Just what the heck is the difference
Just what the heck is the difference between all the different kinds of Diet Coke?. Diet Coke is actually sugar-free New Coke? Neat.
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Entries for August 2005
Streetclock: using building shadows and road markers as urban sundials
Streetclock: using building shadows and road markers as urban sundials.
Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld
The Chanel exhibition at the Met showcases the fashion designs of Coco Chanel as well as the more recent fashions of Karl Lagerfeld’s design. The exhibition attempts to draw parallels between the older Chanel fashions and Lagerfeld’s newer work (words like “interpretation” and “reinvention” sprinkled the exhibition walls), but I had a hard time seeing Coco’s influence in much of his work. Seems more like Lagerfeld is out on his own, which is in keeping with his thoughts in this 2001 interview with Paper magazine. Initially he says he hates “nothing more than people who only look in one direction, which means only in their direction” but then that he finds it hard to collaborate with others (except with himself). Then:
When I do my own things, I’m not really too interested in other people telling me what to do.
Lagerfeld is a fascinating figure and may have captured the cultural zeitgeist of the 80s and 90s in Chanel’s fashions, but I don’t know if I buy any of this reinvention business. If you’d like the check out the exhibit for yourself, you’d better hurry…it’s only on for a few more days.
God and Satan, as investors mind you,
God and Satan, as investors mind you, are both beating the broader market over the past few years.
Apple introduces a touch-sensitive squeezable mouse
Apple introduces a touch-sensitive squeezable mouse.
Andy Baio dug up this circa-1995 version
Andy Baio dug up this circa-1995 version of BobaWorld, one of my earliest favorite pages on the web. Boy, that square imagemap at the bottom of the page takes me back.
Tom Standage says bottled water is “bad
Tom Standage says bottled water is “bad to the last drop”. It’s more expensive than gasoline, doesn’t taste any better, and isn’t any safer.
USA Today article from 1988 on computer viruses affecting the “INTERnet”
USA Today article from 1988 on computer viruses affecting the “INTERnet”.
Big exhibition of Lee Friedlander’s photography at
Big exhibition of Lee Friedlander’s photography at the MoMA until the end of August. It’s interesting to see the influence Friedlander’s work has had on some of the photobloggers I follow.
Cory Doctorow to Apple Computer: put Trusted
Cory Doctorow to Apple Computer: put Trusted Computing in your kernel and I’m done as your customer. This doesn’t look promising. You’ve got a good thing going here, Apple…don’t fuck it up.
Wedding Crashers
The comedic quintet of Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, and Ben Stiller may have finally found their optimum configuration in Wedding Crashers. I can’t really watch anything with Stiller in it anymore, Will Ferrell is growing tiresome, and Luke is more of a straight man than funny on his own, but Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are great in this movie, especially Vaughn. Judging from its box office trend, Crashers could be one of those rare summer flicks that lasts more than 4-5 weeks at the theater. The only thing I didn’t like: at 119 minutes, it was about 20 minutes too long (they should have lost that cameo).
Ice Cream Factory smackdown in Chinatown
Ice Cream Factory smackdown in Chinatown. Same owners or will an ice cream war consume Chinatown?
How the DVD is changing Hollywood and the movie business
How the DVD is changing Hollywood and the movie business. “Most important, the new DVD audience is so diverse that companies can target niche markets and still sell millions of disks. Because specialized markets are more predictable, the risk of failure is much lower, and so small-to-mid-budget movies can be very profitable indeed.”
Cezanne and Pissarro at the MoMA
Cezanne and Pissarro at the MoMA. “Working in tandem or with each other in mind, Cezanne and Pissarro formulated a distinctly modern art, simultaneously self-confident and self-critical.”
New bookmark: interesting Flickr photos from the
New bookmark: interesting Flickr photos from the last 24 hours, automagically determined. PageRank for photos, sorta.
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