Beck cover for Velvet Underground & Nico “Sunday Morning”. More covers at Beck’s Record Club.
It’s official - Google Street View found the LARPiest* neighborhood in Pittsburgh, PA.
*LARP: Live Action Role-Playing… It’s like D&D but with real movement and interaction and fake swords and magical spells that can make you crumble with their power…
Coconut Records - Microphone
Pipilotti Rist’s cover of Chris Isaac’s Wicked Game, “I am a victim of this song,” from 1995.
Parupu Chairs by Claesson Koivisto Rune
The chairs are pulp(paper) based construction and intended for children. Once the children outgrow the chairs in 4-5 years, they begin to decompose if left outside, making it possibly the most eco-friendly chair in the business.
Megumi Sasaki’s new documentary HERB & DOROTHY tells the story of a librarian and a postal worker who managed to build an important contemporary art collection on very modest means by adhering to two limitations: the piece has to be affordable and it had to be small enough to fit in their one-bedroom Manhattan apartment. After 30 years of meticulous and visionary collecting, they accumulated over 4,000 pieces including works by Sol LeWitt, Christo, Chuck Close and Richart Tuttle.
Casa Cuadrada - Tom Marble Architects
This house was recently featured in Dwell. My friend always ‘house sat’ for the architect/owner so I would often get peeks of this great house. Its a colorful contemporary courtyard house in Pasadena. Both the architect and wife’s studios were located in the garage area.
