January 2010
32 posts
New pleasure: life in Bogota from #NYT. With pic of Rogelio Salmona’s Residencias el Parque - http://nyti.ms/bfz8Gq
Jan 30th
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Letters of Note: I felt the risk of being... →
James Cameron comes as off a such a freak in all of the press I have read about him in the run-up to Avatar, but this letter reveals something else.  Sure, he’s cut-throat in putting himself and his ideas at the center of any creative engagement he can fashion, but he as no illusions as to what he is doing and, better yet, what the stakes are.
Jan 29th
“We should emphasize that the whole gambling aspect of Las Vegas was incidental....”
– Robert Venturi - Yale Daily News - Venturi, Scott Brown reflect on Vegas Every time I have gone back to look at Learning From Las Vegas, I’m amazed by how much the city has changed since Venturi and Scott Borwn went there.  It is hard to imagine now, after so much growth and so much...
Jan 29th
“He’s a very tough businessman and tough negotiator,” said Charles Giancarlo, a...”
– iPad Name Conjures Up More Than Intended - NYTimes.com Steve Jobs likes to call his counterparties at all hours of the day and night.  Sounds like the mob.
Jan 29th
Jon Stewart beat #NYT to Granny-gate by a few days, but it’s good to see them heaping the outrage on LtGv Bauer too. - http://nyti.ms/bktwY1
Jan 28th
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“In some ways, personal computing has returned to the ferment of its earliest...”
– Nicholas Carr, The PC Officially Died Today | The New Republic, with the best reaction to the iPad I’ve yet read.  He throws to the wind David Pogue’s wait-and-see advice, instead trying to capture what recent history got us here.
Jan 28th
Carmen! — at The Metropolitan Opera http://gowal.la/s/uNC
Jan 28th
B&N has been pretty shameless about fudging the Nook specs. I love it that Pugue’s kid was the one to bust them on it. http://bit.ly/c6KN5n
Jan 26th
Exploring the Obama-Twitter-Cicero axis with offshoots to Churchill, Hemingway, Lincoln, and Zissner. http://bit.ly/75uWBF
Jan 20th
I always enjoy the exasperation showdown between cabbies and school bus drivers at 96th St. and West End Ave.
Jan 20th
I can’t tell if I need new glasses or a week of vacation, but I am sure having trouble with blurry vision. And it’s not even February yet.
Jan 20th
“Maybe we’re reading too much into a jpeg.” - @gizmodo comes up for air after trying to inhale all of the Apple hype in one breath. Whew.
Jan 20th
Yeah, so those 8-year-olds are awsome breakdancers. — at Brooklyn Bowl http://gowal.la/s/Fuw
Jan 17th
For the first time in the nine years that they have been doing this kind of thing, I was just stopped by the NYPD as I went into the subway.
Jan 16th
A compelling argument for the ARE: A Closer Look at the Destruction in Haiti - NYTimes. http://bit.ly/5z6nEb
Jan 15th
Cultivating Failure - The Atlantic →
Salting the earth in the Edible Schoolyard. (via Instapaper)
Jan 14th
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Jan 12th
The Orrscars 2009: now with more amusing themes ID’d and bonus trashing of the Transformers sequel. http://bit.ly/8UmV8h
Jan 12th
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“The competition-deflecting effects of printing cost got destroyed by the...”
– An incisive summary of what is happening to the newspaper industry, it suggests that the only thing to do is experiment madly and hope something sticks. Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
Jan 12th
I saw the strangest thing: a busker who got an entire subway car to sing along. I swear someone switched NYCs on me when I wasn’t looking.
Jan 12th
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“Alderman Toni Preckwinkle, whose Fourth Ward includes the Reese campus, expects...”
– This NYT article on Chicago real estate is populated with characters who escaped from a Dickens story.
Jan 12th
Apparently, keeping unwatched Netfix of Ben Button on my TV for 6 mos didn’t keep everyone else in NYC from watching it http://bit.ly/4DV5TE
Jan 11th
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“The multiroom site, which features “classic dishes from a country that...”
– Monkeytown is going down: UrbanEye - The New York Times
Jan 11th
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Jan 11th
First visit to MAD. Such a tiny building! No wonder it was hard to rejuvenate. — at Museum of Arts and Design http://gowal.la/s/x2o
Jan 10th
I don’t know about you, but I can’t help feeling Brooklyn Industries loses some of its hipster cachet when it rents space in Grand Central.
Jan 9th
Steely winter twilight. The city looks almost cozy out there.
Jan 9th
Der Rosenkavalier. Not spellbound. — at The Metropolitan Opera http://gowal.la/s/uNC
Jan 7th
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Jan 6th
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Jan 6th
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Jan 5th
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Jan 5th