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"It was the Hottest Club In Town"
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Some wild 80s nightlife pics from the New York nightclub Area, which opened its doors in 1983. A club where Grace Jones refused to use the coatroom and had someone follow her, coat in hand, instead, and that underwent a transformation roughly every six weeks, with themes like Confinement, Suburbia, and Science Fiction that incorporated elaborate […]
22 Hours In Balthazar
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From 1500 covers a day to bus boys earning $5 an hour, an engagingly detailed day-in-the-life account of one of New York’s busiest restaurants, Balthazar. By the end of the day, the rotating staff of six cooks behind the line will have produced 111 steak frites, 90 French onion soups, 88 Balthazar bar steaks, 69 […]
Lou Reed Passes Away, Aged 71
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Singer, songwriter and guitarist Lou Reed passed away on Sunday at his home in Long Island, New York at the age of 71. An article in the New York Times has the full report. See “21 Ridiculously Great Pics Of The One And Only Lou Reed” posted by The Gothamist on his 71st birthday in March. Image: Chad […]
Illustrations of Jean-Jacques Sempé
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A wonderful cartoon strip series of five illustrations from France’s most celebrated cartoonist, Jean-Jacques Sempé, drawn in 1962. Deftly satirising class, congestion, cars and bicycles, the images are taken from Sempé’s book Rien n’est Simple. Source: Roads Were Not Built For Cars See it: Here
Ikea or Death Metal?
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One is the world’s largest furniture retailer, founded in Sweden and found in countries all over the world. The other a genre of music that is also a famous Scandinavian export, involving distorted guitars, screeching vocals, occult worship, burning churches and other such dark imagery. The two couldn’t be further apart, however as two friends […]
David Byrne: Wealth has stolen New York's Creative Energy
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One of the city’s most enduring creative voices, David Byrne writes an essay highlighting how the increasing hyper-wealth of New York City has crushed the city’s creative energy – going as far to say he would consider leaving the city if things get much worse. Quick to assert he is not longing for the chaos and crime […]
Bansky's Mobile Waterfall Truck
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For the fifth work in his month-long artists residency on the streets of New York City, UK artist Banksy unveiled a mobile garden inside an decrepit looking delivery truck. Complete with rainbow, waterfall and butterflies, the truck garden parked on St Marks Place in the East Village on Saturday night… Ensuring throngs of camera phone […]
Interview: David Burney, NYC Dept. of Design & Construction
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In Melbourne to speak at the Festival of Ideas at Melbourne University this week, David Burney, the Commissioner for the New York Department of Design and Construction (DDC), speaks with Architecture Review editor Michael Holt. Speaking in Melbourne on liveable cities, Burney’s discusses his ideas on what makes a city liveable, be it New York, Melbourne […]
Rick Owens Paris Spring/Summer 14
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Rick Owens Turns Heads in Paris
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