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Berlin’s skyrocketing housing costs and hipster proliferation

LB — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:49:54 +0000

The above video by a Berliner complains about Berlin’s influx of hipsters, addressing them directly in its conclusion:

“Please stop to face your neighbourhood… it matters if you try to live in Neukölln or whether you just live your imported party here.

Studio of Laurie Spiegel, composer

LB — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:52:28 +0000

Via here and here and here.

The composer Laurie Spiegel in her studio. An amateur musician from childhood, Spiegel detoured through the social sciences at university and then returned to music, later founding NYU’s Computer Music Studio.

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Amy Goodman and Chris Hedges on Charlie Rose

LB — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:31:38 +0000

Amy Goodman of Democracy Now speaks with Asma Mahfouz, the girl who began the Tahrir Square revolution in Egypt, in Zucotti Park yesterday. Photo by Democracy Now.

Renegade brokers and police joining the demonstrators today, photo by Canadian filmmaker Velcrow Ripper (more here).

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Condos and highrise buildings, New York vs Vancouver

LB — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 06:27:14 +0000

(All photos here are of New York. Photos of Vancouver to be appended later.)

The building at left is by Gehry. Shot is taken from the Highline promenade.

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Stumbling upon NY Fashion Week by accident

LB — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:49:20 +0000

I was there by accident. These people were not.

Apparently it’s “anything goes” in fashion right now, but that’s been true for a while. Anyway, it’s never really “anything goes” – there are always those weird, arbitrarily-imposed rules.

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Tall mural, NYC

LB — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:29:29 +0000

I love this tall mural in NYC, near NYU. Deceptively simple, fixes a somewhat dreary block, and artful enough that it won’t instantly become tiresome (as many murals do). See also painted buildings here and this mural.

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Once Upon A School – Dave Eggers and his Pirate Supply Store/Tutoring Centre

LB — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:23:03 +0000

Most people have probably seen this video, but it’s worth watching again. Dave Eggers won the 2008 TED Prize for his education and literacy work with kids, and in this entertaining acceptance speech he provides a brief history of his project.

Paola Antonelli treats design as art

LB — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:04:07 +0000

I can forgive Paola Antonelli for liking Karim Rashid because I love her. She’s the design curator at the MoMA in NYC and she has this amazing knack for animating our built and designed environment in an entertaining and charming way while also lightly inserting some very serious remarks about its history and politics.

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Conversation

LB — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:56:26 +0000

Pail of rusty nails, companion for orphaned streetlamp cut off from street below.

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More Paul Rudolph houses – exteriors and interiors

LB — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:36:41 +0000

More houses by Paul Rudolph. I’m not sure why I like him so much; maybe it’s the feeling that every space is designed for a party, or the use of white, or that he went so glam/space age in the 60s and 70s.

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