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2008

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April 234
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2007

December 192
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sparklingpants: I love these photos by Erwin Olaf for this...
May 1st

ANIMALS - Frank O'Hara

Have you forgotten what we were like then when we were still first rate and the...
May 1st
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Tupac-Changes Find me someone who doesn’t think this is one of the best songs ever....
May 1st
(Patryce Bak) Patryce also takes wonderful photographs and...
May 1st
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Packing up all my stuff for the move has led to three amazing discoveries so far—the fact that...
May 1st
14 Years Worth of Annie Leibovitz Covers
May 1st
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pretty!
Apr 30th
There is a new magazine coming to New York on May...
Apr 30th
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Robert Rauschenberg - Erased De Kooning This guy has some amazing videos. I had no idea that...
Apr 30th
“I never comb my hair or make anything pretty. When people...”
— Lou Doillon, to the Sunday New...
Apr 30th
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buyhercandy: sleater-kinney - one more hour. taking a break—this will accompany the long...
Apr 29th
definr - incredibly fast dictionary
Apr 29th
i sort of miss the puddle.
Apr 29th

when words were all that mattered.

[Though Brando is not a teetotaller, his appetite is more frugal when it comes to alcohol. While we...
Apr 29th
Frances Benjamin Johnston. Stairway of the Treasurer’s...
Apr 29th
a cafe without a good brick wall is not a good cafe at all.
Apr 29th

well this is new.

I think moving is giving me a very slow panic attack. Just noting it and moving on and embracing...
Apr 29th
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Long Winters - Clouds “Wilde said something like ‘Great artists are boring...
Apr 29th
(via tmblg)
Apr 29th
“Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the...”
— John Cheever
Apr 29th
Man Ray. Rayograph. 1922. Gelatin silver print (photogram).
Apr 28th
i wish i had a real opinion on this picture.
Apr 28th
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noahkalina: LCD Soundsystem - New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down This came on last...
Apr 28th
Cara Phillips, Beauty Laser 7, 2007 In addition to being a...
Apr 28th
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Harlem Shakes - Sickos One of my fave gangs of local ruffians is back in the studio to finally...
Apr 28th

wow.

an hour later and over twelve responses to my vineyard question. internet, you are my hero.
Apr 28th

Totally Real Inquiry

Does anyone out there know someone (family member, friend, distant acquantaince) who either owns or...
Apr 28th
Ella Dreyfus Grow up, 2008 from Scumbag I am also crazy...
Apr 28th
Narelle Autio  Splash, 2004 from Watercolours Type C...
Apr 28th
“Salman Rushdie A Groupie?”
— The title of a press release I...
Apr 28th
(via reversecowgirl) George Lois, slayer of hearts. 
Apr 27th
Untitled II, Sabine...
Apr 27th
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So my hero forever. Elaine. P.S. Jokes about hats and Mahler used to go over well. I was born way...
Apr 26th
Walked everywhere today. Round two coming up.
Apr 26th
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Jeremy Jay - Airwalker Happy Saturday. 
Apr 26th
Richard Avedon,  Marcel Duchamp, artist, New York, January...
Apr 26th
Daniel Jesse Lewis, You Can’t Fight the Ocean,...
Apr 26th
Coffee table book rec, #2 (…thinking this may become a...
Apr 25th
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The Smiths - Please Please Let Me Get What I Want I figured I had to round out this flurry of...
Apr 25th

the psychic is in, $5.

I used to wish for clairvoyance—I thought it could only benefit someone like me to know my...
Apr 25th
hystericalparoxysm: Joan Didion [image via Reckon] ...
Apr 25th
And to think to get here all I need is the Enterprise...
Apr 25th

Sometimes it is easier, but not always.

Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change?
Mormon Mother: Well it has something to do with God so it's not very nice. God splits the skin with a jagged thumbnail from throat to belly and then plunges a huge filthy hand in, he grabs hold of your bloody tubes and they slip to evade his grasp but he squeezes hard, he insists, he pulls and pulls till all your innards are yanked out and the pain....we can't even talk about that. And then he stuffs them back, dirty, tangled and torn. It's up to you to do the stitching.
Harper: And then up you get. And walk around.
Mormon Mother: Just mangled guts pretending.
Harper: That's how people change.
-Tony K. (whose work has saved my life on no small number of occasions).
Apr 25th

it is too late to be just starting my...

B: have you seen my dinner with andre?
B: there's this part where andre describes new york as a concentration camp where the residents live in a state of schizophrenia wherein they are both the guards and the prisoners. and nobody wants to leave because they're so proud of the prison they've made.
B: its a good movie
Apr 25th
The blind Orion searching the rising sun, Nicolas Poussin...
Apr 25th
Just on some real talk, this is an entire house in Taos,...
Apr 25th
“You are the gift that keeps on giving. Chase the moon across...”
— Me, to a star.
Apr 25th

having flashbacks.

Do you remember that feeling that you (maybe) had as a child, at the end of a very long, very hot...
Apr 24th
(via gregbrown)
Apr 24th
Lily Cole in The House on the Hill, photographed by Arthur...
Apr 24th
William Lamson. Sublunar No 21, 6/16/2006, Digital...
Apr 24th
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Ensemble Clément Janequin-Je Ne L’ose Dire I loved French madrigals so much as a little girl...
Apr 24th
“This was not judgment day, only morning, Morning, excellent...”
— William Styron, 1979.
Apr 24th
Bongiorno/best mood—sundress season has arrived. I...
Apr 24th
Intense!
Apr 23rd
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Nanci G. - Listen to the Radio Today’s song, courtesy of my entire childhood.
Apr 23rd
Where's Waldo
Apr 23rd
i almost never discuss beauty/fashion which is odd...
Apr 23rd
esandberg: Do you know how many times in a given day I wish...
Apr 23rd
Kate Kirkwood, Cowspine 95. Kate is from England. I really,...
Apr 23rd
“FACTS ARE ELOQUENT.”
— Nora E.
Apr 23rd
OR oaxaca for guelaguetza, pure spectacle and chile...
Apr 23rd
or say, marseilles?
Apr 23rd
This week I have to plan my summer voyage (read: ESCAPE),...
Apr 23rd
Georganne Dean A Spin in the Teacups (Is A Must) 2008 
Apr 22nd
Book rec: Found this for my new (theoretical) coffee table...
Apr 22nd

tigers to celery.

[Don’t ‘make’ your mind do anything. Writing practice softens the heart and mind...
Apr 22nd
The Smoker - by David Schickler
Apr 22nd
Victoria J. Dean New favorite. 
Apr 22nd
“You don’t always whittle down, sometimes you whittle...”
— Grace Paley
Apr 22nd
JET.LAG.
Apr 22nd
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The Police - So Lonely What a total jam.
Apr 21st
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gregbrown: Charlie Rose interviews himself. I love watching his show, but this is far more awesome...
Apr 21st
“Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for...”
— Fran Leibowitz
Apr 21st

Good question

gillianmae: from the LA Times: Is it possible to lead a dedicated literary life in the...
Apr 21st
hystericalparoxysm: Kim’s Video [via Tommy Kane...
Apr 21st
Stephen Shore, Beverly Boulevard and La Brea Avenue, Los...
Apr 21st

Conditions, etc.

[I no longer feel I’ll be dead by thirty; now it’s sixty. I suppose these deadlines we...
Apr 21st
[Moa, the Dancer & Kneeling Female in Orange-Red Dress]...
Apr 21st
Gabriele Basilico, San Francisco, 2007. His current show at...
Apr 19th
“They tried to kill us, they couldn’t do it. Now...
Apr 19th
update: made it to california, drove the 280. spent the...
Apr 18th
Apr 17th
so sue me, my flight’s delayed.
Apr 17th
Yale art student Aliza Shvarts' senior...
Apr 17th
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Kanye West - Good Life And I’m off—sunglasses, lip gloss, iced coffee, passport,...
Apr 17th
Going to the airport in a few minutes to go to SF for a few...
Apr 17th
Up and Then Down: The Lives of Elevators...
Apr 17th
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“I’ve Got the Staight Edge” — Drug Free PSA Last night I ended up watching...
Apr 17th
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I realize that it is a little early for Bell Biv Devoe. Actually, takebacks. There’s never a...
Apr 17th
GRIFF WILLIAMS, nothing exists in itself, 2008. Going out...
Apr 17th

good morning.

[from black rook in rainy weather, by SP]  I only know that a rook Ordering its black feathers can...
Apr 17th
well, except to say that if you get the chance, you should look up at the esb right when the sun...
Apr 17th
Todd Norsten, Ceaseless Boundless Endless Joy, 2008. ...
Apr 16th
Yinka Shonibare, Un Ballo in Maschera - Courtiers VI. ...
Apr 16th
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Go West - King of Wishful Thinking It has been way too long since I have spent an entire afternoon...
Apr 16th
Tomorrow I will be here, and not a moment too soon.
Apr 16th
OMFG: “As part of a bi-weekly art series boutique...
Apr 16th
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Speaking of brothers and ephemera, I find this new trend of “Supercuts” (obsessively...
Apr 16th
ATTN!: WE NEED A TENNIS PRO. My friend A. and I have...
Apr 16th
Alexey Titarenko, Venice Series, 2008. Now showing here. I...
Apr 16th
Nope nope no no no no nyet nope not again in fact probably...
Apr 16th
out into a long ny night. and if anyone is wondering why...
Apr 15th
Ok so update: I am moving to Brooklyn. Let me explain. As...
Apr 15th
Yoshitomo Nara, Untitled, 2007. A...
Apr 15th
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Aesop Rock - Daylight
Apr 15th
(via nic) I just really love Nic’s drawings.  
Apr 15th
“Museums tell a story, but not the only story. These days,...”
— Kathy Halbreich, the new...
Apr 15th
Photo to old converter (via Mareen and many others). Fun...
Apr 15th
Danielle Van Ark, The Mounted Life Danielle photographed a...
Apr 15th
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I’d be fronting if I said I didn’t watch this at an ungodly hour. Deadlines, headlines,...
Apr 15th
Artforum at The New School: Art and Money
Apr 14th
“Everything comes and goes Marked by lovers and styles of...”
Apr 14th
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Harlem Shakes - Sickos Always a favorite. 
Apr 14th
Photography by Mary Amor, Ladies.
Apr 14th
“Nothing’s moribund; energy still abounds. But its timbre is...”
— Gavin Brown,...
Apr 14th
Will Cotton, Candy Stick Forest, 2005. Will paints women...
Apr 14th
milesbarger: John Divola As Far As I Could Get “The...
Apr 14th
still up, still tired, still working, about an hour away...
Apr 14th

Arthur C. Clarke's three laws

A good friend reminded me of these today: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that...
Apr 14th
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SO MUCH work left to do tonight, I have already started in on the energy drinks and am thinking in...
Apr 14th
John Baldessari, Prima Facie (Second State): Confident,...
Apr 14th
Errol Morris talks with Werner Herzog
Apr 14th
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Joni M. - A Case of You For my mom, who just had a birthday and fostered in me an appeciation for...
Apr 14th
(via britticisms)
Apr 14th
“You will buck up right now or i will slice your face off and...”
— Adam, who always finds the...
Apr 14th
PSA: You’ll need one of these today. {via beyrout on...
Apr 13th
Last night I ate ice cream sandwiches with my friend K., who is the kind of old school that New York...
Apr 13th
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Apr 13th
Apr 13th
Toas Pueblo, NM. Had a walking dream about this place...
Apr 13th
“All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”
— Richard Avedon (via mareen)
Apr 12th
exhausted but gearing up for saturday, round 2.
Apr 12th
cherubin and seraphim. and lots of flesh.
Apr 12th
photography on photography exhibition…pretty good,...
Apr 12th
rodin etc.
Apr 12th
Took a soujourn to the met and gugg today. Glad to see the...
Apr 12th
Cy. I think this is the one that a woman in Avignon was...
Apr 11th
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Weeping Tile - Room with the Sir John A View THIS GIRL IS MY HERO. Ask for this song, and one day...
Apr 11th
Cai Guo-Quiang: I Want to Believe
Apr 11th
Nolan Ryan, 1974. The papers called him a...
Apr 11th

bubbles.

I’m finishing a random story on women who are culinary mixologists (and quite particular...
Apr 11th
“None of us can ever retrieve that innocence before all...”
— Susan Sontag, “Against...
Apr 11th
Whitney Launches "Focus" Video Series
Apr 11th
Gala Collette Photography (via LeStrange) Girls running...
Apr 11th
JJ Sulin, Rodeo. A little bit Brooklyn, a little bit...
Apr 11th
held up by suspenders today.
Apr 11th
It’s tough to be queen when your hair suddenly sets...
Apr 11th
Apr 11th

the apartment.

Fran Kubelik: He’s a taker. C.C. Baxter: A what? Fran Kubelik: Some people take, some people...
Apr 10th
Apr 10th
“You do not live in America. No such place exists…your...”
Apr 10th
{via flickr)
Apr 10th
I’m really trying to get my hands on an old Weeping Tile song sung by Sarah Harmer called...
Apr 10th

Eva Hesse

llellis: It is funny how things collide in ones life. April is always the month - in April...
Apr 10th
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Luciana Souza - Waters of March Love her. 
Apr 10th
City lesson #584: I can no longer walk on 15th Street...
Apr 10th
Eva Hesse, Contingent. And her artist statement, which I...
Apr 10th
“You are neither here nor there, A hurry through which known...”
— Seamus Heaney, who I...
Apr 10th

update.

my whole evening was, to quote my dinner partner, “transcendent.”
Apr 10th
all dressed up with somewhere to go.
Apr 9th
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 ma boys.
Apr 9th
Black Rook in Rainy Weather (mp3)
Apr 9th
Sasha Pivarova and a little leopard, Pyjama Party shoot,...
Apr 9th
We Heart It
Apr 9th
Kiki Smith, Blue Girl, 1998.
Apr 9th

quick pop culture question

Why, when i stumbled across the trailer for the new mtv reality show about high school newspapers...
Apr 9th
TONIGHT. BAM Gala. Paul Simon. David Byrne. Ladysmith Black...
Apr 9th
“Finally, bad writing is just insider talk. It’s not...”
— Richard Lacayo, author of...
Apr 9th
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Realized I only posted black and white today. Hrmmm. So here’s a color wheel sequence, with a...
Apr 8th
manystuff
Apr 8th
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Oh, it’s come to this. Sing to me, Lady M…you can work out in stilettos while you do it...
Apr 8th
This is officially the day that won’t end. Music is my...
Apr 8th
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Kaye Thompson and her boys, 3 A.M. in the Persian Room (1956). Ah, she was such a total kook....
Apr 8th
“You, you, you’re like New York, Jewish, left-wing,...”
Apr 8th
Mark Seliger, Heidi Klum at Romanoff’s. I love this...
Apr 8th

This Is a Photograph of Me - Margaret...

It was taken some time ago. At first it seems to be a smeared print: blurred lines and grey flecks...
Apr 8th

Book club back in action

A majority vote went towards picking “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot...
Apr 8th
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How did I not realize I owned this movie? This song is the reason I loved to wear petticoats as a...
Apr 8th
Duane Michaels, Alice’s Mirror, 1974.
Apr 8th

odd bird (or bored on the B train)

whatever happened to maggots? I used to find them boring, weeviling through sour grain, they could...
Apr 8th
City knowledge gleaned tonight: Dumont Burger is never not...
Apr 8th
April resolution: Break my addiction to all foodstuffs...
Apr 8th
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But hey, there’s always time for some Morissey. Girl Afraid, por vous. 
Apr 7th
peacing out for a while. must look at more apartments. sigh,...
Apr 7th

Phillip Schultz

He won the Pulitzer for poetry today. Here is his poem, Why. ...
Apr 7th
Josh Wildman, i see a lot of people trying to look awesome...
Apr 7th
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for you.
Apr 7th
Apr 7th
Revolutionary Minds: Design + Architecture
Apr 7th
“We all know what happened to Socialism, unfortunately. What...”
— Luc Sante, aka badass.
Apr 7th
Lori Nix, Accidentally Kansas. Lori creates little worlds...
Apr 7th
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watched this late last night and fell in love all over again with it. i’m convinced this is...
Apr 7th
Tony Marciante, washington sq. park c.1968. This guy has an...
Apr 6th
She became so much more than Mrs. Rivera.
Apr 6th
Also, I am in serious need of a haircut. Stat.
Apr 5th
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Georgia O’ Keefe, New Mexico, age 92. Everyone has those five people that they constantly...
Apr 5th
“Can you believe these new girls? None of them use birth...”
Apr 5th
In bed with a hot man. Scandale! To be honest, this book is...
Apr 5th
Apr 5th
Happy weekend. And now here’s a new work by Aubrey...
Apr 4th
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Paul Simon - Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall (solo) Even sans Art this is a song I could...
Apr 4th
Thank you, wordunheard, for introducing me to Kate...
Apr 4th
Alfred Wertheimer, Elvis: Final Touch at the Warwick, ...
Apr 4th
“Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And...”
— Resume, Dorothy Parker. I so...
Apr 4th
Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Paris...
Apr 4th

Jennifer Dalton and the question of the...

Last night for a bevy of reasons I found myself at a party at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, a DUMBO...
Apr 4th

wtf.

Woke up early this morning to someone outside my window blasting Tito Nieves’ “I Like It...
Apr 4th
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Pavement-Spit on a Stranger Honey I’m a prize and you’re a catch. So killer. 
Apr 3rd
Tom Otterness.
Apr 3rd

count back from ten.

I am all of a sudden incredibly, breathlessly busy. as in, one project moves into the next and then...
Apr 3rd
Berenice Abbott, Newstand; 32nd Street and Third Avenue....
Apr 3rd
“It is relatively hard to fight at six-thirty or seven in the...”
— Joan Didion, Goodbye to All...
Apr 3rd
In DUMBO all morning and then again tonight to talk to...
Apr 3rd
fences, railways, powerlines, another one of my friend...
Apr 3rd
This little leaf is making major waves, hotly contested as...
Apr 2nd
“Born with a weak heart Guess I must be having fun.”
Apr 2nd
Leonie Purchas, Bicycle Wheels, from Christian - The...
Apr 2nd

Happiness

is getting a call that someone plans on cooking you a porterhouse chop and risotto from scratch...
Apr 2nd
Coiled up blurry eyed and ready to go. Out for the windy...
Apr 2nd
“New York is the thing that seduced me New York is the...”
— Patti Smith, 1971.
Apr 2nd
I don’t miss the Titus, but I wouldn’t mind...
Apr 2nd
Jeremy Liebman, from Goodnight Firebird. Yesterday I had...
Apr 2nd
Things that are awesome, part #457: Watching my new DVD of...
Apr 2nd

genetics

my mother just informed me that she has named the new family dog jackson pawlick. i clearly come...
Apr 2nd
walking 60 blocks downtown night two paces in front first warm draft in weeks the sidewalk pulpy,...
Apr 2nd
Martians demand “IFIC”: Advertisement for...
Apr 1st
[“Found at eye level in public places, many images are...
Apr 1st
The New York City Waterfalls
Apr 1st
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Tracy Chapman - Fast Car Because I felt like it.
Apr 1st
“The collector is the true resident of the interior. The...”
— Walter Benjamin
Apr 1st
Evelyn Nesbit, New York, 1901. 8x10 glass negative by...
Apr 1st