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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Another year-end wrap-up. Here you go… the very best music, movies, books, concerts and more…
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

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Musicians tell U.S. to ban using songs as torture [Guardian]

"A new anti-torture initiative called Zero dB is hoping to bring an end to the controversial interrogation techniques used by US forces."

(tags: music torture protest)
StateStats

"Explore the popularity of search queries in U.S. states."

(tags: maps politics demographics geography)
H. M., an Unforgettable Amnesiac, Dies at 82 [NYTimes]

"For the next 55 years, each time he met a friend, each time he ate a meal, each time he walked in the woods, it was as if for the first time."

(tags: psychology memory obit)
The 20 Worst Album Covers of 2008 [Pitchfork]

(tags: funny music lists design)
The first 30 years of New York magazine on Google Books

(tags: magazines media googlebooks newyork nymag)
Is This Your Paper On Single Serving Sites? [.com]

Article on sites like isitchristmas.com and whatcoloristheempirestatebuilding.com.

(tags: singleservingsites web internet web2.0)
Decorated trains in Japan [Pink Tentacle]

(tags: japan advertising manga)
Jumping in Art Museums [.blogspot.com]

"I am an avid Art Jumper. Sometimes, while visiting art museums and galleries, I am so excited by what I see that I have to jump for joy."

(tags: art funny museums fun photography jumping awesome)
Embloggery [.blogspot.com]

"This is a blog in which every entry is hand-embroidered."

(tags: knitting blog craft embroidery)
Why Do Feinstein and Wyden Sound Much Different on the Torture Issue Now? [CommonDreams]

(tags: torture democrats politics humanrights)
College May Become Unaffordable for Most in U.S. [NYTimes]

(tags: economics education college)

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Dyker Heights Santa (His Eyes Are Cameras!)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Netflix Origami [.com]

(tags: papercraft origami funny)
Story of Love, Suicide, and Paranoia Appeals to Bret Easton Ellis [Vanity Fair Blog]

"…The tragic story of Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake, the inseparable East Village artists who killed themselves last year believing they were being persecuted, will be the subject of a screenplay by American Pscyho author Bret Easton Ellis…"

(tags: jeremyblake suicide breteastonellis art)
Swoon hypothesis [Wikipedia]

"…refers to a number of theories that aim to explain the resurrection of Jesus, proposing that Jesus didn't die on the cross, but merely fell unconscious ('swooned'), and was later revived in the tomb in the same mortal body."

(tags: swoon jesus)
Wakeboarding Piazza San Marco in Venice [Big Picture, Boston Globe]

(tags: venice flooding photo)
Naomi Klein and the new new left. [New Yorker]

"For someone who places so much weight on social movements, though, Klein can get dyspeptic when she finds herself in the middle of one. Activists are so earnest, so dedicated, so—like her parents."

(tags: naomiklein left politics globalization)
Star Wars: A New Heap [Triple Canopy]

Minimalism, post minimalism, 2001 and Star Wars

(tags: art history architecture film movies culture starwars cinema theory)

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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Ian MacKaye on his 1981 appearance on SNL with Hardcore Band Fear [Young Manhattanite]

"Hi, Ian, it’s Lorne Michaels of ‘Saturday Night Live,’ I’m calling you because I got your number from John Belushi. He says that you might be able to get some dancers up here ‘cause we want to have Fear on the show.'"

(tags: tv punk rock snl)
Neil Young's notorious recipe for "Honey Slides" as he described it at a concert at the Bottom Line Club in New York City, NY, May 16, 1974 [Thrashers Wheat]

(tags: food drugs neilyoung)
Video: François Macré - Thriller (reprise a'cappella 64 pistes) [YouTube]

(tags: music acapella michaeljackson video 80s)
Rebecca Solnit’s peripatetic education [Columbia Journalism Review]

(tags: journalism interview profile rebeccasolnit art writing artcrit)
Sean Penn's Mountain of Snakes [Huffington Post]

Long first-person account of his recent meetings with Hugo Chavez and Raul Castro.

(tags: chavez cuba venezuela)
Why Chinese Democracy's Fine Print Is Way More Fun Than the Record Itself [Village Voice]

"Fourteen studios in four cities. Twenty-two assistant engineers. … Eleven musicians get their own personal thank-you lists; deranged mastermind Axl Rose's requires nearly three columns of tiny-ass type."

(tags: music funny review)
Carl Newman Talks Guilty, Nicknames, Routine [Pitchfork]

(tags: music acnewman interview newpornographers)
Cultural capital [Wikipedia]

"…the knowledge, experience and or connections one has had through the course of their life that enables them to succeed more so than someone from a less experienced background."

(tags: culturalcapital education theory culture)
Video: Photographer Robbie Cooper shows just how focused young video-game players can be. [NYTimes]

(tags: video videogames children)
Why does failure inspire some and demoralize others? [Boing Boing]

"The mastery-oriented children are really hell-bent on learning something… 'learning goals' inspire a different chain of thoughts and behaviors than 'performance goals.'"

(tags: psychology learning lifehacks)

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Old Chicken Coop, Cornwall-on-Hudson

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Photo Slideshow: Tara Donovan at ICA, Boston [TIME]

(tags: taradonovan ica museum art)
"Why are my taxes providing low interest loans to banks that are offering high interest loans back to the tax payers. Why not cut out the middleman????" [BoingBoing comment]

(tags: bailout economics capitalism)
David Byrne's Theory on Lowered Oil Prices

"I suspect the Saudis see the looming oilfields, pipelines and refineries in Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Brazil and a host of other places — places who, with the price of oil so high as it was, could afford to fund all the capital-intensive ancillary aspects of the oil business. However, if the price got lowered, as it has, they won’t (and it turns out aren’t) able to finance the building of those refineries, pipelines, shipping terminals, drilling and exploration."

(tags: davidbyrne oil)
U.S. Pledges Top $7.7 Trillion to Ease Frozen Credit [Bloomberg]

"The pledges, amounting to half the value of everything produced in the nation last year… The commitment dwarfs the plan approved by lawmakers, the Treasury Department’s $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program."

(tags: wtf economy finance bailout money)
Life Without Buildings Interviews Charlie Kaufman

"I wanted to build a casino in Las Vegas called Las Vegas, Las Vegas. Like the idea of Paris, Las Vegas (the real life casino) is that you don’t have to actually go there … So then (with Las Vegas, Las Vegas,) there’s the idea that you don’t actually have to go to Paris, Las Vegas either because there’s a replica of all of Vegas—including Paris, Las Vegas—within this other casino."

(tags: charliekaufman interview film)
Michael Pollan on What's Wrong with Environmentalism [Yale Environment 360]

"I think most environmentalists have in their minds a belief, and it’s vindicated by a lot of what we’ve seen, that the human relationship with nature is zero-sum — for us to get what we want from the natural world, the natural world must be diminished. But go to a really well run pastured animal farm where they’re rotating crops, rotating species, and you will find a place where a lot of food comes off the land, and the land is improved as a result."

(tags: environment interview food michaelpollan)

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Friday, November 21st, 2008

Laughing all the way to the Banksy [The Age]

"Six years ago a Melbourne woman made a purchase that was considered somewhat ludicrous by family and friends — she paid £500 for a stencil by the enigmatic British street artist Banksy. But she is having the last laugh. Three weeks ago, the Banksy canvas sold at auction in London for a hammer price of £90,000…"

(tags: streetart banksy auction)
LIFE photo archive hosted by [Google]

(tags: photography history journalism)
Let me google that for you [.com]

Delightfully obnoxious.

(tags: google funny)
Now Showing | Aakash Nihalani [The Moment, NYTimes]

"There’s a renegade romance to street art — sprinting from cops, working in the shadows, using an alias, all in the name of art. But Aakash Nihalani, who creates trompe l’oeil 3-D boxes using tape on sidewalks and public surfaces, isn’t so cloak and dagger…"

(tags: aakashnihalani streetart nyc)

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Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Don't Trash Big Boxes, Repackage Them! [Washington Post]

"The Washington Post assembled a team of artists, architects, engineers and developers to think creatively about what to do with spaces once occupied by big box stores… Build a Town in the Parking Lot … The SoHo of the Suburbs … Hydroponic Truck Farm Market …"

(tags: bixbox wal-mart architecture future environment suburbia)
Bushwick Area Is Winning Street Cred With Its Offbeat Venues and Daring Displays [Washington Post]

(tags: bushwick brooklyn art galleries)
Somali pirates seize ninth vessel in 12 days [Times of London]

"The battle with pirates operating off the coast of Somalia grew yesterday when raiders seized two more ships but lost one of their own in an uneven firefight with the Indian Navy."

(tags: piracy pirates somalia india)
Live Piracy Map 2008 [ICC Commercial Crime Services]

"This map shows all the piracy and armed robbery incidents reported to the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre during 2008."

(tags: piracy pirates googlemap map)

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Mohonk

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

See William Eggleston at the Whitney then get some lunch at retro-rific Prime Burger on E. 51st St. [Vanishing NY]

(tags: nyc restaurant art)
Lines at the ER, a television boom, emptying suburbs. A catastrophic economic downturn would feel nothing like the last one. [Boston Globe]

"…we might see the development of nationwide used-clothing chains. … The neighborhood appliance shop could reappear in a new form - unlicensed, with hacked cellphones and rebuilt computers. … Among the green lawns of suburbia, kitchen gardens would spring up."

(tags: depression future economics prediction)
Take A Trip To Ancient Rome, Via Google Earth [NYTimes ArtsBeat ]

Overlaying Ancient Rome, Philip K. Dick-style.

(tags: pkd googleearth)
Michiko Kakutani skewers new Malcolm Gladwell book [NYTimes]

"The book, which purports to explain the real reason some people — like Bill Gates and the Beatles — are successful, is peppy, brightly written and provocative in a buzzy sort of way. It is also glib, poorly reasoned and thoroughly unconvincing."

(tags: book review malcolmgladwell)
Barack Obama as a Ruling Class Candidate [ZNet]

"The 'good news' for Washington and Wall Street insiders was that Obama's 'star quality' would not be directed against the elite segments of the business class. The interesting black legislator from the South Side of Chicago was 'someone the rich and powerful could work with.'"

(tags: obama politics economics)
Clyfford Still landscape discovered on Antiques Roadshow, valued at $500,000 [NYPost]

"Decades ago, when a husband and wife moved into their new home, a friend gave them a painting by the man's former college professor. Fast-forward 40 or 50 odd years…"

(tags: art antiquesroadshow tv)
Yarnbombing [.com]

"Improving the urban landscape one stitch at a time"

(tags: streetart knitting graffiti)

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Monday, November 17th, 2008

Anarchist Artist Collective Occupies Posh London Townhouse [ARTINFO]

"On October 10, with several members dressed as builders and Smith sporting a clipboard and a fur coat, the group propped a ladder up against the home and entered through an unlocked window."

(tags: realestate art squatting)
Sarah Palin ignorance of Africa was hoax. [NYTimes]

A Fake Expert Named Martin Eisenstadt and a Phony Think Tank Fool Bloggers and the Mainstream News Media

(tags: hoax media africa)
Buffalo, a City Filled With Architectural History, Looks to the Future [NYTimes]

Sullivan, Richardson, Wright, Olmstead

(tags: architecture history buffalo travel)

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Deerhunter at Bowery Ballroom

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

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Thursday, November 13th, 2008

HugeURL [.com]

The opposite of TinyURL.

(tags: funny parody)
Interview with Rosaland Krauss, Professor of Art History, Columbia Univ., Editor, October [Harvard Crimson]

"…October magazine, which I coedit and cofounded in 1976, recently did a special issue that was an attack on the visual culture project. Like cultural studies, visual culture is aimed at what we could call pejoratively, abusively, deskilling."

(tags: visualculture arthistory arttheory theory)
Is Jeff Jarvis gloating about the death of print? [Ron Rosenbaum/Slate]

"Firing people on the writing side because of the incompetence of the business side is a long tradition in the media business, and Jarvis gives management a New Age fig leaf with which to shift the blame from their own incompetence."

(tags: media business ronrosenbaum blogging internet journalism)
NYTimes-se.com

New York Times spoof from the Yes Men envisions peaceful July 4, 2009.

(tags: nytimes humor spoof yesmen)
The same day that Ford and General Motors announced catastrophic third-quarter losses, Dean Kamen was showing off his new electric car. [UnionLeader]

(tags: energy cars)
Fed OKs American Express as bank holding company [Reuters]

"American Express Co said it won approval to become a bank holding company, in a step that could cut its borrowing costs and give it more access to government money."

(tags: banking bailout moneygrab finance)
Fed Defies Transparency Aim in Refusal to Disclose [Bloomberg]

"The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral."

(tags: corruption finance economics economy bailout)
The End of Wall Street's Boom [Michael Lewis/Portfolio]

"The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar’s Poker, returns to his old haunt to figure out what went wrong."

(tags: wallstreet history business finance michaellewis)
Obama softens ban on hiring lobbyists [Boston Globe]

(tags: obama lobbyists)
Video: Obama Win Causes Obsessed Backers To See How Empty Lives Are [Cynical-C]

(tags: obama)
In the Public Interest: Between Hope and Reality [Ralph Nader]

"Your presidential campaign again and again has demonstrated cowardly stands. 'Hope' some say 'springs eternal.' But not when 'reality' consumes it daily."

(tags: nader obama israel lobbyists)
Chart: first 100 days of the last 12 presidencies [Good Magazine]

(tags: history chart timeline)
Obama fist-bumps with daughter Malia on election night [Flickr]

(tags: obama fistbump)
Barack Obama: The 50 facts you might not know [London Telegraph]

"He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics; He was known as 'O'Bomber' at high school for his skill at basketball … He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia … His favourite music includes Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bach and The Fugees … He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds…"

(tags: obama)

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Pre-Marathon Shelter

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

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Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Video: Who is Rahm Emanuel? [Real News Network]

(tags: obama centrism)
Video: "Star Wars" - an a capella tribute to John Williams [Corey Vidal]

(tags: starwars acapella funny)
The young generation: Burroughs and Kerouac - an unpublished collaboration [The Independent]

"In 1944, two aspiring writers named William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac were implicated in a murder that scandalised New York."

(tags: book kerouac burroughs)
Bush: 'Can I Stop Being President Now?' [The Onion]

(tags: funny bush)
WBUR Radio: Mike Davis says the federal bailout of big corporations is not an example of Socialism as some opponents have claimed.

(tags: radio mikedavis socialism)

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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

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Monday, November 3rd, 2008

This. Fucking. Election. [.com]

(tags: election2008 funny history)
Videos: YouTube Meta-Art [I Heart Photograph]

(tags: art video)
Video: Momus: White Trash (The Rice Experiment) / Bridge Art Fair Berlin

"…he performs as a rice shaman together with his nephew Robbie. …he will announce whether praising and blaming the two pots of rice has had any effect on the food’s condition."

(tags: food rice art momus berlin)
Video: Counting On Election Day Video [CBSNews.com]

"CBS News Political Correspondent Jeff Greenfield tells viewers what to look for on election night. What you'll know, and when you'll know it, when the polls close, state by state."

(tags: election2008)

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The Ruby Suns at Music Hall of Williamsburg

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

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Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Studs Terkel, Listener to Americans, Dies at 96 [NYTimes]

(tags: obit)

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Best of 2008

links for 2008-12-16

Dyker Heights Santa (His Eyes Are Cameras!)

links for 2008-12-09

links for 2008-12-02

Old Chicken Coop, Cornwall-on-Hudson

links for 2008-11-25

links for 2008-11-21

links for 2008-11-20

Mohonk

links for 2008-11-18

links for 2008-11-17

Deerhunter at Bowery Ballroom

links for 2008-11-13

Pre-Marathon Shelter

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The Ruby Suns at Music Hall of Williamsburg

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