Friday Snippets 3.13.09
[Images: Sears Tower, wallyg via flickr; Group of witches, thebookofdays.com; Marshall Field's/Macys, RcktManIL
via flickr; Antique drafting equipment, -Wink- via flickr; Jorge Colombo, iPhone art, gothamist.com; Alexander
McQueen ball gown, Paris 2009, Thibault Camus/Associated Press via nytimes.com; William Shakespeare(?), Cobbe
portrait, Geoff Pugh, telegraph.co.uk; Shakespeare shard, Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images via guardian.co.uk;
Le Corbusier's cabanon, maround.com /Artwork: designslinger]
Why is Friday the 13th considered bad luck? Needless to say it goes way back. In ancient
Rome, witches reportedly gathered in groups of 12. The 13th was believed to be the devil. Then there were the Norse...
Say it isn't so. Read a couple of days ago that Sears Tower in Chicago might get a new
name along with a new tenant. Sure enough, it will be called Willis Tower after London-based Willis Group Holdings. First Marshall Field's, now this. :( [WSJ, AP]
"Recession Is Ravaging Architectural Firms" This headline didn't appear in the NY Times
this week. It's from May 17, 1992. Yup, 1992. [A/N Blog]
Artist Jorge Colombo used the Brushes application to create some amazing city scenes on
his iPhone. He drew them with his finger, and they are amazing. [Gothamist]
If you can't make it to Berlin any time soon, take a look at this slideshow of images from
the re-done and re-born Neues Museum in Berlin. [NYT]
Fashion designer Alexander McQueen caused quite a ruckus in Paris this week. The internet
was buzzing like a hive of queen bees. According to NY Times reporter Eric Wilson, the collection, "the most ambitious we have seen this season, was as much a slap in the face to his industry, then, as it was brave statement about the absurdity of the race to build empires in fashion."
William Shakespeare is being discovered, or should I say rediscovered everywhere. First,
the only portrait of Shakespeare painted in his lifetime has been found. Well, maybe it's him. Second, a piece of pottery featuring a face thought to belong the Bard, was found at the excavation site of The Theatre, where Shakespeare worked until 1598. [Guardian]
I think it's pretty funny that the only building architect Le Corbusier designed and built for
himself, was a log cabin.
Posted by designslinger at 3/13/2009 4:56 AM 
Categories: Slinger SLinks
Tags: Alexander McQueen Corbusier Shakespeare portrait Sears Tower
Categories: Slinger SLinks
Tags: Alexander McQueen Corbusier Shakespeare portrait Sears Tower
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