PATSY YOUR ENTHUSIASM (13)
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Jim Hanas on: The Fall, The Possessed, Upper Middle
17th
Apr
Apr
THE SKY, CRACKED
IT’S TOO HEAVY METAL to be available online, but the cover story of the new Revolver is a killer. Atlanta’s Mastodon have just released...
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16th
Apr
Apr
THOMAS DOYLE: Crucibles of Hazard
The art of Thomas Doyle is at once inviting and unsettling. Miniature tableaux under glass, his pieces have the quirky, lilliputian charm of the...
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14th
Apr
Apr
My Robot Overlords Are Cuter Than Yours
CB2 has one job: to win your heart. With its silicone skin, its bark-like cooing calls, and its lurching, needy gestures, the robot stimulates...
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13th
Apr
Apr
Double Exposure (2)
Speaking of brows. You know Cadbury’s 2009 viral ad, “Eyebrows”? The one in which two children — peculiarly self-composed, knowing, mysterious, alien-like children —...
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10th
Apr
Apr
Highbrow Skyscraper, Lowbrow Plaza
Susan Sontag pays a visit to the Seagram Building (“gleaming like a switchblade”) to interview architect Philip Johnson. Embedded here with thanks to Joanne...
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10th
Apr
Apr
Hilo design: L’Astiko
We learned about this chair — it’s called L’Astiko — from the current issue of Wallpaper. It’s a chic lounger in the midcentury style,...
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08th
Apr
Apr
HILO pinups (3)
Happy Birthday, Vivienne Westwood! MORE HILO BIRTHDAYS THIS MONTH
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07th
Apr
Apr
HILO Heroes, April
Happy birthday to some of our high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes. All hilo birthdays. *** Abraham Maslow (HI: life’s work); Jimmy Cliff (LO:...
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