30 April 2014
there are some notably good free concerts at prospect park this summer!
wednesday, june 4 : janelle monae
friday, june 20 : dum dum girls - hospitality - teen
saturday, june 21 : warpaint - yellowbirds
thursday, june 26 : shovels & rope - valerie june - shakey graves
friday, august 8 : st. vincent - san fermin
you can see them all here!
#trashcrafting
today, the first of what promises to be a multi-day deluge of biblical proportions, let's look at this: some "artists" made this geodesic dome out of used up umbrella parts and two-liter bottles!
the rarest bear in the whole wide world.
Slowly, as I discover where to look, animal forms emerge: A lizard rests in the thin shade of a saxaul shrub. A saker falcon lifts off from a distant cliffside. Gerbils poke their heads from burrows.
But many days pass before I finally lay eyes on the animal I crossed half a world to see: a Gobi bear, among the rarest and least known large mammals on Earth. There are perhaps no more than two or three dozen left in the wild, and none live in captivity anywhere. (via)i see you.
29 April 2014
28 April 2014
dont be fooled, this sportz post, is actually just about memphis
look out grizzbears
"The legend holds that Effie was a housekeeper during the early years of the Skirvin, a luxury downtown hotel, before its 10 brick floors were expanded to 14 in 1930. W. B. Skirvin, the hotel’s widowed owner, supposedly had an affair with Effie and, when she became pregnant, ordered her to stay locked inside a room on an upper floor, even after she had the baby. At some point, the story goes, Effie went crazy, grabbed the baby and jumped, killing herself and the child."
now she scares people. even big mean basketball players. as you all know, i am by far the bravest of the bunch, so i would have NO TROUBLE sleeping tight in a hotel that has been filled with ghosts for 100 years. someone better tuck in marc and tony, though.
mark richt is a terrible artist
in other SEC football news, did you know that terrible georgia coach mark richt sends these nasty hand drawn portraits to recruits? gross mark richt.
Mark Richt has been sending UGA prospects hand drawn portraits of themselves wearing the Bulldogs uniform. #CoolIdea pic.twitter.com/pquZYuL30f
— Everything Georgia (@GAFollowers) April 2, 2014mmmmmooooOOOOOooooooooo...
doin' it right
...the SEC will begin mandating that each program incorporate an annual nonconference game against a power conference starting in 2016. espnhere's to another 1000 years of sec dominance.
25 April 2014
this is a very pretty and interesting bit about julian schnabel
Julian Schnabel: In The Course of Seven Days on Nowness.com
theyre putting him in museums again. viakid fury: put the megaphone down
the read's kid fury tells you his thoughts on the kenya v. porsha incident.
24 April 2014
I Have A Web Shop Now!
So base on the popularity of some pattern designs I have made in the past I have set up a webshop for my original patterns that are generated by myself or copyright free images
MU$☝☾ M☝NUT€ W/ M$D∆NG€L$ - "Senile" by Young Money
Thanks Tumblr and stoners for the aesthetic of this video!
Game 3, Grizz v Thunder at home in the FedEx Forum
This is the best article for you to read if you are at all interested in thy this game is so meaningful or why the Grizzlies are so much fun to cheer on.
Instead, Durant’s greatness creates more of a sour taste. Memphis has never had a player like Durant, perhaps never will. And yet Durant is all Thunder fans have ever known. Grizzlies fans, and the players they love most, often feel like they’ve come up the hard way. Thunder fans, they think, have had it too easy.
The fan cultures also seem so different in these small, middle-American markets.
Oklahoma City’s crowd acts more orderly. Everyone dutifully puts on their themed T-shirts, bearing sincere, agency-sublimating slogans.
Memphis’ crowd seems more unruly. The Grizzlies used to try T-shirts come playoff time -- the “white-outs” and “blue-outs” and what have you -- but had to spend too much time before games shaming reluctant fans into putting them on. The lockstep look didn’t fit, especially with unofficial Tony Allen T-shirts erupting into a local cottage industry. People preferred the towels. They lend themselves to more boisterous, physical expression.
Instead, Durant’s greatness creates more of a sour taste. Memphis has never had a player like Durant, perhaps never will. And yet Durant is all Thunder fans have ever known. Grizzlies fans, and the players they love most, often feel like they’ve come up the hard way. Thunder fans, they think, have had it too easy.
The fan cultures also seem so different in these small, middle-American markets.
Oklahoma City’s crowd acts more orderly. Everyone dutifully puts on their themed T-shirts, bearing sincere, agency-sublimating slogans.
Memphis’ crowd seems more unruly. The Grizzlies used to try T-shirts come playoff time -- the “white-outs” and “blue-outs” and what have you -- but had to spend too much time before games shaming reluctant fans into putting them on. The lockstep look didn’t fit, especially with unofficial Tony Allen T-shirts erupting into a local cottage industry. People preferred the towels. They lend themselves to more boisterous, physical expression.
did you find something strange at the beach?
take it to the american museum of natural history and they will identify it for you. no gems, and NO ANIMALS (living or dead). happy identification day!
23 April 2014
America's First Cat Cafe
It's a pop up on the Bowery sponsored by Purina One. You can get a cat-accino and look at adoptable cats and get a bunch of cat hair on your pants.
what if there was a panda watching you
This may be the scariest picture I've ever seen http://t.co/Se5sLUcorb via @robinsloan pic.twitter.com/yuKh7pdH98
— Roman Mars (@romanmars) April 23, 2014i dont like too much eyebrows
this gay dad driving around with his ADORABLE son talking about strawberries and eyebrows and cookies and my heart just melted. via
2048: Beyonce Edition
PLAY! NOW! it's easy: use the arrow keys on your computer (or swipe on your iphone) and match the Beyonce's, try to get to the 11th Beyonce. I keep getting distracted by the pictures but it's great for passing the time!
thanks blake!
22 April 2014
Badger Alcatraz
happy earth day - remember, we are all made of star stuff
this is your guy
here's hopin'
grizz wing big in OT last night in OKC
RT @geoff_calkins: OKC sports cover. pic.twitter.com/4YVDJW3AS1
— MemphisFlyer (@MemphisFlyer) April 22, 201421 April 2014
the queen
Queen Elizabeth II turns 88 today — during her life, she's met 12 U.S. presidents http://t.co/bprKIJSrpV | AP Photo pic.twitter.com/mNGqJf8ehc
— POLITICO (@politico) April 21, 2014
18 April 2014
gwyneth paltrow girls night
#girlsnight @nicolerichie @chelseahandler @StellaMcCartney @gwenstefani #naomiwatts #samtaylorwood pic.twitter.com/bVhn4VrDrg
— Gwyneth Paltrow (@GwynethPaltrow) April 18, 2014IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
THE FULL MOON IS COMING-UP.... from ANIMALS Performance Group on Vimeo.
if you need to know how much fun this award ceremony is, just ask rosanna or flim. hint: costumes, songs, nudity, celebrities. more info here.fridayz with flim: easter edition
enjoy it y'all! i know i'm going to enjoy spending time with mama faye at a new jersey buffet extravaganza.
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easter terrorz
put your favorite in the comments.
thx hannah!
17 April 2014
everybody's hands go UP
that puts them in the seventh seed facing the oklahoma city BLUNDER.
see you at the forum next thursday and saturday, joel.
16 April 2014
omg lol
Photos: Controversial dog weight-pulling competition by Andrew Lichtenstein | http://t.co/PSaQoiikNp pic.twitter.com/onX4hS971q
— AJAM Photo (@ajamphoto) April 16, 2014
two things.
a pretty convincing analysis
I combed over the episode to look for anything that might possibly reference the Manson murders. Megan’s still dressing like Sharon Tate, for starters.
That dress, absolutely. That was the first thing I thought. And whatever canyon Megan lives in — Don makes that reference to Megan that she’s isolated, that he’s disturbed by that, and that he’s not sure that she’s safe there. I’m not sure they’re setting her up to be murdered, but she certainly might hear the shots in the night.
And then there’s Megan’s career. The pilot she was auditioning for, Bracken’s World, was a real show about starlets trying to make it in Hollywood.
You could link that back to Valley of the Dolls, which Sharon Tate was in. And that was sort of that lifestyle.
Though Megan hasn’t started taking drugs yet. [Editor’s note: Bracken’s World was created by Dorothy Kingsley, who co-wrote the Valley of the Dolls screenplay. Eerie!]
Okay, here’s the big one: Folgers coffee. Peggy and Ted have this big conversation about coffee while Peggy is holding a Folgers can, and then Stan walks in and says something like, “That was not about coffee.”
And Abigail Folger was one of Charles Manson’s victims. She was the heiress to the Folgers coffee fortune and was a friend of Roman Polanski, so she was staying at the house. I think that’s probably a good catch on your part. Because why would they have that coffee room debate?
details!
the resurgence of (design) memphis
The Memphis movement began in 1980 after Postmodernist designer Ettore Sottsass gathered together a group of like-minded designers working in Milan. The group allegedly took its name from the 1966 Bob Dylan track "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" that was played throughout their meeting.
The designers, including Sottsass, Alessandro Mendini, Michael Graves, George Sowden and Nathalie Du Pasquier, debuted a range of pieces designed to communicate ideas rather than being based on forms at the 1981 Salone del Mobile in Milan.
"It was probably the beginning of a new era," Du Pasquier told Dezeen. "Form did not have to follow function any more, and design was about communication. Even though very few of the things were actually in production, it was a big mass-media event."
These products included Sottsass' unconventional Carlton bookcase, which featured colourful angled shelves and bookends, disconnected from one another. It aimed to question why a bookcase needed to look like a typical bookcase.
This notion fell under the Postmodern cultural style - a reaction to the functional aesthetic of the Modernism movement prevalent in the years before - and resulted in a series of pieces created from geometric shapes in bright colours. (via)
the truth about broad city
But usually these leading ladies are glossy caricatures, Kate Hudsons and Drew Barrymores, with problems like, “I’m too focused on my glamorous career to find love” or “I feign awkwardness when really I’m running around Manhattan in five-inch Jimmy Choos.” These protagonists’ supposedly relatable flaws were the exceptions that proved the rule: they were actually pretty close to attaining the unattainable holy trinity of perfect body, perfect job, perfect man.
In a way that doesn’t feel like obvious parody, Broad City sends up all of these tropes. In one scene, Abbi tells Ilana: “Glasses off, you’re fucking gorgeous.” It’s a nod to makeover montages in which women get a few new dresses and pluck their eyebrows and are suddenly model-beautiful. Far from worrying about the “day to evening” looks touted by women’s magazines, Ilana shows up to the office in a “shirt” the size of a napkin. Abbi doesn’t complain about making time to go to the gym; her job is cleaning up vomit in the bathroom after spin class. Ilana is dating a guy who just kind of … bores her. These are the sorts of problems that young women really deal with in the years when their personal and professional lives are still very much in development. But mercifully, Abbi and Ilana are not discussing them over $14 mimosas at brunch with a gay man who doesn’t appear have a life of his own. They are ignoring them while they get stoned, eat cereal, and shoot the shit on video chat.also see: this cute video featuring ilana glazer. (thx kennedy)
would you like to know what to expect from the sky this summer?
The 2014 edition of the Farmer’s Almanac predicts the New York area will be socked by a wet, hot summer that’s set to dump a higher-than-average amount of rain across the five boroughs.
“It looks like it’s going to be an oppressively hot and humid summer for the New York area,” said Sandi Duncan, the almanac’s managing editor.
“It’s going to be very humid and thundery,” she added.
Things will start heating up in mid-June, just as heavy rainfalls begin to move into the area, soaking city dwellers.
The heat and heavy rainfall will endure through the month of July and some of August before things begin to cool off and dry out.
Duncan said a severe hurricane will likely threaten the East Coast sometime between Sept. 16 and 19, and take a course similar to that of Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
your fortnightly boat
At least two people are dead as a rescue effort remains underway after a South Korean passenger ferry began sinking on Wednesday morning. The ship was carrying more than 470 passengers — many of them high school students — when it began to list badly and capsized. One unconfirmed local media outlet reported that the ferry hit a rock.
The rescue operation involving dozens of rescue boats and helicopters has recovered about 180 passengers so far. At least two passengers are confirmed dead and more than 290 are still missing. (via)
starla tried to glitter bomb the boston marathon finish line
this suspicious character was observed leaving some kind fake bomb full of confetti on boylston street. all i know is that i'd recognize that hat anywhere.
15 April 2014
ahem, that's DAME angela lansbury to you.
look how cute mrs. potts looks! and now she's a dame, like maggie smith, judi dench, and edna.
who wants a gemini chair?!
Part of UNStudio's Gemini collection for Dutch brand Artifort, the asymmetric chair was designed to let sitters "sit up, slouch, lounge, hang, repose or hunker", as well as to "shift, twist, turn, swing around, pivot to face each other or turn towards the room." (via)
Dame Commander Jessica (J.B.) Fletcher
Congratulations #MurderSheWrote star Angela Lansbury! Here she is being made a Dame Commander by The Queen today pic.twitter.com/7aZlLbRVM5
— BritishMonarchy (@BritishMonarchy) April 15, 201414 April 2014
JUSTICE.
happy monday!
nothing, just two ordinary sisters dancing at coachella
i mean, beyonce and solange dancing during solange's set. #upstage
11 April 2014
if you never take the nyc subway, this won't mean anything to you, otherwise...!!!!!
This Is What Dr. Zizmor Looks Like In 2014 http://t.co/ZmFMSAxsmf pic.twitter.com/ghlmY7qhAz
— Gothamist (@Gothamist) April 11, 2014
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