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Finally, at clearly marked or somehow mutually agreed upon places, everybody starts conducting beautiful “zipper merges.” That’s the technical term — one-two, one-two or one-two-three, one-two-three — as indicated by the roadway configuration. The process has now worked at its ideal efficiency/equitability ratio: if all have behaved correctly, the tunnel passage has been both benign and, relatively speaking, quick. Personal sacrifice has been called for, to be sure. The former sidezoomers have sacrificed the pleasure of high-speed bypass, also known as I Beat Out the Stupid Sheep Just Now, Ha Ha (less truculent rendition: I Want to Get Home More Than I Care About Strangers Whose Faces I Can’t Even See). The former lineuppers have sacrificed the pleasure of self-congratulatory umbrage, also known as Hmph, Good Thing Society Has People Like Me. Together we have all ascended to the traffic decorum of the army ants, who as Vanderbilt observes are among the earth’s most accomplished commuters, managing to get from one place to another in large groups without cutting each other off, deciding their time is more valuable than everybody else’s, or — apparently this is the fast-lane domination method for certain traveling land crickets — eating anybody who gets in the way.

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Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization

We’ve reached a point in our civilization where counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed aesthetic vacuum. So while hipsterdom is the end product of all prior countercultures, it’s been stripped of its subversion and originality. (Cover story of Adbusters Issue #79, hitting the newsstands now.)
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uncanny v

uncanny valley

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i dont know why, but paddy johnson from art fag city posted in her LINKS LINKS LINKS department tom moodys old post on ME ME ME. (thank you both)


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Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner,” an exhibition at the Hammer Museum here, makes a strong case that Lautner’s role in forging that architectural legacy has been curiously underestimated. Organized by Frank Escher and Nicholas Olsberg, it presents about 120 plans, sections and renderings that counter his longstanding image as an architect who succumbed to Hollywood gaudiness and glamour. What we glean instead is a keen structural knowledge wedded to an environmental sensitivity — a seamless bond of nature, space and humankind.
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NOT LOUD ENOUGH!!!

After playing for almost an hour and a half, Gibby Haynes got mad at the sound guy who was on the side of the stage - something about not turning up the monitors. I don't know his name, but the sound guy was one of the Bowery Presents regulars. Gibby walked over and punched him and/or threw a bottle at him. Next thing you know security escorts Gibby off the stage mid-song. Nobody really knew what was going on. The band continued to play for at least one more song, and then left in a proper manner with lots of applause and high fives to the front row. Everyone started going crazy (in a good and drunken way), demanding an encore. It's not often you hear the crowd actually scream for a band to come back. We're all so spoiled. We just assume they always will. Of course there was the confusion about the way Gibby made his exit, and that was probably why people were chanting "Gibby" even louder and longer than usual.
that was genesis?
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dogtown boy jay adams update


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blogging over main stream media: tom moody vs the ill informed (or corrupt) new york times and it's ripple effect on the blogesphere and general art world consciousness


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In the late 1960s, when the merger of art and technology became a touchstone for both countercultural mind-liberation and New Frontier futurism, Buckminster Fuller served as a central, if gnomic, philosopher of the moment. The first issue of Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog in 1968 features a semi-mystical autobiographical fragment by Fuller and his poem-cum-manifesto "God is a Verb"; Gene Youngblood's seminal 1970 study Expanded Cinema includes a lengthy introduction by Fuller, in which he praises the "forward, omni-humanity educating function of man's total communication system"; and the premier issue of early video art's central journal Radical Software published a "pirated transcription" of an interview videotaped by the Raindance Corporation. "We hear people talk about technology as something very threatening," Fuller says in the stream-of-language transcript, "but we are technology, the universe is technology...it's simply a matter of understanding these things." Fuller's own book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth became an underground best-seller after its publication in 1969. Multimedia collectives like USCO and Ant Farm cited "Bucky" as inspiration; members of the latter group even went so far as to abduct Fuller when he came to speak at the University of Houston, picking him up from the airport under false pretense and taking him instead to see a touring MoMA exhibit entitled The Machine at the End of the Mechanical Age.

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bare hill barn conversion blog


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nowottney sighting: cherry blossoms


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l'ecole du butthole surfers


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mixturtle

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A beacon of light that has guided ships into New York Harbor for 41 years, Ambrose Light has shined its last strobe.

Dismantling of the faltering light tower, located 12 miles off the Staten Island coast, will begin Monday after the Coast Guard decided it is not cost-effective to rebuild it.

After Bahamian oil tanker Axel Spirit rammed into the 76-foot steel tower November 3 -- the third allision between a ship and the light tower since 1996 -- damaging its legs, the light has been unreliable. It was recently replaced with new parts after the first two incidents. A Coast Guard spokeswoman said the structure is likely headed for a scrap metal yard.

"It is not cost-effective to rebuild the light every time it is struck," said Chief Warrant Officer Darren Pauly, a Coast Guard Sector New York Aids to Navigation officer. Ambrose Light is no longer needed since light-emitting diodes [LEDs] on large buoys "provide the same purpose and are easier to maintain," he said.

The Coast Guard also plans to be extend Ambrose Channel to make it wider and more navigable for larger, commercial ships. The Sandy Hook Pilots Association station will also be moved out five miles, allowing for "safer way of doing business," said Ed Sweeney, marine superintendent for the St. George-based association.
thx lisa!
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Originally from New Orleans, Jim Ford lost interest in his academic pursuits and, in 1966, drifted out to California. He was passing through L.A., on his way to the Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco, when he met two session musicians, Pat and Lolly Vegas. The Native American rockers — who later formed the commercially successful Redbone — had worked on the Shindig television show at the time, and had already recorded their Pat and Lolly Vegas at the Haunted House album for Mercury. After hearing his songwriting talent first-hand, the Vegas brothers brought Ford to the attention of Del-Fi Records' honcho Bob Keane, known around the L.A. music scene for his "open door policy." Keane released a couple of Ford's singles on Del-Fi's Mustang label, both of which sank without a trace. Del-Fi/Bronco recording artist Viola Wills also recorded one of his songs. Along with Pat and Lolly Vegas, Ford wrote the P.J. Proby hit "Niki Hoeky" (it peaked at number 23 on Billboard's pop charts in January 1967), which Ford's former girlfriend Bobbie Gentry also sang on one of her later albums.
inspired by lms sunday devotional
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Photos from the Columbia Records 30th Street Studio Don Hunstein was Columbia Records’ in-house photographer for 30 years, and he snapped photos of Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Billie Holiday, Muhammad Ali, and Charles Mingus, to name a few. The Morrison Hotel Gallery's Soho loft (116 Prince Street, NYC) is now hosting a new exhibit of his photos, "In Session at the Columbia Records 30th Street Studio." Grammy-winning producer, writer and record executive Michael Cuscuna has also met and worked with many of the artists featured in the Morrison exhibit.

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For hundreds, maybe thousands of years, people have been trying to figure out how primitive people could build huge structures such as Stonehenge and the pyramids out of stone blocks weighing thousands of pounds. Scientists have been stumped. Then along comes a normal guy - a retired construction worker - and he says well, I would do it like this. And he does. This guy uses the simplest tools known to man and shows how simple and easy it would have been to create Stonehenge . This is a really great video clip. Amazing how this guy could figure out something that has confounded scholars for centuries. And not only figures it out, but demonstrates it! This guy could build a replica of Stonehenge single-handedly, while a committee of 20 or 30 Civil Engineering professors from leading universities would be debating how it might be done.
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justin was slimed this week by KB so i started looking around. the best examples are sited on the last link of this post at the tesla motor club message board. they did a great job of pinning down the bull shit and the aka's - key words: electric car

I'd ignore what Kerry Bradshaw AKA Kent Beuchert AKA thebike AKA Tom C Gray has to say. There might be some truth buried somewhere in the bile but, unsurprisingly, there's usually lots of crap as well. Google him and see what I mean.

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Above comments by “tom c gray” and “kerry bradshaw” are actually from the same person. Usually he comments under the name Kent Beuchert and he is the author of literally thousands of cranky anti-electric car comments across these here internets. Google is your friend.


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Kerry beauhrt is a paid hack of the oil companies that frequently puts up false data in support of failed energy policy.

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The Kent Beuchert Affair: Bias and Corporate Lobbying on a Science Blog Energy Blog sponsored by Shell?
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Here's a whole thread about Kent Beuchert AKA Kerry Bradshaw AKA Tom C Gray AKA thebike (etc.) over at the TeslaMotorsClub. http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/off-topic/672-ken-kent-kerry-beauchrt-beuchert-beuchrt-biker-rider-krider.html It's apparent from his thousands of posts that Kent hates the idea of an electric car unless it includes a "range extender" like the Volt. Actually, he's a regular commenter at www.gm-volt.com He has "electric car" in his google alerts and seems to monitor this quite religiously as his comments are often the first to appear after "electric car" is published somewhare on the net. I personally suspect he isn't so much a shill as just very very lonely and bitter.

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Issey Miyake Stores Terrazzo is generally considered to be one rank below real stone, but by embedding colorful shards of glass or stainless steel chips in it, Kuramata created a bright, fun new material. He decorated the entire Issey Miyake boutique in the Matsuya Department Store in Ginza, in terrazzo using it for the floor, walls and furniture, the result being a single coherent back ground that caused the merchandise to stand out as objets. The following year, 1984, he produced the walls of the Issey Miyake New York boutique using five millimeter thick terrazzo made from fragments of smashed Coca-Cola bottles that were lit from behind to create an exciting new concept, heightening its popularity even further.

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None of these subjects present a convincing depiction of religious devotion. Instead, they seem aware of the artificiality of their prayer, of the photographer and the impending image. As hired models they were undoubtedly aware of their own status as a potential advertisement. But whereas most photos end with the relationships of subject to photographer and viewer to subject, these subjects have been stamped with an additional voice. The translucent logo 123RF, unwaveringly placed in the exact center of every composition, becomes so tangible after its repetition that the subjects seem almost aware of its presence. The logo’s placement activates an inexplicable sense of One-ness in the otherwise disconnected and insincere subjects. Their prayers suddenly become convincing as communication with the deity 123RF, the almighty regulator of information.

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