September 1, 2011
DIS_RT _N // BS_TRCT
» “Ed Hardy.“
February 18, 2011
Best Rendering Ever
Brooklyn’s own Interboro Partners just won MoMA / PS1′s annual Young Architects Program competition with “Holding Pattern.”
Many more (traditional) renderings at Interboro Partners (via Designboom, which actually has better pictures).
See also: Rob Walker on ‘Scalies’
July 1, 2010
About Damn Time
The most obscenely hipster shit ever:
via Brooklyn Vegan, as always…
Plus: PS1′s Warm Up lineup (finally) announced, also pretty decent as far as I’m concerned…
June 6, 2010
Items
I’ve mentioned tilt shift photography before, but it continues to blow my mind.
…it gives the viewer a sense of being in a smaller world, a bit like the way the world looks to a kid.
–Bryan Solarski, GOOD Picture Show, June 2 2010
Equally amazing: photos of the semi-dystopian ruins of Kowloon & Battleship Island & Kowloon (below) (Dark Roasted Blend via Boing Boing)
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The “How Our Laws Are Made” infographic above is well-executed and fairly clear, if a little busy (GOOD); the Pulp Fiction one below is neat but, as one commenter points out, the story makes more sense the way it unfolds per Tarantino’s script (Flowing Data).
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Art vs. Art:
Greater New York at PS1: I only got around to seeing about half of the exhibit when I stopped by PS1 last week, but I’m sure I’ll have many opportunities to revisit and engage with the work over the next few months, especially once Warm-Up is underway. Nevertheless, I would imagine that Greater New York stands for everything that Jeff Koons’ BMW Art Car (below) is not. (NYT)
That said, I thought that Koons’ art car (unveiled at the Centre Pompidou) turned out fine, though I was a little disappointed to learn that “the design isn’t actually painted on the car; it’s a vinyl wrap covered with two layers of clear coat. BMW says the wrap was lighter than paint and it could be applied much more quickly. That was a key consideration because Koons had just two months to complete the project.” (Wired)
via Animal
See also: Image gallery of previous BMW art cars via Wikipedia.
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Filed under: Assorted Links · Tags: city life, graphic design, Jeff Koons, Nike, NYC, NYT, photography, PS1, Queens, soccer, Tarantino, words
May 23, 2010
Tiny Vices
» The Stooges – Fun House (Take 3) (11:29) – 10.52MB mp3 @ 128kbps
January 24, 2010
Items
–Pingdom has some web usage stats for 2009, such as:
- 234 million – The number of websites as of December 2009.
- 47 million – Added websites in 2009.
Nice to know that IYK is among 47 million new websites. There’s also numbers for e-mail and social networks. Definitely worth checking out: Internet 2009 in Numbers.
Taking a step that has tempted and terrified much of the newspaper industry, The New York Times announced on Wednesday that it would charge some frequent readers for access to its Web site — news that drew ample reaction from media analysts and consumers, ranging from enthusiastic to withering.
Starting in January 2011, a visitor to NYTimes.com will be allowed to view a certain number of articles free each month; to read more, the reader must pay a flat fee for unlimited access. Subscribers to the print newspaper, even those who subscribe only to the Sunday paper, will receive full access to the site without any additional charge.
Executives of The New York Times Company said they wanted to create a system that would have little effect on the millions of occasional visitors to the site, while trying to cash in on the loyalty of more devoted readers. But fundamental features of the plan have not yet been decided, including how much the paper will charge for online subscriptions or how many articles a reader will be allowed to see without paying.
–The New York Times recently announced that it is going to start charging online readers (in 2011) with a ‘paywall’ system. Or, as Gothamist bluntly puts it: “the Gray Lady’s going to start making bitches pay.”
–Apple has announced that it will unveil its “latest creation”—the digital world is certain that it will be an Apple tablet—at an event next Wednesday, January 27th. (Engadget; also on NYT, the Guardian, etc.; rumormongering has also caused a backlash in the world of tech journalism)
–P.S.1 just announced that Brooklyn’s SO-IL (Solid Object Idenburg Liu) is the winner of this year’s Young Architects Program design competition. Arch Daily has more pics and info.
Filed under: Assorted Links · Tags: Apple, architecture, China, Google, internet, NBA, NYT, PS1, Technology