Archive for the ‘Links’ Category
Friday links
- What better way to mosey into the long weekend than with a look at previously unseen shots from American street photographer Garry Winogrand’s new book? (The Guardian)
- It actually happened: there can now be gay boy scouts. But not leaders. (Slate)
- Good riddance to Intervention: This self-satisfied show exploits an addict’s inability to think clearly in order to to get them on national TV, portraying their darkest selves. Giving them one more awful hurdle—hideous, full-screen shame—to tackle once they get sober. (EW)
- Really cool-looking houses built around trees. (mental floss)
- Attention accessory designers: chatelaines need to make a comeback. Check out the story of what is pretty correctly described as a sort of 19th century lady’s Swiss Army knife here.(Collector’s Weekly)
Thursday links
- The spectacular mess that is the late great Italian fashion editor Anna Piaggi’s wardrobe. (WSJ)
- I’m not above admitting that this made me laugh. (Daily What)
- Possibly it’s time to just ignore the Westboro Baptist Church altogether. (HuffPo)
- Will the Boy Scouts do the right thing today?
- Qantas is handing out paperbacks to its passengers—books that have been chosen specifically because the time it takes to read them coincides with the exact length of the flight.
Wednesday links
- On the eve of Arrested Development‘s big comeback, a fond look back at Soap, the 1970s primetime satire of daytime dramas that paved its way. (Flavorwire)
- Who had any idea that during World War II, there was an American unit known as the Ghost Army? And that it was composed of creative types like artists and set designers, whose job it was to stage the presence of troops—which they accomplished with inflatable Sherman tanks and the sound of soldiers projected out of 500-pound speakers—to throw the Nazis off course? Bill Blass was in the unit, and Ellsworth Kelly too. Nuts! (Smithsonian)
- This footage of a lady who survived the Oklahoma tornado discovering her dog underneath the wreckage of her home right in the middle of a TV interview is serious crybaby material. (Time)
- The French (and Japanese, Chinese, etc) have a word for a lot of really excellent situations and things. (Mental Floss)
- Behold! Racked New York’s new list of the top 38 indie boutiques in New York. (Racked New York)
Monday links
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- It was a very productive weekend over in France, what with the government legalizing same sex marriage and all. (NY Times)
- Take a gander at this human-scale, 10,000 square foot Barbie Dream House, and wonder at the many splendored pinkness of it all. (Daily Mail via The Frisky)
- How fantastically Portland is this cop, who interrupted his pursuit of a speeding car to help the family of ducks who’d interrupted his chase cross the road? (Time)
- “I have a suspicion—and hear me out, because this is a rough one—I have a suspicion that the definition of “crazy” in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.”—Tina Fey, natch. Check out even more of her most memorable quotes here.
- The unlikely evolution of the creeper. (Threaded)
Thursday links
- It’s always a good time to look at pretty vintage airline posters. (Voices of East Anglia)
- Definitely click on full screen to watch this footage shot from the top of Manhattan’s new tallest building, and prepare for some full-on vertigo. (Daily What)
- Don’t want to get raped, ladies? Hong Kong’s mayor has the simplest solution. (The Cut)
- The Brits sure have a lively way with an insult—here are the origins of a few favorites. (Mental Floss)
- What, you’ve never seen a gigantic billboard/fly strip before? (Adfreak)
Tuesday links
- Real people at the Freize Art Fair this past weekend looking suitably arty cool. (The Cut)
- Everything about this is awesome. (NY Times)
- This lineup of unnecessarily gendered products is just as amusing as it is crazypants. (Death and Taxes)
- Well, I can’t not link to the Arrested Development trailer. (HuffPo)
- Ben & Kate, we hardly knew ye: read all about the season’s bounty of cancelled TV shows here. (EW)
Monday links
- Photographer Jaime Moore wanted her daughter to learn early from good role models, so she dressed her up like such notables as Susan B Anthony and Jane Goodall, and shot these fifth-birthday portraits. (Jezebel)
- I kind of enjoy TMI Gwyneth. (Daily News)
- My kind of lady. (Time)
- Even if you were always more of a John girl than a Paul girl, you might want to hear this new digitally remastered version of “Blackbird,” as it is a thing of great loveliness. (A.V. Club)
- And finally: Seth Meyers is the new Jimmy Fallon. Which seems about right. (Atlantic Wire)
Thursday links
Amy Sussman
- Let’s all save the Coney Island Mermaid Parade! And then if you’ve never been, definitely go. Everybody needs to attend at least one Mermaid Parade in this life.
- Manic Panic hair dye, custom-ripped CBGB T-shirts, razor blade earrings, and more fun stuff for sale at the Met’s punk rock gift shop.
- Medical marijuana for dogs. But of course. (Time)
- And I suppose it was only a matter of time before somebody invented drive-through shopping. (London Evening Standard)
- Cannes is lousy with call girls, as it turns out. (Hollywood Reporter)
Tuesday links
- A photographic portfolio of Parisian twin sisters who dress— and live—as one another’s mirror image. (Slate)
- The future is officially now: 3D printers are for sale at Staples.
- Every year, the most delightfully random roundup of celebrities turn up at the Kentucky Derby; here’s what they wore.
- This brilliant anti-child abuse ad from Spain is embedded with a secret message just for children. (Adfreak)
- Martin Amis has decided he’s bored with Brooklyn. Brooklyn is suitably nonplussed. (Atlantic Wire)
Monday links
- Love these photos of first wave punk rockers by veteran photographer Janette Beckman. (The Cut)
- For those of you who still care (and yes, I do, nominally): the first True Blood trailer of the season. (EW)
- And what do we think of the trailer for the new Kristen Wiig picture, Girl Most Likely?
- A park in Brooklyn was named for Beastie Boy Adam Yauch on Friday—just in case you’d experienced a warm feeling inside and didn’t know what to attribute it to. (Atlantic Wire)
- The predatory spectacle that was Celebrity Rehab is over, at last. (AV Club)
