as you can tell im combing the deal sites at the moment. and since i dont have a blu-ray player this purchase would be problematic but its too good not to mention. $73 (at the moment) for the entire bond series on blu-ray.

$15 for a years subscription to cooks illustrated. offer available today only!  (normally $25.)

Domino Sugar Factory redevelopment plan. I hadn't seen this before. SHoP is the architect.

Apple recently bought Beats (headphones, speakers, nascent music streaming service) for $3 billion dollars. Strange deal on the face of it. I was perplexed but am now slowly coming around. Here is a great article that saves me the time of trying to say why this deal might work: To understand Beats you need to understand Lady Gaga. And it's a good read in terms of the future of the music business (and Hollywood and the rest of the media world) apart from the Apple/Beats angle. 

homage to the square
tar heel
that

j & r closed for the foreseeable future.

alice doesnt live here anymore.

Meryl Meisler photos
Watched the Snowden interview on YouTube in entirety. Well spoken dude. Well grounded. Not really making the headlines it should.

watch

the night cassavetes, falk and gazzara terrorized dick cavett.

ballmer going all in on clippers.

For all of them, it started much as it will start for you: a strangely persistent itch at the back of the head, a discomfort on the left side, a lump fingered in the shower. Something it became impossible to ignore. 

Right, Before I Die

 

 

Edgar Oliver in the New Yorker.

Really just wanted to beat Bill to the punch.
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RIP Massimo Vignelli

Really just wanted to beat Bill to the punch.
At least I knew who he was.

"Renowned illusionists and professional debunkers Penn & Teller unite for this documentary investigation into the mysterious methods of Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer, whose photo-realistic paintings predated the invention of the camera by 150 years. In Tim's Vermeer, they document the obsession of their friend Tim Jenison, a successful inventor of computer graphics equipment, who sets out to prove a theory. Tim's mission: to paint with his own hands a replica of Vermeer's The Music Lesson."

Lucio Fontana’s Proto-Technologism

A Branch of May

may contain

Lincoln's Sparrow

Kara Walker installation in the Domino's Sugar Factory in Brooklyn. Up through July 6th. Definitely worth a look.