TV cabinet

Guess what schizophrenic patients like to watch the most...

According to the story in the New Yorker, it's Lary David's “Curb Your Enthusiasm". David Roberts, a second-year clinical-psychology student at the University of North Carolina, discovered, while teaching social skills to a group of schizophrenic patients, that change had come over his patients when they watch TV:

"So Roberts began showing TV clips during therapy sessions. Soon he had narrowed his selections down to one show: television’s purest expression of social dysfunction, “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Roberts considers Larry David to be the perfect proxy for a schizophrenic person".

When asked about it, David said: "A lot of the time, it’s just me expressing myself freely. I knew that my own mental health was problematic, but should I be worried?"

Hmm, yeah. Read "We Are All Larry David" in the New Yorker.

Halloween Cabinet

In celebration of Halloween (today) and Dia De Los Muertos (tomorrow), here is a little reminder of the business of death:

Cabinet of Books

I never heard about Félix Fénéon, but the title of his book "Novels in Three Lines" caught my attention. Fénéon (1861-1944) was an intellectual anarchist, and he worked on the backstage of literature. He translated, published and even discovered many of the authors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: Proust, Apollinaire, Rimbaud, Seurat, Gide, Joyce - but rarely affixed his own to any work.

In 1906 Fénéon began producing three-line items for the Parisian daily Le Matin, which now have been translated into English. Take a moment, and taste it:

"There is no longer a God even for drunkards. Kersilie, of St.-Germain, who had mistaken the window for the door, is dead."

Trends Cabinet

I don't know why (is it a post guilt-trip after eating the amazing pork belly dish at the trendy Momfuko Noodle bar in New York?) but the image of this sleeping pig captures my mind. I think it's beautiful, and I hope we"ll see a lot of it. Bon appetit.

Ugh Cabinet

Some people never get tired of themselves. Take Tom Ford, for instance. After founding his new fashion house, launching his new perfume, and being photographed with nude Hollywood darlings on the cover of Vanity Fair, he still had some time to show his ass for the upcoming Out Magazine's Terry Richardson shoot.

Curiosities

I love architecture, and although I lack sense of humor, I like when I see serious matters treated in a whimsical style. Look, for example, at the "Sharp Centre for Design"(part of Ontario College of Art & Design), designed by architect Will Alsop, of Alsop Architects.
Read more from the New Yorker about Alsop.

Curiosities

How appropriate: A collaboration between David lynch and shoe designer Christian Louboutin. The two made a series of images, using Louboutin's shoes, with the lynch touch of imagery. At least now you don't have to sit 3 long hours in order to see another weird masterpiece from the beloved filmmaker, and somehow it seems the right format for him, with the enigmatic images, the frozen narrative, and the fetish sexy objects that tell the right story.
See more images

Shelter

Malibu is so hot right now, maybe a little too hot. That's why Jennifer Aniston, Sting, Bill Murray, Nick Nolte, Robin Wright Penn, Mel Brooks, Tatum O'Neal, Rob Reiner, Goldie Hawn, Linda Ronstadt, Jeff Bridges, David Arquette and Courteney Cox, David Geffen,Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, are all on fire watch due to a huge fire...
Read more on TMZ

Design Cabinet

New York Magazine has a special design issue, and although the theme is not new,I never get tired of reading about Martha ("it's a good thing") Stewart, and about many other prominent figures in New York design world. A rare opportunity is the interview with Massimo and Lella Vignelli, who designed the New York Subway map and signs.

Clostes

New Butt is out today (‘late autumn/early winter’) and since I need to wait till someone gets it for me, here is the beautiful cover.

History Cabinet

20 years to October 18, 1977 - Gerhard Richter
Fifteen paintings compose October 18, 1977 -a series of paintings that are based on photographs of moments in the lives and deaths of four members of the Red Army Faction (RAF), a German left-wing terrorist group that perpetrated a number of kidnappings and killings throughout the 1970s. On this date the bodies of three principal RAF members were found in the cells of the German prison where they were incarcerated. Although the deaths were officially deemed suicides, there was widespread suspicion that the prisoners had been murdered by the German state police.
Read more about Baader Meinhof

Closets

Such a bad joke, and still so funny... Jack is back, and I love him.

Fitting Cabinet

For those of you who need assistance with the right fit, Details magazine helps you with that.
Click for help.

Curiosities

The Unicorn in Captivity, 1495–1505
South Netherlandish
can be found at the Cloisters

Trends Cabinet

OMG. A new trend is threatening the future: Vegansexuality.
"Vegansexuals are people who do not eat any meat or animal products, and who choose not to be sexually intimate with non-vegan partners whose bodies, they say, are made up of dead animals."
Hearing about it, all I want to do is putting a fur coat, ordering Double Big Mac and to have sex with Bin Laden.
Read more about Vegansexuals

Curiosities

I'm reading two articles this weekend, and for some reason I felt they have something in common. The First, following the opening of his latest movie - "Rescue Dawn", is an interview with its director Werner Herzog. The film (which I still haven't seen) seems to be another chapter in the director's long journey into human wildernesses, and among other things, he also mentions a funny incident in which he got shot. Watch the video below:

The second, a fascinating article about the "Mannahatta Project" in The New Yorker, tells the story of Eric Sanderson, a landscape ecologist who is trying to determine exactly how Manhattan would have appeared to its first explorers in 1609, and to depict the island as it was, just before it came under what is known today as Manhattan. Look at the amazing digital aerial view of Manhattan as it might have looked in 1609, juxtaposed with the outline of Manhattan today.Read here.

And that remind me of this book I heard about, with the interesting title: "The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman. Let's imagine what happens when we are not around here, anymore. Click here to see what...

Curiosities

Adam Helms's "4 Untitled Portraits"

Read more aboute Helms

Movies Cabinet

Just saw Wes Anderson's "The Darjeeling Limited" and it's such a gem.
Don't miss this train!

And as usual, don't forget to pay attention to the wonderful soundtrack. It can be played in the official site.

Trends Cabinet

It might be the biological war that worries him, but Marc Jacobs Louis Vuitton's Spring 2008 show was another crazy showoff of the legendary designer.
Wanna see more? click here

Trends Cabinet

I haven't decided if it's cool or not, but knowing the smell of a big trend makes me believe that Tom's shoes are the new Crocs. Before I say anything bad, these shoes have good cause, and every pair you buy, the company will match another pair for a child in need.

Read, buy, walk

Fonts Cabinet

My beloved fonts got a documentary, and till we see the DVD, here is an homage:
To read more about the film click here

Movies Cabinet

Film Forum is screening Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 "La Chinoise”, and there is never a better time than this, between the War on Terror and the upcoming Beijing Olympic Games.

Curiosities

Zaha Hadid won't rest... her new spaceship is called "The Mobile Art container" and it's a collaboration with Karl Lagerfeld.
Read more
And read more about the Channel hand bag inspired UFO here

Movies Cabinet

Todd Haynes new movie gets a NYTimes Sunday magazine cover + photos inside.read more about the film

Curiosities

Ron Mueck's "In Bed".How appropriate.

SNL - Iran

SNL had a great song about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to NYC. Don't miss the Gyllenhaal refernce ("Mahmoud, I remember when it started... You ain’t wrong to me, so strong to me, you belong to me, Like a very hairy Jake Gyllenhaal to me"):

Cabinet of Piracy

Copying is so cool! From the New Yorker's Style issue, wonderful news: copying designs is good for business: "... a recent paper by the law professors Kal Raustiala and Christopher Sprigman suggests that weak intellectual-property rules, far from hurting the fashion industry, have instead been integral to its success. The professors call this effect “the piracy paradox".

The paradox stems from the basic dilemma that underpins the economics of fashion: for the industry to keep growing, customers must like this year’s designs, but they must also become dissatisfied with them, so that they’ll buy next year’s. Many other consumer businesses face a similar problem, but fashion—unlike, say, the technology industry—can’t rely on improvements in power and performance to make old products obsolete. Raustiala and Sprigman argue persuasively that, in fashion, it’s copying that serves this function, bringing about what they call “induced obsolescence.” Copying enables designs and styles to move quickly from early adopters to the masses. And since no one cool wants to keep wearing something after everybody else is wearing it, the copying of designs helps fuel the incessant demand for something new."

read more about the the piracy paradox

TV cabinet

Viva la Palestine. There is a Palestinian guy in the new season of Project Runway:
http://www.bravotv.com/Project_Runway/season/4/bios/Rami.php