http://www.thecorner.com

http://www.youheshe.com/

Maybe the contester of the most sublime thing to be featured on this blog. Maybe I should have a vote for most sublime thing of the year?

Jerry Saltz: “Ink Line, the best and showiest of the three works, is a sculpture / drawing / fountain consisting of a stream of jet-black ink pouring from a dime-size hole in the ceiling into a dime-size hole in the floor. Initially Ink Line looks like a strand of yarn strung the height of the gallery, a pulsating Fred Sandback sculpture, a free-floating Barnett Newman zip or a disembodied Sol LeWitt. Get close and you’ll realize the line is liquid, glimmering, the consistency of syrup, moving fairly fast, fluctuating slightly, and thinner at the bottom than at the top. The ink forms a weird climatological aura around itself, slightly changing the humidity of the room. I was blown away when I was allowed to see the elaborate apparatus that makes this simple effect possible. There was a large, noisy electric motor in the showroom beneath this gallery, all sorts of wiring, and plastic tubes that go under the floor, behind the wall, and above the ceiling. A gallery assistant arrives two hours early each day to drain the ink, “de-gas” it (!?), heat it with lamps to between 90 and 95 degrees, and put it back into the system. Anyone who looks at Ink Line can figure out how it works — yet the piece is as much a phenomenological event and a mystery as it is a work of formalist sculpture.”

Matsutake.

African Blackwood.

White lions.

Sleek magazine.

Amazing food and fashion blog.

American Vintage.

Adam Kimmel.

Under The Influence magazine.

http://nicholasknight.net/wordpress/

A. E. Housman.  A Shropshire Lad

Hussein Chalayan interview at Hintmag.

Kuki Shūzō.  (Amazon)

Yuri Suzuki

Eddie Edwards. Legendary British ski jumper.

Alfredo di Stéfano. The legendary soccer player, nicknamed The Blond Arrow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_wine_terms

Riva Aquariva Super

Puffin.

Puffer fish.

http://print-resources.tumblr.com/

Christopher Kane.

Rachel Whiteread. She has a thing about putting space in boxes.

Fernando Pessoa.

“For those few like me who live without knowing how to have life, what’s left but renunciation as our way and contemplation as our destiny? Neither knowing nor able to know what religious life is, since faith isn’t acquired through reason, and unable to have faith in or even react to the abstract notion of man, we’re left with the aesthetic contemplation of life as our reason for having a soul. Impassive to the solemnity of any and all worlds, indifferent to the divine, and disdainers of what is human, we uselessly surrender ourselves to pointless sensation, cultivated in a refined Epicureanism, as befits our cerebral nerves.”

Madeleine L’Engle. This woman makes me cry.

Look at her titles: The Arm of the Starfish, A Wrinkle in Time, A Swiftly Tilting Planet.

http://dandygum.blogspot.com/ - great fashion blog.

The weirdest thing on the internet, and maybe also the coolest.

http://hepburnhepburn.com/

http://voguetransexual.com/

An ambigram, also sometimes known as an inversion, is a typographical design or artform that may be read as one or more words not only in its form as presented, but also from another viewpoint, direction or orientation.

Liebling magazine.

Mousse Magazine.

Ed Ruscha, World Without Countries, 1980

http://horsehunting.blogspot.com/

Nice blog.

Giasco Bertoli - 15 Love. With Oliver Zahm, Mark Bothwick, Anders Edstrom, etc.

Jamón ibérico, Iberian ham, also called pata negra, is a type of cured ham produced only in Spain. It is at least 75% black Iberian pig, also called the cerdo negro (black pig).

Black Iberian pig

Hartmut Esslinger.

Pierre Hermé. French pastry chef that Vogue called “the Picasso of Pastry”.

Robert Polidori.

Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds. It is widely considered to be O’Brien’s masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated examples of metafiction.

The Capgras delusion (or Capgras syndrome) is a disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that a friend, spouse or other close family member, has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor.

L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E  magazine.

Delmore Schwartz

Schwartz spent time at Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin before finally graduating from New York University in 1935. Soon after graduation, he made his parents’ disastrous marriage the subject of his most famous short story, “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities” which was published in 1937 in the first issue of Partisan Review.

Lucas Ossendrijver.

Lucas Ossendrijver, the 37-year-old Dutch-born Lanvin men’s wear designer, has an international resume to rival most diplomats. After graduating from the Fashion Institute Arnhem (ex alumni include Ossendrijver’s compatriots Viktor & Rolf), he skipped from Kenzo, to the German-Greek Kostas Murkudis, and then to Dior Homme in the Hedi Slimane years, before being charged in 2006 with translating Alber Elbaz’s success at Lanvin to the men’s market.

Today Orford Ness on the Suffolk coast is known as an internationally renowned nature reserve, but its history is shrouded in secrecy and tales of military testing.

Cobra Mist, a film by Emily Richardson. Cobra Mist explores the relationship between the landscape of Orford Ness and the physical traces of its unusual military history.

BBC Article

Well of Saint Patrick.

Nice blog.

Happy people don’t complain.

The Viridi-anne is a Japanese fashion brand created by Tomoaki Okaniwa in 2001. The brand is known for high end men’s clothing which mix classic ideas with cutting edge materials and designs.

Gordon Walters.

The Horse Hospital is a unique arts venue in London which has been providing a space for underground and avantgarde media since 1993.

Melancholia (YouTube)

William Basinski (Wikipedia)

David Stubbs - Fear of Music.

Modern art is a mass phenomenon. Conceptual artists like Damien Hirst enjoy celebrity status. Works by 20th century abstract artists like Mark Rothko are selling for record breaking sums, while the millions commanded by works by Andy Warhol and Francis Bacon make headline news. 

Peter Bogdanovich’s classic film Targets.

Cabinet magazine.

More.

Nikola Tesla.