Archive for November, 2006
Thursday, November 30th, 2006
studio 60 - the flow chart!
Defamer has put together this nifty flowchart to determine whether you are in Aaron Sorkin’s Studio 60: Live From the Sunset Strip target audience. Click the image for the full thing!
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Thursday, November 30th, 2006
greeting cards done differently
Graphic designer Olga Kirgman has put out a colourful, well designed and non-traditional line of greeting cards. There is a certain level of snappiness as the cards have a good measure of four letter words. Nothing wrong with that. See the full line of cards here.
via design*sponge
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Thursday, November 30th, 2006
an ode to the spoon
Chow.com lists 10 of their favourite spoon designs. Hope on over and see the full 10.
No Comments » - Posted in food, product, website by Marty Finestone
Thursday, November 30th, 2006
mel gibson feels michael richard’s pain
Not only does Mel Gibson feel for Michael Richards, but he’s telling us that.
“I felt like sending Michael Richards a note,” Gibson says in an interview in Entertainment Weekly’s Dec. 8 issue. “I feel really badly for the guy. He was obviously in a state of stress. You don’t need to be inebriated to be […]
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Thursday, November 30th, 2006
the russian tea room is back
Fodor’s Travel Wire is letting us know that New York City cultural icon/hotspot The Russian Tea Room, which closed in 2002, is back.
Although the Tea Room is currently open only for dinner, plans are underway to begin serving lunch by December. Restaurant spokesman Ken Biberaj says “Visitors to New York should feel comfortable popping by […]
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
henry kissinger - then and now
Joe Hagan interviews and writes on Henry Kissinger for New York Magazine. More specifically, Kissinger take pains to clarify and explain his reputation and past actions. The interview also contains Kissinger’s views on the situation in Iraq and profiles his involvement with the current Bush administration.
You can see why this Iraq business so vexes Kissinger. […]
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
the crisis of nancy grace
Nancy Grace is a former New York attorney and is a victim’s advocate after her husband was murdered. She is also the host of her own “justice” show on CNN Headline News, where she seems to focus her attention on missing white girls. That said, Grace garnered lots of attention when Melinda Duckett, a South […]
No Comments » - Posted in person, tv by Marty Finestone
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
ford mustang - the italitan stallion?
Itatalian styling house Giugiaro’s styling director Fabrizio Giugiaro took one look at the latest generation of the Ford Mustang and wanted to put his touch on it. The end result, pictured, is a (hopefully not) one-off design conecpt based on the current Mustang. Aside from the gorgeous design and sleek lines, the Giugiaro Mustang looks […]
No Comments » - Posted in find, product by Marty Finestone
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
deleted scenes from borat
Love it or hate it, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit of Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan has made over $100 million (U.S.) at the North American box office and has been discussed and debated from academia to panel TV shows to the smoker’s pit at high schools. That said, in case you can’t […]
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
the beatles are coming, to stamps
Britain’s Royal Mail will be releasing stamps of the Beatles in January, 2007.
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
can an artist have a happy family
The Guarduan Unlimited wonders whether an artist can be dedicated to their creation and still have a happy home life and does one have to give something up when kids come along?
For painter Chantal Joffe, 37, mother of two-and-a-half-year-old Esme, parenthood could not have been more fruitful. In June this year, she won the Royal […]
No Comments » - Posted in arts by Marty Finestone
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
american art museum going is the thing to do
CNN reports that attendance at U.S. art museums is booming and museums, not wanting to see things wane, are pushing forward doing what they can to maintain attendance levels and grow further, chief among them are building new buidlings or redoing existing ones.
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
challenging camouflage clothing
Mark Dery, in the November 2006 issue of ID Magazine, considers that given the situation in Iraq, shouldn’t the designers and wearers of camouflage clothing have a conscience and avoid these patterns.
But isn’t there a moment when the horrors of war become so grisly that even the most apolitical designer riding the camo wave should […]
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
good ugly betty, good
Even if that doesn’t happen, the success of “Ugly Betty” is heartening, not just because the show is a touching dramedy with a starmaking performance by America Ferrera at its center. It’s also a thrill because the show is chock-full of things that just aren’t done on TV - or usually aren’t done […]
No Comments » - Posted in tv by Marty Finestone
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
the art of list making
We may all rely on practical lists to help order our lives, but Gregory Blackstock elevates list-making to an art form. His visual taxonomies—published this fall by Princeton Architectural Press as Blackstock’s Collections—span the generic to the unexpected. The Great World Crows contains 20 examples of that unremarkable genus, for example, while The Noisemakers lumps […]
No Comments » - Posted in person, tidbit by Marty Finestone
Monday, November 27th, 2006
it’s a new science - liquid water in the clouds?
“It’s a new science, driven by the fact that everybody doing climate predictions says that clouds are perhaps the single greatest unknown factor in understanding global warming.”
Climate change researchers have discovered liquid water (as opposed to other forms of water? Talk about wanting to be ultra-technical) existing at -30 Celcius. Read about it in […]
No Comments » - Posted in news, science by Marty Finestone
Monday, November 27th, 2006
michael vick FU’s the home town crowd
After Sunday’s loss to the New Orlean’s Saints, some Atlanta Falcon fans stuck around to boo the team as they left the field. Falcons QB Michael Vick responded somewhat in kind by flipping off the crowd with both hands. Vick has since appologized.
No Comments » - Posted in news, person, sport by Marty Finestone
Monday, November 27th, 2006
how to magically levitate a body
This youtube video shows a Japanese TV segment where a magician reveals the secrets behind the levitating body trick:
via The Presurfer
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Monday, November 27th, 2006
the consumer boom in venezuela
The Globe and Mail writes about a more recent spending boom in Venezuela’s retail market. Consumers are buying everything from cars, to expensive watches to high-end designer clothes. Already, Venezuela has become the second biggest market for plamsa TV’s in Latin America.
This consumer boom underscores a key paradox: While Mr. Chavez is ahead in the […]
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Monday, November 27th, 2006
NYT 100 notable books of the year
As promised, I am keeping on top of the year end list mania. Keeping away from the banal compilations and focusing on the worthwhile. In that regard, The New York Times has published its list of 100 notable books of the year.
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