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I love this Scopitone clip of Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks.Yes, the big eared blond on drums is Levon Helm. Not their best tune (for that, try this one-- their version of Bo Diddley's Who Do You Love from 1960 (Roullette). It was a huge hit in Canada whose radio stations blasted it into Detroit at the time, evidently it was a big influence on the Stooges' James Wiliamson whose solo on Search & Destroy would echo it twenty two years later. - the hound

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The notion of "leftover space" has always been of great interest to architects, but in the context of global urbanization it conjures a particularly visceral response.Leftover space in the sense of being ghettoized and depicting a sort of bare essentiality of being in architecture is not always easy to look at much less understand, especially for a profession whose responsibility is designing the structures that people will inhabit. For the most part, the issue of global poverty is translated through viral images of shanties infecting the landscape, peripheral slums leaching off the urban core, and pictures that instill fear of an assailant rise of diseased squatter cities. This not only demonizes the third world, it painfully reminds us of our own failures to address the infrastructural necessities of millions. However, these images narrate only part of the story for those who go on sifting through the remains of an urban evolution which has long since abandoned them

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mexcontainer

It was a side trip through a destitute, ramshackle neighborhood in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, that detoured Brian McCarthy from building houses in Albuquerque to an idea to offer the very poor a chance to own a home. His answer lies in a humble steel shipping container 40 feet long, 8 feet wide and 8˝ feet tall.
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hello down there

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musical mirages


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how to speak hip


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a look back in history with color photography

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My fellow day campers and I used to swim here every summer. A 20 minute walk to the bus stop, wait for the bus, bus ride to ferry, wait for ferry, ferry ride, walk to pool, a nice hike and worth every minute. The Lyons pool was glorious!!!! Huge and gorgeous. I am so happy it won't be torn down now for the "luxury condos". They have 3 pools: a kiddie pool, a diving pool & a normal 4 ft pool. I used to do forward somersaults off the high diving board. So many happy memories. - lisa

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new yorker stories


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Miami Marine Stadium Wins Historic Designation

a marine stadium thats completely obsolete because speed boats run too fast now to stay on the track. then used as a rock venue and then abandoned after hurricane damage. saved anyway because its a cool purpose built highly exotic one of a kind aqua-building.


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nice fuckin' calders from an art collection that name checks biggie friends and business connection from the 20c modernist cannon

Why isn’t Eliot Noyes (like his house) as famous as his friends? He attracted fellow members of the Harvard Five—Breuer, Johnson, Landis Gores, and John Johansen—to New Canaan by building a house there in 1947. He launched the careers of Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen when, as curator of industrial design at the Museum of Modern Art, he awarded them first prize in the 1940 Organic Design in Home Furnishings competition. He revolutionized the partnership of design and the corporation at IBM, where, backed by chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr., he organized every aspect of the company’s appearance, redesigning the product line from the Selectric typewriter to the System/360 computer and hiring Paul Rand for graphics, the Eameses for films and exhibitions, and an all-star cast of architects (Breuer, Gordon Bunshaft, Mies, Paul Rudolph, Saarinen, and many more) for buildings. Noyes went on to provide similar services for Mobil and Westinghouse. “His real project was not to design objects and buildings but to create a system by which a corporation could administer design programs,” says John Harwood, who just completed a dissertation on Noyes and IBM. “He wasn’t out to make exciting architecture. He was interested in the pragmatic, and then he occasionally came out with really amazing designs—like his own house. He does the same kind of project at the scale of the corporate family with his architecture for IBM.” Contemporary articles on Noyes emphasize his charm, stability, and conservatism to explain why even then he was not better known, as well as how he achieved so much power in the corporate hierarchy. Architect Jane Thompson remembers analyzing Noyes with Walter McQuade, who wrote many architects’ profiles: “Walter said to me, ‘Eliot seems so perfect. I can’t find anything wrong with him.’ isn’t Eliot Noyes (like his house) as famous as his friends? He attracted fellow members of the Harvard Five—Breuer, Johnson, Landis Gores, and John Johansen—to New Canaan by building a house there in 1947. He launched the careers of Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen when, as curator of industrial design at the Museum of Modern Art, he awarded them first prize in the 1940 Organic Design in Home Furnishings competition. He revolutionized the partnership of design and the corporation at IBM, where, backed by chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr., he organized every aspect of the company’s appearance, redesigning the product line from the Selectric typewriter to the System/360 computer and hiring Paul Rand for graphics, the Eameses for films and exhibitions, and an all-star cast of architects (Breuer, Gordon Bunshaft, Mies, Paul Rudolph, Saarinen, and many more) for buildings. Noyes went on to provide similar services for Mobil and Westinghouse.

“His real project was not to design objects and buildings but to create a system by which a corporation could administer design programs,” says John Harwood, who just completed a dissertation on Noyes and IBM. “He wasn’t out to make exciting architecture. He was interested in the pragmatic, and then he occasionally came out with really amazing designs—like his own house. He does the same kind of project at the scale of the corporate family with his architecture for IBM.” Contemporary articles on Noyes emphasize his charm, stability, and conservatism to explain why even then he was not better known, as well as how he achieved so much power in the corporate hierarchy. Architect Jane Thompson remembers analyzing Noyes with Walter McQuade, who wrote many architects’ profiles: “Walter said to me, ‘Eliot seems so perfect. I can’t find anything wrong with him.’”
more images from a new canaan modern house tour picassa album

justin found this one
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painted out graffiti
painted over graffiti


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anti-theft sandwich bag

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balinese

sad to report that the balinese was destroyed. here is their home site with historic info and interior exterior photos.

A historic Galveston, Texas, nightclub that once attracted some of the world's top entertainers was washed away by the storm surge of Hurricane Ike. The 79-year-old Balinese Room was once a popular dance and gambling hall. It hosted performances by Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, George Burns and the Marx Brothers in the 1940s and '50s. Howard Hughes was a patron. The structure along Galveston's sea wall had extended 600 feet out into the Gulf of Mexico. The building was added to the Natoinal Register of Historic Places in 1997. It had survived Hurricane Carla in 1961 and Hurricane Alicia in 1983, but Ike was too much for it as the storm's surge ripped the building apart early Saturday.


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Some 7,000 documented historic buildings are located on Galveston, an island that served as a gateway to Texas in the state's early days. Of those, it is estimated as many as 1,500 of the structures sustained serious damage during Hurricane Ike.
An early assessment by the Galveston Historical Foundation shows the following conditions at historic sites.

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Employees at the Farnsworth House used boats to reach the home on Saturday and lift the designer furniture away from the water. Some pieces, including a custom-designed wardrobe bound to the floor, could not be saved. Officials could not yet estimate the cost of damages.

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c3 corvette price guide


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guess im dumb


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never my love color promo


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speaking of wichita

witness: lester "road hog" moran and his cadillac cowboys. featuring wesley, red and wichita ~ also know as the statler brothers


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of the pale and beyond


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the port huron statement

from the sixties project article archive


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spunky onions


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saint james infirmary


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charlie parker


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