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“When people ask me how do you make it in show business or...”
— Steve Martin (on Charlie Rose)...

Dec 31st

a gorgeous photo by josef astor of his home, the studios...

Dec 31st

What Happened To New York: A History Of The...

Dec 31st

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i have been watching a RIDICULOUS amount of planet earth after getting the dvd for the holidays....

Dec 31st

Patience to Listen, Alive and Well

Dec 31st

happy 2008. [via]

Dec 31st

-sam javenrouh

Dec 30th

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OMG I made a movie. Well, kinda. I got a new AVCHD camera (by sheer luck) and I am ever so slowly...

Dec 29th

and the 2008 reading list begins (with far too much rollover...

Dec 27th

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born ruffians - i’m one of those girls. definitely a favorite band of 2007. [photo via] 

Dec 27th

my mom in mexico, 1971. i love this photo and had to rescue...

Dec 27th

so i have been a sort of non-person on tumblr lately, mostly...

Dec 27th

“The reader is also alone, but the N.E.A. reports that...”
— Caleb Crain, “Twilight...

Dec 22nd

Urban Elephant, 1923. [via shorpy]

Dec 22nd

Behind the Scenes Camera

Dec 22nd

not that this is remotely interesting but i am STILL in...

Dec 22nd

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so the other boleyn girl actually looks kind of rad, in that natalie-portman-in-a-pointy-hat sort of...

Dec 22nd

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josh ritter - come and find me on the upside, i’m now getting time to go through and...

Dec 22nd

heading back to my homeland for a week of visiting, tidings,...

Dec 22nd

“I dreamed we were there. The plane leapt the tropopause, the...”
— Harpet Pitt, Angels in...

Dec 22nd

Research puts myth of a "cultural elite" to...

Dec 21st

Fitz Guerin—Lady Libertine, 1902.

Dec 21st

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Barry Louis Polisar - All I Want Is You I think the best part of Juno was actually the music. Who...

Dec 21st

—Celia, Karine Leger, Quebec.

Dec 21st

verdict on romeo et juliette (philistine...

adam: well that was long, but pretty damn magical
rach: anna netrebko has pretty much the best soprano i've ever heard. that scene on the bed where she was writhing around in the sheets and hitting high Cs was kind of ridiculous.
adam: indeed. but there is something we need to discuss. romeo's ass.
rach: i know. that thing was...
adam: luscious. you can say it. it was out there.
rach: i never say bubble in reference to an ass, but that's what it was. i think the powder blue velour pants made it extra offensive.
adam: velour is never not offensive.
rach: bravo.

Dec 21st

going to the opera tonight...

romeo and juliet with anna netrebko. so excited, but then, it’s three hours long. might need a...

Dec 20th

Sylvia Plachy, Stars of the Radio City Christmas...

Dec 20th

“Most of us don’t get epiphanies. We only get a whisper...”
— Po Bronson.

Dec 20th

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be good tanyas - the littlest birds. a little summer sidestep in mid-winter. frazey ford’s...

Dec 20th

The Death and Life of American Imagination -...

Dec 20th

newsboy, 1940. (via shorpy, an amazing blog for vintage...

Dec 20th

Magna Carta fetches £10m in NYC auction

Dec 20th

umbrella, ella, ella. (photo by larajade, via sayama)

Dec 20th

my favorite maira illustration.

Dec 19th

“What I am always thinking about it is simplicity. I would...”
— Maira Kalman.

Dec 19th

christmas lights (via contretemps)— igniter

Dec 19th

looking at pictures of ugly cracked leather club chairs is...

Dec 19th

1/1/08

i asked a random smattering of my friends about their new year’s resolutions. their answers...

Dec 19th

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Bell X1- Heartland (U2 Cover). One Irish band does another. This is an especially pretty cover.

Dec 19th

Pantone Selects Color of the Year for 2008: BLUE IRIS...

Dec 19th

Mustache maker from Nike Vintage Running (thanks Tyler for...

Dec 19th

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Christmastime for the Jews! Still love this.

Dec 19th

David Byrne and Thom Yorke on the Real Value...

Dec 19th

“For it is not inertia alone that is responsible for human...”
— Rilke. Fear of the...

Dec 19th

The famous homage to Sarah Bernhardt poster of 1896 by...

Dec 18th

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Time lapse video of a drive from L.A. to New York. By Michel and Oliver Gondry, for French pop star...

Dec 18th

—Dan Estabrook.

Dec 18th

geek out.

I’ll admit it - I’ve fallen for this book (technically for K-8, I know…). I got...

Dec 18th

best ebay auction ever

Dec 18th

noview ave-aubrey hays.

Dec 18th

Touchstones.

Rach: but aren't there people (maybe i just don't know them) but that are naturals at life? it must come easily to some.
Emily: yeah, but they are boring
Emily: look its like the tolstoy thing: happy families are all alike but unhappy families are all unhappy in their own way...but that makes them INTERESTING.
Emily: also this is all an incredibly ironic conversation since i have had the exact same one in reverse like 8 times this week.

Dec 18th

Salt Hill, Galway - Kevin Davies

Dec 18th

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NUT ‘TAPERS’! — jendunlap I loved this one, if only for the sign Amir holds up at...

Dec 18th

“One thing I do know is that boredom, like necessity is the...”
— Joe Pitti, on why...

Dec 18th

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Britta Persson-Winter Tour. I love this video and frosty little song. Very Swedish and whimsical in...

Dec 18th

Tigercity-Powerstripe

Dec 17th

i love xkcd’s comics more every day.

Dec 17th

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Grizzly Bear - Graceland (cover)

Dec 17th

Jerry Lee Lewis, Henry Horenstein

Dec 17th

we got evacuated due to some chemical explosion on the 42nd...

Dec 17th

Photo of Woody Allen and Scarlett Johansson by Andrew Eccles...

Dec 17th

the maine idea.

i checked in with an old friend today who had been m.i.a since the summer, and it turns out she is...

Dec 17th

i heart james welling.

Dec 17th

Watching Women's Television - Slate

Dec 16th

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Bat for Lashes - I’m on Fire (cover) [photo via]

Dec 16th

Instruments—Danny O’Brien

Dec 16th

Inside the Arts

Dec 16th

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Le Corsaire (The Pirate) was announced as the opening ballet for ABT’s 2008 season. Kind of a...

Dec 16th

consumerism!

i just got all my holiday shopping done for the year in one fell swoop, two hours on various...

Dec 16th

“The soul selects her own society; Then shuts the door.”
— Emily Dickinson. Someone...

Dec 16th

barishnikov, katie west.

Dec 16th

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Kermit the Frog does Talking Heads - “Once in a Lifetime” -via The Daily Swarm —...

Dec 15th

Romeo et Juliette

“On Saturday afternoon, December 15, the Metropolitan Opera will air its first live HD...

Dec 14th

MGMT--Kids

Dec 14th

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White Rabbits - The Plot.  (Try them, you’ll like them!)

Dec 14th

“I guess I, when I was in my twenties, like deep down...”
— David Foster Wallace, from an...

Dec 14th

—Bryan Ridgell

Dec 14th

“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy...”
— Ansel Adams.

Dec 14th

happy thursday.

some days i feel like i was born six-eight decades too late. others i feel like my time has yet to...

Dec 13th

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So this is the part of the day when I turn into my gay best friend from high school. In any case,...

Dec 13th

“A frenzy possessed the earth: I felt that the earth was...”
— Katherine Mansfield, The...

Dec 13th

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this is the kind of afternoon where all i want to do is sit and watch “the high times...

Dec 13th

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I finished! — juliaheffernan this is great. i wish i had done this sort of thing instead of...

Dec 13th

“Eventually, something shows up on that I just can’t let go...”
— Ty Ennis, on his process of...

Dec 13th

i love lydia panas’ new work. she had a fantastic...

Dec 13th

Lily Allen to Judge Orange Prize (wha?)

Dec 13th

photo by my friend justin — hot4discourse snow in new york...

Dec 13th

ingres, odalisque.

Dec 13th

“The arts are always in trouble. It is their nature to be in...”
— Archibald MacLeish

Dec 13th

“And some time make the time to drive out west Into County...”
— Seamus Heaney, Postscript

Dec 12th

of all the photographers out there, i’m still...

Dec 12th

“The way I see it: blogging is easy; content is hard. As long...”
— Wise words from Bill Israel...

Dec 12th

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Gustav Holst - The Planets, Op. 32; Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity When I was a little girl, I lived...

Dec 12th

Danny Newman, arts marketing guru, passes...

Dec 12th

i am feeling like an apple cider and a brisk walk could cheer me right up.

Dec 11th

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gershwin’s rhapsody in blue. new york philharmonic. leonard bernstein on the piano. =holy...

Dec 11th

I would like a pair. Thanks in advance. [delman...

Dec 11th

lovebunnies (via phantomoftheradio)

Dec 11th

—saul steinberg

Dec 11th

“The shows were broader, the buildings were higher, the...”
— FSF, My Lost City. i’m...

Dec 11th

—saul leiter, early color 

Dec 11th

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cat stevens - i wish, i wish just felt right for today.

Dec 11th

martin ramirez. mexican-american, catatonic schizophrenic,...

Dec 11th

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remember when sesame street used to teach kids about opera?

Dec 11th

grace kelly and audrey hepburn— atherdiscretion i prefer...

Dec 11th

zzzip.

Dec 10th

— nic

Dec 10th

“People can be dippy about all things digital and still read...”
— Actor/Writer/Polymath/Englishma...

Dec 10th

Amazon.com: The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music...

Dec 10th

photographer melanie schiff was just chosen for the whitney...

Dec 10th

“The myth of the city insists on progress, bigger and better...”
— Luc Sante, Low Life. OMG this...

Dec 10th

Chat by Reblog Experiment

joelaz: Tumblrs, let's chat. Reply by reblog, adding your response to the bottom of this running dialogue. I'll start with a question, but feel free to change topics if you like. What's your latest obsession (aside from Tumblr of course)?
me: Luc Sante's book "Low Life" and Planet Earth on the Discovery Channel...

Dec 10th

Fur, Aubrey Hays

Dec 10th

“Inside, everyone sounds, more or less eloquently, like the...”
— Louis Menand, “Why Do We...

Dec 10th

— anomaly correct. 

Dec 10th

hysterical paroxysm

Dec 9th

maira kalman’s illustration column in the times is the...

Dec 9th

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ingrid michaelson - corner of your heart

Dec 9th

Neon Glasses— ideas (this originally came from the...

Dec 9th

i’m getting through this slowly (it weighs ten...

Dec 9th

“The artist’s vocation is to send light into the human...”
— George Sand (from Gatherr, a...

Dec 9th

The 53 Places to Go in 2008 - New York Times

Dec 9th

youngna park

Dec 9th

“And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to...”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...

Dec 9th

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vampire weekend - i stand corrected (full LP comes out on XL recordings in january!…not that...

Dec 8th

— anthonydever

Dec 8th

trying to work and watch project runway re-runs at the same...

Dec 8th

Portable Jail Cell from the 19th Century, Nathan Cowlishaw ...

Dec 8th

I will make people see juno this weekend come hell or high h2o

Dec 8th

The Best Latke Recipe I've Tried...

Dec 7th

good friends.

adam: it is my personal mission to make sure you laugh at least once this weekend and engage in some sort of hijinx
adam: maybe we can prank call martha stewart
adam: i have been sitting on that phone number for a year

Dec 7th

roland hawkeye, new photographer covering new york. i like...

Dec 7th

anamorphic cup by ross mcbride=officially on my wish list.

Dec 7th

just testing them out…— hrrrthrrr it’s...

Dec 7th

sebastiao salgado is a brazilian photographer who has...

Dec 7th

“Who’s making Sean Hannity’s graphics? […]...”
— George Saunders, in his...

Dec 7th

happiness.

i was on the subway this afternoon, heading uptown on the v train, and i saw a man, about 50,...

Dec 7th

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the gin blossoms (the doug hopkins era) are in my top five favorite bands of all time. yeah, i said...

Dec 7th

from jessica hagy’s indexed, a blog (/soon to be book)...

Dec 7th

See, America’s not doomed. (thanks heartasarena)

Dec 7th

Inside the New Museum -James Wagner

Dec 7th

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linus and lucy - vince guaraldi

Dec 7th

— chetgulland ha. 

Dec 7th

Yet another reason to love Diablo Cody and...

Dec 7th

via swissmiss.typepad.com — illbelieveinanything one of the...

Dec 6th

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Bless You. (AKA: Lyrics Part Two) — jakeandamir really like this one. 

Dec 6th

“A lot of people in classical music realize it’s a...”
— Alex Ross

Dec 6th

Dec 6th

Part of “Line Up” by Nora Ligorano and Marshall...

Dec 6th

If the Copy Is an Artwork, Then What’s the...

Dec 6th

aubrey hays [via]

Dec 6th

i love josh ritter more than anything...

(listen below)   

Dec 5th

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Tom Hoving is a classic New York character living in our own time, the son of the ex-head of...

Dec 5th

two men walking in a field, georges seurat (on view now at...

Dec 5th

BBC 4: In Our Time

Dec 5th

“My older brother was trying to get a report on birds written...”
— Anne Lamott

Dec 5th

— confessions — ofvarieddelights

Dec 5th

Glacier National Park (via Noah K) —...

Dec 5th

Meteorologists Shape Fashion Trends

Dec 5th

beth wald [via]

Dec 5th

Luis Ortigoza, dancing Black Swan in Stuttgart [via the...

Dec 5th

bundled up.

Dec 5th

“But really, work should be like life: sometimes fun,...”
— Po Bronson

Dec 4th

FFFFOUND!  — gibby

Dec 4th

happy holidays [via]

Dec 4th

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Screentest Natalie Portman - NYTimes.com / TMagazine — talby

Dec 4th

Dear giant swan inside the Marc Jacobs store, The photos...

Dec 4th

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the forms - knowledge in hand. brooklyn’s forms are one of my new favorite new york bands....

Dec 4th

this kid is my hero — jvincent (my kid could paint that,...

Dec 4th

ANTM's Heather Kuzmich Makes the NYT

Dec 4th

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i dig this PIL video because its the perfect mix of great song, intense crazy eyes, bad teeth, and...

Dec 4th

“The “benefit of the arts” discussions frustrate me. They...”
— Cary McQueen Morrow,...

Dec 4th

chip simons [via]

Dec 4th

now that the stage hand strike is off, i’ve had a few...

Dec 3rd

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The quality of this video is not the best, but this is the best recording I could find of my...

Dec 3rd

has anyone ever had the experience of trying to log into a really old website where you can barely...

Dec 3rd

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sarah harmer-basement apartment.

Dec 3rd

“On any given day after school, you can find him strutting...”
— “The Littlest...

Dec 3rd

if i were to ever enact my dream of converting my apartment...

Dec 3rd

Rihanna's Umbrella (diplo/vndlsm remix)

Dec 3rd

photographer ondrea barbe usually takes brilliant beauty...

Dec 3rd

bliss.

adam: what are you doing tonight
adam: because i have 3lbs of cookie dough
adam: i will even bring milk
rach: i dont have a cookie sheet...but i DO have the my so called life box set
adam: we can be like fat teens on a saturday night, swooning over teenage leto.
rach: yes, i believe we will be yielding to the wisdom of ricky vasquez

Dec 3rd

“Whatever Gawker originally set out to do, it kind of did,...”
— emily gould in today’s...

Dec 3rd

so i just realized that three of the last four images on my tumblr (unintentionally) have people...

Dec 3rd

“and then i do my champagne exercises”-eloise in...

Dec 2nd

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daft punk’s laser-robot-danceathon at coney island this summer is still something that flashes...

Dec 2nd

“…try to love the questions themselves as if they were...”
— ranier marie rilke, ltayp

Dec 2nd

Martine Fougeron, Tete a Tete II (thanks to conscientous,...

Dec 2nd

“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