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November 3, 2004
Philippe Starck's been making lots of stuff lately, but I didn't know he was
producing shoes for Puma until today (flash site features an odd naked guy you can make jump and walk). Clean and sleek, but they're fetching $200+ a pair which is kind of outrageous. Another bunch of freaky expensive wacky shoe designs I found are from
Fessura.
Click through their gallery to get an idea of what they offer.
Medium continue to be my personal favorite shoes, but I'm always on the lookout for more interesting things to wear. If you've seen any interesting shoes lately, do share.
posted by mathowie at 6:08 PM PST - 25 comments
Democracy 2004 - Earlier this year, Richard Avedon decided that he would try to capture a sense of the country in the midst of a crucial Presidential election campaign. These are the (unfinished, but wonderful) results.
posted by amandaudoff at 5:03 PM PST - 16 comments
Hidden pictures! In an effort to get back to that "best of the web" thing, here are some cool hidden pictures within pictures. Can you find them all without looking at the answers? (from B3ta)
posted by salmacis at 11:34 AM PST - 14 comments
Kerry Concedes President Bush won a second term from a divided and anxious nation, his promise of steady, strong wartime leadership trumping John Kerry's fresh-start approach to Iraq and joblessness. After a long, tense night of vote counting, the Democrat called Bush to concede Ohio and the presidency, The Associated Press learned.
posted by Outlawyr at 8:22 AM PST - 505 comments
It all comes down do one question: Must France stay in Algeria? “If the answer is yes,” he says, “then you must accept the consequences.” Gillo Pontecorvo's "
The Battle of Algiers",
now out on a
Criterion dvd, is a film of
quiet,
overwhelming power. The mix of subjective and
documentary techniques holds the viewer's trust so authoritatively that many scenes come close to sneaking out of the mental "movies I saw" box to mix with the viewer's own memories. No matter how complicated or fragmented the action becomes, Pontecorvo gets the pace, tone and rhythm exactly right, filling the screen with eloquent details.
(Last year, Pontecorvo's masterpiece was discussed here, too. More inside)
posted by matteo at 8:21 AM PST - 9 comments
All this will pass. "A day will come when all this will pass away...all this will pass and a new, a noble existence will begin. "I am not here for ever", he tells himself again and again, "soon I shall be there - there where there is liberty, all that I dream of, all that the suffering soul desires. Here is a heavy sleep, a nightmare. There it will be waking, beautiful and happy. Open the doors of the prison, send away the warders, strike off the chains, it will be enough. I shall find the rest for myself, in this free and beautiful universe which I did not know how to appreciate before, although I saw it." A commentary on
Dostoevsky's House of the Dead, a fictionalised account of his four year's of hard labour.
posted by biffa at 6:52 AM PST - 21 comments
While you were re-electing a president:
Senator-elect
Jim DeMint: Thinks that unwed pregnant women and gays are unfit to be schoolteachers.
Senator-elect
Tom Coburn: Wants the death penalty for abortion doctors.
Senator-elect
John Thune: Mr. School Prayer Amendment.
Voters in 11 states
voted to ban same-sex marriage. The
lowest margin was 57%-43%. The highest (Mississippi) was 86%-14%. Kentucky's also bans
civil unions. That one was 75%-25%.
The Senate will likely be split
55-45 in favor of Republicans, creeping closer to a filibuster-proof supermajority. Meanwhile, 89% of
these guys are older than 65.
Enjoy your tax cut, America. You're going to need it.
posted by PrinceValium at 6:47 AM PST - 73 comments
