Craig Costello, Hamburg, Germany.
If you’re in the neighborhood, come through.
Posted on October 09, 2007 at 03:29 PM | Comment (3 comments)
Doyer’s Vietnamese is located on Doyers St. in Chinatown, NYC. It’s about 3 blocks south of Canal, off Bowery.
Very small street/alley is a little hard to find. A definite hole in the wall, It’s the spot.
Zero décor, they leave Christmas decorations up year round.
Has changed owners a couple of times, but always delivers, super cheap, great food. The lunch special is an amazing deal.
One of the best chicken soups in the city (Pho Ga), String beans with spicy black bean sauce, chicken or shrimp curry, spring or summer rolls, green papaya salad, It’s all good.
Same block as the Chinatown shootout scene from “The King of New York”
It’s a classic!
Posted on October 09, 2007 at 01:31 PM | Comment (0 comments)
London & New York, non stop service.
Posted on October 07, 2007 at 09:53 AM | Comment (0 comments)
Chris Burden is an artist living and working in LA, California.
He pioneered (championed?) performance art during the 70’s in LA.
He took things to extremes using his body as the art object.
He had himself shot for one unforgettable piece, called “shoot”. Pictured here.
He crawled chest first through broken glass on TV for a 20 second commercial spot he bought. He shot a pistol at a 747 in flight.
All this and more, way before “Jackass”. Not that Jackass is on the art tip, but their extremist approach and use/abuse of their bodies as an object to make comedy is similar to Burden’s approach to making art.
Really dope shit if you take time to look at his work.
He’s also created a lot of really interesting and influential sculpture. Maybe I’ll post some later.
Check him out on the all knowing internet or check out his recently released book, appropriately named “Chris Burden”
“747”
Posted on October 03, 2007 at 05:46 PM | Comment (3 comments)
White shirt with cloud was made for “The Story” and is sold out.
Purple shirt, Alife/Krink, shipping Spring 08.
Posted on October 03, 2007 at 05:31 PM
Leave the last S off for shitty.
Be careful where you buy your mattress from.
Posted on October 03, 2007 at 05:17 PM | Comment (0 comments)
Juxtapoz did a little feature on KR and Krink in the Sept issue.
The incredibley talented Mike Giant did the cover.
Posted on October 03, 2007 at 05:10 PM | Comment (1 comments)
9/11 is over. Thomas L. Friedman
9/11 is over.
Thomas L. Friedman
From the NY Times.
Not long ago, the satirical newspaper The Onion ran a fake news story that began like this:
“At a well-attended rally in front of his new ground zero headquarters Monday, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani officially announced his plan to run for president of 9/11. ‘My fellow citizens of 9/11, today I will make you a promise,’ said Giuliani during his 18-minute announcement speech in front of a charred and torn American flag. ‘As president of 9/11, I will usher in a bold new 9/11 for all.’ If elected, Giuliani would inherit the duties of current 9/11 President George W. Bush, including making grim facial expressions, seeing the world’s conflicts in terms of good and evil, and carrying a bullhorn at all state functions.”
Like all good satire, the story made me both laugh and cry, because it reflected something so true — how much, since 9/11, we’ve become “The United States of Fighting Terrorism.” Times columnists are not allowed to endorse candidates, but there’s no rule against saying who will not get my vote: I will not vote for any candidate running on 9/11. We don’t need another president of 9/11. We need a president for 9/12. I will only vote for the 9/12 candidate.
What does that mean? This: 9/11 has made us stupid. I honor, and weep for, all those murdered on that day. But our reaction to 9/11 — mine included — has knocked America completely out of balance, and it is time to get things right again.
It is not that I thought we had new enemies that day and now I don’t. Yes, in the wake of 9/11, we need new precautions, new barriers. But we also need our old habits and sense of openness. For me, the candidate of 9/12 is the one who will not only understand who our enemies are, but who we are.
Before 9/11, the world thought America’s slogan was: “Where anything is possible for anybody.” But that is not our global brand anymore. Our government has been exporting fear, not hope: “Give me your tired, your poor and your fingerprints.”
You may think Guantánamo Bay is a prison camp in Cuba for Al Qaeda terrorists. A lot of the world thinks it’s a place we send visitors who don’t give the right answers at immigration. I will not vote for any candidate who is not committed to dismantling Guantánamo Bay and replacing it with a free field hospital for poor Cubans. Guantánamo Bay is the anti-Statue of Liberty.
Roger Dow, president of the Travel Industry Association, told me that the United States has lost millions of overseas visitors since 9/11 — even though the dollar is weak and America is on sale. “Only the U.S. is losing traveler volume among major countries, which is unheard of in today’s world,” Mr. Dow said.
Total business arrivals to the United States fell by 10 percent over the 2004-5 period alone, while the number of business visitors to Europe grew by 8 percent in that time. The travel industry’s recent Discover America Partnership study concluded that “the U.S. entry process has created a climate of fear and frustration that is turning away foreign business and leisure travelers and hurting America’s image abroad.” Those who don’t visit us, don’t know us.
I’d love to see us salvage something decent in Iraq that might help tilt the Middle East onto a more progressive pathway. That was and is necessary to improve our security. But sometimes the necessary is impossible — and we just can’t keep chasing that rainbow this way.
Look at our infrastructure. It’s not just the bridge that fell in my hometown, Minneapolis. Fly from Zurich’s ultramodern airport to La Guardia’s dump. It is like flying from the Jetsons to the Flintstones. I still can’t get uninterrupted cellphone service between my home in Bethesda and my office in D.C. But I recently bought a pocket cellphone at the Beijing airport and immediately called my wife in Bethesda — crystal clear.
I just attended the China clean car conference, where Chinese automakers were boasting that their 2008 cars will meet “Euro 4” — European Union — emissions standards. We used to be the gold standard. We aren’t anymore. Last July, Microsoft, fed up with American restrictions on importing brain talent, opened its newest software development center in Vancouver. That’s in Canada, folks. If Disney World can remain an open, welcoming place, with increased but invisible security, why can’t America?
We can’t afford to keep being this stupid! We have got to get our groove back. We need a president who will unite us around a common purpose, not a common enemy. Al Qaeda is about 9/11. We are about 9/12, we are about the Fourth of July — which is why I hope that anyone who runs on the 9/11 platform gets trounced.
Posted on October 01, 2007 at 09:36 AM | Comment (2 comments)
