Flushing, Queens. Steps from the US Open.
Me, Karen and Kieran dropping our shit and going to watch some tennis. HOT.
Right this second you can go and follow Kennedy’s 1960’s Presidential campaign, in real-time, on Twitter.
Apparently, they started updating this feed at the beginning of the year (no one told me???) and have updated the stream with exactly what Kennedy, Nixon and their people were doing on that exact date, 50 years later.
If you’re at all into history, this is a beautiful commemoration of the events of the time.
Debby Harry and her musicians used to store their band equipment in my loft, when I lived on 14th & 9th.
It was a commercial space that my roommate had been living in, illegally, for like 20 years. All the residential tenants were there illegally and because of this the lot of them formed a union (the law doesn’t apply to us union?). These guys were in a chronic legal battle with the owners of the building who, naturally, wanted them out. I mean, the place was like 2500 sq feet in the Meat Packing District and the rent was $1,100, of which we (me and a ‘friend’) paid $1,200 (believe me, the math makes sense in New York).
This was around the year 2000, I guess, and Debbie would come to some of our parties because she was tight with my roommate, Gretchen, who basically owned the apartment, since there didn’t seem any way in hell they were getting her out. Gretchen was Debby’s age and a musician, too. They would reminisce about the 70s and then get on the bongos or piano or whatever and just jam and drink and jam and drink. And I would dig it so much and feel viscerally I was born too late and how sad it was that I missed the real glam rock that I couldn’t recreate 20 years later no matter how vinyl my pants, red my lips or jacked my brain got. I knew I missed out.
Those times were awesome, though.
My mother was even there once.
Do you see what’s happening? Facebook has created a rich network experience, largely on the backs of 3rd party apps like LinkedIn, and are now systematically creating native apps that copy the 3rd party apps functionality. That alone is a little low-down, but now it seems that as soon as Facebook’s copy app is working well enough, the original 3rd party app gets banned from the site. Wait! What? That’s not cool.
If a huge chunk of the human race wasn’t spending an increasing amount of time on Facebook, and happy to be there exclusively, this might not be such a big deal. But they are, and from banning apps like LinkedIn, and replicating their experience, I see no other explanation than that part of Facebook’s strategy is the complete annihilation of all the competition. Who is their competition? Everyone with a viable online business model.
… and here’s what i found:
MUSIC
Charles & Eddie – Wounded Bird (True Romance Soundtrack)
FASHION
Junya Watanabe
Courtesy of my beloved Colette
The Dalai Lama
Honesty and Truthfulness
Courtesy of Dalai Lama channel on YouTube
ART
Courtesy of my beloved Egon Schiele
MORE MUSIC
Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg: Je t’Aime… Moi Non Plus
Courtesy of YouTube
MODELS
Kate Moss by Nick Knight (2006) £ 15,000
Courtesy of my beloved SHOWstudio
PHOTO OF A LEGEND
Marilyn Monroe by Ed Clark
Courtesy of Life Magazine
MORE FASHION
Porn Toe Shoe
Courtesy of Rem D Koolhaas (the nephew)
EVEN MORE MUSIC
Lisa Mitchell’s Neopolitan Dreams
Courtesy of YouTube
MORE ART
Artist – Ron Mueck
The speaker was a little stiff, but the content was cool, and her last scenario was just like the movie Moon, which was pretty wicked. Saw it last week streaming on Netflix, which, by the way, is the best deal in town. $8.99 a month and they have loads of amazing documentaries, TV shows and movies. The only thing that sucks is that part of the monthly fee comes 2 DVDs in the mail, which I don’t want. I don’t have a TV and I hate mail. Anyway, they arm twist me into getting them, so then I spend the next month forgetting to drop it in the mailbox until the new ones come, at which point the guilt of forgetting to mail them back is so great I finally do it – so far. I don’t know what’s going to happen next month. It’s in god’s hands.
ANSWER ME THIS:
- Do you think this is likely?
- Would you enhance?
- How could you not, to stay competitive?
