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(via Bobby Short At The Cafe Carlyle 1979 (Complete) - YouTube) 

Never gave The Carlyle much thought as a cultural destination until I stayed there under some pretty dramatic circumstances and was introduced to it’s legacy. Now I can’t get enough.

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(via (8) Buckley, Kerouac, Sanders and Yablonsky discuss Hippies - YouTube)

Hard to believe Kerouac is only 46 during this strange panel interview.

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Homage to Hitchcock in Tom Ford’s A Single Man

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David Wojnarowicz’s Still-Burning Rage

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Steve Jobs 1988 NeXT reveal. Probably Steve Jobs at his most un-Jobs. Nervous, slightly pandering to critics by relying on things he denied in the past — like price point and compatibility — and in a lengthy presentation that’s quite dry for 40 straight minutes until he reveals  NeXT to the sound of Fanfare for the Common Man.

Which you can view in better quality here.

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Frank Sinatra & Kim Novak. Otto Preminger’s The Man with the Golden Arm. 1955. Title sequence by Saul Bass.

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Kerry James Marshall - The Actor Hezekiah Washington as Julian Carlton Taliesen Murderer of Frank Lloyd Wright Family, 2009.

On the afternoon of August 15, 1914, Wright was in Chicago working on the design of Midway Gardens when his mistress and two of her children, 8-year-old Martha and 12-year-old John, sat down for lunch on the porch at Taliesin. Inside the main dining room, at the other end of a 25-foot-long passageway, Wright’s draftsmen and laborers also gathered around a table to be served lunch by 30-year-old Barbados native Julian Carlton, a handyman and servant who had spent the summer waiting tables and performing housework at Taliesin. Carlton’s wife, Gertrude, did most of the cooking.

As the workers ate their soup inside the dining room, 19-year-old draftsman Herbert Fritz and his table mates noticed something unusual. “We heard a swish as though water was thrown through the screen door. Then we saw some fluid coming under the door. It looked like dishwater. It spread out all over the floor,” he recalled.

Having just served soup to Wright’s mistress and her children, Carlton instructed his wife to leave. He then returned to the porch wielding a hatchet and attacked Borthwick and her two children before dousing the floors with gasoline and setting the entire house ablaze.

The dining room burst into flames. The door was slammed shut and locked. With his clothes burning and hair afire, Fritz jumped out the window next to where he was seated and rolled down the hillside to put out the flames. As Fritz looked back, he saw Taliesin in flames and Carlton wielding his hatchet against his co-workers who had broken through the barricaded door or tried to escape through a window to the courtyard.

In all this work, it is as if Marshall gives voice to the ways in which young African American men are easily identified as threats due to a historically erroneous conflation. The entirely dangerous weight of hierarchy, confusion, role-playing, and exploitation boils up.

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If you've ever walked the High Line and wondered about the wild, unstructured, but mysteriously symphonic gardens and greenery offers you should watch this documentary about the man that designed it.

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Current obsession: Uniforms designed by Stan Herman for global brands in the 1970s

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There are few better ways to connect with history than lifting Champagne to one’s lips. We’re getting ready to open this bottle of Brut from the world’s oldest maker, @Ruinart. The house was founded in 1729.

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James Stewart and Judith Evelyn in “Rear Window” (1954)

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Jim & Andy, a brilliant double portrait of both Andy Kaufmann and Jim Carey is a study of character that operates on so many levels, it breaks the construct of what real is, when it comes to the invention of persona. And really we’re all creating ourselves to “make it” in one way or another, no matter what we do. 

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I’m watching and screen shooting the Cassavetes catalog and writing 4 things about each film I watch. First up:

Love Streams, 1984

1) John Cassavetes was given 5 months to live just before shooting began. It’s safe to say, he knew he was dying every minute the camera is on him.

2) The 1982 Buick Riviera John’s character Robert drives made a recent return to the big screen under the hands of Ryan Gosling in La La Land.

3) Love Streams takes its title from dialogue that appears twice in the film. Both references refer to love as being like a stream. It flows forever. (well not really, but you get the point) Both Robert, and his son, appear in the film with blood streaming down their faces.

4) Most of Love Streams was shot in John’s own Hollywood hills home. All the pictures on the walls are his, and feature scenes captured throughout his illustrious life. Although Cassavetes would live longer than the few months his doctor prescribed, Love Streams is looked upon by critics as the last true John Cassavetes film, rendering the photos as a montage to a life lived.     

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"As a writer, I’m a voyeur myself,” Gay Talese says in his documentary about Gerald Foos, a motel owner and peeping tom he’s been chronicling for about 25 years.

I couldn’t agree more. I spent most of the spring lurking Gay Talese’s Lenox Hill neighborhood, dressed as his doppelgänger so that I could write about the Jersey-born Talese. But I’m sure this documentary (which will be released on December 1st) will reveal, that subject and writer are intrinsically tied to one another, and strung by the thin thread of truth.

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Mitchell Funk 1977