December 2010
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“So dudes, if you’re headed into town for New Year’s Eve tomorrow,...”
– NYMag on why men have it so good in this city for New Years…
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The Art of Architecture.
Very interesting piece on NYMag by Justin Davidson advocating the Whitney’s space on Madison Ave. get turned into a museum for Architecture. I agree. He notes how Architecture is hard to convey to museum goers, due to the kind of knowledge needed to truly understand the history of architecture and to display models and sketches without making them look like 3rd grade projects.
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again, I ask you to sort out your priorities.
Where can I get a good coffee in London and work at 2-3 am?
- Facebook questions
Your room? Come on.
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and now, your Kyle MacLachlan Twin Peaks-era...
WHERE TO EAT IS HERE HERE HERE! →
As usual it’s places that’ve been raved about already. Surprised Peels made the list for breakfast after a lukewarm review earlier this year, but very happy (and not surprised) that Mile End was saved ‘til the end! Other notables: This Little Piggy Had Roast Beef and Vandaag - which came up on the list for sandwiches and cocktails. (For more Vandaag yummy-looking cocktails,...
Wintry time playlist.
1. Christmas Time Is Here - Vince Guaraldi Trio
2. Baby, it’s Cold Outside - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan
3. Miniature Overture from the Nutcracker - Tchaikovsky
5. My Favorite Things - John Coltrane
6. Taxi Cab - Vampire Weekend
7. Northern Sky - Nick Drake
8. Temecula Sunrise - Dirty Projectors
9. Faded from the Winter - Iron & Wine
10. The Box - Johnny Flynn
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step one: buy log cake.
Sandra lee is ridiculous. RIDICULOUS! This is how you “make” a yule log cake.
This is how you make Christmas Cocktail!
AND GOD FORBID YOU ARE OUT OF SPLENDA PACKETS.
Don’t forget! The children love aquworium-themed tablescapes.
I'll take the Warhol and all your Rolexes, thanks.
I mean, it makes sense to steal valuables, duh. But I do like how these burglars were like: ‘no, we need really cool art and jewelry to get street cred.’ I ain’t trying to condone theft, but as an “employee” (read unpaid intern, bleak prospect) of a modern art museum, I’d like to think our thieves are a little classier than other cities’ delinquents.
the physics of cities.
Interesting article from NYT Magazine this past Sunday here. Interview with the authors here. Also, an old Radiolab episode about the math behind cities.
back to my infrastructure lovin' roots.
Urbanized is the new Gary Hustwit film (maker of Helvetica and Objectified). I am so pumped to see this.
This is a real education.
SCANWICHES.
moonshine.
…don’t call it that? Oh well. It makes sense that the guy featured in this NYT article about local craft distilleries features an ex-graphic designer, the labels on these bottles are b-e-a-u-tiful (peep the slide show here)! Odds are, this stuff’ll be showing up in the lobby of the ACE Hotel sooner or later…
(side note: I saw the Berkshire Mountain Gin a couple of days...
“I’m going to have the blueberries with my cereal, and I’m not talking Special K....”
– Larry David’s NYT op-ed.
'staches.
Love ‘em or leave ‘em.
NYMag Coen Bros. retrospective.
Get yer 35 Manliest Mustaches of all time here.
Food.
Hipsters.
FACIAL HAIR.
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“Cilantro is kind of the parsley for these countries in the East.”
– Sandra Lee.
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and now, your old school Alec Baldwin Moment of...
Weird… in a good way. Like going to the gym drunk.
This is really ridiculous.
Only in England would there be a Dollhouse festival. Peep these photos. This month’s New Yorker Fiction Podcast actually is a story about miniatures (Steven Millhauser’s “In the Reign of Harad IV” read by Cynthia Ozick). What’s up with the miniatures? And this is just out of control (god I hope they’re joking, it is a blog on the Guardian’s website, after...
high(way) art.
This blog at one point in time used to be about infrastructure. Yay maps! There’s a very cute entry in the Abstract City Blog on NYT.com that plays with the idea of the google maps images. Check them out here.
yeezy taught me.
Now that I’m done with my classes (forever…until that thing they call grad school happens in 2012 - wait, won’t the world have ended by then anyway?) I can proudly say my professor was SO Jason Alexander’s doppelganger. Everyone I say this to disagrees, but I still believe. Also, he was a really cool professor. Just sayin’.
“If you were ranking all those word of the year selections for importance against...”
– Geoff Nunberg, on the word of the year for 2010.
Laptopistan!
Yes, that little known country between Kyrgystan and Absurdistan. It lies somewhere in Brooklyn. Anyway, it’s a funny article in the Times that my brother’s friend Theo pointed out to me, about the unspoken rules of laptop users at Atlas Cafe in Brooklyn. Earlier in the year I had a little rant about “Coffee Bars” (though I did go to Stumptown this week…), but...
lists. liszt.
1. Get your pie food porn here.
2. Went to Stumptown at the Ace Hotel today - really good cappuccino. My brother still stands by Ninth Street, but I definitely think these two are on par. (Let’s not forget Bluebird, Third Rail, and Caffetteria.)
3. Also went to No. 7 Sub. Split the Lamb meatloaf w/ hard boiled eggs, mozzarella, a great spicy chipotle tomato sauce and some kind of pickled...
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and now, your ?uestlove Moment of Zen post.
this guy is really cool (and was the inspiration for a sweet footnote once).
it is really hard to mix fonts, actually.
And the basic Microsoft Office text package is really slim pickins. BUT if you have an absurd amount of money to blow and a profound appreciation for slab serifs that work and geeking out on typography/lame aesthetic decisions that matter read this from the H&FJ blog.
Seriously though, Senitinel is like the only slab serif that works.
the great american beverage.
Whiskey! Because a) we love (a) Manhattan, and b) Don Draper is a fucking sex god.
"vintage" is a generous term for the quality of...
So apparently the M will be running vintage trains this month every Sunday. My guess is that means your already unreliable may or may not get even more prolonged. Novelty wears off quickly MTA. This is why we have museums. But look at this bus! This concept is actually pretty groovy. (But my guess is they chose the M - and random ass buss lines - for a reason…)
anybody wanna get some pie with me?
HOLIDAYS. Open House Gallery at 201 Mulberry Street. December 17 till 23 (11 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily).
“How will museum visitors experience the invisible art of fragrance? Burr says...”
– Chandler Burr on the Museum of Arts and Design’s Perfume exhibition. This is just trouble. The joke opportunities really are endless(ly crude). $20 says they put Glow by J.Lo in there as punishment for going to this when you really could have just walked into any Department store for the same...
I bet he had fun making that wreath.
irony.
I love screenshot.
sad, but true.
Just went to Ost. The baristas (none of whom ever acknowledge my presence) actually sustained a conversation with me. Felt better about myself? Sad. But true. Baristas really shouldn’t hold such sway over my emotions. But they do.
(If I ever hit it big with a recording career à la Indeep or Flight of the Conchords, I’d definitely have a smash hit with “Last Night a Barista...
JIMP.
Peruse this with a cuppa J. There are some agrees/disagrees that I have, but it’s a good place to start.
a couple of interesting articles.
1. Steve Martin: on NPR’s MonkeySee Blog
2. “A Few Words on Neutrality” by Peter Sagal
3. Because Deborah Solomon can’t conduct a good interview at all?
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and now, your Richard Belzer Moment of Zen post