30 December 2010

Farewell, Kodachrome


Steve Hebert for The New York Times

Kodak stopped making Kodachrome film in 2009.
"That celebrated 75-year run from mainstream to niche photography is scheduled to come to an end on Thursday when the last processing machine is shut down here to be sold for scrap."

22 December 2010

Winter


Photographer: Unidentified

07 December 2010

23 November 2010

19 November 2010

Brian Shaffer

08 November 2010

Illustrator: Michael Sloane


NYTimes Editorial: "My Endless New York"

05 November 2010

Corfu


Photo: NYTimes

28 October 2010

Paris: 17th Arrondisement


Andreas Meichsner for The New York Times

Illustrator: Christopher Silas Neal


"Why Sisterly Chats Make People Happier"
NYTimes

15 October 2010


New York Times:
Pskov Region, Russia
Credit: Dmitry Markov

Reclaimed wood


A bedroom at the Ace Hotel in Portland, Oregon.

Angelidakis


Proposal for Hollywood Hills home.

20 September 2010

15 September 2010

Boeing


An artist’s rendering of Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft.

NYTimes:
Boeing said on Wednesday that it was entering the space-tourism business, an announcement that could bolster the Obama administration’s efforts to transform the National Aeronautics and Space Administration into an agency that focuses less on building rockets and more on nurturing a commercial space industry.

Boeing, which is developing a capsule that it hopes will take NASA astronauts to the International Space Station, announced that it will offer for sale any seats that NASA does not need. The entrance of an aerospace giant like Boeing perhaps marks the transition of space tourism from a dreamy pursuit of start-up entrepreneurs to a mainstream aerospace market.

“We’re ready now to start talking to prospective customers,” said Eric C. Anderson, co-founder and chairman of Space Adventures, a Virginia-based space tourism company that would market the seats for Boeing.

08 September 2010

Bourg, France


Photo: Ed Alcock/NYTimes

02 September 2010

Barack and Michelle


Photo: The White House

26 August 2010

Scandinavian Design


A source of inspiration for my sister, this site gathers examples of an aesthetic that I truly love.

President Obama


Photo: White House via Facebook

19 August 2010

Summer


Ryan Lochte, left, and Michael Phelps after the 200-meter individual medley at the national championships. Lochte finished first, his first major victory over his longtime rival Phelps.

03 August 2010

Jérôme Vinçon: Lode Architecture


Normandy

01 August 2010

Summer 2010

27 July 2010

Excellence


Penguin Books

19 July 2010

Sweden


From Remodelista:
Innovative architects Bolle Tham and Martin Videgard of Stockholm firm Tham & Videgard devised the triangular Garden House in Viksberg, Sweden, to "blur the line between indoors and out, so that indoor and outdoor spaces gradually blend and interact." The house's trellis enclosure will eventually be covered with vines, providing shade and greenery; the interior also features a double-height indoor winter garden. Go to Tham & Videgard for more information.

14 July 2010

Thorsten van Elten


http://gretelhome.com/

Puerto Rico


Photo: Moris Moreno For The New York Times

07 July 2010

Illustration: Always With Honor


NYTimes: Op-Ed Page: "Sweet Honey on the Block"

25 June 2010

Félix Fénéon


Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones, and Tints, Portrait of M. Félix Fénéon in 1890

18 June 2010

"The Killer Inside Me"


Casey Affleck in Michael Winterbottom's film of the Jim Thompson novel.

17 June 2010

County Down, Ireland


NYTimes: Built in 1810, this 2,400-square-foot stone house in County Down near Belfast was once a complex of stables.

02 June 2010

Illustrator: Matt Rota


For the NYTimes: Letters
"The Israeli Commandos and the Flotilla"

Bethany Jean Fancher


"Crossing"
2003: Archival inkjet print
Here.

French Open

01 June 2010

Edie Falco


Photo: Ken Regan / Showtime

As Nurse Jackie.

26 May 2010

Atlantis


Photo: Don Emmert/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

NYTimes: Space Shuttle Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday after its final mission.

24 May 2010

1927


From Flowing Data: Map from Paramount Studios, produced in 1927, showed investors locations that would replicate far-off locales without leaving California. I live in Bret Harte, California, just south of Spanish California.

21 May 2010

New York City


Béatrice de Géa for The New York Times
NYTimes: Lincoln Center’s new lawn, atop a two-story structure along West 65th Street, curves up on two ends and is adjacent to a extended reflecting pool and a grove of trees.

20 May 2010

Photo: Tony Cenicola


For NYTimes: Marijuana Fuels a New Kitchen Culture

White Brick

Linen


Adam Kimmel linen blazer, $1,312 at Barneys; Neil Barrett short-sleeve cotton button-down shirt, $425, and Alexander Olch linen tie, $140, both at Bergdorf Goodman.

Credit: Richard Phibbs for The New York Times

Catskills

05 May 2010

Patmos


Photo: Jim Greenberg
The new wall. Building progresses.

04 May 2010

Stephen Fry

When I was growing up ‘elitism’ was a word sneered from the lips of the Left, now it is sneered from the lips of the Right. The sneering was ugly then and it is ugly now. Knowledge, science, understanding, literacy and curiosity are absolute goods and to hell with anyone who tries to follow that American habit here and attempts to construct a discourse in which only a despised liberal elite are interested in science, the arts, history and ideas. Such wickedness reminds one of those who opposed Education For All at the end of the nineteenth century. All knowledge should be free and available and all people should be encouraged to acquire it. It will not necessarily lead to liberalism, but it will lead to understanding and a desire for openness and decent, non-tribalist exchanges of the kind that can only enrich our democracy.

bulthaup


Kitchen design

03 May 2010

Illustrator: Stina Löfgren


NYTimes:
Book Review
KISSING THE MASK
Beauty, Understatement and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater With Some Thoughts on Muses (Especially Helga Testorf), Transgender Women, Kabuki Goddesses, Porn Queens, Poets, Housewives, Makeup Artists, Geishas, Valkyries and Venus Figurines

By William T. Vollmann

28 April 2010

Home

23 April 2010

Travel


Courtesy of Worldwide Aeros Corp.
Model of the Aeroscraft, a hybrid airship, designed mainly to carry cargo. It would be faster than a conventional airship but much slower than a jet.

22 April 2010

Manhattan


Photo: Peter Lappin

Seattle, Washington

16 April 2010

Manhattan


Photo: Trevor Tondro for The New York Times
Matthew Willey's studio, Greenwich Village.
Story here.

15 April 2010

A Cabin in Georgia



Photo: Robert Rausch for The New York Times

NYTimes (here):
The house is built into the side of a hill, and the bedroom is half-underground, which keeps it cool in the summer. A rusty mattress spring from an antique bed makes a wall hanging; ladder-back chairs have seats woven from old ties.