29 October 2009

Los Angeles, 1933


Photo: Julius Shulman

Topanga Canyon, California


Photo: DH
Bradshaw/Hargrove Residence

Dover Air Force Base

28 October 2009

Antoine+Manuel


Cabinet of Curiosities

News page

Paris

26 October 2009

Ferrari California



NYTimes:

The California is the company’s least expensive model by far. With a base price of less than $200,000 (as tested, $216,553), it is a relative bargain by Ferrari standards. Its standard features include a 453-horsepower V-8 engine (a detuned version of the F430’s power plant), a 7-speed dual-clutch transmission, ceramic brakes and racing-inspired traction and launch controls that enable 3.5-second runs from a stop to 60 miles an hour.

15 October 2009

Little in Isermann

David Hockney



"Maurice Payne"
NYTimes: Mr. Hockney, renowned for his portraits, has been working with Photoshop and a Wacom tablet. This painting is an Inkjet-printed computer drawing on paper from 2008.

Story here.

09 October 2009

Nobel Peace Prize Winner


Photo: Stephen Crowley/The New York Times

NYTimes: The Nobel Committee announced Friday that the annual peace prize was awarded to Barack Obama, nine months into his presidency, "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." At left, Mr. Obama spoke on Friday after winning the prize.

“Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future,” the committee said in its citation. “His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world’s population.”

08 October 2009

Almodóvar


Photo: Emilio Pereda & Paola Ardizzoni / El Deseo, via Sony Pictures Classics
Penelope Cruz in "Broken Embraces."


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Jamie Oliver


Photo: Olaf Blecker for The New York Times

NYTimes:
Jamie Oliver, the British celebrity chef, has made it his mission in recent years to break people's dependence on fast food.

Story here.

07 October 2009

Irving Penn 1917-2009


"Truman Capote, New York, 1948"

South of the City


Photo: Peter DaSilva for The New York Times
NYTimes: Confronting the Pacific Ocean in all its most imposing and treacherous grandeur is Devil's Slide, a two-mile ribbon of coastal road just ten miles south of San Francisco. However, this is an experience that has to be sampled soon. It's scheduled to be closed to cars in 2011 and to be replaced by tunnels.

The White House


Photo: Courtesy of Ed Ruscha
NYTimes: The White House released a list of 45 artworks that are on loan to the Obamas from several Washington museums. It is a big, broad selection, mostly modern and contemporary paintings and sculptures. Shown here, "I think I'll ... " by the Californian artist Ed Ruscha. It deals with the subject of indecision. "Michael Smith (the Obama's decorator) came to us with a long list of artists and asked me what was available,” Kerry Brougher, chief curator at the Hirshhorn Museum, said in a telephone interview. “There are some very interesting figures. It’s more interesting and shows a greater diversity of art than I’ve seen.”
Story here.

05 October 2009

Fall


Photo: Dean Isidro for The New York Times

Michael Bastian cotton trench coat, $2,750 at Bergdorf; Idol Radec oxford tuxedo shirt, $295 at Bloomingdale's; corduroy tuxedo jacket (part of a suit), $1,710 at Etro; polka-dot bow tie, $69 at Club Monaco; wool trousers in bird's-eye-check, $645 at Maison Martin Margiela.