Rachel Profiling

Matthew Pillsbury, Contemplating Wapiti, American Museum of...

Apr 1st

Your daily curmudgeon

If you are like me and one of your pet interests is talking about the city (NYC being said city) and...

Mar 31st

elpasajero: Do you love your moleskine more than your...

Mar 31st

“i think ‘balance’ is a euphemism that guidance...”
— Chris, my good heart.

Mar 31st

Not going to lie, Tom Fowlks is probably one of my top five...

Mar 31st

I’m totally aware that at this point it has been done to death (and when T reports on it, that...

Mar 31st

[Anne has no fear of hard work: she’s forgetful...

Mar 31st

“The effect can scarcely be described, so weird, and so...”
— -NYTimes, on the lighting of...

Mar 31st

[A writer can spin on about his adventures after thirty, after forty, after fifty, but the criteria...

Mar 31st

Tara Donne, Summer. I’ve been craving warmth and the...

Mar 31st

“Ok everyone, let’s all remember that Anne Frank and...”
— Adam, before a game of Apples...

Mar 31st

“I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to...”
— —Joan Didion, “On...

Mar 30th

Christian Hoffmann, Moody Riga, 2008. Goodnight moon. 

Mar 30th

“Surreal beautiful shit tends to fly in your direction.”
— Chris gave me one of the best...

Mar 29th

Magnet Fairy

I woke up today with a brand new compass under my pillow, the rose lacquered and the needle strong....

Mar 29th

“My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds — what is...”
— Andy Goldsworthy, 2001, on the...

Mar 29th

(via travie)

Mar 29th

Yvonne Jacquette, Midtown Composite...

Mar 28th

Jim Hodges, and still this 2005-2008, through April 9 at...

Mar 28th

[Gypsy Rose Lee by Fred Palumbo, 1956, World Telegram &...

Mar 28th

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Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street  I came back to my desk today after a while away to do some busy...

Mar 28th

Amy Arbus, Two Girls With Dolls, PA. 2004 I had a crazy...

Mar 28th

“What might help, though, is a return to some semblance of...”
— Why the Recession May Restore...

Mar 28th

noahkalina: John Coffer Self Portrait Tintype 20x24inFrom...

Mar 28th

Semi-announcement

If you are a photographer in NYC (as in, that is how you would describe your creative output, even...

Mar 27th

“Oh my god we just built the rubik’s cube arch and it...”
— My friend Cristina on her...

Mar 27th

“Early-nineteenth-century French photography,...

Mar 27th

Black White + Gray

Mar 27th

David Leventi, Places.

Mar 27th

what annie and i talk about when we...

me: but that's what new york is
annie: you get to keep what you like and discard what you don't like, people included.
me: you have to let yourself be stamped like a passport. let them float in and out and hopefully effect some change.
annie: "and try to love the things you took"
me: exactly
annie: in a way to be open to that is why people move here.
me: tired, poor and huddled.

Mar 27th

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Portishead-Roads Listening to Beth and co. is like drinking a neon-hued frozen slush way too...

Mar 27th

red paint

i’m all dressed up today with somewhere to go. the city seems like a completely new place when...

Mar 27th

Let us all be happy that the steel mistress did not live up...

Mar 27th

Today is already starting out well. I spent the morning with...

Mar 27th

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So today was justifiably weird on the blog front (apparently Erica’s picture made many squirm....

Mar 27th

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Arcade Fire - Haiti (live in NYC, 2007) 500 words to go. Time to put this one on repeat. 

Mar 26th

When I went to Erica’s studio last month she showed me...

Mar 26th

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This week I am going to cover the opening of Gypsy on Broadway with Patti Lupone—I am so...

Mar 26th

Susie Ghahremani is a graphic designer and illustrator who...

Mar 26th

FUEL. And so my day of deadlines begins. 

Mar 26th

Tenure:The Movie

Mar 26th

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I finally got to sleep around 3:30 last night, with some help from some Red Zinger tea, Jeffrey...

Mar 26th

btdubs

the book club is totally springing back into action this week. expect a new book to dive into by...

Mar 26th

what a long ass day. just sayin. p.s. my friend becks lent...

Mar 26th

My dear friend Chris is currently on a road trip across...

Mar 26th

lowell is best when you are thinking...

Epilogue by Robert Lowell Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme--...

Mar 26th

“Isn’t everything autobiographical?”
— Before Sunset

Mar 25th

Subhankar Banerjee, Caribou On Sand from the series Oil...

Mar 25th

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This video for Aesop Rock’s hidden track, “Pigs” off of None Shall Pass is...

Mar 25th

excerpted

[Even her discarded stockings, still carrying from yesterday the shape of her solid limbs, appeared...

Mar 25th

Taj Forer, 2008. Taj is an editor at the marvelous...

Mar 25th

Muxtape

Mar 25th

“Our good depends on the quality and breadth of our emotion,...”
— George Eliot, Middlemarch. I...

Mar 25th

knifeforkspoon: by maira kalman Thank you for this. 

Mar 25th

The official reports don’t promise rain tonight, but...

Mar 24th

but then again, it's never that easy.

i think happiness may be as simple as finding a way to reduce the five lives we all try to lead down...

Mar 24th

Martabel Wasserman, Kiss Me Stupid, 2005. Martabel is only...

Mar 24th

“Illuminations on Pennsylvania Avenue for Wilson...

Mar 24th

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I’d say this is one of the greatest cartoons ever made, and I abhor math. I’d be...

Mar 24th

Katie Kingma, Lindelem: Woods, 2008. Growing and growing on...

Mar 24th

“I thought it was important to grant women the possibility of...”
— Erica Jong, soul sister.

Mar 24th

sugar and arsenic

me: this calls for a secret meeting
adam: can we wear fedoras?
me: and topcoats
adam: i'll bring the moustache glue

Mar 24th

only three weeks and i’m here.

Mar 24th

i only look like this very late or very early.

Mar 24th

Empire State Widget

Mar 24th

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Jill Bolte Taylor is one badass woman, and a neuroanatomist to boot. ”…we have the...

Mar 24th

Andreas Gursky, 99 Cent, 1999. One of my very favorites. 

Mar 24th

“I had never known any one so instantly and unerringly moved...”
— Edith Wharton, on her friend...

Mar 23rd

that was close.

last night a field mouse named jake crept into my room and started to blog for me. fortunately i...

Mar 23rd

Tina Turner, addressing the Atlanta...

"Two man enter one man leave" ......"Where's Wendys."
"Wendys?"
"Wendys, with the drive thru, off Collstein Road, in like what, Fairfax?...."
"Oh, THAT Wendys."
"Yeah, the one in Fairfax."
"Yeah, where is it?"
"You just said where it is, YOU FOOL!!!...MASTER-BLASTER!!!!!!"
"....yyyyeeeessss"
"it's time for,.....THUNDERDOME"
"Two Man Enter. One Man Leave.....(crowd chants) "two man enter,one man leave, two man enter, one man leave...."

Mar 23rd

“You know, I have a theory that hieroglyphics are just an...”
— Harry Burns

Mar 22nd

Mar 22nd

ambulator

from here…. to here…

Mar 22nd

A tad windblown.

Mar 22nd

Happy Purim, the only holiday that commands you to eat...

Mar 22nd

i feel remotely qualified for this

Mar 21st

Sidney Lo, Chris, 2007. Check it. Sidney has a show at...

Mar 21st

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Natalie Dessay - “Ah, non credea mirarti” My grandfather was (among other things) an...

Mar 21st

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I think that in his day, Richard Beymer was perhaps the sexiest person alive. His day lasting all...

Mar 21st

Andreas Laszlo Konrath, Stories, 2007. ALK’s work...

Mar 21st

“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.”
— John Dryden (1631-1700) More...

Mar 21st

It is a new day. [photo by Justin…] 

Mar 21st

oh hello concentration, thanks for finally stopping by...

Mar 20th

Will Cotton, Jessica, 2007. Will is appropriately named for...

Mar 20th

Mar 20th

Seven Factors of Enlightenment

Mindfulness  Investigation Energy  Joy or rapture  Relaxation or tranquillity  ...

Mar 20th

If you can ever get your hands on an engraving by Fritz...

Mar 19th

“Tree and stone glittered, without shadows. My finger-length...”
— Sylvia P. Love Letter.

Mar 19th

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Candi Staton - His Hands It is overcast and damp, and therefore a day perfectly suited for Ms. CS.

Mar 19th

File under: Things I wish I had been alive to see, part...

Mar 19th

“So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of...”
— JSF. Everthing is Iluminated....

Mar 18th

Yousuf Karsh, Georgia O’ Keefe. As of today, I am...

Mar 18th

“The learning process is something you can incite, literally...”
— Audre Lorde. Start your...

Mar 18th

Thanks, Justin, for introducing me to Clemson Chan’s...

Mar 18th

“What childishness is it that while there’s breath of...”
— Elizabeth Bishop.

Mar 18th

when i am too busy to shampoo for a few days…this is...

Mar 18th

Jan Von Holleben, 2008. God, I am full of cravings today....

Mar 17th

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Ghosthustler - Someone Else’s Ride Ghosthustler makes me want to put on a power suit and hop...

Mar 17th

Jerry Spagnoli, from Paris Daguerrotypes, 2006.

Mar 17th

NPR: Old-Fashioned Play Builds Serious Skills

Mar 17th

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Apes & Androids - Golden Prize Can’t. Stop. Listening.

Mar 17th

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Cold and rainy today. A rhapsody in blue. I’ll be watching this instead of braving it.

Mar 16th

Kate Huchinson, Nightlight. I do love light in...

Mar 16th

“Did sea define the land or land the sea? Each drew new...”
— Seamus Heaney, Lovers on Aran

Mar 15th

Rent it. Best line: ” If things aren’t funny,...

Mar 15th

finally.

today is the perfectly balanced spring day. it kind of makes you want to eat ice cream in a...

Mar 15th

good morning world.

Mar 15th

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Last night at a party someone asked me about my favorite song of all time, a question I always find...

Mar 14th

OMG: “Over two years in the making (and 36 years...

Mar 14th

Michal Chelbin, 2007. Michal is originally from Haifa,...

Mar 14th

What my mom talks about when she talks...

Me: Have you been following the governor scandal? He spent something like $5000 a session.
Mom: I bet you could live in a nicer place if that was your line of work!
Mom: But really...stay away from governors and easy money.
Me: Will do.
Mom: Also Rach, did you hear about the hooker that made these beautiful lace doilies..I think that it is called tatting, where you knot with thread? Well, she wanted to get a breast augmentation to help her career but she didn't have the money to pay for it. Actually, all she had was the beautiful doilies..so she went to the plastic surgeon to see if he would give her a tit for a tat.
Me: MOM.
Me: worst joke i've ever heard
Me: and yet, somehow also the best
Mom: I made it up! Did it make you smile?

Mar 13th

Gary Greenberg is a microscope artist—he mostly...

Mar 13th

‘Radar’ Hires Spencer Pratt to Dispense...

Mar 13th

“We are a culture without the will to seriously examine our...”
— David Simon (via sharingtime)

Mar 12th

five facts about me

1. I am passionate about almost everything I get involved in, sometimes to a fault. I am that person...

Mar 12th

Incredible video for DVNO by Justice

Mar 11th

Momofuku Reservations

Mar 11th

what a week. already.

Mar 11th

Barnaby Whitfield, Past is Getting Brighter, 2005 ...

Mar 11th

gah

i’m out of commission (blech) and offline for a few days and all hell breaks loose. he spitzer...

Mar 11th

“He said he was having a hot dog, so I had a hot dog.”
— John McCain, referring to his...

Mar 7th

Paul Chojnowski, Nocturnes. “Chojnowski’s medium...

Mar 7th

Jon Feinstein, Small Signs, 2007. Love.

Mar 6th

Why Joan Didion is my favorite.

Mar 6th

Workplace Experiments at 37signals

Mar 6th

via jfabulosity: Thank you Christian Siriano, you helped me...

Mar 6th

Nick Meyer, Four. Nick’s work is just real enough to...

Mar 6th

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Ani DiFranco - As Is This came on random shuffle on my iPod this morning. I almost skipped it, in...

Mar 6th

Where to Find Art - New York Times

Mar 6th

Albert Maysles, Tina Turner, Madison Square Garden, 1970. ...

Mar 6th

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i’ve been so busy lately. too busy to tumble should not be an excuse, however. so here’s...

Mar 5th

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More inspiration board for today’s work. This pleases me to no end.

Mar 4th

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inspiration board for what i’m working on today. fiery! also josh hamilton should have more...

Mar 4th

Robert Dean Arnold, Early, 2007. Good morning.

Mar 4th

“These days, Winona Ryder is the poor man’s Winona...”
— Willa.

Mar 3rd

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sid05:21 Accents (via amiablewalker) As uncomfortable as it made me to watch her go through all of...

Mar 3rd

“People don’t listen to companies, they listen to people. And...”
— Seth’s Blog: The live music...

Mar 3rd

You know you love me

I started writing this post and then about five other people tossed me the news that Janet...

Mar 3rd

Soooo ready for bed.

Mar 3rd

Katja Mater, Body of Light, 2006. Katja’s photos play...

Mar 3rd

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patrickmoberg: zoya: Yann Tiersen  — La Boulange

Mar 1st