January 2009
90 posts
technical question
why does everything i google search this morning have a disclaimer after that says “this site may harm your computer”? am i in the wormhole?
5 dollar portraits →
by photographer caroll taveras
has anyone seen
the new tropicana juice cartons? the cap terrifies me. TERRIFYING. can’t even post an image, it’s too traumatic.
n: paraskavedekatriaphobia
The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia, a word derived from the concatenation of the Greek words Paraskeví (Παρασκευή) meaning Friday, and dekatreís (δεκατρείς) meaning thirteen, attached to phobía (φοβία) meaning fear. This is a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, a simple fear of the number thirteen.
Not going to attempt a pronunciation key on this one.
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meaghano:
I woke up today in sort of a sad mood, but it was before I had had any real thoughts about anything, so I laid in bed trying to pinpoint what it was.
Then I remembered my dream. And I know you aren’t supposed to talk about your dreams because no one cares, but GUYS.
I was performing in a play— god knows why— I remember I was playing Red Riding Hood—when my friend KELSEY came up and...
alright, i'll be under the covers if you need me.
Conde Nast is shuttering Domino magazine and its Web site, Women’s Wear Daily reports. According to company president and CEO Charles H. Townsend, the decision to fold the shelter title “is driven entirely by the economy.”
ebay item o' the day →
an apothecary poison bottle. (technical question: are there any beneficial uses for arsenic?)
WatchLe dernier clip d’Oren Lavie “Her Morning Elegance” a été tourné en stop motion. Tout le clip est filmé au dessus d’un lit. La chanson est tirée de son album “The Opposite Side of the Sea.”
(stop motion + dreaming in bed + calm, twinkly tunes)
morning haterade
some guy takes snapshots of random passerby outside the soho prada store and gets a show and new york times mention because he’s a sorta well-known filmmaker (maybe he’s famous, i don’t know, that’s worse). oh, and they’re in black and white and sometimes show streetlights. ARTY.
i guess i am curious what kind of camera he used. otherwise, no. just no.
for some reason, this song always seemed to me...
Date a Cheap Skate!
interloper:
Yeah, jerks, it IS a recession—so who the hell is paying to write this drivel?? FIRST of all, I’m pretty sure it’s somehow documented that people who get laid off promptly channel their energy into getting laid. The “tips” (incl. playing sports! picnicking!) partially dissected for your enjoyment, below.
My favorites:
4. Volunteer together: Nothing’s sexier than doing good....
what to eat when it's cold and you're poor
$18: plain pie and pitcher (pizza gruppo, west village)
$12.50: pair of pork buns and two cookies (momofuku milk bar, east village)
$15: cheese plate for two and glass of wine for each (71 irving, gramercy)
< $5: eight fried dumplings (vanessa’s or prosperity, chinatown)
$5: hamburger for breakfast! (shopsin’s, lower east side)
$4.75: massive veggie sandwich on homemade...
copycats:
“Crazy in Love” by Snow Patrol...
Q: how awesome is it that mamie eisenhower is on... →
A: very.
“11:52 AM — Rick Warren said ‘Malia and Sasha’ like some Mexican porn narrator.”
– Ken Layne for Wonkette (via symptoms-of-stress)
wow, HALEY, the city ain't what it used to be. →
subtitle: 23 year old assistant no longer “excited” by $20 cocktails, new york dead.
inauguration edition
T: The entrepreneurial spirit in D.C is crazy right now.
T: I can buy anything on the street, and I mean anything.
K: Ninja gear? Car muffler? Navajo blanket? Pacifiers?
T: No, yes, yes and yes.
“…Oh, and I met a couple of eco-terrorists on Thursday.”
– mom makes sure i’m paying attention during telephone monologues.
that's it, i'm moving to sweden →
gmail, what is up with the pinching crab?
(it’s animated.)
daydream
tetris with a water level - how cool would that be? (VERY.)
the worst of the (art) web, 2008 →
Elizabeth Peyton’s Michelle and Sasha Obama portrait. Thanks to online media, one of the worst portraits Elizabeth Peyton ever made constituted a short lived empty news story. I appreciate the gesture of course — but frankly, the exhibition was far better without that work.
could not agree more. though it also seemed like an intentional “fuck you” from EP to the art critics who...
so… Son of Rambow. after much bitching on my part because i, uh, thought this actually featured sly stallone, i realized not ONLY was there no sylvester but there was a CHUCK BASS instead. curiously, the gossip girl wardrobe team seems to have pilfered “lawrence“‘s entire closet from 1980s rural england and injected it straight into the armoire of suite 1812 at the palace...
the choice seems obvious.
nine american architecture firms have been selected as finalists for a project building the new US embassy in london.
in my mind, kohn pederson fox is the unmistakable frontrunner: they can do glass, they can build tall, they can go low, they can do headquarters, and they do it all well.
an unexpected but rewarding choice might also be kierantimberlake - i love what they do with...
462 books in one year →
holy shit, sarah weinman is a rock star of reading.
Guess who just got a press release for a...
(via alexanderbasek)
i would pay a quarter to find out what firm/restaurant is pimping a meat. ball. tini.