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Hegel says that when the human spirit achieves perfect self-knowledge, it becomes transparent to itself and transcends the trappings of mere consciousness, and at that point history ends. The Aristocrats is the stand-up version thereof—an absurdist aufhebung. Which is just a fancy way of saying that it shows comedy disappearing, almost literally, up its own ass.per jim lewis
calatrava wtc rail hub approval expected today :
There are still 150-foot-high wings on either side of the hall's tapering arc, but there will not be glass or any other material between the ribs. The wings will still open on nice spring and summer days, and ceremonially every Sept. 11, exposing the concourse below to the open sky. But the width of the maximum opening has shrunk to about 30 feet from 45 feet.
Twice as many steel ribs will enclose the transit hall in the revised design. By reducing the space between the ribs to 5½ feet from 11, the designers have cut down on the amount of glass that would be exposed to a blast. The ribs themselves would create a protective shadow, depending on the angle of the explosion.
New beaklike prows - it is difficult to avoid zoomorphism when describing Mr. Calatrava's architecture - will extend from the Church Street end of the main transit hall. This hardened prow, about 25 feet long, will protect a critical structural juncture.
A solid wall more than three feet high will ring the base of the transit hall, where the glass bays once almost reached the pavement, and the hall itself will shrink in length to less than 330 feet from 360 feet. This will increase the distance between the hall and surrounding streets, a key means of limiting destruction from vehicle-borne bombs.
this day in rock in the age of bob
"I cant drive 1965"
futuro house
touch the sky / excuse me?
turd blossom tuesday and wednesday
classic overacheiver jack purcell
Gary Higgins and Band - Live in the WFMU Studios - Engineered By Gil Shuster
Gary's 1973 opus Red Hash has remained a enduring document of
stark, sad acoustic beauty. It's a deeply personal and eccentric record
created by someone on the edge of an abyss; in reality Higgins was on the
verge of a 3-year sentencing to jail for a marijuana bust. Red Hash, while
not distributed properly upon its release, has kept popping up on WFMU
playlists over the years (and was also recently documented on the
station's blog in detail) and tomorrow (July 27th) Drag City lovingly
reissues this elusive album. To celebrate, Gary has resurfaced and joins
Brian today with the addition of some Red Hash-era band members in tow.
They are: Dave Beaujon: Bass, Graham Higgins: Guitar, Maureen Wells:
Cello, Terry Fenton: Keyboard (not in session, just interview) and of
course Gary on Vocal/Guitar. Songs: Stable of Spuds, Thicker Than a
Smokey. More info at www.dragcity.com. Thank you to Gary & co. Ben, and
especially Zach Cowie for his infinite, continual good deeds to me.
Paul Shaffer Hosts All-Star Musical Tribute to Mike Smith
CBS Orchestra bandleader Paul Shaffer is organizing a benefit concert for Mike Smith, lead singer of the Dave Clark Five, who was permanently disabled in an accident in 2003 in his home in Spain.
A Tribute to Mike Smith will be held on Tuesday, August 2nd at B.B. King Blues Club and Grill in New York City @ 7:30pm.
The Zombies will be headlining the concert, which will also feature performances by such iconic 60s rockers as Billy J. Kramer, original Moody Blues lead singer Denny Laine (performing the classic "Go Now"), Peter & Gordon (reuniting for the first time in 35 years), and more.
For additional information and to order tickets online please click below:
www.bbkingblues.com
*Some say FD has made them cook at home much more.
*Some say FD uses too much packaging and leaves their trucks idling all over the city.
*Some say logging on for groceries helps them organize their shopping, saves them time and money, and helps them eat healthier meals.
*Some mourn the further disconnection FD has created between consumers and their food.
down town jersey city now gets FD. not up here where i live though.
porch house
via zoller
help! stop the cycle of madness. arnt these big photographs of junk just more junk? the aggregating approach rarely works.
The issue remains in the news thanks in large part to an advocacy group named Landmark West, which went to court to fight the redevelopment and discovered emails between current landmarks commission chairman Robert Tierney and Laurie Beckelman, a former chair of the very same commission who now works for MAD as a kind of "fixer," ushering the 2 Columbus Circle redevelopment through the city approvals process. The emails seem to show the pair colluding to keep the Stone building from being considered by the landmarks panel.bus-ted
Camouflaged in the color of blue sky, an unmanned balloon was launched last month on a simple mission: to capture with its dangling camera the view from 1,400 feet above the future site of the Freedom Tower. The idea was to show potential tenants how much of the world they would see out of their office windows if only they would sign on the dotted line.
"Among the most unusual features, however, are the outdoor teaching spaces scattered around the perimeter of the building where honed black granite walls provide “blackboards” so that science classes can be conducted with a traditional teaching wall, allowing for the cultural tradition so closely identified with Swarthmore’s humanities departments where outdoor classes and seminars have been taught for decades."
As part of these endeavors Solomon has curated "If I Owned the Trenton Bath House," an exhibition that poses this hypothetical question to leading area architects, designers, and other interested parties. Their answers - essays and visual renderings - comprise the exhibit, along with historic photos of the building, at Art's Garage at 326 4th Avenue in Ewing. The show is on view through Thursday, September 22.
on being laurie bortz
floam is fun you can feel...
boogaloser - raging slab mp3 - play it loud!
the edukators - break into your home and rearrange your furniture - oh no, not that!
karen kramer ballad of greenwich village / nyt review which will disappear quickly enough - kramer also made the jolo serpent handlers documentary in 1977
recontextualised and otherwise saved bridges
via dave fink
outbid on these 5 snapshots taken in front of the tv on july 21, 1969.
It's a rare occasion—that Wow! moment—when art stops you dead in your tracks and makes you forget everything you thought you knew. I was struck dumb the first time I saw one of Cady Noland's corroded milk crates filled with useless automotive junk. No knowledge of Dada paved the way to that encounter or mitigated the powerful sense of abjection radiated by her distressed container, into which she had tossed a couple of Bud empties, some oilcans, and a "dead" rubber chicken. It wasn't the "shock of the new," as Robert Hughes described the riveting and alienating force of early-20th-century art. Rather, it was precisely because I thought I was on familiar ground that the rupture of the unexpected was so acute.
Fast-forward to Dia's Andy: Through the Lens of Patronage
the jupiter hotel portland oregon
The door has opened wider for jurisdictions to legally take private property for a broad range of city improvement purposes, even when improvement entails private investment and ownership. Moreover, given this ruling and the number of obsolete private properties in urban America, the eminent domain tool is likely to be wielded more frequently by urban planners and elected officials.
For Riley, Wright was a true innovator, and for that, people are prepared to pay the price to keep his buildings going. "It appears to me that there are quite a few people who are willing to forestall the effects of time when it comes to Wright's work. The big problem is not the public structures, where there are larger resources to draw upon, but the single family homes. Even the most devoted and houseproud owners will find the costs to be a considerable burden."
and thats why wright's private homes carry only a 20% premium over comparable homes.
primo
there was a national square dancing convention in portland during our recent visit. they were everywhere. it was like fear and loathing in portland with weirdly compelling septagenarians in mini skirts. these shots were taken at a promotional exhibition at the ice rink in the local mall
diner guests at oregon coast cliff house
anyone identify S and E's bent plywood chair ?
cycle sluts from hell, the true story...
move over hatebeak, its: The Truncated Life of a Modern, Industrialised Chicken MP3
as usual there was special musical entertainment at the abaton garage gallery opening yesterday afternoon here in jersey city. the mark and laurie and friends band is called emerald tablets. there was something of a kali balu thing going on with laurie bortz reading a chapter from giordano bruno's on the composition of images, signs and ideas on top of the band's harmonium, zither and some kind of home made string instrument.
nowottny sightings :
Marianne's June 25th radio broadcast "phoning it in" on WELH Providence RI has been archived and is ready for streaming
"the soaring glass-and-steel wings have been trimmed to mere stumps (think deli awning), and, worse, the entire project is now on hold pending the accrual of funds and the cessation of the architect's hissy fit. Storm, Santiago [Calatrava], storm; you have nothing to lose but your pride."
arch cape and the house near the beach
down town portland or
they just announced on npr that today is the day the sunset (8:20 pm) aligns with the streets of manhattan. the following wikipedia excerpt explains :
What you're talking about is called the sunrise/sunset azimuth, which is the observed angle (equivalent to compass directions) of the sun at the point at which it crosses the horizon.
Let's check out the facts: first off, alignment of both sunrise/sunset with the grid cannot happen on the same day, so you have to look at each separately. Since Manhattan North is approximately 29 degrees east of north, the sunset azimuth to align with the grid would be approximately 299 degrees (since 270 is due west by convention, with values increasing clockwise). Likewise sunrise azimuth to align with the grid would be approximately 119 degrees (90 degrees is due east).
If you go to the U.S. Navy's site, it will calculate the solar altitude/azimuth tables for you, showing the values at various times throughout the day for any location/date. The sunset azimuth is (by definition) the value of the azimuth (2nd column) when the solar altitude (1st column) is zero while crossing from positive to negative. Conversely the sunrise azimuth is the value when the altitude is zero, crossing from negative to positive.
Using the form they provided, I entered New York, NY and then experimented with various dates. If I enter in May 28 or July 12, I see that the azimuth at sunset is approximately 299 degrees, which means those dates are accurate for the sunset alignment (on July 12 it happens around 19:20, if you want to check for yourself).
You can verify that sunrise/sunset alignments definitely do not occur on the same day. On July 12, for example, the sunrise azimuth is around 59 degrees (in the NE part of the sky).
I did some experimenting and found that for that New York City, I get sunrise azimuth of 119 degrees on/around December 6 and January 12. Those may be off by a day or so. -- Decumanus 19:15, 2005 Jan 19 (UTC)
house of kolor paint
parody~parity
For nearly 20 years, John Kelly has been performing as Joni Mitchell. In heels and a blond wig, the 6-foot-tall Kelly takes to the stage and sings for an adoring audience - an audience that occasionally includes Mitchell herself. Mitchell tells Sharon Lerner why she loves Kelly's act.
new initiation lot
haier portable washers
duct tape artists
in support of the people of london
on keeping your town weird
moody report:
Just found this article by Morgan Reynolds, a Texas A&M professor and economist in the first Bush administration, arguing that the World Trade Center towers collapsed from a controlled demolition (i.e., explosives planted in the building) rather than jet fuel melting the steel beams. Reynolds asks: why was the steel rapidly shipped to China and melted before engineers had had a chance to do "forensics" on it? (This January 2002 article from Fire Engineering magazine suggests it was because the Port Authority didn't want lingering evidence of shoddy construction or fireproofing--also, maybe they just wanted Silverstein, the owner, to get some fast $$$.) Why was all the concrete in the buildings pulverized into fine dust by the force of the collapse? (Reynolds says that only happens when explosive charges are used.) Can jet fuel really melt steel? (A German engineer says burning kerosene isn't hot enough.) And:
this will be where i will post some reflections on my visit to the most bodacious town of portland oregon.
it may be a paraphrase but i think our hosts steve and erin quoted dave hickey speaking of their home town : "i hate portland --it feels like it was made for eight year olds." perhaps they can correct the record if thats too far off, but what i think he was getting after is just how utterly inner-child friendly and nurturing the topography is. light rails, bike lanes, flowerbeds, container plantings, terrible but climbable public sculpture, waterfronts, public water parks, skateboard parks. no litter. no fucking liter at all. even the entrance ramps to the highways are filled in with all sorts of flowering plants and well groomed green lawn. ...but i suspect hickeys quote goes even deeper.
rat rod pick of the week
You don’t hear coughing on the radio. You just don’t. So when the coughing goes on … and on and on and on and on -- on a loop for something over five minutes -- you can hardy make sense of it. Infact, you can hardy do anything but try and restrain the cramping in your stomach. No one expects that of radio (even the Howard Stern fans), and no one turns to their computer and actively types in w w w dot w f m u dot org and calls up a live stream for a show called “Anal Magic with Kenny G”. Because that’s absurd and seemingly shouldn’t exist in any sort of reality.
ex fmu'er douglas wolk chatting up audio blogging in the la times via tofu hut who happens to get a big mention
As recently as a year ago, there were perhaps two dozen music blogs. Now there are well over 50, with more appearing every day from all over the world, specializing in everything from hard-core punk to pre-World War II gospel.
Music blogging has developed into a subculture with its own unofficial leaders and unwritten rules, and it's becoming a significant force in the music industry, which mostly seems to be smiling on the phenomenon.
There's a relatively standard format for MP3 blogs that's unofficially evolved: one or two songs a day, each one accompanied by a paragraph or two about the song or the artist. Some bloggers also include photographs or links to places where their readers can buy the CD on which each song appears.
Most focus on little-known musicians or rare and out-of-print recordings; few will post something that's already a huge radio hit or by a very famous artist, and it's frowned upon to post more than a single song from a given album.
not juventudes report:
“It's pretty amusing the SmackDown! brain trust hasn't capitalized on the interest in JBL and The Meanie and begged Vince McMahon to allow this match to take place on TV or pay-per-view,” Heyman said. “If they don't have the vision, ECW certainly does, and I'd welcome that match on any platform ECW is afforded. I even propose we allow the two to fight in the streets of New York City and broadcast on ECW.com! After failing to silence his harshest critic, I think it's on JBL to prove if there's anything but bullsh** behind the Wrath of the Wrestling God.”via otis brawl
Waylon Jennings - Dukes of Hazzard Theme
Drawing Restraint 9, a film by Matthew Barney with a soundtrack composed by Björk, represents the first creative collaboration of two of the most protean, dynamic forces in music and fine art.
thx j zoller
the other (better) landers
''I don't like having my own work in the house.''--r.prince
happy birthday america - scroll till you find the better(american)beatles / via crudcrud