The VLC webpage gets a much needed visual upgrade. Whee! So does Dictionary.com.

Ooo, knit donuts!

Improv Everywhere has done it again. This time it’s closer to home at the local 23rd st Home Depot with an act dubbed Slo-Mo Home Depot. The participants walked through the Home Depot on 23rd street in slow motion for 5 minutes and then when those 5 minutes were up, they all stood completely still for another 5 minutes. What a great idea done well! The videos are really funny so be sure to check them out on the Slo-Mo Home Depot page.

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Talk about a stupid name! In 1950, there was a category 5 hurricane named Hurricane Dog. Yep, and not only that, there was another hurricane in 1951 and 1952 with the exact same name (different intensity though). Who came up with that name?!

I hate iTunes with a passion (so much that I won’t link to it’s website). The only reason why I haven’t installed Winamp is because I have to install iTunes to use my iPod (well, technically, I don’t, but I don’t want to bother with other unsupported apps) and if I install Winamp, all my file associations get messed up. I know it’s easy to fix, but I just haven’t gotten around to doing it. So imagine my surprise when I learned that you could have iTunes minimize to a tiny little player on your taskbar! Normally, I do the mini-player (CTRL+M) and that works, but it makes iTunes run really slow when I return it to full-screen mode. Yada yada yada. Whatever. Having the player in my taskbar is way more useful. Somebody at Apple needs to figure out that a “jump” shortcut is required for me to completely jump onto the iTunes boat.

Anish Kapoor, the artist famous for installing Chicago’s “Bean” sculpture (real name is “Cloud Gate”) will be unveiling a similar structure in New York’s Rockefeller Center!!!

Next month he will join a procession of artists that has included Jeff Koons, Louise Bourgeois and Nam June Paik, to be enshrined in the city’s center stage for public art, Rockefeller Center. “Sky Mirror,” Mr. Kapoor’s dish of highly reflective stainless steel almost three stories tall, is being welded and polished in Oakland, Calif.; it will make its way by truck across the country and be on view from Sept. 19 to Oct. 27. Its concave side will face 30 Rockefeller Plaza and invert the skyscraper in its reflection.

This is how I feel art should be sometimes. Just as it is, without any need for an explanation.

Yet Mr. Kapoor has also insisted that his work does not follow any narrative impulse, and he grows visibly impatient when questions about meaning come up. “As an artist,” he said once, “I have really nothing to say. Otherwise I would have become a journalist.”

And seriously, WTF is up with the author of the article implying that the installation will be a commentary on the events of September 11, 2001??????

But there are many hints in the work that such declarations are at least a little disingenuous. And because of the way his mirror will turn a tower on its head, essentially bringing the sky down to the earth, it will undoubtedly be seen as some kind of commentary on Sept.11.

Read the rest of the article here from the NYTimes.

Viewing of the installation will be free, of course, because it sits in a public space with no apparent way to block viewing without causing a major catastrophe. :P
I wonder if Sky Mirror will also fall into the same problems that “the Bean” had when officials tried to disallow people from photographing it. Let’s hope not! :)
Here’s a little known fact: Despite my pushes for people to go and visit the Top of the Rock @ Rockefeller Center, I myself have yet to travel up there and take in the view of the city. Yes, I know, I’m an idiot.

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