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Ice Cube Celebrates The Eames

December 8, 2011

This is doing the rounds today, but it’s simply too good not to post… Ice Cube, who apparently studied architectural drafting before joining NWA, on the architecture of Los Angeles and the design of Charles and Ray Eames: The New York Times has an interview with Ice Cube  about the video:  I had learned about them [...]

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Something for the Weekend

November 11, 2011

Read This – Alex Ross, author of The Rest is Noise and Listen To This, on books about music at FiveBooks: There’s a long list of bad examples of vague and gushy writing about music in literature, but there’s also a string of distinguished examples. I wrote a piece for The New Yorker a couple of years [...]

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Something for the Weekend

November 4, 2011

Project Thirty-Three, one of my favourite mid-century modern design blogs, is now using Blogger’s “Dynamic Views” template. It looks great using the new ‘Flipcard’ feature. The Crash — Alan Hollinghurst talks about writing and his new novel The Stranger’s Child with the New York Times: Mr. Hollinghurst said he modeled his work habits on another friend and [...]

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Midweek Miscellany

November 2, 2011

On Record – Rick Poynor at Design Obsever waxes all lyrical about Continuum’s 33 1/3 music series: The best 33 1/3 titles… have an urgent personal mission, even obsession, and they tunnel deep down into an album’s defining moment and milieu: dark sixties Los Angeles in Forever Changes, isolated seventies Berlin in Low, creative nineties Athens, [...]

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Monday Miscellany

October 3, 2011

I’m sorry for the lack of a weekend post, but to make up for it, here is a Monday round-up to get your week started right… Owned — Josh Davis AKA DJ Shadow interviewed on the Intelligent Life blog: My sense of value comes from the fact that music is my life… People always think it’s [...]

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