December 2010
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VAGENDA: (origin, Walterism) from - vagina agenda
(n.) the act of fooling a man into thinking you’re his girlfriend, while his real girlfriend is trapped in another universe, by using your vagina, so you can steal valuable information and ancient pieces of technology. (via hailmulders)
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Bildbau No 1, 2007. 50 x 70 / 6o x 85 cm. Light Jet Print. Philipp Schaerer.
After graduating from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL) as an architect in 2000, Philipp Schaerer (1972) worked as an architect and knowledge manager for Herzog & de Meuron in Basel (2000-2006). During his four years working as a research...
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The enigmatic emergence of a museum that is in principle “empty”: a true sensory experience created by Ryue Nishizawa and Rei Naito.
TESHIMA ART MUSEUM The blob is not only a recent phenomenon; the contiguously curving building is not merely the result of parametric manipulation on the computer. Twentieth-century modernism was imbued with many wantonly non-orthogonal forms, from Kiesler’s...
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“No longer will tens of thousands of Americans in uniform be asked to live a lie...”
– President Barack Obama
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HOW TO BE A 20-SOMETHING By Ryan O’Connell
Be really attractive. Your acne is gone, your face has matured without having wrinkles and everything on your body is lifted naturally. Eat bagels seven days a week, binge-drink and do drugs: you’ll still look like a babe. When you turn thirty, it’ll become a different story but that’s, like, not for a really long time.
Reestablish a relationship with...
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Spatial Construction no. 12, c. 1920. Aleksandr Rodchenko (Russian, 1891–1956). Plywood, open construction partially painted with aluminum paint, and wire, 24 x 33 x 18 1/2” (61 x 83.7 x 47 cm).
Rodchenko conceived of line as the edge of a plane that is receding in space. In a reverse demonstration of this idea, the nesting ovals that compose this construction were cut from a...
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WatchFlorence and the Machine performs an hour-long set for Live on Letterman. The online-only set, filmed at CBS’ Ed Sullivan Theatre, features tracks from their smash debut Lungs, including “Dog Days Are Over,” “Howl,” and “Boy Builds Coffins.” Florence, as usual, gives an emotionally striking performance backed by her five-piece band, including a harpist....
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WatchGORC GORC (Great Ocean Road Classic) is an unsanctioned, fun, social, competitive, and challenging event organised by the guys from Great Ocean Road Cycling. It’s a handicap and team pursuit all wrapped into one, and runs around some of the most beautiful terrain Australia has to offer. A total of 32 teams with 6 riders per team set off at various intervals in alternating clockwise and...
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A supporter of the repeal wears a quote made famous by Barry Goldwater, the late Republican senator from Arizona.
SENATE REPEALS ‘DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL’ WASHINGTON — The Senate on Saturday struck down the ban on gay men and lesbians serving openly in the military, bringing to a close a 17-year struggle over a policy that forced thousands of Americans from the ranks and caused others to keep...
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Monkman’s house has a quiet presence, its front half hidden behind a fence of cedar two-by-sixes.
HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS In Toronto, a painter accustomed to crashing in his studio created an airy artistic haven with both working and living quarters for a more balanced and polished picture.
A shaft of light slants down through the clouds, flooding a mountaintop and a river valley with...
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ROLLED SUGAR COOKIES
Snowflake-shaped rolled sugar cookies flavored with lemon zest.
Ingredients
3 cup All Purpose Flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp. vanilla
Zest from one lemon
Preparation
1. Whisk together flour and salt. Set aside.
2. Cream together butter, sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg, vanilla and lemon zest...
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A cyclist training on the Velòdrom d’Horta in Barcelona. Photo by Richardo Javier.
VELÓDROM D’HORTA Velòdrom d’Horta is a velodrome in Barcelona, Spain that was the track cycling venue for the 1992 Summer Olympics. It was also the venue for the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in 1984.
The velodrome, designed by Esteve Bonell and Francesc Rius, was built in 1984 as the...
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publishing date: december 2010, ISBN: 9789460830334, authors: O. Helfrich, A. Peters, publishing: Post Editions, Rotterdam, The Netherlands THE BOOK OF PAPER Oliver Helfrich, a German designer and book editor working and living in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, started a project called The Book Of… as a series of books to explore and elevate the aesthetic value of seemingly everyday materials such...
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Ernie Sisto’s celebrated photograph of the Empire State Building after it was hit by a B-25 is superimposed on a view of the plane’s flight path toward the building on July 28, 1945.
THE IRRESISTIBLE SISTO “I was doing a handstand on the table when the cops broke the door down.”
There’s just no resisting a story that starts like that. And that’s how Ernie Sisto would hook an audience. He was as...
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1992: A Volunteers of America sidewalk Santa at the Liberty Deli, Madison Avenue and 49th Street.
NORTH POLE NOIR “Ho, ho, ho. You got a problem with that?”
Thus, we might imagine, speaks the New York Santa Claus. Certainly, the specimens seen in these photos, culled from the New York Times archive, have an edge. They may not be everyone’s idea of that jolly old elf, but New Yorkers have a...
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Production Designer | New York, NY | 2-Person Household | Has done films for Cindy Sherman and Larry Clark. Photo by Mark Menjivar.
Artist statement:
“You Are What You Eat is a series of portraits made by examining the interiors of refrigerators in homes across the United States.
For three years I traveled around the country exploring food issues. The more time I spent speaking and...
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