Archive: August 2005

• Art / Palestine: “The ultimate activity holiday destination for graffiti writers” in street art, visual · Aug 31, 21:50

  The British street artist Banksy just painted nine provocative murals on the wall that separates the West Bank from Israel. The sardonic quote in the title is Banksy’s reflection on his work there. He goes into a little more detail on his site. The Guardian and BBC both covered it, and there is at [...]

• Art / Enter maximalism. in flickr, visual · Aug 5, 15:29

  An article in yesterday’s NYT House & Garden section extolled the virtues of clutter. Kristen summed it up nicely: Maximalism is the new minimalism.
  “Minimalism is easy to copy,” Ms. de Lorme said at her unabashedly messy desk on a recent morning. “Everybody can do it.”
  Nevertheless, maximalism isn’t as easy as it sounds. The author visits [...]

• Baseball / Palmeiro-zol in baseball · Aug 3, 14:17

  The Baseball Hall of Fame is filled with guys who cheated, played dirty, were terrible role models, drunks, jerks, domestic abusers, the list goes on. If any of these things disqualified players from eligibility, guys like Gaylord Perry & Whitey Ford (cheaters), Mickey Mantle (a great guy, but a drunk), Ty Cobb (a jerk) and [...]

• Rust Belt road trip in flickr, the ancient past, visual · Aug 3, 12:37

  Pittsburgh. Buffalo. Niagara Falls. Toronto. Detroit. It’s not exactly Route 66, but it was hot.
  The whole trip is on Flickr.