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I love that a book like this needed to exist in the first place — an 1859 guide to creating architect’s models out of paper :
There’s a full text at Google Books …
Related posts: Words on Paper Aren’t Going Anywhere Paper Trails "> Paper ...
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Not to mention Leni Riefenstahl . If Berlin has no mountains, why not build one ?
Architect Jakob Tigges suggests putting Berlin back on the monumentalist map by erecting a 3,000-foot mountain on the site of the recently decommissioned Tempelhof airport. Summer hiking, winter skiing, ...
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Albert Speer
THE MANCHESTER VILLAGE MOTOR INN
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Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the Manchester Village Motor Inn of Manchester, CT.
If you ever need a place to stay while your lawyer and the bank are figuring some things ...
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Alexandra Grinevsky’s 1929 illustrations for Valery Larbaud’s “Deux Artistes Lyriques.”
From the collection of Richard Sica:
somewhat cropped due to distortion in the scan
I want to thank Richard Sica ...
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The Russian artist Aksiniya , who makes a living as a fashion illustrator “for the moment,” is hardly confined by the fashion industry’s narrow view of female pulchritude.
On one hand, her bony, macabre figures evoke Egon Schiele ; they are fragile, mysterious and introverted, and look as if ...
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Kaylie Jones, daughter of James Jones who penned From Here to Eternity , revealed in an interview with The Daily Beast that her father was forced to remove gay sex scenes from his original manuscript prior to publication.
Jones had originally included discussions and details about sexual ...
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Edward P. Jones
Politics
From Here to Eternity
In the New York Times Sunday Book Review , Stephen King has written a review of Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life by Carol Sklenicka.
King begins with a summation of Carver’s semi-amazing alcoholism and then moves on to a dissection of Carver’s relationship with his editor ...
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Stephen King
A woman who claimed a novelist and former friend based the character of a sexually promiscuous alcoholic on her has won a $100,000 libel award from a Georgia jury.
Vicki Stewart claimed that Haywood Smith , a former childhood friend, used her as the basis for a character in her novel The Red ...
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Flavorwire on the loss of Pop-up pioneer Wally Hunt and the best Pop-up Books of all time.
I don’t know how people made found art before google maps .
It is pretty terrifying to imagine being fully conscious and in a coma for 23 years. Indeed.
knuckle tattoos .
Dumbo of the deep . ...
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The Sea
Rumpus Street Team Leader Sona Avakian will be reading at a highly-anticipated and soon-to-be-critically-acclaimed event at 826 Valencia on December 5th in San Francisco.
At WISH YOU WERE HERE, Sona will read along with Sarah Fran Wisby, author of Viva Loss (Small Desk Press), and Rumpus ...
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This week in San Francisco: Brooklyn’s own Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School comes to 111 Minna , Dorian Katz conducts a “panty exchange” as part of the one-night-only art show, Everything Must Go! , and vegetarians take over as an annual mass tryptophan induced slumber ...
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Dr. Seuss
Seriously.
Time Magazine originally started out selecting a “Man of the Year” as a way to sell magazines in the down holiday season, which then turned into “Person of the Year” . Now they’re thinking of naming Twitter as 2009’s Person of the Year. It ...
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“People want peace, and when given a voice, they’ll work tirelessly for it,” said Wired Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson. “In the short term, a Twitter account may be no match for an AK-47, but in the long term the keyboard is mightier than the sword.”
Following this rationale, Wired ...
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Politics
As for the fate of the country, my money is on roving diesel mobs.
Dear Sugar,
I do not get along with a close family member of mine. He is a staunch conservative Republican who might be able to scare Glenn Beck, I am… not. There were other things growing up that kept us from ...
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Glenn Beck
On Saturday, November 14, 2009, I attended “MODA, La Envidia Xtravaganza Ball.” The ball was a drag competition hosted by Hector Xtravaganza at the Fillmore at Irving Plaza, which was attended by Michael Kors , fashion designer and judge of the reality television program, Project ...
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Michael Cunningham
This week in New York Justin Taylor and literary collective Wu Ming read, Tim Burton exhibit opens, Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage and other films screen, Juian Plenti and Julian Casablancas perform, a short video helps you tighten your table-side manners for Thanksgiving, and ...
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Peter Straub
Julian Barnes
Tim O'Brien
Joyland , the literary magazine/website that’s “a hub for short fiction,” has opened up a new tab on their website for San Francisco .
So for all you SF based writer types: keep in mind that Joyland is looking for submissions .
