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