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