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Entries from January 2008

Falling in love with Ingo Maurer

January 27th, 2008 · No Comments

After Nora dragged me off to the last day of his show at the Cooper-Hewitt, I have a serious crush on Ingo and his endlessly inventive stream of playful, witty lighting installations.

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Tags: Fun · Images · Supercool

36 Hours in Cape Town

January 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

CAPE Town is South Africa’s Los Angeles to Johannesburg’s New York — the glitzy, gorgeous, self-obsessed foil to its grittier, more serious and more powerful big sister.
The New York Times has a decent mini-guide to Cape Town, but they skip out so much of what’s great about the city. I’ll add some of my [...]

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Tags: Fun · Life · Movement

Mechanical Bull 1, Michael 0

January 1st, 2008 · No Comments

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Michael’s turn, originally uploaded by superkb.

Manlio was in town, so we took the opportunity to hit up Mason-Dixon, a wholly unremarkable neighbourhood bar, except for one thing - a mechanical bull.
Paraphrasing KevinC: “I thought [...]

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Tags: Life

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