Archive for July, 2012
London’s Olympian Architecture
by Rick Meghiddo
Olympic athletes train many years for performances that last few minutes. Also architecture demands long training, yet its outcome lasts for decades, or centuries – at least, that is the expectation. Yet “…the times are a-changin',” as Bob Dylan put it. On one side, large portions of the buildings that spectators will see during the Games w More...
Help ‘Leap Into the Blue’ Leap to Its Goal
Photographer Jean-Pierre Bourdier takes analog photographs that push our sense of wonder. He's launched his first Kickstarter campaign, and needs $10,000 by August 17, 2012, to publish his second book of photographs.
Enjoy the video below, then click here to learn more about this project and offer your support.
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The Man in Charge of Watering
by Jack Grapes
The summer sun, strong and bright,
sits down on the bricks in the front yard.
Cars which have nothing to do with bricks
go by on the street heading home.
It's Wednesday afternoon,
middle of the week,
when you can put everything you'd planned
on Monday
back on the back burner.
A lady goes by; I nod and smile and say hello.
She's carrying a More...
Peter O’Toole and Sam Peckinpah at the Formosa Café
by Garner Simmons
Less than a month shy of his 80th birthday, Peter O’Toole recently announced: “It’s time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from stage and screen. The heart for it has gone out of me; it won’t come back.” But what a heart it was.
It was only a few years ago that O’Toole, still majestic at 74, gracefully prowled the red carp More...
Summer Reading for the Rich and Sporty
by Jerry Kavanagh
Still searching for a good book to take to the beach, the country, or just a secluded corner? In a summer of the Olympic Games, tight baseball pennant races, and other high-profile international sporting events, even the most dedicated athletes and executives find time in their busy schedules for some quiet reading. Here are books that several spor More...
NYC’s Summer of Love
by Adam Leipzig
New York has a grand tradition of performance artists taking it to the streets – going way back to Alan Kaprow’s Happenings to Laurie Anderson’s sidewalk events decades ago. But would those artists have climbed into a flaming pink love mobile and revealed their most intimate desires to a woman dressed as Aphrodite?
Aphrodite, in to this c More...
Hemingway’s ‘Old Man and the Sea’ Reborn in German Student’s Animation
This four-minute video is pretty amazing - even more so when you learn it's a student "term paper." Animated by Marcel Schindler, with drawings by Hagen Reiling, they delivered this to Professor Dr. Reiner Nachtwey's Image and Communication class at Dusseldorf's University of Applied Sciences.
We'd give them an A.
the old man and the s More...
Mick Jagger, Happy Birthday Week Retro Video
Mick Jagger turns 69 on July 26, 2012. Here he is at age 22, black, and white and Little Red Rooster all over. More...Style vs. Search
by Adam Leipzig
Writing in a recent issue of The New Yorker, author John McPhee recounts his earlier days at the magazine, especially his relationship with former editor William Shawn. Shawn had a rule about titles: Titles cannot contain the name of the subject.
“Even if the subject is oranges,” writes McPhee, “as was the case in the second long piece I More...
