Saturday, October 24, 2009

Today and every day: James Franco

Some nice pictures of Franco from the New Yorker Festival can be found here and here.

Today: Whoa.


The mac calculator has something called the "Programmer" view. I have no idea what any of it means but I am impressed. It looks so cool.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Design: Graphkin


How much do I love this graph paper napkin? So much so that I am reduced to asking myself rhetorical questions.

Story: The Language of Men

short fiction
by Norman Mailer
for Esquire
1953

Monday, October 19, 2009

Artist: Jeff Carter


Jeff Carter
Does a lot of sculpture work with Ikea furniture.

Article: Mad about Mad Men

To watch this megamovie as it should be watched, as a 26-hour (and counting) cycle, and to read McLean’s dissection of its intricacies, is to grasp Mad Men’s triumph: its emotional intelligence—evident not only in its writing and acting but in its exquisite direction, lighting, and photography—overwhelms its mushy ideology and whatever Important Points it wants to make. At its best—and it usually hits that mark—its characters are true to themselves and therefore to their time and place.

from the Atlantic.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Today: Phantom of the Opera part 2: The Reckoning

Is Andrew Lloyd Weber feeling the pinch? Did he think making a sequel would bring in the big bucks? I don't know how I feel about this. I am ashamed to admit I like Phantom (my theater friends would scoff for it being too mainstream Broadway and all my other friends would sneer that I like musicals). But a Phantom sequel set in Coney Island? This might be good/bad for everyone! The new musical will be called Love Never Dies. It is due to open in London in March. It x will be staged also in New York beginning in November 2010 and will open in Australia in 2011.

from Crains

Not today but someday: My own flag


If I ever become (choose adjective: rich, famous, lucky, killer-skilled) enough to have my own (choose: country, island, street), my flag will look something like this one from the Benin Empire, a pre-colonial African state situated in modern Nigeria that lasted from 1440 until 1897.

Maybe by then they'll have animated fabric (Harry Potter style) and there will be slicing-head action!

via kottke.

Today's Mood: Jefferson Starship

You know sometimes when you wake up with a song in your head?

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

The list


Galileo's finger is on display at the Museo di Storia della Scienza. Go there some day to see it.

Article: For Goodness' Sake


A city can be optimistic
A small tour of New York services by Maria Kalman in the Times. Her brand of whimsy strikes the right note for a small love letter to the city.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Oh youth.

O: Why is Whoopi Goldberg famous?