WEEKLY EMAIL: JULY 14, 2011
FEATURED THIS WEEK : OWEN EDWARDS
Packing it In
I don’t smoke, and I haven’t decided yet if it’s worth spending whatever a pack of cigarettes costs these days to get a close look at the new FDA-required health warnings. These little horror shows are designed to solve a powerful addiction through the magic of graphic ghastliness.READ MORE
JESSICA HELFAND & MARVIN HEIFERMAN
On the Shoulders of Midgets: A Conversation About Reality TV
They’re about survival, fantasy, self-improvement, humiliation, and, in some cases, creativity. So what's behind the enduring success of reality TV? And why does our obsession with it persist? What do all these shows — stories about hook-ups, competition, tiny people, over-determined cupcakes, raging egos and compulsions and makeovers of things both alive and inanimate — tell us? That we are as complex as we are predictable. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.READ MORE
JOHN FOSTER
Accidental Mysteries, 07.10.11
Accidental Mysteries, a weekly cabinet of visual curiosities curated by John Foster, highlights images of design, art, architecture and ephemera brought to light by the magic of the digital age.READ MORE
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Jump Cut: Thoughts on Editing
To be a top-notch film editor you need to have the eye of a painter, the ear of a composer and the story sense of a writer. You also need the ruthlessness of a commodities trader. What can designers, architects and writers learn from the art of film editing?READ MORE
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For Sale: The Earliest Modern Studio in America
In 1931, a young American artist designed and built himself a modern studio on a mountaintop in the Berkshires in Northwest Connecticut: it would be one of the first modern houses in America, pre-dating Frank Lloyd’s Fallingwater by five years. It has been the home of Winterhouse since 1998, and is now for sale.READ MORE
JESSICA HELFAND
The Look of Freedom
It was the American novelist William Faulkner who once observed that we must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. So who am I to take issue with more contemporary interpretations of commemorative form?A design critic, that's who.
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JOHN FOSTER
Accidental Mysteries, 07.03.11
Accidental Mysteries, a weekly cabinet of visual curiosities curated by John Foster, highlights images of design, art, architecture and ephemera brought to light by the magic of the digital age.READ MORE
Almost one billion people don't have safe and clean drinking water
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POEM OF THE WEEK
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@. "Like the whorl of an out-of-this-world ear..." A poem celebrating our most contemporary punctuation mark by Paul Muldoon.READ MORE
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