July 2011
9 posts
Syd Mead on the meaning of the words ‘natural’ vs ‘artificial’
“The...
– Syd Mead, a “visual futurist” and concept artist, Future Concepts: The World of Syd Mead, p.15, cited in Car Styling Magazine 088, May 1992 (tnx wildcat2030)
June 2011
14 posts
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Mr. Whiting produces about 80,000 roosters a year for feathers and owns specific...
– When fashion meets fishing, the feathers fly
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An Amish man who sent hundreds of sexually charged text messages to a...
– Amish sexting scandal
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As for democracy, it is a religion drawn up by godless Europe to save itself...
– The Afghanistan of Islam rejects pollution by democracy and westernization — from a Taliban press release
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Reich’s appeal was emotional, not rational—the appeal of a born loser who...
– From a review in the WSJ of a new biography of William Riech
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Graffiti Stop-Motion (via DFF)
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I kiss you my sweetheart—and please do not imagine that I am running after...
– Vladimir Nabokov, letter to his wife, October 2-3 1942 (via The New Yorker)
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Some critics have suggested that Zabiba and the King was ghostwritten. I doubt...
– Daniel Kalder reviews Saddam Hussein’s foray into Dic-Lit
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Both ‘American Beauty’ and ‘The Ice Storm’ are of a...
– Sincere? or Authentic? By Nyla Matuk at Ryeberg.com
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May 2011
14 posts
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Dans un communiqué publié vendredi, le président de la Fédération des artisans...
– The Artisanal Butchers of Beauvais are unhappy.
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OK, so von Trier was banned and peacefully accepted his persona non grata status...
– Iran = Assholes, from VICE