all of the above

This is an incredible project. Read more about it on Wikipedia or at Friends of the High Line
via Fresh Creation

This is other-worldly. Absolutely stunning. It makes me wonder what kind of myths and legends these people have to tell.
via Ruguru

Discussing the Sothebys auction.
via Lost at E Minor

via Boing Boing
Printing a Book, Old School from Armin Vit on Vimeo.

via 1001 rules for my unborn son

from the LA Public Library

This is a fantastic little documentary about the massive amounts of boxes filled with different things which Kubrick left behind when he died. Unfortunately there’s no mention of the filling card system he developed for his Napoleon research, however there are a few nuggets of insight into the very private man.
via /Film

via Designboom

via Designboom

One of my most favourite authors, this is the first time I’ve seen him speak.

A trailer for the upcoming Bill Maher documentary. It seems a bit light-hearted, which is fine by me, I find him quite entertaining. via /film (which also put me onto this little gem of info).

An interesting episode of Insight on the topic of music downloading. via Ali
I’ll keep my views to myself, but they align closely with Kate Crawford (who by-the-by I used to dance to at 2am when she was one half of b(if)tek).

The trailer for the upcoming Hunter S Thompson documentary is out.

Erik Borst has some fantastic street photography as well as a brilliant website. I especially like his shots from Turkey.
I love photography sites that manage to present their photos in a large-scale, quick and lush manner. Something easily navigatable and intuitive but with the focus firmly on the art. Erik Borst’s site was created by [...]

Interesting reading: Ask A Philosopher. Usually quite relevant to the topic of the.
Santogold’s ‘L.E.S. Artistes.’ Nixon and I caught this live a while back at the Fader 51 Release Party
I’ve no idea why this is addictive, But it is.
“The Brain is like Cookie Dough.” Seriously WTF.
The Carrotbox is a consistently impressive blog about all things [...]

Going to an amazing little indepandant cinema called the IFC Center I was able to catch a documentary called Helvetica. Which was well worth the look. However the experience that I had was what has left the largest impression on me.
The IFC is on west 4th street, right on the edge of the Village, and [...]

Check out this english documentary on Ron Mueck. Why do they all British art doco’s have the same music?

The trailer to the new documentary about Sigur Ros is out. It looks utterly fantastic. It makes me want to move north and run through the Icelandic plains like a child of nature. According to Wikipedia the documentary will be released in Iceland at the Reykjavík International Film Festival opening day, which is the 27th [...]