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Jeanne-Claude, who collaborated with her husband, Christo, on dozens of environmental arts projects, notably the wrapping of the Pont Neuf in Paris and the Reichstag in Berlin and the installation of 7,503 vinyl gates with saffron-colored nylon panels in Central Park, died Wednesday in Manhattan, where she lived. She was 74.
Like all of their projects, these were intended to be temporary, a quality at the heart of the artistic enterprise. Whether executed in oil drum or brightly colored fabric, the art of her and her husband, Jeanne-Claude said, expressed “ the quality of love and tenderness that we human beings have for what does not last.”
Heartbreaking.
Frank Sinatra: New York, New York
If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere It’s up to you - New York, New York

You might know that the tantalizing combination of peanut butter and jelly you’re eating between two slices of bread was named after a certain Earl of Sandwich, but how many other words that we use every day are named after real people?
How about galvanize? Silhouette? Leotard?
These words — called eponyms — and many more fill a new book called Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words,written by John Bemelmans Marciano.
Some of the people who donated their names to history did it by accident.
This was my favorite story; the history of the word frisbee.
“There was a woman named Mary Frisbie who made pies in Connecticut,” Marciano tells Renee Montagne. “Students would throw around her pie plates after they had finished her pies, and kind of like you would say, ‘Incoming!’ they would say, ‘Frisbie!’ just to give people the heads-up that there was something spinning and flying coming at their head.”
Meanwhile, the Wham-O corporation, producer of the hula hoop, was having trouble selling its own flying disk, awkwardly named “The Pluto Platter.”
“They went around to college campuses, knowing that this was where trends started,” Marciano says. “To their surprise, in the Northeast, people were already throwing flying disks, and they had this name ‘Frisbie’ for it.”
For trademark purposes, “Frisbie” became “Frisbee,” and a sensation was born.
Seems like a fun book.
“In America today, many young women eagerly expect a diamond engagement ring from their fiances, and many potential grooms anticipate buying one. This was not the situation before the 1940s. The origins of our diamond obsession can be traced directly to an advertising campaign begun in 1939, and paid for by the diamond monopoly DeBeers, in order to prop up demand for diamond. To give you some idea of how well the the strategy worked, consider that there are about two and a half million weddings every year in the United States, and that most diamond rings cost over $1000. Though no one keeps precise statistics on engagement ring revenue, a conservative estimate would put it at a billion dollars every year, a hefty portion of which makes it way back to the DeBeers company.”
excerpt from Post Modernism 101 by Heath White

Expectations are particularly high for this Saturday’s launch of a limited edition Jimmy Choo collection at H&M because shoes, the signature of the Choo label, remain an obsession for many stylish women - recession or not.
In previous collaborations with Karl Lagerfeld, Stella McCartney and Comme des Garcons, shoppers fought over pieces - literally tugging at two ends of the same sweater when Victor&Rolf introduced its H&M line at just 12 locations. H&M has turned budget-conscious designer shopping into a competitive sport.
(There’s an undefined line between “cheap” and “budget-conscious,” but starting at $79.95 a pair, the Jimmy Choos seem to fall into the latter category, even if a regular pair of Jimmy Choos may sell for more than US$1,000.)
The Jimmy Choo collection will be sold at 200 stores, including four outlets in Canada - flagship locations in Vancouver and Montreal, and two stores in downtown Toronto.
The collection includes heels, flats and over-the-knee boots, plus suede and leather dresses, jackets, leggings, studded bags and animal-print clutches. The men’s line is built around slim jackets, boots, cashmere sweaters and casual pants. Prices start at $29.95 for accessories and $59.95 for clothing.
Heck yes, I will be there amongst the ravenous Jimmy Choo shoe fiends. It’s so worth losing a limb over.
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Animal Collective – Bleeding (Live) at Pretty Much Amazing!
Animal Collective’s new 10″ for “Brother Sport” has been released. Buy the gorgeous 10″ slab of wax at Domino’s E-Mart. The single features every AnCo die-hard’s favorite Merriweather Post Pavilion track “Brother Sport” (or is it “Brothersport”?), backed with the live track “Bleeding.”
I Guess I’m Floating has an mp3 of the nearly-10 minute opus. While “Bleed” definitely sounds like it lives within “Bleeding”, I’m not sure you would call the two tracks one in the same. The track sprawls on for nearly 10 minutes, flexing Animal Collective’s sonic prerogative to essentially play what they want whilst making listeners feel like a lonely astronaut floating in outer-space. Better yet, releasing a live version of a track soon to appear on their December EP only reinforces the fact we all like pretending to know where they’re taking their sound but haven’t the slightest idea.
Kid Cudi, Up Up & Away, off his debut album Man on the Moon. Definitely one cd I am jamming to right now.
Kings of Leon: Revelry
It’s been a Kings of Leon kind of morning.
I just bought these for an event I was supposed to attend over the weekend, but there is NO WAY I can return them, right?


