February 2010
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Muscle-Up Your Diet →
Nothing too earth shattering here, but it’s worth a read through, for the “eat this not that” value, or foods you might not be consuming if you’re lifting i.e. 7 foods that will help you build muscle, lose fat, and improve your overall health.
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Man of Mannerism/Audio Slide Show →
“This week in the magazine, Peter Schjeldahl writes about the drawings of Agnolo Bronzino, the sixteenth-century Mannerist painter, which are on exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this audio slide show, Schjeldahl discusses Bronzino’s early influences, analyzes several of his key works, and notices a parallel between Mannerism and creative culture today”
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“He had contributed to the events by which another boy was saved from the army of...”
– Wes Anderson on J. D. Salinger quoting from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story ‘The Freshest Boy’ in The New Yorker Magazine.
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Jupiter and Antiope for 6 Million →
Jupiter and Antiope, Hendrick Goltzius’ bawdy large-scale mythological scene from 1612 sold to an anonymous telephone bidder for a record $6,802,500 at Sotheby’s Important Old Master Paintings and Sculpture sale last night.
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“The characters in J. D. Salinger’s stories are always tap dancing expertly on...”
– Charles Poore’s 1961 review of J. D. Salinger’s “Franny and Zooey”. R.I.P. Salinger.
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10 Key Menswear Trends →
What are the vital looks for the season ahead - and where do you get them? Why does this make my head hurt and why do I cringe and feel horribly unfashionable.
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Guardian Editor Hits Back at Paywalls →
“Delivering the 2010 Hugh Cudlipp lectureat London College of Communication today, Rusbridger said that universal charging for newspaper content on the internet would remove the industry from a digital revolution which is allowing news organisations to engage with their readers more than ever before….
It’s not a ‘digital trend’. It’s a trend about how people...
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Aesthetic Power Plants →
“Ferry and Monoian came to Dubai from Pittsburgh about a year and a half ago when Monoian took a job teaching graphic design at the American University of Dubai. Ferry is an architect who has consulted on Masdar city and a few other local projects. The couple came up with the notion of “aesthetic power plants” last year, when Ferry entered a design competition to create a tall “emblem”...
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Lady Bunny's Haiti Live Recap →
Worth a re-reading; “Julia Roberts’ unbrushed dry mange with retarded girl bangs was rotten! And no honey, it didn’t make you look edgy like your stylist told you for $5,000…Justin Timberlake’s gay rumors can stop now. His closeups revealed cracked and chapped lips. No self-respecting gay is without at least one tube of lip balm at all points.”
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Serfing the Net, is Dispersed Creativity Free? →
“The network revolution, the story goes, has finally made culture a two-way street, liberating the masses from the grip of greedy entertainment industries and quaint notions of authorial control and originality. We are all ‘content generators’ now, free to produce, consume, exchange and remix as we like, free of charge in every instance…This stirring tale of empowerment is...
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Rude Lewd Vulgur and Crude →
“The crowds who flocked to the London playhouses in the late-16th and early-17th centuries could expect to be amused, amazed and moved. Not only would they experience the drama of some courtly comedy or woeful tragedy but, in many cases, if they stayed on after the play had ended, they would also be treated to a sort of ‘B-feature’, a rude, lewd farce, commonly known as a ‘jig’. Featuring...
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Gay Identity Refracted in Multiple Voices →
“Word Is Out,” a 1977 documentary that is being revived in a restored print at Anthology Film Archives starting Friday, interweaves the stories of 26 gay men and lesbians who speak openly about coming out, finding love and fighting prejudice. It was a milestone in the developing public image of the gay-rights movement.” Great little multimedia segment from the Times too.
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DJ Sergio Tavelli’s Playlist For The Burberry...
#1 – Maid of Orleans, OMD #2 – Only You, Yazoo #3 – Vienna, Ultravox #4 – Trumpets, The Waterboy
