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big brother W and our orwellian life


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What a year it's been here at Beware of the Blog - 1.7 million hits, 1,130 articles, 35 authors and two cease and desist letters (both fake). For those who joined us late, here's a list of the posts that were stuffed with chewy MP3 goodness.

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After the WFMU staff walkout in 1969, Upsala College closed the station for 10 months, until they hired a new station manager to run the station with "a more professional effort".

Troubles soon arose between Alan Fritch, the new station manager, and the staff at the station. This issue of the Upsala Gazette from March 12, 1971 (PDF file, 1.27MB) details a full-blown controversy surrounding the dismissal of two staffers by Fritch, a list of grievances against Fritch brought before the WFMU Radio Board by the station staff, and the subsequent vote to dissolve the Radio Board.

Apparently, as quoted by one Upsala student, Fritch didn't "get along with the kids". The list of 15 grievances included complaints about Fritch acting as a "policeman" and "stifling dissent". He dismissed two staffers after they broke into the station after-hours. Whether he was a power-mad dictator or merely doing his job was a matter of opinion. Some staff members believed that Fritch was "slowly getting rid of the long-hairs", while Fritch claims to have been "merely going by policy". Lots of interesting details about the controversy surrounding Fritch's management and about the station in general (like how one of the dismissed DJs was cut loose after an on-air "marathon.. reading of Lord of the Rings") are all available.

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elektronik supersonik

from fmu message board
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"It's mostly murals and mosaics," says Dwayne Jones, executive director of Preservation Dallas. Except for the original c. 1942 clock-tower structure, the bank buildings, vacant since 1992, are being torn down for a $250 million apartment complex and park development project by Cleveland-based Forest City Enterprises. Forest City, which is donating $20,000 towards the removal of the art, says no one should be concerned about the art's fate.

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micro dwellings


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john zoller (fuzzy balls with a message)


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highline update


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dumb angel number four

a return to unique perspectives on surf instrumental music, Wall-of-Sound productions, Hawaiiana, post-war fashion/graphic design and Modernist Los Angeles architecture. Drawing inspiration from a beatnik surf aesthetic, the magazine has taken on a new look drawn from the vision of surfing’s ’50s and ’60s iconographers. We offer thought provoking pieces from talented writers such as Domenic Priore (author of Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece), Brad Elliot (Surf's UP! The Beach Boys on Record), Otto von Stroheim (Tiki News), Harvey Kubernik (co-writer of Hollywood Rocks the Movies, Part 1 & 2 and oft-published journalist in MOJO, The Los Angeles Times and Goldmine magazine), and Mark A. Moore (Jan Berry / Jan & Dean historian). Great artists and photographers like Shag and Peter Frame (Rock Family Trees) also add their unique talents to what we're trying to achieve.

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outdoor steel cabinets per request matty mccaslin


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the original bore

“There will be nothing new in what I say, but maybe it will have a new twist”

Robert Venturi comes to modernist shrine Crown Hall to out Mies van der Rohe as a closet symbolist and attempt to define the architecture of our time. (Originally published in abbreviated and far better edited form under the title, Live by the I Beam, Die by the I Beam in the December 16th Chicago Reader.)


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found footage fest preview


via zoller
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steve parrino in the 2006 whitney biennial



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elegant design


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cut away


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cont gif

new use for used shipping container


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(image)

as you may have noticed ive located gif icons for shipping container and the wtc (thanks wsj) posts. i have no idea what a katrina or nola gif should look like. upfront i'd say musical notes, trolly cars and noah references are out. any suggestions welcome.


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itwtc

Besides the lack of prospective tenants, Mr. Silverstein has had several setbacks and is engaged in an increasingly tense struggle with politicians and government agencies who could derail the plans of the 74-year-old real-estate veteran. Even his longtime financial backer may be open to a deal that would allow their partnership to be removed from at least part of the rebuilding process.

Mr. Silverstein's latest bad news came this week, when he failed to reach agreement with New York City on a timetable for the project and on how much Mr. Silverstein can request as a developer's fee. That pact was necessary for the city to approve $3.5 billion in tax-exempt bonds to help pay for the rebuilding of the Trade Center site. The two sides are still talking, but Mr. Silverstein says the lack of a deal will only delay rebuilding.

More than four years have passed since 9/11, and little has been rebuilt on the site except a temporary commuter rail station and 7 World Trade Center. The lack of progress has led to finger-pointing between Mr. Silverstein and the city, New York State and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the Trade Center site and serves as Mr. Silverstein's landlord. Political leaders are becoming more involved in the rebuilding. This is the last year in office for New York Gov. George E. Pataki, and he is concerned about his legacy, while New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, fresh off a re-election romp, is no longer focused on building a football stadium for the New York Jets or bringing the Olympics to the city.
the wsj
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that brutal joint

If the craft of architecture is concerned with the physical joints between materials, the meaning of architecture appears in its intersections with other disciplines. This blog explores those relationships in contemporary theories.

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itwtc

urban blogger misrepresentation attended this meeting and provides lucid commentary :

And there is no doubt that is the case. A fascinating moment of total implosion occurred when a family member came up and read mostly disingenuous statement that seemed like it came directly from the Machiavellian mind of Debra Burlingame. We heard the usual garbage talking points about “it’s not about the arts, but the kind of the arts” followed by a litany of projects that, absent the loaded emotional context from which they were drawn, would have resulted in pained eye-rolling from most everyone there (and probably still did for some). There were glimmers of a viable argument, via pandering to positioning these examples of outsider art (that might be welcomed at places like MAD or the American Folk Museum), or terms that might indict the clannishness of the arts we were lamenting the exclusion of. But no one rose to point out that the some 30-odd examples offered, from a traditional curatorial viewpoint, were infinitesimal for an institution that needs to fill programming for a century (MoMA has what, 100,000 items in inventory?), and the Memorial is already slated to have something on the order of 200,000 sf of display space. I'm not aware of anyone recommending that the Memorial Center -- or whatever we are calling it nowdays -- not include such times. But, true to form, no one wanted to attack a family member by pointing any of this out, or, worse, the awkward, polite disinterest indicated that, yes, this is even less a dialogue than anyone presumes.

Controversy Still Clouds Prospects at 9/11 Site
By ROBIN POGREBIN for nyt
Published: December 14, 2005
A sense of despair about the prospects for cultural activity at ground zero pervaded a panel discussion on the issue on Monday night, even as some speakers suggested that the idea could be resurrected.

"Is there hope?" asked the artist Hans Haacke, one of five panelists on the dais in an auditorium packed with 250 people at the New School. "I would say no."

"Culture is never unideological," he added. "There is no one culture that everybody agrees on."

The two-hour event, centering on the question "What's Happening to the Arts at Ground Zero?," was organized by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the New School's Vera List Center for Art and Politics. (cont.)


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NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Legendary folk rocker Bob Dylan will start a new career as a radio DJ when he launches a new weekly music show on XM Satellite Radio next March.


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itwtc

While developer Larry Silverstein rethinks his bid for over $3 billion in taxpayer-sponsored Liberty Bonds to help fund development at the World Trade Center site—N.B. Silverstein quote yesterday: "You cannot build apartments at Ground Zero"—bigger news breaks: they're going to turn off the memorial waterfall in winter, according to Downtown Express. Why? Explained the LMDC's memorial design director, "The visitor experience will not be a pleasant one. You will not only be cold, but wet. The wind will blow water into the galleries." Not like this hasn't been pointed out before by a passel of critics, but hey: common sense! Awright!

Meantime, for those looking to make sense of the current WTC chaos, architecture blogger Miss Representation offers one of his trademark Very Long Blog Posts on the state of the game at Ground Zero. Recommended read.
from curbed
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from the gutter
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As with all Foster designs, the Hearst tower is sleek, refined, and filled with new technology. It looks nothing like the Jazz Age confection on which it sits. The addition is sheathed in glass and stainless steel—a shiny missile shooting out of Urban’s stone launching pad. The tower’s most prominent feature is the brash geometric pattern of its glass and steel, which the architect calls a “diagrid”: a diagonal grid of supporting trusses, covering the façade with a series of four-story-high triangles. These make up much of the building’s supporting structure, and they do it with impressive economy: the pattern uses twenty per cent less steel than a conventional skyscraper frame would require.
the new yorker
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