Rachel Profiling

“I have plastic geese in my windows, and a...

Dec 1st

“If it bends, it’s funny; if it breaks, it’s not...”
— Woody Allen

Dec 1st

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beirut-the penalty. off to take a five hour test. i feel a little punished. :)

Dec 1st

Joel Meyerowitz, Truro, 1977 [via]

Nov 30th

“Neon in daylight is a great pleasure, as Edwin Denby would...”
— Frank O’Hara, A Step...

Nov 30th

what new yorkers like to talk about...

Nov 30th

my friend mac just finished a book on jet...

Nov 30th

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i have such an irrational affection for alexander markov. usually, when someone asks me if i’m...

Nov 30th

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heartless bastards - searching for the ghost.

Nov 30th

Winslow Homer, Homosassa River (on view now at the Brooklyn...

Nov 30th

“Again at eight o’clock, when the dark lanes of the Forties...”
— F. Scott F., 1925.

Nov 30th

photographs made possible by the new...

photographers arnold eagle and david robbins made a decent living chronicling the great depression,...

Nov 30th

inside the new new museum [via].

Nov 30th

“There are plenty of us eager to give ourselves to the...”
— Ben Cameron of the Doris Duke...

Nov 29th

Bicycles That Carry Powerful Beats, and Even...

Nov 29th

early morning in agra. [via amit]

Nov 29th

[via xkcd]

Nov 29th

things i've learned (part 1087)

steak frites and red wine may make up the world’s most perfect meal. [via nyt]

Nov 29th

well said.

chet: i hate the internet
chet: or when people try to make the internet a mass medium. in marketing especially there's an impulse to get everybody to see everything. they are used to tv and superbowls...still, amazingly. but they still don't get the point that the internet is about smaller things of much much higher value, and it requires doing lots of little things, not a few big things

Nov 28th

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i just saw into the wild and i have really mixed feelings about it; when i read the book i had a far...

Nov 28th

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this is how most people know jerome robbins’ work. it’s still pretty awesome.

Nov 28th

Jerome Robbins' Opus Jazz

Nov 28th

[jen corace] ps i heart tiny showcase for introducing me to...

Nov 28th

[milton rovogin]

Nov 28th

Julian Schnabel photographed by Nadav Kander for GQ. —...

Nov 28th

“The really scary thing about New York is not the fear that...”
— Publicist Sloane Crosley on...

Nov 28th

break your mother's back

[Fifteen visitors to the Tate Modern have been injured since the opening of Doris Salcedo’s...

Nov 27th

Kanye West and Evel Knievel — shawnblog [sad update: RIP,...

Nov 27th

“I’m one of those people that wants to be famous and then...”
— Peter Knox

Nov 27th

[via 25 photographs taken at the exact right time] (thanks...

Nov 27th

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proof of below. [via]

Nov 27th

The O Factor on NPR

Nov 27th

[via]

Nov 27th

“i.am.stunned…”
— a friend on watching BINDI...

Nov 26th

Kate Nash: Pumpkin Soup

Nov 26th

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it just feels like a pj harvey sort of day. [via]

Nov 26th

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who could be sweeter than michael cera and ellen page in this clip from juno? the film execs keeps...

Nov 26th

[via] from a fashion how-to from the new york times, 1910:...

Nov 26th

“Honor the idea of membership, make it meaningful, and make...”
— Nina Simon on museum...

Nov 26th

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kate nash covers the cold war kids. and how.

Nov 26th

back to the concrete

returned to the city with cleaner lungs and a clearer head. albuquerque looks a little like this,...

Nov 26th

adventure! i finally convinced my parents to try bikram yoga...

Nov 24th

“My point is this: Since most culture is defined in part by...”
— Douglas McLennan, diacritical....

Nov 24th

home, briefly.

pics to come, but basically i have discovered that i bring blizzards with me wherever i go. or at...

Nov 23rd

My flight is delayed for hours and so I am reading claire messud at the airport bar and drinking red...

Nov 21st

Emily made a good point that if i didn’t already have...

Nov 21st

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i CANNOT get enough of brooklyn band yeasayer. their daytrotter session (when bands pass through...

Nov 21st

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watching this again made me kind of sad that tv spot ads have all but lost their cred. i know we...

Nov 21st

going back to new mexico in a few hours. will try to take...

Nov 21st

“You are neither here nor there/ A hurry through which known...”
— Seamus Heaney, Postscript

Nov 20th

[via]

Nov 20th

mouskewitz

adam: my coworker is blasting AN AMERICAN TAIL soundtrack
rach: what's on it? well besides somewhere out there, obvs.
adam: something about streets paved with cheese
adam: (which sounds amazing)

Nov 20th

The Death of E-Mail: Teenagers are abandoning...

Nov 20th

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i know this is mostly a demo but god, the high-def films on vimeo are beautiful. it’s almost...

Nov 20th

UK Music Retailers To Labels: ‘Drop DRM By...

Nov 20th

“The musician Peter Gabriel recently said, “The first wave of...”
— JOE LAZARUS - Curators,...

Nov 20th

james taylor is signing records in rock plaza. This is my folk nerdy version of an elvis sighting.

Nov 20th

new york stories

am i the only one who didn’t know that woody allen and francis ford coppolla and martin...

Nov 20th

early ’90s fashion photography = woah. [via pdn]

Nov 20th

where i shop, part 2.

If I am on Orchard Street, which I often am, waiting ten minutes for a...

Nov 19th

“It is amazing to me that everyday people, stuck in front of...”
— Jonah Peretti

Nov 19th

[via justin outlette]

Nov 19th

reporting for a story has led me to find out that whole...

Nov 19th

who else wishes they were there? [via nyt]

Nov 19th

Amazon's Kindle launch

Nov 19th

“The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it...”
— e.e. cummings

Nov 19th

chugalug chugalug chugalug…just pushing through three...

Nov 19th

watching pretty woman, and the part where they finally kiss...

Nov 18th

pretty happening day, for a sunday. adam and i went to an...

Nov 18th

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i’m trying to see the jane jacobs exhibition at the municipal art society before it closes,...

Nov 18th

“The issue/challenge across every category that’s trying to...”
— marketer stephen brock of...

Nov 17th

i usually micromanage my netflix queue, but i let it go for...

Nov 17th

In the Box

Nov 17th

Patrick Moberg Selling NYGirlofmydreams Movie...

Nov 16th

19.20.21

Nov 16th

finally, i got a press release with info...

Hannah And Her Sisters, Woody Allen’s Oscar-winning comedy, starring Mia Farrow, Michael...

Nov 16th

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why i am so into this not-so-great kanye remix of alicia keys’ hit single (courtesy...

Nov 16th

photojournalist justin guarliglia was the first non-monk...

Nov 16th

where i shop, part 1.

Sweet Tater, on Mulberry below Houston, churns out some of the most...

Nov 16th

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my midday pickup songs usually come from the fleetwood mac canon, this being the ultimate. the...

Nov 16th

ministry of culture

sometimes my friends do amazing things. like today, dave met with the iraqi ministry of arts. you...

Nov 16th

ouch.

so i went into the dentist yesterday after having a vaguely sore tooth for a few weeks, and what i...

Nov 16th

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ANIMALYMPICS. Ok, so I have been trying to get ahold of this movie for about five years. They used...

Nov 16th

“Edith Bouvier Beale was born on the day the Bolsheviks...”
— Bouvier Beale, Jr., in the...

Nov 16th

“My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found...”
— f. scott f.

Nov 15th

Eugene Atget [courtesy of photomuse]

Nov 15th

RCRD LBL!

Nov 15th

rachsyme: At chris’ where he is playing guitar and everyone is drinking beer and singing...

Nov 14th

“There’s nothing necessarily wrong with people doing...”
— Meghan Daum, LA Times

Nov 14th

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how much do i love born ruffians?

Nov 14th

“Most of our potential audience may be completely...”
— Silagh White, director,...

Nov 14th

matchy match.

Nov 14th

not me. [via]

Nov 14th

advertising for good?

Nov 14th

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most people who know about the internet know about esmee denters, the teen from the netherlands who...

Nov 14th

:)

r: did you just send me a smiley with sunglasses on
c: yes. this is ending right now.
c: this never happened

Nov 14th

“A gun rack… a gun rack. I don’t even own a gun,...”

Nov 14th

rachsyme: At some crazy zune party w/ chet chat. Why its so hard for microsoft to be cool is beyond...

Nov 13th

[via]

Nov 13th

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sing to me, sharon jones. [via]

Nov 13th

daveharper.tumblr.com

David: i suggest you watch the video on my blog
it will make you feel better
empowered, even
its a bikini kill song called "resist psychic death"

Nov 13th

rainy morning on the bowery.

woke up early. wandered.[flickr]

Nov 13th

the andrew goldsworthy sculpture outside the rodin garden at...

Nov 13th

“Book rage has now been added to the list of neurotic human...”
— NYT

Nov 13th

my new necklace…backwards here. i sort of love it....

Nov 13th

Play Word Games For World Hunger...

Nov 12th

Lame X-mas Catalogs

Nov 12th

making pancakes like a junkie

Nov 12th

“Subsequently, he has become a pet guru of Silicon Valley,...”
— NYT, on “low-info”...

Nov 12th

barbara hepworth [via]. something about today’s...

Nov 12th

iconoclasts

Nov 12th

elz’ new company launches in four days…brace...

Nov 12th

my favorite gelatin print by andre kertesz. sometimes i duck...

Nov 11th

could opera become cool (again)?

in case anyone didn’t know this about me, my real passion is for the arts. i am a patron and a...

Nov 11th

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white rabbits are home!

Nov 11th

“How do I feel? Like I could lick my weight in wildcats,...”
— My grandfather; lawyer, boxing...

Nov 11th

this is my lineage.

my little brother just ran for stanford tree. he did not win. good thing, because the contest to be...

Nov 11th

[edward gorey; via]

Nov 11th

The End Of Advertising As We Know It?

Nov 10th

“I don’t regret the kingdoms…but I miss the...”
— harold and maude

Nov 10th

saturday walk

i got a digital camera 11 months ago. i figured i should start using it. [via my flickr]

Nov 10th

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cheatneutral is carbon offsetting for bad relationships. i heart these two; they got parliament to...

Nov 10th

“In the 60s, he was both a short-lived mayoral candidate and...”
— choire on norman...

Nov 10th

rachsyme: There is a group of people warming themselves by an oil barrel fire on broome and allen....

Nov 10th

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ah, britta. i can’t get enough of the nerdy swedes. this song is called “defrag my...

Nov 10th

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girl crush!

Nov 10th

olivo barbieri

Nov 10th

“And so, if your business model and your aesthetic effect in...”
— Cory Doctorow via kottke.org

Nov 10th

“Remember, cool is not a way of life; it’s a state of...”
— Stephen King, EW

Nov 9th

my moms on persimmons

So my mother is in Chonqing, China for two weeks repairing cleft lips-she’s team leader of a...

Nov 9th

if i was a dude i would wear shoes from common projects...

Nov 9th

“Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference...”
— Truman Capote

Nov 9th

rainy day. [via]

Nov 9th

heart ems.

me: how are you
did you have a date?
Emily: no....
me: i read date night on your gthing
Emily: oh
date night with myself
you must not have read the whole thing : )

Nov 9th

Unpackaged

Nov 9th

“How do you learn to spell? Blood, sky & the sun, your...”
— margaret atwood, spelling

Nov 9th

rachsyme: how was your night
adamrathe: great
adamrathe: pizza and wii
adamrathe: my own zen

Nov 9th

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morning. glen hansard says morning too. [photo via; song via]

Nov 9th

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this is still one of my favorite things ever. i remember the first time i watched it with some...

Nov 8th

“the internet is…celebrating amateur culture. by which...”
— lawrence lessig, rockstar.

Nov 8th

when i think about leaving, i think...

[…I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you...

Nov 8th

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our friends the white rabbits come home in five days from a grueling tour. there will be whiskey at...

Nov 8th

ok so i LOVE this. [silhouettemasterpiecetheater]

Nov 8th

i actually did. if only i could remember

whp7777: did you ever know the name of the "artist" who graffited spencer pratt's wall?

Nov 8th

snooth

Nov 8th

i may be the last person to see this, but i’m glad...

Nov 8th

Is Van Gogh Over?

Nov 8th

[via cocomo]

Nov 8th

The Guy DeBord Show...

Nov 8th

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sweet little song i can’t get out of my head [seabear]

Nov 8th

“And here is love like a tinsmith’s scoop sunk past...”
— Seamus Heaney, Mossbawn...

Nov 8th

French Architect Picked for Film Museum

Nov 8th

[via simon husslein]

Nov 8th

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Nov 7th

“I think there’s always an element of something not quite...”
— An-my Le [via ground glass]

Nov 7th

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omg. glen hansard and marketa irglova are coming to the beacon theater on 11/19. anyone who loved...

Nov 7th

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saw a screening of juno - can’t be hyped enough. ellen page is such a crazy star, so is...

Nov 7th

steven alan sample sale starts tomorrow…who else wants...

Nov 7th

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if someone asked me “quick! who is your favorite septuagenarian yale surgeon who has written...

Nov 7th

[from ffffound]

Nov 7th

adamrathe: new intern: "do you have to do your word count by hand?"

Nov 7th

Michael Cera must not become the next Zach...

Nov 7th

this mechanical goat was designed to eat boat...

Nov 7th

I am three and at the Great Salt Lake. I am told I resemble...

Nov 7th

“[Media] changes consistently are coming faster than most of...”
— Henry Jenkins, director of...

Nov 2nd

my favorite song (as of 5 mins ago)

Nov 2nd

my first cocktail party at the new apartment. color me...

Nov 2nd

shallot-gingerness

Thanksgiving is three weeks away, but I am already getting super psyched about my first trip home in...

Nov 1st

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I’m looking forward to the launch of this online-only modern art TV network, DIY trailer and...

Nov 1st

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New Buffalo is the stage name for Sally Seltman, a Melbourne-based chanteuse who penned...

Nov 1st

“Now, I will hold your hand when it’s dark and...”
— Edward Albee’s George,...

Nov 1st

a tree grows in brooklyn harbor. or actually, right off the...

Nov 1st