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I just watched Federico Fellini’s ‘La Dolce Vita’ for the first time.  At the end I was left a little confused.  Why is this movie so revered?  It seemed at first a series of tenuously related vignettes centered around a handsome but vapid guy, Marcello, and his fickle obsession with all things female finding temporary [...]

I was living in London in 2007 and staging at St. John Restaurant.  Tom, one of the cooks there and a kitchen mentor of sorts said that he had friends at River Cafe and could maybe get me a day or two stage there.  I jumped at the chance.  After a phone call and a couple [...]

I recently finished watching Lars Von Trier’s Europa.  I picked it up not knowing anything about the film other than that Von Trier is a critically acclaimed director.  I had seen ‘Dancer In The Dark’ several years ago but evidently the shock of that movie had worn off enough that I had forgotten how disturbing it [...]

I was listening this weekend to ‘On The Media’, one of my favorite radio shows, and heard this piece about artist Caleb Larsen and a recent sculpture of his entitled ‘A Tool To Deceive And Slaughter (2009)’.  The sculpture is an 8 inch black acrylic cube.  The cube is for sale on ebay.  Actually, it is [...]

After watching the 2010 Super Bowl XLIV I have a few initial thoughts on the ads.  In no particular order.
The subliminal winner, in true ’speak-of-the-devil’ fashion I think, was Louis Vuitton.  In a Hyundai ad about making ‘luxury’ avbailable to everyone, a close facsimile to the Louis Vuitton pattern was seen on a basketball.  High-end brought down to [...]

I have been thinking about the new ‘Raindrop Besace’ bag by Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton.  And I think I love it.  Well… to clarify… I love it… because it is so confusing. 
It is, literally, a trash bag.  Except that it is not.  A neo-realist representation of a trash bag.  But done in glossy treated [...]

Apple, under the guidance of Steve Jobs, is one of the smartest brands out there.  Laser focused on the user experience, the incorporationof design and maintaining its message and identity over the entire scope of the brand.  Which is why the announcement of their latest product seems so surprising. 
I have always been a proponent of [...]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
In my constant search for inspiration I came across a paper titled ‘Modeling Snow Crystal Growth: A Three-Dimensional Mesoscopic Approach’.  Written by Janko Gravner and David Griffeath, the paper describes the authors attempt to construct an algorithm that mimics the crystalization of water into snow flakes.  Even though understanding the process [...]

Coke has been airing a commercial recently as part of its new ‘Keep It Going’ ad campaign.  The idea behind the ad is that when you are finished drinking a fine coke product and place the empty container into a recycle bin that someone else will then get to enjoy another fine coke product based on [...]

I just read the article, ‘Last Gasp For American Foie Gras?’ on Salon.  It seems as though the Humane Society of the United States has been going after New York’s Hudson Valley Foie Gras with lawsuits in an effort to bury the farm under fines and legal bills.  The Humane Society may insist that they are [...]