“ Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.
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The World According To Jane Jacobs
A friend once described Jane Jacobs as his “intellectual crush,” an appropriate term for the urban genius. As her beautiful obituary explains, “At a time when both common and inspired wisdom called for bulldozing slums and opening up city space, Ms. Jacobs’s prescription was ever more diversity, density and dynamism — in effect, to crowd people and activities together in a jumping, joyous urban jumble.” New York is forever indebted to Jacobs because, after all, downtown is for people.
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July 30, 2009
“ Cool is
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That Glowing Screen
Conceptually and aesthetically, Hiroshi Sugimoto’s “Theaters” series is brilliant. Photographing movie theaters across the country, Sugimoto matched each photograph’s exposure time with the film’s projection time, thus capturing an entire film in a single frame. In each image, a glowing white rectangle illuminates an entire theater — an effect Sugimoto himself calls “interesting, mysterious, and even religious.”
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“ Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.
July 12, 2009
July 9, 2009
Hollywood, As Per Edith Head
Edith Head was a costume designer and eight-time Academy Award winner who dressed Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Marlene Dietrich and Elizabeth Taylor, among many others. She even inspired the folks over at Pixar a few years back. In 1967, Head published a book called How to Dress for Success, full of whimsical drawings.
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“ I think that these days the really cool girls want to wear men’s clothing.
June 30, 2009
Downtown Living
When you buy a $102,000 72-room house at 190 Bowery in 1966, it becomes the hottest piece of property (and increases in value 400-fold) 45 years later. Behold photographer Jay Maisel’s six-story LES abode, courtesy of New York.
