Morning Coffee
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We try sometimes, but it is pretty hard to complain. Fur coats are French street art. Underwater vacation homes are the best vacation homes. Speaking of: Jean Cocteau and Villa Santo-Sospir. Let’s talk about old British public information films. There…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Aaaah! Vintage NASA pictures! Hurray! Will this be a continued theme? Chihuly’s boathouse. I love articles about voids. This is in French, but you know what else it is? A billboard made out of actual bees. Good news: Vonnegut Memorial…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
If you are a New Yorker you are drinking all sorts of tiny tiny shrimps. Literary jewels. Flavorwire has your crazy wonderful spill photography du jour. A look at Alexander Calder’s studio. (P.S. this is my new favorite blog.)
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today is going to be a good day I think. Hellof brains in jars. Another day, another set of Russian fruit sculptures. It is always a good idea to talk about Charley Harper’s Cincinnati Federal Building mural. High flying solar…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I hope this is ok. Welcome to the world, tiny tiny new frog. Turning music and weather information into sculptures. Pynchon on plagiarism. (via GerryCanavan.) Don Kenn‘s monster drawings. Um, this is article about using heat rays in prison. The…
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Morning Coffee
The furniture of Pierre Cardin. I am more than happy to link to articles about the Mutter Museum in any capacity whatsoever. The Croatian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale is pretty dang cool. 1989’s future today! Sometimes you just want…
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Morning Coffee
Kodak’s first digital camera. (via @caitlinroeper) Rockaway to Rockaway: This dude Matt just finished walking across the country. “How great would you feel if a real person called you every day to tell you, ‘You’re Awesome!‘?” Corporate design porn.
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Morning Coffee
Seed has an incredibly great slide show on animal dioramas at the American Natural History Museum. Antarctica trips for the very rich (the joke behind these is that you probably aren’t). Ira Glass on broadcasting’s failure of craft. (via Moviecitynews)…
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Morning Coffee
On the origins of our alphabet. Everyone loves a good cubist birdhouse now and then. The Rumpus is god damn intellectual yo; Bio-semiotics! Misleading headline of the day: Beer microbes survive 553 days in outer space (actually about mining in…
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Morning Coffee
Let’s all take this Monday morning to celebrate rad coins from around the world. Not your thing? How about these postage stamps of PROGRESS. Still nothing? Maybe you’re the kind of crazy rich person who would enjoy some private submarine…
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Morning Coffee
The future is awesome; generating power via whiskey and extreme parasailing. I don’t want to freak anyone out here, but the moon is maybe shrinking. The Times on expensive-ass fish tanks. Fake Criterion covers. Tangentially related: Truffaut’s last interview.
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Morning Coffee
Picturing the men of Black Mountain College. Tangentially related: it is weird to see pictures of the Great Depression in color. Monkey comfort is the most comforting kind of comfort. The living garden of knowledge.