Artist Mark Andrew Webber started this typographical map of Paris eight months ago and he’s almost ready to go to print… if he can find someone with a press that can handle the almost 6 feet by 5 feet monster of a linoleum plate. The hand-carved map uses French words — which had to be written backwards — to map out the various locations and neighborhoods of France’s capital. Note: Webber doesn’t even speak French.
If you’re wondering what the finished product will look like, check out these finished copies of New York and London. [via Creative Review]
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We were just beginning to make peace with the news that George was gone forever now that T.R. Knight has declined to come back for one more episode of Grey’s Anatomy. Then we found out what the episode that we’ll never see was supposed to be about. Now we’re back at square one. Read More »
We’re back with your daily reminder of cool events happening tonight across the Flavorpillaverse. So now you have no excuse for staying in tonight. If you’d rather have this information delivered straight to your inbox each Tuesday, sign up for our Flavorpill City Guides.
If you’re in New York: Film Forum reminds New York cineastes why Nick Ray merited that famed bouquet from Godard (“le cinéma, c’est Nicholas Ray”) with 14 films over the next two weeks.
If you’re in LA: Head down to Pershing Square and check out Lights on LA, an exhibition of light bulbs decorated by various artists to help remind us all why we need art. Bonus: the exhibit has been timed to coincide with the summer outdoor concert series.
If you’re in San Francisco: Take a gander at Fernando Eimbcke’s Lake Tahoe, playing this week at Sundance Kabuki Cinema. Anything that’s earned a comparison to Jarmush is definitely worth the price of admission.
If you’re in Chicago: Performed in tribute to Barbara Tiao, the late founder of the Chinese Fine Arts Society In Tribute: A Chinese Voyage features contributions from Chicago violinist (and member of thrash-metal band Earthen Grave) Rachel Barton Pine, longtime CSO clarinetist John Bruce Yeh, erhu artist Betti Xiang and percussion ensemble Cheng Da Drumming Team.
San Diego Comic-Con — the world’s largest comic book convention and one of the only places where a homemade superhero costume will help you fit in — opens tonight. A lot of people have been making a big to-do about the fact that there will be girls there. Others have made a to-do about the to-do. We don’t really know what to think, but we’re already tired of hearing about New Moon. Read More »
For those of you who are new to the Big Brother Book Club, we give up our precious subway reading time each week to bring you the scoop on what the world around us is reading. It’s a hard job filled with all kinds of exciting espionage-related tasks we dare not speak of to the unindoctrinated. Just know, that wherever you are reading, the book spy is out there, working hard for you. Read More »
We have a serious love for graphic t-shirts, so when Flavorpill NYC’s managing editor Leah Taylor was chosen to be the judge of Social Designer’s Kids Story t-shirt design competition (which benefits our friends at 826 National — a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting expository and creative writing for kids ages 6-18.) we were all over it. That, and we’re a big fan of both their owl mascot and unbelievably cool mission: “to spark new thinking about the issues that matter most by encouraging the design community to create fun, socially-relevant graphics for tees, totes and other goods.” Read More »
Turns out that the French are way ahead in vacationing technology: last week travel agencies Pierre et Vacances and FranceLoc announced that they’re offering insurance to customers, promising to reimburse them “if weather conditions don’t meet expectations.” They plan to use satellite photos to predict the weather, like weathermen, except there’s money on the line… so like gambling weathermen. Considering our luck with vacations — freak heat waves while snow skiing, hurricane force winds at the beach — we want in. And it got us thinking, if they are going to offer us money back on the weather, aren’t there other things we should be reimbursed for, too? Read More »
It was announced yesterday that Warner Bros. and Leonardo Dicarpio’s Appain Way had signed Rand Ravich to write the script for their planned Twilight Zone movie. Ravich, best known for the script of 1999′s The Astronaut’s Wife,has some sci-fi cred, but as fans of the show, we’re nervous. Though it hasn’t been announced yet what direction the film will take —recreations of classic episodes ala the 1983 Twilight Zone: The Movie, or a completely new storyline — but if it does go the route of the ’83 movie, we have some suggestions for some of our favorite Twilight Zone episodes that could be awesome if done well. Read More »
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We hadn’t heard much about Despicable Me before now, which might be because it doesn’t come out until next year. But here’s what you need to know: It has an amazing voice cast (read: Steve Carell, Will Arnett, Jason Segel, Kristen Wiig, Danny McBride, Russell Brand, and Julie Andrews), and Universal just put out the first trailer which features an unusually long 2 and a half minute scene. Read More »
