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Month: August 2011
Impressionist Jim Meskimen Does Shakespeare in Celebrity Voices
Social network traffic, with and without Facebook. (via How Google ranks in traffic compared to other social sites | VentureBeat)
What is design?
Everything you ever needed to know about design, answered in five minutes by Charles Eames.
The video was produced for the exhibition “Qu’est ce que le design?” (or What is Design?) at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais de Louvre in 1969. A full transcript of the interview can be found here, and the video is available as part of The Films of Charles & Ray Eames DVD set.
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The thinker of tender thoughts.
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Mobsters lose suits
Jailed mobsters in Italy are no longer allowed to wear designer clothes while serving their sentences.
For decades Palermo’s Ucciardone prison has been known to its inmates as “The Grand Hotel” – a place where not even a custodial sentence could prevent well-connected mafiosi from enjoying the pleasures of a fine meal and a well-cut suit.One mobster, Michele Catalano, was even able to hold a champagne and lobster birthday banquet in the gym of the Sicilian jail, while a fellow godfather arranged a formal wedding for his daughter in the prison chapel.
But the new governor, Rita Barbera, is calling an end to the good times, starting with a ban on several designer labels such as Prada, Gucci, Valentino, Versace, Louis Vuitton and Armani.
via The Guardian