I drove past The Prism Gallery, designed by Patterns, last night and took a mighty double take, folding bands of alluminium disappearing into sidewalk/awning louring you into a pristine double-height gallery full of stimuli.
The opening on is a Friday, in the heart of the Sunset Strip somewhere between The Standard and The Roxy… maybe check it out on an off day. Gonna be a headache getting over there, ya dig.
My early years plopped in front of the tube meant allot of face time with MTV’s ” Remote Control. ” Even though Colin Quinn was the standout giggle man, Ken Ober was the brains who held it all together. Sadly in his later years he went on to produce such bummers as ” Mind of Mencia ” and star in some Jenga commercials, and Blues Traveler Videos. He was 52.
Just spotted this pretty awesome look inside the history of famed cymbal manufacturer Zildjian over on A Continuous Lean, and learned a few things on the oldest maker of some of the finest cymbals around. Originally founded in 1623, the Zildjian family first produced cast bronze cymbals for the Sultan of Constantinople and were commissioned to produce them for the royal family. Responsible for what is known as the modern day cymbal, the Zildjian family formula for casting, molding and hammering has defined the standard for the industry.
Interestingly enough, the etymology of the name Zildjian literally means “son of the cymbal maker.” “Zil” is the Turkish for “cymbal” and “-dji” is the Turkish suffix for “maker” and “-ian” is the Armenian surname-forming suffix for “son of”.
Video of the Zildjian Factory Tour after the jump.
I feel like most people have already seen this but I just saw this yesterday. I kept hearing “don’t get the flu shot because you’ll end up walking backwards” and I finally had to see what people were talking about… my mind has been BLOWN. Speechless. Apparently this reaction is extremely rare and hasn’t been recorded as happening before, but huge consolation that is when you’re that one lucky person.
Its just unbelievable how positive she’s stayed, admirable.
London’s bass heavy floor shaking club Fabric is releasing a compilation of “140bpm (or thereabouts) bass music” at the begining of next year. The track list includes some of my favorite low end producers Martyn, Doc Daneeka, Om Unit, Starkey, and new LA resident Rusko. The comp will be titled Elevator Music Vol. 1, all tracks are previously unreleased apart from dubplate pressings.
Rarely do truly paradigmatic thinkers come. Thus rarely do they go. Claude Levi-Strauss, a founding structuralist who set the parameters for cultural theory that is still relevant today, died yesterday at age 100. A greater intellectual contribution can hardly be given.
Ok, I know that things that aren’t specifically fun aren’t so much in Vogue nowadays, but look at this motherfucker Al Franken just LIGHTING UP these fat cat pieces of shit that’re struggling to keep corporate contracts in place that ostensibly make sexual assault go unpunished. PWNT!
Who is the best leader in the Democratic Party right now?
“Do you mean, Who can give the best speech? Who can raise the most money? Look, I’m not a sentimentalist. Nor am I a romantic. I don’t believe in the Great Man theory of history. Great men come along very seldom – and when they do, it’s pretty bloody. But, as Chancellor Bismarck once observed, God looks after alcoholics, little children, and the United States of America.”
(from the atlantic.com)
Gore Vidal, perhaps the first bona-fide poseur in recorded history, weighs in on why Obama should quit pushing for health care, and a ton of other of his mildewed contrarian opinions he uses to get attention. Nice to see he’s still got it. As I read this I dare say the thought occurred to me that I won’t mourn the death of this old sort of liberal any more than I did Jesse and Strom.
The fine people of McSweeney’s are going to be releasing a special Sunday edition sized newspaper for their latest issue entitled the San Francisco Panarama. Expanding on the theme of a Sunday paper, there will be articles on current events related to the day of its release, sports coverage, comics from artists like Eric Larsen, and even a weekend guide to boot.
I’ll be jumping straight to the Food section, which they have described as “possibly, seriously, the best food section that has ever appeared in any newspaper anywhere, with an incredible modular ramen recipe from New York’s own David Chang and a fifty-eight-step lamb-belly photo essay from San Francisco’s Ryan Farr.” Available for sale in the streets of San Francisco and in bookstores next month.
The upcoming exhibition at The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University entitled “Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids,” features an amazing collection of famed celebrities and pop culture icons shot by Warhol from 1969 – 1986.
Described by the museum as “an important dimension of Warhol’s process in creating his famous large-scale portraits,” its clear the “Polaroids served as aids for painting portraits, in and of themselves they are significant works and represent a relatively unknown body of Warhol’s work.”
