Archive for October, 2007

Continuing today's unintentional simulacrum theme.

Completist approach to Duchamp's most famous piece, and what is to be done with it. My high school Marxist Studies teacher (no joke) continuously used Fountain as an example of how ridiculous the art world is (fair point) but there's much more to it.

"Not that anyone else would notice, since no one ever notices when you’re not wearing a particular item of clothing, unless that item is your pants. But I had internal street credibility, which, in Ohio, where I live, is sufficient."

Is this how subway stations are born?

Exhibition sign at Alphabet at Cooper Union

Excellent blackletter by one of my favorite foundries, in living color.

Rainy night in Chelsea.

This is what it always sounds like in my head when I'm singing along to this song.

A number of statistical approaches to the history of the Nobel Prize, centered on the languages written in by the winners.

Mix and match your won flag.

Interesting story about an expert photography historian / consultant.

"And i know that he cannot approach me / Cuz i'm lookin' like class and he's lookin' like trash"

Hopefully swinging through here tomorrow evening.

Successive rounds of drawings of superheroes/-villians whose special powers beat the special powers of the superheroes/-villians from the round before.

The fall guy in so many knock knock jokes.