Karl Marx is finding a new audience among Japanese comic book fans. The manga edition of his masterpiece, "Das Kapital," hit Japanese bookstores this month and sold about 6,000 copies in its first few days. ap View full entry
Zaha Hadid's Chanel pavilion will not be coming to London [nor Paris or Moscow] after the fashion label canceled the building's world tour. AJ | prev. | related View full entry
If this economy gets worse, we may soon start seeing more Porsches on the roads. Porsche-shaped tents, that is. Michael Rakowitz’s P(L)OT project is a car-shaped tent that restores parking spaces to pedestrians as street-side camping.CCA-Actions | Via SC View full entry
US News & World Report issued their selection of the glamorous, recession proof careers for 2009 a few days back. So all you architects looking for a change from your overrated career choice, check out Urban Planning, Landscape Architecture, or engineering. green-collar jobs are still ahead... View full entry
The new S.F. Museum of Modern Art exhibit The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now turns the typically quiet gallery walk into a hands-on interactive experience. The pieces in the retrospective exhibit show how artists have dabbled in two-way communication with viewers over the past 60 years. wired View full entry
Design futurist and kitsch master (in his own right) Paul Laffoley has a detailed theory of Fantasia which boils down to "The German sorcerer was, on the one hand, (Joseph) Albers, but, on the other had,[sic] he was also the superego or the father-figure of (Walt) Disney." The plot involves... View full entry
The NY Times presents its 8th Annual Year in Ideas. View full entry
Nobel Laureate Steven Chu is likely to be the next energy chief. SFGate View full entry
Designer, ArchiNewspaper & my friend Ken Saylor, of saylor+sirola, reports from Art|Basel|Miami Beach: Miami Vices. View full entry
'Guerilla' Advertising Masquerades as Graffiti. Companies are increasingly turning to graffiti and street art to give themselves a more youthful image. Taggers complain that this commercialization could destroy the street art subculture. Isn't this already done in the fashionized markets like... View full entry
Chicago based Tribune Co., which owns the L.A. Times, filed Monday for bankruptcy protection from creditors. New York Times borrows on its new building. L.A. Times writer Christopher Hawthorne reflects via architecture angle. View full entry
Earning from Las Vegas? or a new Vegas Downtown? Not quite... NPR goes with Journalist Matt O'Brien down into the bowels of the city. | Filippo Marinelli wants to reattach web 2.0 reality to poverty realities, on woostercollective | Is this the end of neoliberalism? David Harvey talks about it. View full entry
Photographer Sean Sutton reports on the work of MAG (Mines Advisory Group) in Laos. Guardian Slideshow View full entry
Considering the challenges facing our country the next secretary must be a visionary. Wired Magazine likes the forward-thinking mayor of Minneapolis who has made sensible and sustainable transportation policy a hallmark of his tenure. Read View full entry
Tracklist: 1.) Dr. John - Right Place, Wrong Time 2.) John Lurie (as Marvin Pontiac) - Runnin' Round 3.) Stevie Ray Vaughn - Texas Flood 4.) Laurie Anderson - From the Air 5.) Prince - Musicologykcrw View full entry