While I was on vacation, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority in San Francisco unveiled three competing plans for a new office tower and transit terminal that will be the tallest building in the city. For once all three schemes have something to be said for them.
There’s one by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill:
(Image courtesy SOM)
One by …
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We had one of the more productive Tuned In thread hijacks last week when commenter Rahul asked–in a post about VH1′s John from WKRP in Cincinnati mashup–”In your opinion, do you think Reality TV has revitalized television?”
I do think so, even though the last year or so has been fairly slack for new reality TV, and in 2003, back at …
Last month, in a post I did about the death of the photo curator John Szarkowski, I mentioned that one of the best photography books I ever read was Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence by the photographer Tod Papageorge. The book is a brilliant rethinking of how Frank, in his masterpiece The Americans, came to grips …
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I’m on vacation for next two weeks, with little, and possibly no, Web access on the road. While I’m gone, I’ve set up the RoboPoster 3000 to put up some questions and discussion topics to keep the lights on. That’s right, I’m writing to you… from the past! What are things like in the future? Do you have jet packs? Who’s president now, …
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SPOILER ALERT: Sorry, this post contains absolutely no Big Love spoilers.
I briefly considered taking time out from my barely-earned vacation to write up a Big Love Watch roundup. Operative word being “briefly.” But I thought enough Big Lovers might come here that I’d have the RoboPoster 3000 open a thread for your comments. So feel …
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I’m on vacation for the next two weeks. But you’re not getting rid of me that easily. I’ve once again programmed the RoboPoster 3000 to toss up some daily discussion questions while I’m gone. Last time we tried this, the discussion was actually livelier than it is when I’m around here writing stuff, so enjoy it while it lasts, and see …
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HBO has renewed Flight of the Conchords. Also, some show about movie stars.
The Lowdown, Murray, 2001 — Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Generalitat Valenciana
Ok, lets finish up the Elizabeth Murray train of thought I started Wednesday, about the extraordinary number of influences that went into producing her pictures.
At the Art Institute of Chicago, where Murray was a student in the late 1950s, she …
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Elijah Wood, DJ Lance Rock and friends make you question whether someone slipped something in your coffee. Lisa Rose / Nick Jr. / TM & © 2007 GabbaCadabra LLC
I assume that there is a decent percentage of Tuned In readers who do not have children. I further assume that when the child-unburdened among you see the “JPTV Jr.” heading …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this, swipe a bottle of booze and watch Mad Men.
So I’ll admit it: I lost faith just for a second. I briefly thought Mad Men was going to start sucking. That moment when Don asks his long-lost brother whether any of their relatives are left surviving, finds out they’re gone, then reaches into his bag? …
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HSM2′s sophomore stomp. David James / New Line
The pop culture universal mind must be trying to tell us something be releasing Disney’s High School Musical 2 (a sex-free fantasy of high school as imagined by tweens) on the same day as the (terrific) movie Superbad (a sex-filled fantasy of high school as imagined by Seth Rogen). And if I …
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Honky Grandma Be Recycling! NBC Photo: Virginia Sherwood
In this week’s newly rebranded Tuned In column in the print Time, I write about TV’s sudden interest in green programming, which is rising faster than the global sea levels. Discovery launches an entire environmental channel, Planet Green, next year, while NBC has planned a week …
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It’s currently sunny on MySpace. Jay Silverman / FX
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia–which I liked fine the first season and really fell for last year–comes back September 13. Or, like, right now, if you direct your browser to MySpace, where a preview season 3 episode is streaming until August 23. I cheated and watched the …
