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Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:30:44 -0500

Obligatory “It’s Christmas I just watched Love...

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:28:59 -0500

Obligatory “It’s Christmas I just watched Love Actually it might be the greatest movie ever made I LOVE CHRISTMAS SO MUCH” post.

And to all a good night!

legalryangosling: LAW SCHOOL RYAN GOSLING. LIFECHANGER.

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:25:08 -0500

legalryangosling:

LAW SCHOOL RYAN GOSLING.

LIFECHANGER.

markcoatney: stecav: Some rather beautiful London Underground...

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:58:44 -0500

markcoatney:

stecav:

Some rather beautiful London Underground infographics from the early 1900’s.

Love these.

Amazing.

notacomplexperson: You know what’s wrong with this cover?...

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:19:44 -0500

notacomplexperson:

You know what’s wrong with this cover? Meryl, as one of the select Celestial Supreme Godesses™, does not need to be splashed with dirty seawater so that she can seem “down to earth”; she rises above the rest of us commoners in almost every single possible way, so it’s not like anybody would buy that anyway. If I had been styling this shoot, I would’ve literally put her a giant marble pedestal, found the most regal looking gowns I could get, and put six of them on her all at once. A real missed opportunity here, Vogue.

(Image via thedailywhat)

thedailywhat: How To of the Day: Justin White’s “skittle burger...

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:57:33 -0500

thedailywhat:

How To of the Day: Justin White’s “skittle burger recipe”:

Step 1: Get skittles.

Step 2: Smash em together.

Step 3: Eat it or whatever.

The Skittleburgers taste like Skittleburgers!

[jublin.]

Most hipster snack imaginable? Probably.

today: Color of 2012? Pantone picks orange as top hue Oh, right...

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:43:52 -0500

today:

Color of 2012? Pantone picks orange as top hue

Oh, right — because that’s a color that’s flattering on everyone.

ACTUALLY YES. LOTS OF PEOPLE LOOK GOOD IN ORANGE.

I’m happy orange is getting the recognition it deserves. In case you can’t tell.

manpodcast: This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features MoMA...

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:40:30 -0500

manpodcast:

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features MoMA curator Leah Dickerman, who has organized “Diego Rivera: Murals for the Museum of Modern Art.”

Rivera was a staunch communist and his murals include scathing critiques of American-style capitalism during The Great Depression — and of the Rockefeller family, which lavishly supported both MoMA and Rivera himself. The show — and the conversation I have with Dickerman — resounds with echoes of today’s American economic situation. [A detail from Rivera’s Agrarian Leader Zapata (1931) is both in this week’s MANPodcast.com banner. The complete artwork is above.]

To download the program, click here. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here. To download or subscribe via iTunes, click here. You can stream the program through the player below.

In our conversation, Dickerman and I discuss:

How a trip to Italy helped Diego Rivera transition from second-rate cubist to first-rate muralist;

How Rivera became the second artist to receive a MoMA retrospective (after Henri Matisse) and how he made his MoMA murals in a Manhattan studio near the museum;

How Rivera expanded what seems to have been the initial project to include a biting look at income inequality and the plight of the working class in skyscraper-mad, Depression-era New York; and

How it is that Dickerman, who curated the anti-war “Dada” exhibition at the National Gallery of Art just as the Bush administration was pushing America to war in Iraq in 2006, repeatedly ends up curating modern exhibitions that speak to the present moment.

In this week’s draft, Indianapolis Museum of Art curator Lisa Freiman joins me to discuss which artists might represent the United States at the next Venice Biennale. The State Department is currently reviewing nominations for 2013. Freiman was the commissioner of the 2011 pavilion, at which the U.S. exhibited Allora and Calzadilla.

The Modern Art Notes Podcast is an independent production of Modern Art Notes Media. It is released under this Creative Commons license. For images of the works discussed on this week’s program, click here.

I was lucky enough to take a course in college (on the origins of abstraction) co-taught by Leah. She is fabulously smart and well-spoken—so take a listen!

funnyordie: The 16 Funniest Memes of the Year Let’s take a look...

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:18:47 -0500

funnyordie:

The 16 Funniest Memes of the Year

Let’s take a look back at some of 2011’s best time-wasters.

fromcindy: Too true. So happy I have Cindy to share law...

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:07:07 -0500

fromcindy:

Too true.

So happy I have Cindy to share law school stress humor with me!

fromcindy: More like Occupy My Apartment.

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:06:31 -0500

fromcindy:

More like Occupy My Apartment.

200 bears killed on first day of hunting season in New Jersey

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:18:40 -0500

200 bears killed on first day of hunting season in New Jersey:

angelawublog:

by Philip Caulfield, New York Daily News, Dec. 6, 2011

Arizona native Robert Melber was credited with bagging the season’s first bear, a 166-pound female he claimed was his first-ever kill.

“I shot it while it was running. It all happened pretty quick and it was all over pretty quick,” he told FOX.

State officials expect hunters to kill around 600 bears this year. Last year, the first year of the hunt after a five-year hiatus, about 590 bears were killed, according to reports.

Bears love New Jersey because of its mild winters and woody swaths of forest stuffed with acorns, berries and other favored snacks, according to The Wall Street Journal.

I like to think that ending the piece with that cuddly paragraph was the writer’s way of saying, “This sucks.”

KRISTEN STEWART: TOO LATE THE BABY IS COMING OW MY SPINE IS LIKE TOTALLY BROKEN!

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:55:13 -0500

KRISTEN STEWART: TOO LATE THE BABY IS COMING OW MY SPINE IS LIKE TOTALLY BROKEN!
TAYLOR LAUTNER: Robert, you're going to have to give her a C-section with your teeth! Look on the bright side, there's no way this can look stupider than vampire baseball!

Read more: If Twilight 4 Was 10 Times Shorter and 100 Times More Honest | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/article_19582_if-twilight-4-was-10-times-shorter-100-times-more-honest.html#ixzz1fmYwaldb

You know you use Tumblr too much when you see this and think,...

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:52:36 -0500

You know you use Tumblr too much when you see this and think, “silly Starbucks spelled tumblr wrong!!!”

bbook: …and I am a corpse. !!!!!

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:50:39 -0500

bbook:

…and I am a corpse.

!!!!!

washingtonpoststyle: Good morning, you’re old. Britney Spears...

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:27:00 -0500

washingtonpoststyle:

Good morning, you’re old.

Britney Spears is 30.

1999 photo by Lisa Peardon (Jive Records)

"When we have a night off, we just fuel up our private jets, and we get up in the air and we stare at..."

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:16:18 -0500

“When we have a night off, we just fuel up our private jets, and we get up in the air and we stare at each other through each other’s private-jet windows. Then we land and we have separate caviar dinners on our own private island. We do put our pants on one leg at a time, but those pants are solid gold. Other than that, we’re just like everyone else.”

- Amy Poehler on her date nights with Will Arnett (via joyengel)

washingtonpoststyle: The White House unveils its holiday...

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:21:29 -0500

washingtonpoststyle:

The White House unveils its holiday decorations.

Story | Gallery | Video

Photos by Bill O’Leary (The Washington Post)

That little Bo made out of buttons!

Quiz: Grammy-Nominated Artist or Anti-Anxiety Medication?

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:20:45 -0500

Quiz: Grammy-Nominated Artist or Anti-Anxiety Medication?

That’s literally my sophomore year dorm room window. Right...

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:23:26 -0500

That’s literally my sophomore year dorm room window. Right there, behind the hot pink blazer. That was my bedroom.