Great NYTimes Flash Graphic (you have to go to the NYTimes site to view the Flash) about how the presidential candidates have mentioned their rivals in debates.
{via Brian James, Metafilter}
Archive for December, 2007
I have Coplans book A Body (Hardcover) by John Coplans. Love the work. But perhaps as good is the short autobiography in the back of the book. As a friend of mine described it as an “English truth teller”. It is so frank and revealing about a wonderful life lived. Coplans was a soldier, painter, writer, editor, founder of Artforum, photographer, teacher…
Read a wonderful obit from Art in America.
For more images go here to Artnet.
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | A Society on Steroids | PBS A Bill Moyers essay on what the Mitchell Report on steroid use in baseball can tell us about America today.
Perhaps one of my favorite contemporary photographers is Edward Burtynsky.
In his own words:
Nature transformed through industry is a predominant theme in my work. I set course to intersect with a contemporary view of the great ages of man; from stone, to minerals, oil, transportation, silicon, and so on. To make these ideas visible I search for subjects that are rich in detail and scale yet open in their meaning. Recycling yards, mine tailings, quarries and refineries are all places that are outside of our normal experience, yet we partake of their output on a daily basis.These images are meant as metaphors to the dilemma of our modern existence; they search for a dialogue between attraction and repulsion, seduction and fear. We are drawn by desire – a chance at good living, yet we are consciously or unconsciously aware that the world is suffering for our success. Our dependence on nature to provide the materials for our consumption and our concern for the health of our planet sets us into an uneasy contradiction. For me, these images function as reflecting pools of our times.Edward Burtynsky
There is a documentary about him too. View the trailer here:
Brooklyn Above
Having grown up outside NYC on Long Island it took me a while to get to know the NYC Public Schools. And seeing how different the schools were located by number, I have, many times wondered how and why was this was set up this way? Now it is clear is was done to create art… See the other 4 boroughs here.
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What can 4.1 sq meters get you in New York or Dubai these days?
data from Trend 10/2007 (Trend Austrian business magazine)
AnArchitecture recently compiled data on how much real estate 50,000€ ($71,855) would buy you in various cities around the world, from Trend, an Austrian business magazine. He created a diagram showing how much surface area you could buy in the best neighborhood in each of those cities, New York buying the least and Dubai the most. The price differential between the polar ends is amazing, especially since each of the cities listed has a growing economy, if not an established one. It costs a whopping $1,629 per-square-foot to live in New York, versus only $111 per square foot in Dubai.
Here is a table showing the meters squared to square foot conversion below.
|
m2 |
Sq. foot |
|
| New York |
4.1 |
44.1 |
| Tokyo |
6.7 |
72.1 |
| Sydney |
8.9 |
95.8 |
| Shanghai |
21.5 |
231.4 |
| Berlin |
22.6 |
243.3 |
| Beijing |
30.4 |
327.2 |
| Dubai |
59.8 |
643.7 |
{via anarchitecture and casasugar}
Well so far I have just found it in the UK only but you can now buy a poster of one of my New York Changing images, Seventh Avenue Looking South, at IKEA. Just follow this link: http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/30140160.
Oh, and you can’t buy it online. So here is an Expedia link to make your travel plans to your nearest UK IKEA. I guess that would up the price a bit. You might be better to purchase an original at the New York Changing website.
Or just get the book here.
I had the pleasure of photographing James Howard Kunstler when his book, The Long Emergency, came out. This is one of the more humorous parts of his website, the Eyesore of the Month. My favorite book of his is the Geography of Nowhere.
A favorite. The Film Titles of Saul Bass span some of the great films by Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, to Martin Scorsese. Including films like The Man With The Golden Arm, Psycho, and Casino. Be sure to click on a movie title from the green list to get the full effect.
New Burger King TV Ad. Crispin Porter + Bogusky’s latest online adventure for Burger King forces viewers to contemplate the unthinkable: a world without Whoppers.
More at: http://www.whopperfreakout.com/
My daughter and I went to cut down our X-Mas Tree last Saturday. All went well.
On the way back we stopped into a antique center to look around. Nothing too interesting to see. But on the way out the door I noticed a “camera sale”. This is not your everyday camera sale. The story goes that there was a man who owned three camera store in Buffalo, NY from around the 1940 to 1980 when they went out of business. Well the man took all the inventory and stocked it up in his Amherst, NY (Buffalo suburb) basement. Turns out a friend of mine, photographer Rob McElroy is handling the estate auction. The short end of the story is that this sale includes many cameras from the 1970’s and earlier that are new in the box, NEVER OPENED! Go to EBAY soon you can catch some of the minty items that are still up for sale. Like this “1959 LEICA M3 rangefinder camera MINT in BOX never sold!!”
The wonders of being out in the sticks.
Check out these additional photos as well.
http://www.pce.net/idag/Estate%20sale%20flyer.JPG
http://www.pce.net/idag/Camera%20store2-lg.JPG
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