pritzkah!

your 2015 pritzker prize winner is....frei otto!!!!

!!!!!111111

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...........whom?

he's some kinda tensile structures kween. and he died two days ago so he doesn't even get to enjoy it.

did he do world's fair park or what.

new hobby alert!

Anthropomorphic Mouse, recently held above an American cabaret in what used to be the Bank of New York in London, is not a taxidermy class in the strictest sense: It is more like a cross between taxidermy and arts and crafts for beginners, using mice. The aim is to create scenes that look as if they are out of Beatrix Potter’s “Peter Rabbit” books, in which small animals wear clothes and hats and enjoy picnics, tea parties and lives of their own. (via)

"no faster than a running possum"

i highly recommend this tasteful piece by the new york post about a former new york city medical examiner.

And she has a final warning for New Yorkers who live alone with cats: The urban legend is true. “Your faithful golden retriever might sit next to your dead body for days, starving, but the tabby won’t,” she writes. “Your pet cat will eat you right away, with no qualms at all. I’ve seen the result.”

BREAKING NEWS!!!11

A woman jumped from the Peabody Hotel - I'm assuming- roof. A firefighter nearby said she landed between a horse and it's buggy (pictured below).

Bad news is she is now dead as a doornail but don't worry the horse is ok...just spooked.
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whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

there is a purse for sale here that acts as an extra charger that you can use during the day.
granted, you have to charge your purse and your phone at night, but, it's still a pretty awesome idea.

retroactive reincarnation

today, it is so blazing hot outside that all of our air conditioners at work keep trippin' the breakerz (industry vernacular) and its one thousand degrees in my office and i died. i almost lived, but then the ambulance coming to save me ran over my body. anyway, don't worry, because i have been retroactively reincarnated to the date of may 3rd, when i came back as this tiny deer at the queens zoo.

my name is teacup tori, what's yours!?

leave them beavers alone!

they can KILL.

RIP iron lady

margaret thatcher : DEAD.

did you guys see what happened to thomas wilhelm last night?

A 100-foot wide sinkhole opened up directly under a house in the town of Seffner, Florida, last night, nearly killing two brothers and forcing authorities to evacuate the entire neighborhood. One of the brothers, a 36-year-old man, is missing and presumed dead, but firefighters have been unable to fully investigate because the house itself is deemed too unsafe to be inside. The hole underneath the house is estimated to be more than 100 feet wide, but it is not visible from outside the house.

The other brother told rescuers that he heard screams coming from his brother's bedroom around 11:00 p.m. last night, but by the time he got to the room, the bed and everything in it had been swallowed up by the ground caving in beneath it. (via)

one of the men in this "zorb" dies.

One man died and another was badly injured after the Zorb they were strapped into got away from handlers at the Dombai ski resort in Abkhazia, and rolled into a gorge. (via)

everybody already knows

read about it.

just in time for halloween

the nytimes has a feature on louis kahn's FDR memorial which comes to roosevelt island from BEYOND THE GRAVE. it opens october 24th.

too many dead nutria!

after katrina, everyone knows the potential risk to human life that each new hurricane threat can bring. but did you ever think about nutrias? no. you didn't. not until they start washing up on your shores by the thousands. 

Department of Environmental Quality officials say so far they've counted more than 5,000 dead nutrias on Hancock County beaches, but they say that number could top 10,000 before they all finish washing ashore. 
Hancock County faced a similar nutria problem after Hurricane Gustav. 
"If you're out here, it's a terrible smell," Garcia said. "As this heat continues, they're just going to blow up and pop, making it even more of a health hazard."

did you survive the defocalypse?

one guy didn't:

The storm has claimed the life one man. Richard Schwartz, a prosecutor with the state attorney general’s office, was killed when lightning struck the steeple of Christ Church in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Schwartz was headed home around 8 p.m. when the lightning caused scaffolding to collapse on him. (via)

despite being well-informed thanks to 2Pz, i still managed to get myself caught in the dorito on my way to see batman (in cobble derechos-locos-death hill). g.animalz and i got so soaked that we had to skip the movie and go back home. thatz okay though. the odds of dying in that theater were pretty good n-e-wayz.

sure.

After his beloved cat Orville was tragically run over by a car, Dutch artist Bart Jansen thought long and hard how to honor his late feline's memory. And then it hit him: Turn his taxidermied corpse into a helicopter. (via)

happy bearthdie mies van der rohe!

126 bears old!

it's a republican problem.

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More Like, Killer + Scofidio

I'm listening to Whitney: The Greatest Hits on spotify and the album cover makes me think of the 2003 Diller and Scofidio exhibit Scanning: the Aberrant Architectures of Diller + Scofidio.  Remember the "Mural" installation where a mechanized drill would randomly drill holes into the gallery wall?

Well, that show was exhibited at the WHITNEY Museum of American Art.  Coincidence?  I don't think so.  I've got my eye on you Elizabeth and Ricardo.  You too Charlie.

rut-roh

Eastman Kodak files for bankruptcy. Thomas Wilhelm better stock urp on film for that dinosaur he wears around his neck.

have you seen this man?