drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 28 2009 | photography, art, detroit, leduff, china, travel, media
I didn't know anything about Robert Frank before I read this. It was a grand introduction. Around here, the author is similarly enigmatic to the subject. The article got him a Mirror Award nomination; hopefully he wins some new fans.
Quoted: Published in 1958, Robert Frank’s photographic manifesto, The Americans, torched the national myth, bringing him such comrades as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and—for a controversial documentary—the Rolling Stones. On a trip to China, the 83-year-old rebel of postwar film still defies expectations.
- drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 11 2009 | fiction, funny, art
Interesting project, and a very fun story. Authors make up back stories to go with various knickknacks. Then the objects are sold. Apparently the point is to figure out whether the stories add value to the objects.
This is my favorite of the stories I've read.
Quoted: This is an icon of the fourteenth-century saint Vralkomir of Dnobst, the patron saint of extremely fast dancing.
Quoted: In the autumn of 1347, in response to a perceived slight from a Dnobstian maiden, the recently enthroned Tsar Nÿrdrag the Irascible (also known as “The Cowbird Tsar,” a Scandinavian foundling whom the previous Tsar and Tsarina unknowingly raised as their own) issued an edict banning fire in Dnobst.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 16 2009 | giant, theater, art, puppetts, cool, video, photos
My friends in the puppeteering community were thrilled by this. I like it too. That's a shipping container he's sitting on.
Quoted: The remarkable French marionette street theatre Royal de Lux unveiled their latest creations this past weekend. As the highlight of the Estuary 2009 Arts Festival in Nantes, the theater drew a gigantic crowd to view a gigantic fairytale.
ShareViewed: 2 Times - drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 16 2008 | detroit, history, historic preservation, architecture, michigan, art
Quoted: "If you tear down all of the historic buildings downtown and build new, what are we?" asks Mark Nickita, president of downtown-based architecture firm Archive DS. "We're Troy with higher taxes and a worse school district."
ShareViewed: 2 Times - drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 04 2008 | photos, redeemable slate content, hungary, nostalgia, travel, art
I checked Slate for the first time in years today and was delighted to find photos of the Danube, allowing me to continue my nostalgic Budapest dotting.
Quick reminder: If you're ever in a hotel lobby and they start to play 'The Blue Danube Waltz,' get the hell out...that waltz means that they need to evacuate the building
ShareViewed: 14 Times - drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 12 2008 | photos, cool, art, cities
ShareViewed: 1 Time - drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 07 2007 | art, michigan, detroit, travel
The new and improved DIA finally opened last month. Hoping to check it out soon.
For a thoughtful review of the grand reopening and the city's art scene, see here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/23/arts/design/23detr.htmlShareViewed: 1 Time - drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 17 2007 | architecture, art, shipping, recycling, home
A very new take on prefab.
Check out the quik house link if you want more info or don't have QuickTime.
ShareViewed: 3 Times - drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 13 2007 | art
Saatchi online saleroom.
ShareViewed: 4 Times - drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 06 2007 | art, media, fiction, kundera
Quoted: A "novel that fails to reveal some hitherto unknown bit of existence is immoral." So Milan Kundera writes in "The Curtain," his new book-length essay on the novel.
Quoted: As his own example shows, the novel is too big, deep, stupid, wild and glorious a form to even be defined, let alone to die anytime soon. Yes, it would probably be better if more novelists shared Kundera's magisterial knowledge of the form -- but they continue to move forward nonetheless. Perhaps the tradition is more deeply ingrained in us than he believes.
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