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making a cast iron wok
p levine (poet)
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jerry blavat is the geater with the heater
A Passion for Collecting [PORN]: Decorating with Art and Antiques [PORN]
By François Baudot, Jean Demachy
pyramid power sleep system
The Saragossa Manuscript
ordered on impulse from netflix, it turned out to be an incredible experience and a big surprise. i only looked it up afterwards.
The film was released in Poland [1965] uncut at 182 minutes, but it was shortened for release in the U.S. and UK at 147 minutes and 125 minutes, respectively. During the 1990s Jerry Garcia, together with Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, financed a restoration and subtitling of an uncut print of the film. The restored film, re-released in 2001, is commercially available in VHS and DVD formats.
Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Luis Buñuel, David Lynch, Lars von Trier, Harvey Keitel and Jerry Garcia have at various times described The Saragossa Manuscript as their favorite film. The film won the Golden Wolf at the 1965 Bucharest Film Festival.
beto y los fairlanes
austin - 70's?
bohemian subsidy
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rothko rooms
reality tv notes
History
the 40's-50's - of the shows listed, only allen funt's ambush comedy project candid camera fit my definition
the 60's-70's - Seven Up!, Warhol films, An American Family - good examples
Chuck Barris: The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and The Gong Show - only the gong show counts. this is an exception to my game shows dont count rule.
the 80's-90's - COPS, The Real World, Americas Funniest Home Videos - prime examples
"...the producers of The Real World have stated that their direct inspiration was An American Family."
the 2000's - of all listed only: Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County.
Documentary Style
Special Living Environment and Celebs dont count except anna nicole smith and the osbornes, also the one with flav a flav. sorry rev run, no go.
Occupational is close to Instructional. none listed count. see below.
Competitive and Game Shows dont count
Dating, Job Search, Sports dont count
Self Improvement/Makeovers dont count
Renovation - AH HA!!! i will broaden this to instructional, which begins with wgbh's 1963-73 the french chef. Russell Morash worked with julia childe and went on to produce the victory garden (1975-present) and this old house (1979-present) also for wgbh boston. this is the core of instructional or how-to reality tv.
Social, Dating, Talk, Hidden Camera (as here defined), Supernatural, Hoaxes - dont count
Prior elements in popular culture - good examples provided
also informing reality tv is documentary film (predating 1900 to present) and its subset cinema verite. both support my interpretation of good rtv.
the end of history beer
"I have earned the right to be on any road in the united states. I have become the road. You can’t kick a road off itself. I am the road."
hate the new google images format!
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M4rk L0mbardi
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The CIA and the Cultural Cold War Revisited
by James Petras
review of jean-louis harouel la grande falsification: l'art contemporain
stefan beyst mimesis
radiant child inside-outsider
tosches chasing the 0pium den
poor quality photo-shop of bp crisis center
things looking worse at the oil spill in the gulf
*"Methane is about 40% of the total volume of hydrocarbons that was flowing from the well - which is why it is more accurate to call it a 'hydrocarbon stream' rather than an 'oil leak"
we took snapshots on the guided tour of george nakashima compound last saturday
brion gysin, ivy 1959
george nakashima sourced some of his wood from thompsons mahogany of philadelphia, pa
tina chow rock crystal jewelry designer
clifford k berryman
SIMON VELEZ has been designing and making bamboo buildings in Colombia for the past 30 years. He discovered that he could build major structures with the indigenous bamboo called ‘guadua' at much lower costs than with concrete and steel. He was the first to introduce large-span bridges (especially over motorways for pedestrians and cyclists to get across) made in bamboo, and has made a number of other interesting structures as well with the material.
revisiting marianbad
rip tuli
welded spider web gates
another made from shop scrap
dead malls
via things mag
phil schaap - 37 hours of archived shows
neglected and nearly forgotten neutra house: "Beckstrand Lodge, UT, 1950"
greg org
tap tap tapping machine
via bld blog
ghost bikes nyc
via aw fb
The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932 (used from $600.00)
"The flatness of a painting is one of the manifestations of the unequivocal expression of line and colour. Colour is not independent of line any more. Line is the border of colour. Colour does not flow over the line. It is linked with and dependent on it; it creates a unity. To eliminate duality in one direction leads to the elimination of another duality: the duality of the flat surface of the canvas with the voluminal form of shapes painted on the canvas. The painting, developing towards total homogeneity, should be a result of its innate data (flat surface and the quadrangle of its limits). (...) No matter whether in Cubism of the last period, or in Suprematism, or Mondrian's Neoplasticism - surfaces are flat, but the whole is not yet flat. The painter still looks for contrasts, when he paints in a flat way, but he does not understand what consequences this should lead to. (...) The painting should be homogenous and flat. The dramatic quality of Baroque should be opposed by the Unism of painting ." *8reading strzeminski
y-a bois pg 123
donajski's digital library
I have been going to such visually stultified selections from MoMA's permanent collection for 50 years and this one seemed particularly hypocritical and offensive. Here's why: there is a seamless affinity between the left-wing neo-Marxian propaganda of the art that MoMA collects and the diktat by fiat of the Bloombergian real estate expansions, bad architectural choices and plutocratic economic domination in civic life of the rich criminals on MoMA's board.
In a just realm, the left-wing sentiments permeating Halbreich's humorless show would cause museum visitors to make citizen's arrests of the shameless billionaires on MoMA's board, instead of bowing like minions to our "betters."
We [VF] asked the world’s leading architects, critics, and deans of architecture schools two questions: what are the five most important buildings, bridges, or monuments constructed since 1980, and what is the greatest work of architecture thus far in the 21st century? Here are the answers from our 52 respondents, who are listed alphabetically. (Note: some people named more or fewer buildings than requested.)not sure of the protocol, but many architects voted for them selves, sometimes for multiple projects. and the runaway winner.... FG bilbao by a landslide!!!! mind numbing how these fucks stick together. HIS BUILDINGS, THEY LEAK!!!!!!!!
wired
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blown up / overhead vs opaque vs slide projection
what you can get in:
Location: Peloponnese-Messinian Mani
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talking mafia blocks
diggers
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APC
OK LA
goldsmith
h p n f r h p y a c d n s
PAUL LOEBACH ON AMERICAN PRIMITIVES
ready for the house blog spot
(it's hot. dont go out side. do some yard sale and flee market shopping in the pacific nw at home on your computer)
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YHBHS
de adirondack stijl
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t1me to m4rket m0dernism
But like much of American society, the middle-class home began to grow over time. The average size of an American house in 1950 was 983 square feet. Slowly, though, both more square footage and more amenities became part of the American dream, so that by 2004 the average home topped 2,300 square feet.
What does all that space bring? Small, out-of-the-way bedrooms like those in the Levittown houses’ “expandable attics” can be used when children are at home or guests arrive, and the open plan of their main living spaces has become the kitchen/family room that is the center of the American home today. But many of the “must-have” elements in 2010, like formal living and dining rooms, are redundant. In an era of economic austerity and a seemingly permanent energy crisis, can “less is more” become popular again?
Sadly, many of the small, architect-designed houses of the postwar period have been demolished to make way for McMansions. But those that remain, and those we know about from blueprints and photographs, have much to teach us — about the efficient use of space for storage, integrated indoor and outdoor space and the way careful design can facilitate natural ventilation. When you think about how many rooms you actually use, it seems obvious that various ideas from that optimistic era could make the next decade a happier, saner one than the overstuffed times we’ve just lived through.
Jimmy Webb Performs Live
(stream audio)
rip rammellzee
motown meltdown vol.2
via monica wfmu
Van Dyke Parks: wholesome charm at Primavera Sound
(stream audio)
In 1968, Charles Prior Hall, a furniture designer in California decided to create the world's most comfortable chair. Taking his cue from the very popular bean bag chairs of the time, Hall filled a large inflatible vinyl bag with 300 pounds of liquid corn starch and titled his creation "the Incredible Creeping Chair."
Unfortunately, he found that when he sat in it, he tended to sink so far into the chair that he felt he was being swallowed by it. He next tried to replace the liquid starch with Jell-O ™ which soon became lumpy and uncomfortable. Finally he abandoned his idea to develop a chair and filled a rectangular piece of vinyl with water and called his creation "the water bed" (so-named after the water-filled mattresses used for over 100 years for invalids.)
2 pole barns $5k
must dismantle yourself
billy box container
Banned Trailers Return for Latest Gulf Disaster