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Some residents of Katonah, N.Y., are miffed that their neighbor, Martha Stewart, is trying to trademark the village's name. Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia is selling some furniture as part of a "Katonah Collection."
The company has said Stewart named the line to honor her new hometown. But not everyone feels honored.
"Overlook: Exploring the Internal Fringes of America With the Center for Land Use Interpretation," a coffee-table chronicle of land-use curiosities edited by Matthew Coolidge and Sarah Simons with an essay by Ralph Rugo
The hallmarks of this 264-page, 8-by-10-inch paperback volume (Distributed Art Publishers; $34.95) are deadpan descriptions and anonymous photography, all detailing weird, wonderful and (mostly) horrific things Americans have done to their landscape, including deliberately flooding the town of Neversink, N.Y., and practice-bombing Nevada.
Drive through some of the 80 percent of New Orleans that was inundated by flood waters after Hurricane Katrina, and you'll notice life is slowly ebbing back, one house at a time, one neighborhood at a time.
You'll also notice something else: signs advertising demolition services—across billboards, on phone poles, and along the roadways.
"You can't escape them," says Laureen Lentz, a law librarian and preservation activist. "Yesterday I was stuck behind a bus with a big 'demolition' ad plastered across the back of it."
While many of the city's homes were wrecked beyond salvation and clearly need to be demolished—Lentz's own historic house in the Tremé neighborhood was partially knocked over by Katrina winds and subsequently carted away—Lentz and others are becoming alarmed that so many of the city's homes in historic districts are being torn down, often with flood damage used as a pretext. It's as if New Orleans is now at risk of being ravaged by another flood—that of demolitio
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A demolition permit has been issued for the Moore House, designed by Ohio architect Woodie Garber in 1952 for Alfred Moore. Moore sold the 5,160-square-foot wood-and-glass house and its 5.4-acre site to his son, who has built several houses there.
Last weekend, Moore allowed preservationists to salvage woodwork and other details from the house. He gave its original blueprints to a University of Cincinnati professor, whose students videotaped and photographed the house.
"To be able to document and salvage the house is, of course, a last resort," says Chris Magee, co-president of Cincinnati Form Follows Function, a nonprofit that formed in November 2005. "We got involved too late to find another buyer."
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It is thus desirable to demonstrate, by a slight alteration of the usual procedures, that everyday life is right here. These words are being communicated by way of a tape recorder, not, of course, in order to illustrate the integration of technology into this everyday life on the margin of the technological world, but in order to seize the simplest opportunity to break with the appearance of pseudo-collaboration, of artificial dialogue, established between the lecturer "in person" and his spectator. This slight discomforting break with accustomed routine could serve to bring directly into the field of questioning of every day life (a questioning otherwise completely abstract) the conference itself, as well as any number of other forms of using time or objects, forms that are considered "normal" and not even noticed, and which ultimately condition us. With such a detail, as with everyday life as a whole, alteration is always the necessary and sufficient condition for experimentally bringing into clear view the object of our study, which would otherwise remain uncertain -- an object which is itself less to be studied than to be altered.
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