sexy enough water colours of french new wave film scenes.


Alexander McQueen goes from Strength to Strength, thsi time with a cross-historical salute to elizabeth, with some elements of (fake?) ermine (speaking of dead animals--the fur trim and leather gloves in Lavin 2008 are completely Cruellea De Ville cast as Venus of Furs, hard fetish, in the classically freudian sense, and intensely, unapologetically, insanely erotic (they also have shoes with such impractical, over the top heels--more dirks then stillettos, intended as phallic weapons. they must not be able to be walked in)





photos of the gloves, taken on style.com, by dan ashby and oliver clarisse, thnx rachel.

dan mccarthy's glow in the dark poster is sweet.

kellog brown and root dont pay their taxes)

another marine rape case, this time in hiroshima.

weapons for yr lego minifigs.

desire paths are the lines in parks and across lawns where people want to go, as opposed to where they are prescribed to go.



possible wedding present for john rachel, you should look at this site, lots adn lots of great stuff.

long fascinating article on restoring arabic manuscripts from timbuktu, from the 13th Century. and another


Artist Unknown, Outside KMPG Munich (this is really cryptic to me--yeah it looks cool, but do you really want a symbol of cryptic, solipism with no external soultion, and the antehsis of practicality to be t he symbol of an aconting firm, who should be all in favour of functionality, transparency, and easily recognizable soultions?)

anyone read luce irigray?

santagold is like MIA, but Brooklyn and Mexico City instead of London and Columbo--brilliant beats, general mindblowing bricolouge, and an assshaking of monumental porportions. (she also has a sweeter voice and thus sings instead of breakbeating)

bush vetos the anti-torture bill.

michael surtees is a great street photographer, and im sort of lin love with the umblr format in general.



Lily Cole by Jungen Teller, 2007