Scandinavian Pain

Ragnar Kjartansson, Scandinavian Pain, 2007

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Kimchi Chanel

Hongtu Zhang, Kimchi-Chanel

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When Men’s Fashion Goes Too Far

As much as I’m mocking this Stockholmian’s overly aggressive sartorial decisions, in all likelihood by this time next year my fellow New Yorkers will be imitating this look…in other words, exhibiting classic symptoms of the Stockholm syndrome.

Really?

As Mother Jones remarked: Yep, this sums up our current obsession with digital documentation.

A Word Is Dead

A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.

I say it just
Begins to live
That day.

- Emily Dickinson

Barbed Wire Weights

LCPL. James Edward Orr, 20, from the First Battalion Eighth Marines Alpha Company lifts weights made from barbed wire at a makeshift gym at an outpost in Kunjak in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province, Feb. 17.

I will stop complaining about my gym.

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Marriage Is

From Austin Kleon’s “newspaper blackout” poetry series. Get the book here.

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Givenchy F/W ‘11

The It shirt for this fall are the Rottweilers from Givenchy. This sweater will put you back a cool $960 and the t-shirts $265. Or you can go with this budget option.

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Christopher Jonassen

I really like Christopher Jonassen’s “investigation of worn-out fryingpans [sic]” in his photo series “Devour.” At first glance they look like ancient planets or moons.

Boardroom Seesaw

A hybrid of a playground favorite with a corporate conference room: Jane Clark’s 8-person seesaw.

Have you ever been in a meeting where you are swinging your chair backwards and forwards, frustrated or bored with the agenda? The seesaw will mean everyone will be working together, if any of your colleagues are not connected with the sway of the meeting then the seesaw won`t rock with the work. the other connotation is that the movement of the sculpture would be likened to cogs turning, and the thought process being physical and flowing. In balance with your partners, as the movement should only come about with everyone co-operating and playing together. An investigation into team building and balance, or corporate propaganda?