Ice Cream Terrorism

Stealing a page from my long lost cohorts, an excerpt from a chat last night that had my sides splitting. FYI/BTW: I was imagining Wonder Breads, not a baguette.

12:17 AM America: i'm spilling ice cream all over myself

12:18 AM Thailand: haha

tight

haven't had good ice cream in a minue

minute

12:19 AM America: i shld ship u some of this

http://www.benjerry.com/flavors/our-flavors/#product_id=108

12:20 AM Thailand: oh yeah

the colbert one

America: hella good

Thailand: yeah

you know what the preferred vehicle for ice cream is here?

bread

America: hahahaha

12:21 AM Thailand: yeah

a literal ice cream sandwich

its bizarre

America: hahaha

lol

Thailand: in a culture that doesn't even really have bread, they put their ice cream on it

12:22 AM America: amazing

i'm still lol

Thailand: yeah

i still laugh when i see it

i'll find you a pic

12:23 AM America: k

12:24 AM Thailand: http://www.mybkk.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/bkkthaiicecreamsandwich.jpg

i dunno maybe its good

12:26 AM America: hahaha

12:27 AM that looks AWFUL

Thailand: yeah

it doesnt' look great

maybe if it was like french toast or something

12:28 AM then i'd be down

12:29 AM America: yea, you shld try it

and write a bit about it

Thailand: yeah i will

12:30 AM i've been meaning to try it for a while

but whenever i see it i can't bring myself to do it

12:31 AM America e: i honestly dont blame you

Thailand: yeah

theres a lot of shit i still gotta try

12:32 AM weird shit

America: i cant get over the fact that the chocolate in that picture looks like shit

like real shit

12:33 AM Thailand: yeah thats the thing too

is the ice cream here is never good

chocolates never good

unless its from somewhere else

America: looks like bad soft serve

12:34 AM Thailand: basically anything thats not traditionally thai is done badly

America: such blanket statements only make me lol

Thailand: i guess thats how it always is

haha

i'm for real

America: i never use "lol" but there's no other way for me to say it right now

12:35 AM Thailand: thai made chocolate is just bad

America: i believe you!

Thailand: i don't blame them

its a relatively new thing

same with ice cream

bread

cheese

America: hahaha

12:36 AM Thailand: anyway

i gotta get going

me: ok

thanks for the laughs

Thailand: yeah

me: i shld probly sleep too

Thailand: the laffs are on me

Design Poach #19: Hitchclock

What: Hitchcock Chromotography
Stolen from: Hitchcock Wiki Blog via @dwhtwit.

Be sure to click through and look at the big versions. This kind of obssesive project is what the internet was made for. --RWK

Design Poach #18: Heights

What: A cover of Wuthering Heights, which I've never read, but want to for the number of film adaptations there are, including one by our man of the moment, Mr Manipulator himself, Rivette.
Stolen from: An article in the Independent about the art of book covers, of course. Found via this recent 3:AM link dump.

Candles #5: Best Death Metal Elevator From London

Pretty amazing. Pretty damned amazing, Carlton. Imagine I'm yelling, imagine I'm John Darnielle:

Let's save our pennies and dimes! Let's get along real well!
Let's go ahead, let's book a flight, let's find things to sell!
Oh I want to slide dow that tube; oh I want it, I want it oh so bad.
OH I can't find my right mood, oh I want, I want to never be mad!
Jump into that chute!
Jump into that chute!
Let's jump intooOOOooo that chute.

More pix over here. --RWK

What Community? #89: Doin rails

America's gonna do some rails. Or, Prezman made a proposal, which you can more about over here. I think it would be a great thing. Might help me sell that train novel, too, since trains will be so hip in this new network. --RWK [click pic for slightly bigger image]

Genius Marketing #54: Girlfriend Design Poach #14

Soderbergh, for all his silliness, is a smart guy. Also, um, great mouth. And while we're at it: did you see this one? --RWK

Design Poach #13: Face Tapes

Here we have repurposed nostalgia making pretty, and reminding that patience is a virtue. Serious: how long do these take? You can see more by clicking here. --RWK [via BoingBoing]

What Community? #87: 2 to 2.50 is 81 to X

Well, shit. Fare hikes are official. Really need to get a bike or a skateboard. Really need a hood I like to hang in. Really need a steady job, too, while we're at this low point. Read more at CityRoom. --RWK

What Community? #86: SFJ lives in a fishtown

I've tried to like SFJ, I have. And, to be fair, not liking him gets me nowhere. So most of the time I ignore the guy. But then some days I happen upon something that makes me intrigued again and I look around at more of his stuff. And then his ugly side rears its head again. As with this post on his New Yorker blog. I mean, congrats, guy, you've been employed for five years by one of the most prestigious culture mags in the biz. But, and here you're right, MP, I just don't like jerks. And it's rare that SFJ comes off as humble. Maybe that's why I'm where I'm at and he's where he's at... it is a game after all. --RWK

Encounter #134: Sun San Melt Francisco

Just saw this image in this latest BLDGBLOG post, stolen from this flickr user and I had to share it here. The light in California sure is different. I miss that in a different way than I miss the vegetables. --RWK

Design Poach #11: Alice Tully Hall

What: The newly renovated Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center across the park from me. I first saw it at magic hour, it was yet more beautiful. Unfortunately, I did not have a camera.
Stolen from: This flickr set set up by A Daily Dose of Architecture

Genius Marketing #51: Sita sings online

After much copyright deliberation (headaches), Nina Paley has announced that her film, Sita Sings the Blues, will air for public consumption: first, you can stream the entire film at Reel13 (now), and then, second, it will be available in a variety of qualities "free to copy and share" after it airs March 7th at 1045pm as part of Reel 13 on WNET TV. Once I'm done with a few projects, I definitely plan on watching the film and, if moved, writing about its flash fun. --RWK [via sean]

Genius Marketing #50: Gallo in a Coppola (not sexual)

FFC has a new movie and that new movie has a new website. CLICK HERE! to see a vlog by FFC himself in his Napa Valley home rapping about the project in a few too-close close-ups and dropping bombs like "Gallo's mad brilliant, son." Or something. I wanna see this thing. It's also got that lady who played sex with Gael and Diego in that Alfonso Cuaron movie. --RWK

What Community? #81: Forgotten man no more.

My Man Godfrey plays tomorrow night at Film Forum. I wrote about it over at Spout Blog. If you're a cheap date, or you got no date, you can watch the thing on youtube by following the trajectory this video above affords. You might like it! Cuz it's great! --RWK

Design Poach #10: tres mujeres

What: A poster for Altman's (neglected?) masterpiece, 3 Women (available on Criterion, Netflix), that is, for some reason, produced and designed in Spanish, duh. I would put this on my wall. Maybe.
Stolen from: Masochistic Opposite, a tumblr found thru another tumblr thru another tumblr... u know how surfing goes...
--RWK

Encounter #127: Slightly out of fashion.

My new friend Jocelyn is a super David Byrne fangirl. When I arrived at her apartment last night after one of the best birthday parties I've ever been to, she had this album playing SUPER loud. I sat on the couch and drank it in all silent. I felt it so hard I fell asleep in its audible arms. (Then I went home.) They may be old, but these guys do know sounds. They know life. You can download the single, "Strange Overtones," at the webpage right here, which is where I got this code to embed. You can also pay to download the album, which I should have a while ago, but I've been streaming it every time I want to hear it. And, given its resonance with my new New York life, that may happen more, and that may translate into MP3s for those sometimes-interminable train rides. It's snowing here. --RWK

Design Poach #5: The sea.

What: A John Constable seascape.
Stolen from: An epic post at The Art of Memory that errbody should go eat right this second. --RWK [x-posted on ViH]

What Community? #70: Fuck money made from hate.

Carlton: i don't want to be negative
but this image is an attack on life
on beauty
on love
whether you like it or not
--RWK [NYT]

(Not) Genius Marketing #41: Everlasting Moments

Martha's been goin gaga for this film on the email front (exposure, What!) as she works together some words after seeing the thing in Santa Fe. Kinda crappy trailer sometimes, kinda crappy title, too, sometimes, but I really want to see this sadness. I mean, I can sense how it would/could (will?) hang together as one of The Great Things. I'll grant her that. She's crazy smart, and funnier than most people--in the written word no less. Have you read her blog yet? Get on it, dummy, like, yesterday and the month before. --RWK

What Community? #69: Thousands of feet.

Finally caught up with this BLDGBLOG post, and, well, it's everything to me right now. (Or, almost. That shower felt pretty good, too.) The gist: there's this dude, right, I mean there's always a dude, and he's living at the top of this big motherfucker cuz it takes too long to go home on the ground every day. Since I'm dumb, I bought that story right away. But Geoff Manaugh is smart. So I'm'a quote him here:

Whether or not this is even true – after all, I never think truth is the point in stories like this – 1) the idea of appropriating a construction crane as a new form of domestic space – a kind of parasitic sub-structure attached to the very thing it's helped to construct (perhaps raising the question: what is the ontology of construction cranes?) – is totally awesome; 2) further, the idea that crane operators are subject to these sorts of urban rumors and speculations brings me back to the idea that there might be a burgeoning comparative literature of mega-construction sites taking shape today, with this particular case representing a strong subgenre: mythic construction worker stories, John Henry-esque figures who single-handedly assemble whole floors of Dubai skyscrapers at midnight, with a cigarette in one hand and a hammer in the other (or so the myths go), as a kind of oral history of the global construction trade; and, finally, 3) there should be some kind of TV show – or a book, or a magazine interview series – similar to Dirty Jobs in which you go around visiting people who live in absurd places – like construction cranes atop the Burj Dubai, or extremely distant lighthouses, or remote drawbridge operation rooms on the south Chinese coast, or the janitorial supply chambers of inner London high-rises – in order to capture what could be called the new infrastructural domesticity: people who go to sleep at night, and brush their teeth, and shave, and change clothes, and shower, inside jungle radar towers for the French foreign legion, or up above the train tracks of Grand Central Station because their shift starts at 3am and they have to stay close to the job.
How do they decorate these spaces, or personalize them, or make them into recognizable homes? It's like a willful misreading of Heidegger as applied to the question of building, dwelling inside, and thinking about modern infrastructure.
I'm reminded of a line from Paul Beaty's new novel, Slumberland. Early in the book he writes, and my jaw dropped: "Sometimes just making yourself at home is revolutionary."

--RWK