Dream Ticket
31 January 2008
Radio
NYTimes:
The Magno wood radio designed by Singgih Kartono, with an MP3 player, will be available April 1 for $275. Stores: (212) 226-5155 or www.areaware.com.
29 January 2008
Bouroullec
Vitra: Joyn office system, 2002, designed by R & E Bouroullec
"Our starting point is always what people need from each product," said Erwan Bouroullec. "We recognize that their needs are bound to change over time, and that the product has to be flexible enough to change too."
28 January 2008
26 January 2008
Max
Illustration: Max
NYTimes Book Review 27 January 08
This Republic of Suffering
By Drew Gilpin Faust
www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/books/review/Ward-t.html?ref=review
25 January 2008
Carpet
NYTimes: Faux Bois, a hand-woven silk and wool Tibetan carpet by Martha Stewart, comes in three neutral color combinations ($449 to $5,095, depending on size); for stores: (866) 422-9070 or www .safavieh.com.
24 January 2008
23 January 2008
Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic
SpaceShipTwo
NYTimes:
Burt Rutan took the cloak off of his new spacecraft on Wednesday. Mr. Rutan, the creator of SpaceShipOne, the first privately-financed craft to carry a human into space, traveled to New York to show detailed models of the bigger SpaceShipTwo and its carrier airplane, WhiteKnightTwo. “Most people think of going to space as Saturn V or the Space Shuttle,” said Mr. Whitehorn, the company president. But the Rutan model, a descendant of the record-breaking X-15 experimental craft, shows there is another way, he said.
The vehicle is meant to open space to a new generation of spacefarers who are more creative than the classically trained astronauts, Mr. Rutan said. And that will bring with it a new way of looking at space travel, just as personal computing opened up the use of computers from a military and academic tool to something that transformed the world.
SpaceShipTwo
NYTimes:
Burt Rutan took the cloak off of his new spacecraft on Wednesday. Mr. Rutan, the creator of SpaceShipOne, the first privately-financed craft to carry a human into space, traveled to New York to show detailed models of the bigger SpaceShipTwo and its carrier airplane, WhiteKnightTwo. “Most people think of going to space as Saturn V or the Space Shuttle,” said Mr. Whitehorn, the company president. But the Rutan model, a descendant of the record-breaking X-15 experimental craft, shows there is another way, he said.
The vehicle is meant to open space to a new generation of spacefarers who are more creative than the classically trained astronauts, Mr. Rutan said. And that will bring with it a new way of looking at space travel, just as personal computing opened up the use of computers from a military and academic tool to something that transformed the world.
Rafah, Egypt
Photo: Abid Katib/Getty Images
NYTimes: Thousands of Palestinians streamed from the Gaza Strip into Egypt on Wednesday after a fence at the Rafah border crossing was toppled, going on a buying spree of fuel, medicine, soap, cigarettes and many other supplies that have been cut off during days of blockade by Israel.
19 January 2008
17 January 2008
Milan
Photo: Alessandro Garofalo/Reuters (left and middle); Damien Meyer/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images (right)
Menswear: Alexander McQueen (left) and Burberry (center/right)
15 January 2008
14 January 2008
11 January 2008
Times and Winds
Kino International
Ozkan Ozen, left, and Ali Bey Kayali in “Times and Winds.”
NYTimes:
The film is organized around the five daily calls to Islamic prayer, chronologically reversed so that night is followed by evening, then afternoon, noon and dawn. As the sun rises at the end of the movie, this rearrangement of time simultaneously evokes the village’s unchanging way of life and the blind expectations of preadolescent children facing adulthood.
As in Iranian films that focus on childhood, the soundtrack of “Times and Winds” is filled with the stirrings of nature — the wind rushing through trees, animal sounds and bird song from near and far. Augmenting this pastoral symphony are excerpts from several pieces by Arvo Pärt (including the “Te Deum”) that add texture and gravity to the film. The music — lush but emotionally neutral and at times static — conjures eternal things.
For all its beauty, though, you couldn’t describe “Times and Winds” as uplifting, and its attitude toward childhood is not sentimental in the manner of similarly minimalist Iranian movies. Its vision of people in thrall to religious ritual and living at the mercy of nature may be poetic, but it is no idyll. The serpent has done its dirty work.
Ozkan Ozen, left, and Ali Bey Kayali in “Times and Winds.”
NYTimes:
The film is organized around the five daily calls to Islamic prayer, chronologically reversed so that night is followed by evening, then afternoon, noon and dawn. As the sun rises at the end of the movie, this rearrangement of time simultaneously evokes the village’s unchanging way of life and the blind expectations of preadolescent children facing adulthood.
As in Iranian films that focus on childhood, the soundtrack of “Times and Winds” is filled with the stirrings of nature — the wind rushing through trees, animal sounds and bird song from near and far. Augmenting this pastoral symphony are excerpts from several pieces by Arvo Pärt (including the “Te Deum”) that add texture and gravity to the film. The music — lush but emotionally neutral and at times static — conjures eternal things.
For all its beauty, though, you couldn’t describe “Times and Winds” as uplifting, and its attitude toward childhood is not sentimental in the manner of similarly minimalist Iranian movies. Its vision of people in thrall to religious ritual and living at the mercy of nature may be poetic, but it is no idyll. The serpent has done its dirty work.
09 January 2008
Antonio Mancini
The Saltimbanco: 1877-78
NYTimes:
Away from the easel Mancini was a shy, unworldly man and such an easy mark for cadging friends, models and family members that the money he earned evaporated. He often painted over finished works when art materials were scarce. When they ran out, he would draw, paint or write on the walls. In 1880-81, the pressure to succeed led to a nervous breakdown and four months in a mental hospital in Naples.
Until around 1910, he was frequently destitute. A representative of one of his patrons visiting him in Rome in the winter of 1893 was appalled to find him in a cold, nearly empty studio wearing a buttonless flannel shirt, six pairs of pants held up with rope, several vests and a greasy overcoat.
04 January 2008
02 January 2008
NYC
NYTimes:
Construction workers continue work on the restoration of the High Line, a defunct elevated railway that is being converted to a mile-long elevated city park on the far West Side. The park is scheduled to be opened next fall.
The project threads its way through 10 other developments, including a new tunnel through what will be the Standard Hotel at Washington and Little West 12th Streets.
Photo: Damon Winter/The New York Times
01 January 2008
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