harvey s parkes

childhood reminders shawn phillips - world in action jam

Wed, 23 May 2012 00:40:49 +0200

childhood reminders

shawn phillips - world in action jam

holiday time

Thu, 10 May 2012 16:27:16 +0200

i may drop by, i may not

there will be good food and drink

the great outdoors, walks in all weathers with any luck

so much wonderful reading

adventures, found wherever they might sprout

until july then

proustitute: Bobby Fischer, 1962

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:02:35 +0200

proustitute:

Bobby Fischer, 1962

newyorker: Cartoon of the day. Don’t forget to enter this...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:02:37 +0200

newyorker:

Cartoon of the day. Don’t forget to enter this week’s caption contest: http://nyr.kr/r46had

proustitute: Duane Michals (via adrowningwoman; jesuisperdu)

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:03:22 +0200

proustitute:

Duane Michals

(via adrowningwoman; jesuisperdu)

oscarraymundo: Artist Jason de Caires Taylor creates life-size...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 08:01:18 +0200

oscarraymundo:

Artist Jason de Caires Taylor creates life-size cement sculptures of people and submerges them into the waters of South America. As time passes the sculptures become part of the underwater landscape and slowly become artificial reefs ripe with marine life.

ingridrichter: Sofa for Small Spaces, available at Bonbon:...

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:04:09 +0200

ingridrichter:

Sofa for Small Spaces, available at Bonbon: Compact Living Solutions

10 Great Articles About Psychology

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:01:38 +0200

10 Great Articles About Psychology:

tetw:

A Tetw reading list

The Naked Face by Malcolm Gladwell - The window to your soul may be easier to unlock than you ever thought possible.

How Not to Talk to Your Kids by Po Bronson - Could telling kids that they’re smart be stopping achieving their full potential?

Want to Remember Everything you’ll Ever Learn? by Gary Wolf - Meet the inventor of a program that could revolutionise learning.

The Possibilian by Burkhard Bilger - How the subtlest shift in perception can create whole a new way of seeing the world.

The Science of Success by David Dobbs - The double-edged sword of extraordinary mental potential.

Caring for Your Introvert by Jonathan Rauch - Are you getting the best out of the introverts in your life?

Mind vs. Machine by Brian Christian - An intrepid reporter takes on the latest in artificial intelligence in a battle for humanity.

Why Men Lie by Vince Passaro - Essential reading for anyone who has to deal with men on a day-to-day basis.

Adventures in My Bed by Bucky McMahon - A journey through the emotionally charged world of the lucid dreamer.

TV Makes You Smarter by Steven Johnson - How increasingly sophisticated TV programming may be driving up our IQs.

portal 2 perpetual testing initiative brilliant promo, beautiful...

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:40:01 +0200

portal 2 perpetual testing initiative

brilliant promo, beautiful writing and aesthetic as always. valve continue to do it better than anybody.

oldhollywood: 1930s imagining of 1980s New York in the sci-fi...

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:03:53 +0200

Just Imagine city set (1930)

Just Imagine city set (1930)

Hugh Ferriss, The Metropolis of Tomorrow

Hugh Ferriss, The Metropolis of Tomorrow

Hugh Ferriss, The Metropolis of Tomorrow

oldhollywood:

1930s imagining of 1980s New York in the sci-fi musical Just Imagine (1930, dir. David Butler) (via)

Designed by art director Stephen Goosson, the city set was an elaborate miniature model that covered a ground area of 75 x 225 feet and whose tallest tower measured 40 feet.

Just Imagine’s New York was primarily inspired by architect Harvey Corbett’s prediction that 1970’s New York would resemble a “very modernized Venice” and by the futuristic urban designs presented in Hugh Ferriss’s 1929 book, The Metropolis of Tomorrow.

Ferriss’s drawings of the ”business center of the future” (pictures #3-5) provided the most direct inspiration for Goosson’s sets. Broad superhighways establish a geometric ground plan that extends upward through overlapping levels of bridges, streets, and terraced walkways. The grid of streets and bridges is pierced by huge freestanding skyscrapers surrounded by lower setback buildings, a design Ferriss created as an analogy to the natural world of “towering mountain peaks… surrounded by foothills”

The opening scenes of the (otherwise mediocre) film, which feature this cityscape, can be seen here.

More on the building of the Just Imagine set. Collection of Hugh Ferriss’s futuristic city sketches here.

ingridrichter: Monochromatic Deck of Cards from Gent Supply...

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:03:10 +0200

ingridrichter:

Monochromatic Deck of Cards from Gent Supply Co.

new beat corner and why not, i ask you?

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:14:25 +0200

new beat corner

and why not, i ask you?

5 All-time Favourite Essays

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:02:14 +0200

5 All-time Favourite Essays:

tetw:

As chosen by Meghan Daum

5 timeless essays selected by LA Times columnist, essayist and author of 3 excellent books, Meghan Daum:

The End of Gay Culture, by Andrew Sullivan, The New Republic, 2005 - Does assimilation mean the death of dsitinctive gay culture?

The Devil Long Island, by Ron Rosenbaum, The New York Times Magazine, 1993 - Between NYC and the upscale weekend retreats of the hamptons lies an island full of dark secrets.

And a few you’ll need to break out your credit card to read:

The Junket by Mike Albo, an Amazon Kindle single, 2011 - “A gimlet-eyed account of the back-biting media scene, a glimpse into the inner workings of the fashion crowd, and a candid portrait of what it takes to survive as a writer in today’s chattering and watchful New York City.”

I Shit My Pants in the South of France, by Jonathan Ames - This one pretty much does what it says on the tin.

My Heroin Christmas, by Terry Castle - An author explores her addiction to honesty in literature over a Christmas spent absorbed in the autobiography of jazz legend Art Pepper.

how odd, to be so disturbed by one image in thousands…

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:02:48 +0200

how odd, to be so disturbed by one image in thousands…

proustitute: Santiago Rusiñol i Prats, Erik...

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:02:24 +0200

proustitute:

Santiago Rusiñol i Prats, Erik Satie, 1890

(via deadsunflower; art-mirrors-art)

curiosities the original mechanical semaphore in use

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:01:07 +0200

curiosities

the original mechanical semaphore in use

incredible clip - response to question on ryan commission...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:02:39 +0200

incredible clip - response to question on ryan commission report

one of those clips that makes you stop and wonder why you draft, plan, audition, table read, rehearse, shoot…. there isn’t a performance in the world on the same plane as this man’s conviction and fortitude

as always, reality does it better

awesome

screenshotsofdespair: via @juter

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:03:07 +0200

screenshotsofdespair:

via @juter

surreal youtube clips pro wrestler john cena announcing death of...

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:02:36 +0200

surreal youtube clips

pro wrestler john cena announcing death of osama bin laden to live crowd

ten things not to say to someone when they're ill

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:03:24 +0200

ten things not to say to someone when they're ill