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The fate of Edward Durell Stone's Two Columbus Circle may be uncertain, but one of the architect's early works, the 1939 A. Conger Goodyear House in Old Westbury, N.Y., has become a success story.
"Jesus, on the cross, in his waning moments of life, calls to the crowd below, 'Peter!' The apostle Peter hears the call and moves closer to his liege. 'Yes, my Lord, he says. Jesus calls again, 'Peter!' Peter approaches the base of the cross, 'Yes my Lord, it is Peter, I am here for you what do you need?' Jesus calls, 'Come closer Peter.' Peter is beside himself, wondering what the son of God might have to say to him alone... He climbs the cross. Jesus calls 'Peter, come closer.' Peter replies that he is coming. At last, Peter reaches Jesus on the cross, and says, 'I am here my Lord, what can I do?' Jesus says 'Peter? Peter? Is that you Peter?' 'Yes my Lord, I am here for you.' Jesus says 'Peter, I can see your house from here....' "
The producer of a low budget film is trying to convince the newly hired director of the quality of the work by telling him the big names they've gotten for the cast.
"First of all," he tells him, "We've got Gibson in the lead."
The director is surprised, "You got Mel Gibson?"
"Well, no," the Producer responds, "we got Marvin Gibson, he's a distant cousin who lives in Queens, but he's very up and coming. And besides, we've also got Redford."
"You got Robert Redford?" the director asks.
"No, we got Jeremy Redford, but he's very talented and has lots of acting experience from years of dinner theater. But," he says enthusiastically, " we've got Streisand and in a singing role."
"Barbara Streisand?" he asks.
"No, Elizabeth Streisand." The Producer responds. "But she's got a great voice. AND we've got Goulet."
"You got Robert Goulet?" the director asks.
"Yeah," the producer replies, "we got Robert Goulet."
gaylord fields 08.07.05
lots of sweet surface noise from these 45 rpm only selections - go mono !
recommendation *****
there was only one guy left, the last great bolero singer. rip ibrahim ferrer.
The father of general semantics, Alford Korzybski stated, "A map is not the territory it represents, but if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness". What this means is that our perception of reality is not reality itself but our own version of it, or our "map".[An expression coined by Eric Bell and popularized by Alfred Korzybski.]
science and sanity reviewed
the map is the territory (google(satellite)maps/sims)
the rug is not the territory
non-sites
polaroid man
the album covers of andy warhol
Warhol took the cover shot; though many assumed the model was Jagger, it has often been rumored to be a hanger-on at the Factory, Warhol's studio, named Joe Dallesandro. Then Braun realized there had to be an extra layer of cardboard to protect the record from the zipper; that layer features another Warhol shot of a different man, possibly the twin brother of Warhol's "boyfriend" and assistant Jed Johnson, this time in his jockey shorts.
Note that Warhol had nothing to do with the design of the Rolling Stones Records tongue logo, which has now become synonymous with the Stones themselves.
so who did design the tongue logo?
astor place cube expected back soon
Recently, hood ornaments have become a subject of performance art, in the form of tableaux vivants, or "living pictures."
Live performers will recreate hood ornaments at this year's Pageant of the Masters, an arts festival that has taken place each summer since 1935 in Laguna Beach, Calif. The theme of this year's pageant, which runs through Sept. 1, is "On the Road: A Crash Course in Art and Popular Culture."
As students of primeval D-ology know, A.J., who quit college in 1968 to create the first computer-generated Dylan Word Concordance, is most famous for going through Bob's garbage. This "garbology" action was part of a full-scale assault launched by the Dylan Liberation Front, a bunch of Yippie pot smokers who thought Dylan, the most angel-headed head of the generation, had fallen prey to a Manchurian Candidate-style government plot to hook him to sensibility-deadening hard dope. These findings were based on A.J.'s highly idiosyncratic interpretations of "Dylan's secret language," a code that, once cracked, revealed words like "rain" and "chicken" (as in "the sun is not yellow -- it's chicken!") to actually mean "heroin." It was Dylan's addiction that led the poet to make sappy records like Nashville Skyline and New Morning when his great gift could have been better used speaking out against Vietnam, A.J. contended. "Dylan's brain belongs to the People, not the Pigs!" was among the fervent cries back in 1970, as A.J. led the forty or so smelly hippies in his Dylanology class to Bob's home at 94 MacDougal Street, where they screamed for Dylan to "crawl out yer window" and answer charges that he had been co-opted. After an unsolicited DLF-inspired block party for Dylan's thirtieth birthday, which resulted in the NYPD shutting down Bleecker Street, and a long series of hectoring phone calls (the tapes were compiled on a Folkways Records release entitled Bob Dylan vs. A.J. Weberman, now a major Bob collectible), Dylan struck back.
Soviet constructivism, an artistic and architectural movement within the overall modernist movement of the early 20th century, was seen by its adherents as a method, not a style. However, constructivist buildings tended to share certain stylistic tendencies: sweeping lines, a distinctive geometry, cylindrical stairwells, "ribbon windows" and plenty of glass, as well as a general simplicity and an absence of frivolous decorative touches. Lightness and transparency, not the first qualities to spring to mind when one thinks of Russia, were prized.
Sadly, many of Moscow's constructivist treasures have already been sharply altered, are currently undergoing ill-advised "reconstruction" or are simply falling into ever-greater disrepair, and are thus threatened with total destruction. A few are relatively well-known, but the majority are scattered throughout the city, unnoticed and unsung. This guide, though not comprehensive, points toward a few lesser-known structures.
who threw the hot dog?
drunk vs stoned after-party raided by nypd
funhouse nyc
looking for a copy of that dukes of hazard theme song ? check under "D" or like "H" for hogans heros or like "F" for flipper...
Fast-forward to a little-known exchange between photographer/ filmmaker Hollis Frampton and sculptor Carl Andre in 1962. (3) Frampton suggests that Andre's typewriter poems are not concrete enough because they mingle sound and sight just as Rimbaud's poem "Voyelles" (1870–71) had done by assigning each vowel a color: "What must be brought about is the divorce of this whole precinct of our activity from the vague shapes of synaesthesia." Considering that Andre's poems were hardly mushy (the one in question is "roseroseroseroserose"), we can see just how far Greenberg's hardheaded approach had taken artists by the 1960s—indeed beyond Greenberg, who had by then retreated into his own kind of sensory haze called "opticality." (4)
when gospel was gospel
marion williams remember me
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 5˝ 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