CROSS YOUR ENTHUSIASM (12)
JOSEPHINE BAKER, SPY
FROM EACH…
10 Radium Age art works depicting precisely engineered and designed utopias.
13th
Jul
Jul
Ernő Rubik
L D2 L′ F′ D2 F. U R L U2 R′ L′. F D2 F′ D′ F D F′. Anybody who has ever experienced...
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13th
Jul
Jul
Clothes make the brow
WHAT’S A HILOBROW to wear? This is the question that bedevils me. When preparing to leave the workforce last year, I anticipated with relish...
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12th
Jul
Jul
R. Buckminster Fuller
A New England scion twice kicked out of Harvard for nonconformity and “apathy,” R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER (1895-1983) went on to invent the geodesic dome...
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12th
Jul
Jul
Hilo Heroes, July 12-18
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, this week, to the following high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes. Click here for more HiLo Hero birthdays. JULY 12 A New...
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11th
Jul
Jul
Cordwainer Smith
Smith explored the inner landscapes opened up by postwar mind science.
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10th
Jul
Jul
Tura Satana
Clad in a leather jumpsuit, tiny waist offset by enormous bosom, her performance in Russ Meyer’s Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) transformed what could...
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10th
Jul
Jul
The Sweetest Hangover
I've got the sweetest hangover... I don't wanna get over.
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10th
Jul
Jul
Significant Objects
EARLIER THIS WEEK, Rob Walker and I launched an online experiment called Significant Objects. The project, in brief: Rob’s “Consumed” column in the New...
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