30 September 2009

"my favorite color is fluorescent beige"


im going to go see this one. oprah likes it. everybody wants to release it. its got mariah carey, monique, AND faux alicia keys in it. its going to win awards.




UPDATE: starla endorsed! hell to the yeah.

nice


it needs a shade, but i like this lamp concept.

oprah baby picture

oprah's hair episode is on right now. she just showed this picture and chris rock said, "you was a slave, weren't you?"

bathroom towel puppy

from melissa from blake

not normal

BEIJING — As nearly 190,000 dancers, politicians, soldiers and fighter pilots prepared for the highly synchronized extravaganza marking the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China on Thursday, perhaps no one was feeling more performance anxiety than Guo Hu, Beijing’s chief weatherman.

While meteorologists in much of the world are simply charged with forecasting rain or shine, Mr. Guo and his colleagues at the Beijing Municipal Meteorological Station were also responsible for making sure the weather is of the crowd-pleasing variety. “If we make a mistake with our work, the impact will be huge,” Mr. Guo, a soft spoken scientist, told a news conference this week. “We are under a lot of pressure.”

Meteorologists said their efforts to prevent foul weather on Oct. 1 involved satellites, 400 scientists, cloud-probing lasers and a squadron of transport planes capable of sprinkling liquid nitrogen into pregnant clouds. “It is the first time in Chinese history that artificial weather modification on such a large scale has been attempted,” Cui Lianqing, an air force meteorologist, told Global Times newspaper last week.

i want to go to there



mojave airplane graveyard

dinner party


have you ever thought about what your answer would be to that old question about what famous people living or dead you would invite to your dinner party?

so far, ive got three people on my list: carrie fisher, gore vidal, and kismet with the ability to speak. any other ideas?

UPDATE: and beyonce and rihanna, oc.

chuck bass arena homme+


covergirl

top 200 albums of the decade

pitchfork's currently counting down the top 200 albums of the 2000's. check it out.

are you ready for google wave?

sure why not?

ouch


this plane shredded about 200 little birds upon take off. sorry birds.

what is kismet doing?

answer: trying to put on his new t shirt, or trying to change the channel... not sure

NeRd aLeRt!

The architecture firm Populous (nee HOK Sport) is now in the process of designing and building two Olympic stadiums. This design for Sochi, the winter games in 2014 was just unveiled. taking hints from beijing much?

Their design for the 2012 summer games in London is perhaps less flashy, but more praiseworthy for its sustainable approach. The stadium will seat 80,000 people for the games, then be deconstructed to a more reasonable 25,000 seat venue, more likely to achieve permanent occupancy.

marty stouffer's wild america

in honor of predator month

cloud

did any of you see this in the sky above manhattan yesterday? art.

via

kewl.



time lapse of this year's coachella festival.

guess what.

lauren conrad wrote a book. i know, i had no idea either. n-e-wayz, the twilight producers are going to make it into a movie. how exciting!

happy bearthday, rodger zoe!

rachel asked me to tell you that.

koolhaas houselife



Rem Koolhaas examines the afterlife of starchitecture in this cheeky little film about his own creation, the widely praised home in Bordeaux, France that he designed for the wheelchair bound publisher Jean-Francois Lemoine.

Besides the celebrity of the architect and the house itself, the star of the film is the housekeeper who deals with the everyday life and eccentricities of the home. "There's nothing holding it up. I hope it doesn't fall down."

i want to see this.

goodness.


"Included on the list of the top 100 most popular polls on Facebook was a poll responding to the "should Obama be killed" query, and which asked users to vote, "Should the creator of 'should Obama be killed' be arrested?"
" (via)

in honor of the hills premiere last night.



starring chicken tetrazzini.

zomg!

meet...mr. bumble!

sorry, starla.

first r-pattz, and now this.

i, for one, hope this mess is true!

bike party in connecticut!

“Bike Rides: The Exhibition,” which opened Saturday at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, presents bicycles in all their glory. There are high-tech bicycles made from bamboo and titanium, two of Lance Armstrong’s carbon fiber bikes, and nationalistic creations like the restored and elaborately personalized vintage Schwinns from the Puerto Rico Schwinn Club, based in New York City. Among the sculptural works — from China, India and Brazil — is Cai Guo-Qiang’s “Illusion of Childhood,” an assemblage of bicycles, toys and other objects.

The exhibition also features bike racks, a bicycle advocacy mural and bicycle-inspired videos, including “Helmet-Cam Video” by David Byrne, the musician, artist and bicycling proponent, in which he navigates Manhattan by bike.
(via)

i'm on board.

october is predator appreciation month!

backwardz wednesdayz!!!

nErD aLeRt!

"During four weeks a robot of the ETH Zurich will built the ‘Pike Loop’ installation on a traffic island in the middle of New York. From 5 October passersby will be able to follow the construction of the bending brick wall, which will be finished 27 October and last until the end of the year. The installation and its unique construction method was developed by the professorship of Gramazio & Kohler ‘Architecture and Digital Fabrication’ at the ETH Zurich. The research of this professorship will be presented within the attendant exhibition „Digital Materiality“ in the „Storefront for Art and Architecture“ gallery from 1 October til 14 November." (via)

thx midge.
 
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