Personism

links for 2008-08-29

• Serious Eats City Guide Premiere: New York (How to Leave Here Pleasantly Full) | Serious Eats
  Here at Serious Eats we thought it would be fun to post guides to essential eating experiences in cities all over the world.
  (tags: nyc food restaurants travel)

links for 2008-08-28

• The Book as Transformer: An Interview with Zach Plague: Voice: AIGA Journal of Design: Writing: AIGA
  "Boring" is a hybrid project by a hybrid author/designer that falls under another hybrid category, one that straddles DIY and more formal entrepreneurship.
  (tags: books design publishing media)

links for 2008-08-27

• Olive oil consumption leading to 'serious environmental problem ...
  (tags: environment food)

links for 2008-08-26

• DeliciousSafari
  Delicious + iPhone=yummy. Via AFC.
  (tags: iphone internet delicious)

links for 2008-08-25

• A disclosure of White Cube’s unsold Damien Hirst inventory before the artist’s controversial September 15th direct sale by Sotheby’s | AO Art Observed™
  The Art Newspaper has this weekend disclosed the extent of unsold inventory, over 200 works, that are held at Damien Hirst’s gallery in London, White Cube, run by Jay Jopling. The article illuminates a situation for the artist, one of the most successful in the world, but also one of the most prolific, in which his traditional market may be less able to absorb the works at the pace at which he is aiming to produce them.
  (tags: art collecting business)
• Gerd Arntz Web Archive
  (tags: typography history design infographics ilustration)
• BURAK ARIKAN
  Yummy infographics.
  (tags: design nyc infographics blogs)
• How To Win › with Steve Duncombe and Steve Lambert
  “How to Win” is a work in progress by Stephen Duncombe, an academic, and Steve Lambert, an artist. We are both long-time political activists and both of us believe that using art and culture to transform the world is a good idea. But we are both haunted by the same question: How do we gauge the success of our projects? Hell, how do we even think about success when our goal is utopia?
  (tags: politics culture art blogs activism)

links for 2008-08-24

• The New Atlantis » The Myth of Multitasking
  “This steady and undissipated attention to one object, is a sure mark of a superior genius; as hurry, bustle, and agitation, are the never-failing symptoms of a weak and frivolous mind.”
  (tags: work psychology productivity procrastination)
• YarisalKublitz
  (tags: video art sculpture)
• TasteSpotting
  Looks delicious, literally.
  (tags: recipes food cooking hotwo)

links for 2008-08-23

• Tegan's To Do's: Books, Videos, Driver's Ed
  Tegan of Tegan & Sara @ Housing Works Cafe on Thursday Sept. 4th.
  (tags: music events nyc spin via:ntmcevoy todo)

links for 2008-08-22

• Never wait in line at the museum again - Destinations- msnbc.com
  “It’s a little like the difference between sitting in the bleachers and having front-row seats to a concert,” she says. “You’re going to see the show in both cases, but your experience will not be the same.”
  (tags: museums art tours business)
• Fish Tale Has DNA Hook - Students Find Bad Labels - NYTimes.com
  Harriet the Spy (well Spies, really) for the modern age: "In a tale of teenagers, sushi and science, Kate Stoeckle and Louisa Strauss, who graduated this year from the Trinity School in Manhattan, took on a freelance science project in which they checked 60 samples of seafood using a simplified genetic fingerprinting technique to see whether the fish New Yorkers buy is what they think they are getting."
  (tags: nyt fish food science restaurants)
• A Daughter Sifts Through Her Father’s Clutter for Oddities of History - NYTimes.com
  According to Mr. Perrottet, who spent more than a year researching the relic’s history (a chapter of his new book, “Napoleon’s Privates,” is devoted to it), it is “possible” that the phallus was removed during the autopsy, but there is no absolute proof. (Dr. Lattimer, he said, bought the item at a Paris auction for $3,000 in 1977 to remove it from public scrutiny; as a urologist, he had taken offense at the salacious attention it was attracting. Dr. Lattimer had the item X-rayed, Mr. Perrottet said, and determined that it was a human penis, but the French government has not agreed to provide a sample of Napoleon’s DNA for comparison.)
  (tags: random collecting auctions)

links for 2008-08-21

• Abbey Goes Design Scouting » » Hello, Gallery Walls
  A roundup of interiors that feature artwork hung salon style. (via Cup of Jo.)
  (tags: art interiors decor 20x200 photography home gallery design)
• Billionaire's Farmhouse
  It’s starting to feel formulaic, like one big variation on a theme(park). Each place has a similar aesthetic: stripped-down elements set against a backdrop of exposed beams and knotty woods; chandeliers of denuded lightbulbs exposing their spindly innards; the long community table, often accompanied by the story of how it was fashioned from the sustainably reclaimed floorboards of an actual farmhouse.
  (tags: design food trends restaurants)

links for 2008-08-20

• In Praise of Melancholy - ChronicleReview.com
  What are we to make of this American obsession with happiness, an obsession that could well lead to a sudden extinction of the creative impulse, that could result in an extermination as horrible as those foreshadowed by global warming and environmental crisis and nuclear proliferation? What drives this rage for complacency, this desperate contentment?
  (tags: psychology mind society)