Martin Kippenberger
Photo: Patrick Andrade for The New York Times
"The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s ‘Amerika,’”
installation at MoMA.
27 February 2009
26 February 2009
Jonathan Horowitz
Photo: Courtesy of Jonathan Horowitz and Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
(click on image to enlarge)
25 February 2009
24 February 2009
Israel
Photo: Menahem Kahana/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
NYTimes: Gray cranes flocked over the Agamon Ha-Hula Lake at the Hula valley in northern Israel. More than half a billion birds of some 400 hundred species pass through the Jordan Valley to Africa and back to Europe when summer comes. Some 25,000 Gray Cranes stayed this winter in the Agamon Ha-Hula Lake instead of migrating to Africa, taking advantage of the safety of this artificial water source.
NYTimes: Gray cranes flocked over the Agamon Ha-Hula Lake at the Hula valley in northern Israel. More than half a billion birds of some 400 hundred species pass through the Jordan Valley to Africa and back to Europe when summer comes. Some 25,000 Gray Cranes stayed this winter in the Agamon Ha-Hula Lake instead of migrating to Africa, taking advantage of the safety of this artificial water source.
23 February 2009
20 February 2009
Kabul
Photo: Lynsey Addario for The New York Times
Prosthetic limbs at the Kabul Orthopedic center in Afghanistan's capital.
Prosthetic limbs at the Kabul Orthopedic center in Afghanistan's capital.
19 February 2009
Universal Design
Photo: Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times
A shower fitted with a cushioned white folding chair made by the Danish company Pressalit Care.
A shower fitted with a cushioned white folding chair made by the Danish company Pressalit Care.
13 February 2009
12 February 2009
Abraham Lincoln
Illustration: Warren Schumacher
On the two hundredth anniversary of his birth.
President Obama:
"When President Lincoln was finally told of all the metal being used [in the building of] the Capitol, his response was short and clear: That is as it should be. The American people needed to be reminded, he believed, that even in a time of war, the work would go on; that even when the nation itself was in doubt, the future was being secured; and that on that distant day when the guns fell silent, a national capitol would stand, with a statue of freedom at its peak, as a symbol of unity in the land still mending its divisions."
11 February 2009
Beijing
Photo: Associated Press
NYTimes: A portion of Beijing's iconic China Central Television campus designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas was set ablaze by an errant firework during the final night of celebrations for the Lunar New Year. Investigators placed the blame for the blaze on China Central Television, whose employees defied the police by staging their illegal pyrotechnics too close to the unfinished complex. One firefighter was killed in the blaze and six others were injured.
A reader at Andrew Sullivan's blog writes on the economic crisis:
It is very interesting to watch how this crisis reveals and highlights character: the sniveling privileged Wall Street upper-crust, the semi-hysterical, uninformed punditocracy, the puerile Republican opposition -- and Obama, cool as a cucumber, playing his game, five steps ahead, setting up moves that won't come to fruition for months or years, while his opposition flails at the thin air where he used to be. I love it.It's the future that is calling Obama, not the present.
The Republican reaction to this stimulus package is on a par with McCain suspending his campaign during the primary to "handle" the economic crisis back in Washington. Completely clueless, cynical empty gestures. They think we'll forget. They're wrong. What Karl Rove wanted, and was willing to steal by any means necessary, Obama will get, handed to him as a free gift by the American people: real political power, the power to transform society for a generation or more.
10 February 2009
Just in terms of the historic record here: The Republicans were brought in early and were consulted. Remember when we introduced our framework: They were pleasantly surprised and complimentary about the tax cuts that were presented in that framework. Those tax cuts are still in there! I suppose what I could have done was I could have started out with no tax cuts, knowing I was gonna want some, and maybe that's the lesson I should have learned. But there was consultation….
It's a little hard for me to take criticism from folks of this recovery package, after they presided over a doubling of the national debt. I'm not sure they have a lot of credibility when it comes to fiscal responsibility.
09 February 2009
07 February 2009
Andrew Sullivan
On the economic stimulus plan:
Politically, as the dust settles, I suspect Obama outfoxed his opponents, again. They are playing the 24 hour news cycle game. That's all they know (ditto cable news). Obama isn't. That's why he's president. Eventually, they'll figure it out.
06 February 2009
05 February 2009
04 February 2009
The New Yorker
“A Walk in the Park”
Gary Amaro
Berkeley, California
One of twelve winning entries in the magazine's second competition of reader's concepts for the annual Eustace Tilley anniversary cover. "Eustace Tilley, the magazine’s mascot, appeared on the cover of the first issue of The New Yorker as well as almost every anniversary issue since."
www.newyorker.com/online/photocontests/eustace_tilley_2009/gallery
03 February 2009
02 February 2009
American Apparel
Photo: Dean Isidro for The New York Times
Cotton crew-neck thermal top (with sleeves cut off), $20, cotton long underwear, $30, and cotton fleece pants (cut off), $36, all at American Apparel.
Cotton crew-neck thermal top (with sleeves cut off), $20, cotton long underwear, $30, and cotton fleece pants (cut off), $36, all at American Apparel.
Photo: Stephane De Sakutin/Agence France-Presse -- Getty Images
NYTimes: Heavy snow disrupted transportation across northern France, delaying flights out of Paris airports and causing accidents and long lines of traffic on routes into the capital. The view of the top of the Eiffel Tower was obscured by the inclement weather.
NYTimes: Heavy snow disrupted transportation across northern France, delaying flights out of Paris airports and causing accidents and long lines of traffic on routes into the capital. The view of the top of the Eiffel Tower was obscured by the inclement weather.
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