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Kruger in my old hood

Barbara Kruger Covers Up the Lever House – ANIMAL.

This looks like a pretty amazing installation– Lever House, at 390 Park Ave, was just a few buildings away from where I first worked in NYC (which I came to refer to as “Dark Tower”). I often sat a cross this building and just stared at it over my food-cart lunch. If I were there now, I’d have something to read.

1975 – 1979 | The Movie title stills collection

1975 – 1979 | The Movie title stills collection. With loglines!

Hulu brings the sweet 70s cast-off movies

The Spell has some terrific interiors, and was pretty great.

Cocaine: One Man’s Seduction is another can’t miss.

New Sally Shapiro album

Is a good way to close out the summer (especially in free stream format). Expect this on my Best of 2009 list.

New Melo in Town

Top basketball recruit Fab Melo to play for Syracuse – syracuse.com.

Wot no Syracuse?

CitySounds.fm – The music of cities.

For now, a single XX Merge highlight


I think he forgot to mention ‘nem hooters. Wiki it.

Guess What?

I love this song for more reasons than just that its title was a part of my wedding vows.

YouTube – MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS | I AM NOT A ROBOT.

We pushed the clichés to the limit

The two students, from the Strasbourg School of Decorative Arts, were handed their €5,000 cheque, which was later blocked by Paris Match.

via Student hoax wins magazine’s top prize – Europe, World – The Independent.

Infinite Summer Begins (a few days late)

I started Infinite Jest last night after finally finishing the other book I was reading. I’m only on page 27, but I have to admit that any book with multiple mentions of WhataBurger in the opening pages is taking the expressway to my heart. I still stand a chance of getting to page 62 this evening which will put me right on track.

RIP Dogmo

Story by Tom S, comic by Mike Holmes.

Sites like this blow my mind

But they seem to be everywhere. Internet!

The World’s Best Photos by “activitystory” Flickr Hive Mind Search.

This may have been posted everywhere, but pay special attention to the raining part, which is utterly amazing.

DEADLINE post-it stop motion. again, via CP.

Funny that a piece about procrastinating took such an intense amount of work. This totally captures how I felt working on my qualifying paper.

[Lindsey in blue, Stevie in red, Together in purple]

via Frozen Love – Buckingham Nicks.

Except that they all in purple. All over.

Texas 2009

David Zaitz Photgraphy via CP

Amazing stuff. I MISS TEXAS.

Cubicles

Enjoy this illustration of some very depressing cubicles.

That is all.

Anybody make it to this?

Music Review – Gas – Wolfgang Voigt’s Techno-Minimalism Is Paired With Brian Eno’s Serenity

Sadly, we left Montreal a couple of days before his Mutek performance.

Good news is though, Syracuse is one of only a handful of stops on the Alva Noto / Bytone Raster-Noton North American tour this week.

Montreal

We went there, and it was awesome.

Olympic Parc

But I wish it looked more like it did in these Expo ‘67  Postcards.

Trippy Peace Bridge Video

After Mark picked me up at the train station in Buffalo on Friday night, he took me to his last photo assignment of the day, to photograph the new lightshow on the Peace Bridge. Here’s the video:
The rainbow Peace Bridge | Buffalo News Video.

Rhythmic wires to hypnotize

A Google Image Search for“core memory” returns page after page of patterny awesomeness. Just sayin.