1. Space age furniture to fill the void that Battlestar Galactica left behind
2. Our apartment would look just like one of these swank lofts if we just… sigh. Nevermind.
3. This guide clarifies who’s lurking behind the tinted windows of that suspicious minivan.
4. If this house could walk. Oh wait. It does!
5. A rare, practical application of Twitter
6. We imagine that these gravestones might appeal to the people who live in those beautiful lofts from #2.
7. Erik Burke’s Writer’s Bench
8. Pretty estampados from Spain
9. Is it a broom? Or a hatstand? Or both?
10. So what if it isn’t high brow? Top Shop certainly got more buzz than the “Jungle Vase” this week.
Today on the sunny sidewalks of SoHo, there was a lot going on: Apparently everyone is either unemployed, tired of recession talk, or a crazy Kate Moss fan. (Or, they work at Flavorpill. Heh.) Thousands of fashion-y types waited in the obnoxious, block-spanning line for the delayed opening of UK import, Topshop.
While we couldn’t understand why people wouldn’t just wait until tomorrow to snap up a pair of skinnys, we got sucked into the confetti exploding energy, big time. We found ourselves joining the paparazzi as they stalked Kate Moss’ backdoor exit, clawing at the free goodies (if you didn’t score a Topshop tote you were totes an outsider), and even posing for fashion bloggers. We admit, we kind of lost it for a brief recession who? moment. CLICK HERE for our iPhone photo documentation of the crazy/beautifuls and some of the best people watching we’ve encountered in a while. Thank you, Kate.
(For more photo goodness head over to Nicky Digital where he’s covering the opening all day.)
What do Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Oprah and Kate Moss have in common? They’re all “illiterate” when it comes to science, says this year’s Celebrities and Science Review 2008, an annual roundup prepared by an independent charitable trust in the UK called Sense About Science.
Where’d they go wrong? According to an article in the Independent, Obama blamed the skyrocketing autism rate on vaccines, but the research has failed to substantiate any such link; Palin dismissed the importance of fruit fly studies in France neglecting to realize that the insects share roughly half their genes with humans; and Oprah and Moss both publicly claimed that you can detox your body with the right diet, a fact that is “scientifically unsupportable.”
All of the above are blunders, but pale in comparison to the scientific leaps of faith that Hollywood regularly asks us to take in order to swallow their movies (there’s a ceremony called the PRISM Awards that’s dedicated to “scientifically-accurate entertainment” across all categories — it’s that rare). Five of our favorite from the past year after the jump; leave any we missed in the comments.
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While an ode to a cultural clothing fetish may seem frivolous on a day when our country is met with monumental change, it is fitting that the piece in question comes from AMERICAN APPAREL, a brand that has always been provocative, seeking to do more with its name than just sell clothes.
Setting aside, for a moment, the company’s liberal stance on U.S. Immigration policy and its titillating ad campaigns and consider this: founder DOV CHARNEY is Canadian. What made a Canadian start a clothing line that celebrates retro ’70s and ’80s American style and pushes the envelope on public policy and perception of beauty? A fascination with all things United States.
From youth, Charney was enamored of classic, casual American style and pop culture. Soon his hobby became a way of life, as he began importing Hanes t-shirts over the border to his friends in Canada. This led to an ill-fated t-shirt manufacturing business based down South. In 1998 Charney moved to Los Angeles to try again and thus American Apparel was born.
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