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ryanpanos: Aqua by Atelier Teee

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:08:27 -0700

Aqua by Atelier Teee

"May 22, 2013 - May 26, 2014 Visit Information Presented by SFMOMA in partnership with the National..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:07:22 -0700

“May 22, 2013 - May 26, 2014 Visit Information
Presented by SFMOMA in partnership with the National Park Service and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, eight monumentally scaled sculptures by Mark di Suvero rise at historic Crissy Field this May for a free yearlong exhibition. Set against the backdrop of the Golden Gate Bridge, a structure that has inspired the artist throughout his career, di Suvero’s dynamic steel sculptures frame and reframe the surrounding landscape in surprising new ways. The exhibition brings together works from across the country, dating from 1967 to 2012, celebrating five decades of work by the acclaimed artist.”

- SFMOMA | Exhibitions Events | Calendar | Mark di Suvero at Crissy Field

oldloves: Bill Murray on Gilda Radner: “Gilda got married and...

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:14:25 -0700

oldloves:

Bill Murray on Gilda Radner:

“Gilda got married and went away. None of us saw her anymore. There was one good thing: Laraine had a party one night, a great party at her house. And I ended up being the disk jockey. She just had forty-fives, and not that many, so you really had to work the music end of it. There was a collection of like the funniest people in the world at this party. Somehow Sam Kinison sticks in my brain. The whole Monty Python group was there, most of us from the show, a lot of other funny people, and Gilda. Gilda showed up and she’d already had cancer and gone into remission and then had it again, I guess. Anyway she was slim. We hadn’t seen her in a long time. And she started doing, “I’ve got to go,” and she was just going to leave, and I was like, “Going to leave?” It felt like she was going to really leave forever.

So we started carrying her around, in a way that we could only do with her. We carried her up and down the stairs, around the house, repeatedly, for a long time, until I was exhausted. Then Danny did it for a while. Then I did it again. We just kept carrying her; we did it in teams. We kept carrying her around, but like upside down, every which way—over your shoulder and under your arm, carrying her like luggage. And that went on for more than an hour—maybe an hour and a half—just carrying her around and saying, “She’s leaving! This could be it! Now come on, this could be the last time we see her. Gilda’s leaving, and remember that she was very sick—hello?”

We worked all aspects of it, but it started with just, “She’s leaving, I don’t know if you’ve said good-bye to her.” And we said good-bye to the same people ten, twenty times, you know.

And because these people were really funny, every person we’d drag her up to would just do like five minutes on her, with Gilda upside down in this sort of tortured position, which she absolutely loved. She was laughing so hard we could have lost her right then and there.

It was just one of the best parties I’ve ever been to in my life. I’ll always remember it. It was the last time I saw her.”

- from Live from New York: an Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live

jamisonwieser: Just in time for today’s annual bike to work...

Thu, 09 May 2013 10:04:09 -0700

jamisonwieser:

Just in time for today’s annual bike to work day in San Francisco, the SFMTA has installed bike lanes on Oak Street, filling a three block gap in a route that runs from the ocean to the bay.

Even though the gap has meant upwards of 1,500 cyclists per day sharing a lane - not always successfully - with traffic running 40 miles per hour on the one-way street, the SFMTA had resisted making bike safety improvements in order to preserve all three traffic lanes as well as the two lanes of free parking on the either side of the street.

Dedicated a single lane of traffic on just one of the dozens of east-west streets is not an unreasonable request.

Photo by Bryan Goebel

title sequence of North by Northwest (by moviegoof) Inspired by...

Wed, 08 May 2013 09:43:09 -0700

title sequence of North by Northwest (by moviegoof)

Inspired by the Google Doodle for Saul Bass today.

Built on a wider VW Beetle chassis, the Karmann Ghia took its...

Sat, 04 May 2013 13:25:27 -0700

Built on a wider VW Beetle chassis, the Karmann Ghia took its name from the German coachbuilder that assembled it and the Italian design company that shaped its pretty lines. The car was introduced as a coupe in 1955, with a convertible added in 1957. Both were built until 1974. (via My Other Car Is: A 1965 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia - NYTimes.com)

Union Square BMT Station on Flickr.

Fri, 03 May 2013 16:43:38 -0700

Union Square BMT Station on Flickr.

Seen and Not Seen / 1980 He would see faces in movies, on...

Fri, 03 May 2013 16:42:42 -0700

Seen and Not Seen / 1980

He would see faces in movies, on T.V., in magazines, and in books….
He thought that some of these faces might be right for him….And
through the years, by keeing an ideal facial structure fixed in his
mind….Or somewhere in the back of his mind….That he might, by
force of will, cause his face to approach those of his ideal….The
change would be very subtle….It might take ten years or so….
Gradually his face would change its’ shape….A more hooked nose…
Wider, thinner lips….Beady eyes….A larger forehead.
He imagined that this was an ability he shared with most other
people….They had also molded their faced according to some
ideal….Maybe they imagined that their new face would better
suit their personality….Or maybe they imagined that their
personality would be forced to change to fit the new appear-
ance….This is why first impressions are often correct…
Although some people might have made mistakes….They may have
arrived at an appearance that bears no relationship to them….
They may have picked an ideal appearance based on some childish
whim, or momentary impulse….Some may have gotten half-way
there, and then changed their minds.
He wonders if he too might have made a similar mistake

By the Beastie Boys Cadillac following the Adam Yauch park...

Fri, 03 May 2013 16:38:37 -0700

By the Beastie Boys Cadillac following the Adam Yauch park dedication by NewYorkBrass on Flickr.

"My father’s laughter introduced me to the comedy of Jonathan Winters. My dad was a sweet man, but..."

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:16:29 -0700

“My father’s laughter introduced me to the comedy of Jonathan Winters. My dad was a sweet man, but not an easy laugh. We were watching Jack Paar on “The Tonight Show” on our black-and-white television, and on came Jonathan in a pith helmet.”

- Robin Williams Recalls the Lessons of Jonathan Winters - NYTimes.com

Teton Gravity Research Aerial Reel - The Bay Area in 4K (by...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:11:35 -0700

Teton Gravity Research Aerial Reel - The Bay Area in 4K (by Teton Gravity Research)

"Because creativity, after all, is a combinatorial force. It’s our ability to tap into the mental..."

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:10:57 -0800

“Because creativity, after all, is a combinatorial force. It’s our ability to tap into the mental pool of resources — ideas, insights, knowledge, inspiration — that we’ve accumulated over the years just by being present and alive and awake to the world, and to combine them in extraordinary new ways. In order for us to truly create and contribute to the world, we have to be able to connect countless dots, to cross-pollinate ideas from a wealth of disciplines, to combine and recombine these ideas and build new ideas — like LEGOs. The more of these building blocks we have, and the more diverse their shapes and colors, the more interesting our creations will become.”

- Via my Mom, original source to come.

n u a g e s - Dreams

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:08:33 -0800

n u a g e s - Dreams

Volkswagen Night Driving, with a recording of Richard Burton...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:06:00 -0800

Volkswagen Night Driving, with a recording of Richard Burton reading Under Milkwood. 2007

Agency: DDB, London
Art Director: Shishir Patel
Copywriter: Sam Oliver

Inspired to post this from my memory, and because I heard n u a g e s - Dreams tonight

Mitchell’s Secret : The New Yorker

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:30:00 -0800

Mitchell’s Secret : The New Yorker:

One of my favorite writers from the New Yorker, writer of Joe Gould’s Secret, Mr. Hunter’s Grave, among many tributes to the everyday New Yorkers, is back in posthumous form.

A biography is coming, and this month the New Yorker published a glimpse of his never completed memoir. His notorious case of writers block has been broken in a way.

Joseph Mitchell started at The New Yorker in 1938, and was a staff writer for fifty-eight years, until his death in 1996. His journalism chronicled everyday life in New York City—he wrote about Mohawk steelworkers, fishermen, street-preachers, bartenders, ticket-takers, and bearded ladies. In the mid nineteen-sixties, he stopped publishing any work in the magazine. But apparently he never stopped writing.

In this week’s issue, there’s a previously unpublished chapter from an unfinished memoir that he started in the late nineteen-sixties and early nineteen-seventies. Here, The New Yorker’s editor David Remnick and staff writer Ian Frazier talk with Sasha Weiss about their memories of Mitchell, why he didn’t publish for so many decades, and the influence his writing has had on them and on the magazine.

Herb Caen: Baghdad-By-The-Bay Published in 1949 I bought this...

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:38:00 -0800

Herb Caen:

Baghdad-By-The-Bay

Published in 1949

I bought this book after reading this nice little remembrance of Herb Caen’s San Francisco spots, written by an admirer that never actually read his daily column in the Chronicle.

My mom was a fan of Caen, and read it religiously (maybe I should say habitually, since she’s not religious) every night. I remember it’s feeling of another era, even then. The purpose of the column was lost on me, but it still felt like an important, grown-up institution for the Bay Area. I do remember that it was often printed next to a Macy’s ad in the newspaper.

I’ll let you know if the book is any good.

the-dark-city: “Casablanca” (1942) - French poster

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:07:03 -0800

the-dark-city:

“Casablanca” (1942) - French poster

I love finding ephemera (my own and others) in old...

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:31:56 -0800

I love finding ephemera (my own and others) in old books.

strandbooks:

Did you lose your Elk’s Club membership card from 1979? Don’t worry. We’ve got you covered.

Russell on Huckabees

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:14:56 -0800

In an interview with the Suicide Girls website, director David Russell said in response to the question “How do you describe I Heart Huckabees?”:

Here’s how I described it to the people who financed the movie: Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin are existential detectives who you could hire to investigate the meaning of your life. They are formal, they wear suits, they are Paris-trained and their clients include Jude Law, Naomi Watts, Jason Schwartzman and Mark Wahlberg. Their ostensible nemesis is Isabelle Huppert. Hilarity ensues.

Delp Philosophy: February 2013

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:35:00 -0800

1. Right now is everything.

2. Be kind to people.

3. Have fun.

Updated monthly!