Hudson Andrew Renner

Time of birth: 10:55p (18:55)
Weight: 8.15 pounds
Length: 21 inches

Welcome.

Jacy

Photo: Priscilla Edwards
Any time now, Hudson.

Peter Bjorn and John

1 May 2008: Swedish American Hall (Peter Morén Solo Album tour)
San Francisco, California

Behavioral finance

Jason Zweig
Author: Your Money & Your Brain
Neuroeconomics

Porky in Wackyland

1938
Dir: Bob Clampett

Adrian Danks, Sense of Cinema:
In September 1938, Clampett released his eleventh cartoon for Warner Bros. This seven-minute film, Porky in Wackyland, is in many ways both an exemplary and typical early Clampett cartoon. The initial establishment of the story's world is both economical and rudimentary, the real “fun” occurring once Porky traverses the boundary line that announces, “Welcome to Wackyland: It Can Happen Here!” Such a flimsy barrier between worlds is typical of Clampett's work at Warners, though such a clear demarcation becomes less common in the more freewheeling and extreme work that dots his last four years at the studio. Inspired by Lewis Carroll's adventures of Alice in Wonderland, as well as the canvases of Picasso and Dali, Clampett takes Porky on a journey into a surreal, abstracted landscape in which the logic of our – and commonly Porky's – world is reversed and transcended: a rabbit swings on his own ears; a rubber band marches by; a dog and cat are physically conjoined; a criminal holds bars in front of his face to prove his incarceration; and the Do-Do [that] Porky is hunting lifts up the backdrop of the scenery to escape, zooms into the foreground on the Warners shield, and intermittently appears to attenuate the animation with his own pencil. He becomes one of numerous characters in Clampett's cartoons whose “inner” psychology or nature is reflected and refracted onto his body and surroundings.

Doorstop

Photo: Eugene Gologursky for The New York Times
Twelve dollars apiece at greenergrassdesign.com.

Akram Khan

Michael Falco for The New York Times
Akram Khan in "zero degrees."

NYTimes:
Much of the allure of the work is the physical pairing of Mr. Khan, who was raised in London by immigrant Bangladeshi parents and grew up studying traditional Indian Kathak dance, and Mr. Cherkaoui, of the Belgian collective Les Ballets C. de la B. Mr. Cherkaoui possesses a body so elastic it seems more cartoon than human. They are joined onstage by two others — in the form of life-size mannequins by the sculptor Antony Gormley. Four musicians, visible behind a scrim, perform Nitin Sawhney’s score.

In one scene Mr. Khan dribbles Mr. Cherkaoui’s malleable body like a basketball. In another Mr. Cherkaoui slaps a mannequin as Mr. Khan’s immobile body, sprawled on the floor, recoils as if he has been hit. But along with such gimmicks are extended passages of dancing, which include intricate hand-and-arm duets and a distillation of martial arts, beautifully displaying Mr. Khan’s whiplash speed and Mr. Cherkaoui’s supple control.

Happy Birthday

Boston

Photo: Hospital de la v.O.T. de San Francisco de Asis
"The Stigmatization of St. Francis" by Vincente Carducho
NYTimes:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
"Among the show's most floridly imaginative works are paintings showing Saint Francis of Assisi having visions. In one by Vicente Carducho, the saint levitates over a rural landscape and receives stigmata from Jesus who hovers before him, crucified on a cross of pink, angelic wings. The ecstasy seems as much erotic as religious."

Pottery Barn Kids

Boy's coverall

Frette

Billy Elliot: The Musical

Photo: Yui Mok/Associated Press
From left, James Lomas, George McGuire and Liam Mower in the London production.

Photo: Chris Shipman for The New York Times
Checked cotton blazer, $1,270 at Paul Smith; Junya Watanabe Man Comme des Garçons floral cotton shirt, $450 at Barneys; nautical-print silk tie, $105 at Ralph Lauren; Woolrich Woolen Mills cotton madras pants, $239 at Bergdorf Goodman; webbed cotton belt, $3 at Dave's New York.

Maarten Baas

NYTimes:
Assemblage of Chinese furniture.

Established & Sons

Stack storage system, designed by Shay Alkalay for Established & Sons.