Schwarz
View current page
...more recent posts
Steven McDonald of Redd Kross will stop by The Cherry Blossom Clinic (91.1 wfmu) this Saturday at 3 PM to spin some records and share some tales from his band's long and storied career. He'll be town with the rest of the famed psych/power-pop/glam/punk/bubblegum group's "Neurotica"-era lineup for some live dates. Sure to be a blast!
ric burns andy warhol / tonight and tomorrow night on 13 - doesnt promise to be the ultimate take on AW ~ but we will give it a try
t moody
'Real estate is being marketed like fashion," an excitable young bedroom broker to the rich and famous told me in the back of his stretch limo. "Architects are the new couturiers." New New Yorkers—bankers, fund managers, moneyed elite—don't just want the right geographic address. They want the social comforts and personal confirmation that they're on Style Street. "Your home should say something about you." Loudly and in a foreign accent, presumably.
DESIGNHabitat is an on-going partnership between Auburn University's School of Architecture and the Alabama Association of Habitat Affiliates (AAHA) focused on developing innovative design strategies for Habitat homes grounded in an understanding of the culture and climate of Alabama.
With Palm Harbor Homes as a building partner, the project explores alternative approaches to the design and construction of Habitat homes to include factory-based, modular construction technologies. The program also seeks to broaden the dialogue within Habitat regarding energy performance and resource conservation.
The project commenced in the fall of 2005 as students were instructed to design an 1100 square foot, 3 bedroom, 1.5 bathroom home using modular construction techniques. A team of industry professionals selected one design for the build phase of the project. In the spring semester of 2006, the students built the selected home to be sold to an area family through Habitat for Humanity.
The selected design pairs two factory built modules set parallel to one another and joined by a single site-constructed space. The 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom design makes excellent use of its 1040 square feet of living space. The site built center section creates an open plan with cross ventilation from the west to the east, reducing energy costs for the homeowner.
Palm Harbor's ability to deliver a nearly finished home is very attractive in rural environments where Habitat's volunteer pool is small. Manufactured homes are built to 80% completion in a protected building center by professional homebuilders. As a result, manufactured housing increases the quality of Habitat's finished product. Volunteers help in the set up and finishing of the home at the home site. Using manufactured housing also allows Habitat to build more homes in less time.
Palm Harbor Homes also partnered with Habitat for Humanity for their HomeBuilder's Blitz.2006 project.
Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys
"Lower East Side is labeled 'Ghetto'." Christ, how did we miss that?
reengineering the mississippis exit strategy
won this group of race drinking images
out bid on these 9 drinking ladies images
10 stupidest utopias
lenny kaye says good-bye to cbgb omfug
"I'll keep this board up for a while, but I'm locking it for new posts. "wfmu is a listener sponsored (and i would contend the best anywhere) fm and internet freeform radio station. that means that 100% of their operating budget comes from listeners. either by direct pledges durring their annual fundraising drive or in the form of support of their special events including their annual record fair. seven years ago they launched a message board in connection to the website. it served as an interface between some of the staff who contributed with postings and comments and the listeners postings and comments. some of the threads went into hundreds of comments providing interesting discussions of station, music and non station related subjects. many enlightning topics were worked through in this fashion. it was an incredible resource. it did however reveal in various ways a top heavy tendency to over steer and over control. seemingly innocuous posts and comments were wiped. large sections of archived threads were lost. an unmistakable aura of managerial contempt ensued. links to the message board on the stations main web-page were mysteriously removed at the same time their beware of the blog was launched soon participation on the board would dwindle to a couple of dozen. that handful persevered through an onslaught of spam. management refused to delegate to any non-administrative weekend spam monitor. pages of spam would stack up. still a few hung in there. these decisions all came from station manager ken who recently gave us some hope that he would begin to make an attempt to get the situation on track. today the board was sunk (posts and comments frozen) by ken who appears to believe that the blog and board cannot coexist. as with most blogs they pull in a few comments but not the serious interactive listener participation that is more natural on message boards. so fuck you back to ken for tanking an awesome board wether for the reason given or otherwise. fuck you back because you and your control issues are a slap in the face of the listenership of this listener sponsored station. fuck you very much. a few of us wont forget the dis!
sending out a personal message of respect for the fdny today
“They could have gotten Larry out,” Mr. Betts said. It would have meant writing a check, Mr. Zuccotti said, but it could have been done. Robert D. Yaro, president of the Regional Plan Association, said the mayor and the governor “could have gotten in a room with Larry Silverstein and said, ‘You’re out of here.’ ”
But Mr. Yaro said the Port Authority had multiple motivations for retaining the Silverstein lease. “They saw it as their key to hanging on to the site,” he said. “They were afraid of losing control to the city or the state.”
Further, the Port Authority was counting on Mr. Silverstein’s aggressive pursuit of insurance proceeds as well as the more than $100 million a year in rent that the Port Authority depended on to keep its overall operation flush.
“I don’t think that should shock anybody,” Mr. Ringler said. “The World Trade Center was a moneymaker for this agency so that this agency, who pools its resources, can do all the other things we have to do.”
The World Trade Center site has been an even better moneymaker since Sept. 11, however, primarily because the attack coincided with the sale of the lease to Mr. Silverstein. While the Port Authority reported an average annual net income of $22 million on the complex in the five years before Sept. 11, it reported an average annual net income of $106 million on the empty site in the five years after.
“When you look at how much more profit we made,” Anthony R. Coscia, the authority’s chairman, said, “all it represents is monetizing an asset we sold before Sept. 11,” that is, turning the buildings into cash.
Being offered in this auction are 7 early 1900's photographs of an Initiation Ceremony held on board a U.S. Navy Ship by "KING NEPTUNE AND HIS COURT'" as they crossed the International Dateline (the Equator). King Neptune's Initiation Ceremony has long been a tradition in the U.S. and British Navy's. This ceremony was done to initiate first timers crossing the equator and involved many different forms of harassment some rather humiliating. King Neptune's Court consisted of King Neptune, his First Assistant, Davy Jones, Amphitrite, Shellbacks and Pollywogs (sailors who being initiated.) The photographs are all mounted on boards resembling cabinet cards but the photographs are all amateur. The contrast is good and for the most part they are very sharp. The photographs are not identified in anyway, the names of the sailors , the name of the ship or dates that the initiation took place are shown. However the photographs do graphically illustrate and ceremony I have often heard about but had never seen actual photos of which I assume is the same for most people. For any photograph collectors these would be extremely interesting and a valuable addition to their collection. PHOTO 1 King Newptune, Davy Jones, Amphitrite and other assistants all in costumes symbolizing their positions in the court. Photo 2 Shows two of the shellbacks pouring a drink down the throat of a Pollywog. Photo 3. Shows Amphitrite and a Shellback applying some sort of substance to a Pollywogs head. Photo 4 Large group of sailors looking on as King Neptune's helpers dump Pollywogs into a pool of water formed by a canvass spread over a hatch. Photo 5 King Neptune and his Assistants are shown dumping a Pollywog who is sitting on a barrel into the pool of water. Photo 6 Shows group of Pollywogs jumping around in the pool of water. Photo 7 Shows what appears to be the Pollywogs grabbing the members of King Neptune's Court and dunking them in the pool with them. Not shown but if you wish to see a scan of it please email us.
untitled work gets no respect.
at auction: 3 vondutch striped Semie Mosely custom guitars built for, owned by and used by the strawberry alarmclock
zars
from a set of 22 photo pieces i sent out for documentation by artist and photographer tom waren. shot with a digital (canon eos 20d with a zoom lens) camera at 240 dpi bumped to 300 for printing and to be reduced to 72 dpi for thumbnails. soon to be loaded into my art page for virtual studio.
Kristen Breitweiser, A Letter to Ann Coulter 09.06.2006
Nonconspiracy theorist David Ray Griffin takes aim at the official 9/11 story
hat tip mark
"Absolutely not," Connally said. "I do not, for one second, believe the conclusions of the Warren Commission."
"So why not speak out?" Thompson asked.
"I will never speak out publicly about what I believe," Connally replied, "because I love this country and we needed closure at the time."
Now here we are more than 40 years after that devastating perpetration and we have to wonder, how well did "closure" serve us? As we see daily the fruits of self-serving secrecy and unchecked power, it might be time for some disclosure instead.
some more wtc building plans unveiled : this is what its supposed to look like
the american institute of architects new york chapter - eOculus - 09.06.06 SPECIAL ISSUE: One Year Since Hurricane Katrina—Gulf Coast Issue
at galapagos 9/10, 17, 24 (all sunday evenings)
Counter Cultural provocateur Genesis POrridge and her reactivated Psychic TV aka “PTV3” will be releasing Hell Is Invisible, Heaven is Her/e, executive produced by Edward ODowd, Baba Larraji and P-Orridge. It's the first new studio album from PTV3/Psychic TV since 1995’s Trip Reset, Hell Is Invisible. PTV3 comprises of Markus “Fabulous” Persson on keyboards, drummer Morrison Edley aka Edward ODowd (also of Toilet Boys), guitarist David Maxxx (developing from The Tadpoles), Alice Genese on bass guitar and vocals (formally of Pretty Boys), Retinal Stimulation Video programming for live "gigs" and other elements of the PTV3 project is by Nicolas Jenkins (Sterile Cowboys Productions) in association with Genesis (for Porridge With Everything Inc.), Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge on sampling keyboards (also of Thee Majesty) and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge - lead voices, noise bass guitar, electric violin (also of Throbbing Gristle and Thee Majesty). While Hell Is Invisible, Heaven is Her/e is the first recording by PTV3. Special guests were invited to add finishing flourishes: the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick Zinner contributes his distinctive guitar playing to “In Thee Body” and G 1 H “Maximum Swing,” the Butthole Surfers’ Gibby Haynes adds vocals to “Maximum Swing” and "I Don’t Think So," and renowned author Douglas Rushkoff -- the original keyboardist of PTV3 -- plays on “Lies And Then.”listening to his interview live on wfmu 91.1 w/ fabio right now. (s)he advises that one night gibby will guest on a request cover song. gibby requested a thirteenth floor elevators song, didnt say which one. ill post a link to the archive when its over. there are other guests w/ other request cover songs.
Pandrogeny is the core philosophical system of PTV3, deeply coloring the lyrics, CD packaging graphics and live video projections. The aim of Pandrogeny is to celebrate
similarities in humans rather than be at the mercy of fear of differences as the only viable path to a unified evolution of the human species. From human to humane, where the “E” stands for evolution. Change is in and of itself always preferable to inertia. To that end s/he and her other half Lady Jaye have simultaneously got identical breast implants on Valentines Day 2003 and subsequently Lady Jaye has got a chin implant, eye surgery, silicon in lips, nose surgery, coloured contact lenses to match Genesis' color. Genesis has had cheek implants, silicon in lips, facial tattoos match Lady Jaye’s beauty marks, larger breast implants (38 "D"), various facial surgeries, liposuction at the waist. Their end is to create a hermaphroditic entity called Breyer P-Orridge.