Bush and Fascism

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Diane McWhorter draws some uncomfortable parallels between the American we’re becoming and the Germany that enabled Hitler:
The relevance of Third Reich Germany to today’s America is not that Bush equals Hitler or that the United States government is a death machine. It’s that it provides a rather spectacular example of the insidious [...]

Material By-Product

Issue 104 of the JC Report covers Melbourne fashion label Material By-Product. I like this idea of recycling the clothes that don’t sell:
They are questioning the fundamental production process in a playful way, and at the same time bringing to light the less glamorous sides of the construct of “fashion.” For example, they started the [...]

Further Watching: The Films of Guy Bourdin

The films of Guy Bourdin are now up on youtube. For a more systematic viewing, check out the complete set at showstudio, where they first appeared as part of the 2004 Boudin show at the V&A.
Further listening: The music is by Olivier Alary of Ensemble.

Church Eats Smog

The New York Times has an article about titanium dioxide, a white pigment which, when into with building materials, has the effect of ‘eating’ pollution in the surrounding air. The pigment figures in the self-cleaning coating that has been applied to the 2003 Richard Meier church in Rome (more pictures here). I took a quick [...]

Gore’s Crystal Ball

I made my first contribution to Draft Gore in Spring 2006, but I’ve been on a Re-Elect Gore trip since 2002. I remember when he gave his 2002 speech to the Commonwealth Club. It seemed dead right then. Now we know it was dead right. Thanks to the Huffington Post for this reminder. A highlight:
“I [...]

This Story Should Be Everywhere

I happened upon this story at Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish. It’s far more shocking than anything the Mark Foley story contains.
A Denver-area man filed a lawsuit today against a member of the Secret Service for causing him to be arrested after he approached Vice President Dick Cheney in Beaver Creek this summer and criticized [...]

Further Reading: Arts & Letters Daily

Whenever I feel like driving myself mad, I visit Arts & Letter Daily. There’s just too much there. Even to skim the contents can overwhelm. Top three articles from today’s visit that I’ll never get around to reading:
1. The correspondence of Robert and Clara Schumann
2. Review of Walter Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood Around 1900
3. Charles Simic [...]

Further Reading: Pruned

This morning, while reasearching story ideas for Another Magazine, I came across Prune, a smart little blog on landscape architecture. I didn’t have time to go deep, but I’ve bookmarked it for further reading. Check out these gorgeous digital astrogeologic renderings of lunar and Martian polar regions:

Read on

FURTHER READING is things to read, not to read, start to read before getting distracted, intend to read one day, and more. It’s things to look at and to watch. It’s research and references. It’s a record of the places my Internet A.D.D. takes me. It’s quite possibly a waste of your time. Read on.