Post Office Street Suffixes
Eric 
25/08/09
25/08/09
Here is a list of street suffixes from the US Postal Service. I never knew I could mail something to a Fork, Flat, Key, Curve, Burg or Bottom. A complete list here
What’s a Big City Without a Newspaper?
franklin 9/08/09
9/08/09
By the early 20th century, the raucous, elbows-out era of American newspapering, there were 10 daily papers in the city. Now down to a besieged two, Philadelphia is a particularly good place to observe what appears to be big-city journalism’s last stand, when many of America’s metropolitan newspapers must quickly figure out how to become profitable again or face likely extinction.
Niele Toroni
franklin 8/08/09
8/08/09Niele Toroni, a Swiss painter, has kept focus for some time on ‘brush marks’. In 1966 he initiated the practice which he calls “Travail-Peinture” and which entails marking a surface with imprints of a #50 paintbrush at regular, 30-centimeter intervals.
More here: Galerie Greta Meert
Thalassa Cruso
elina 7/08/09
7/08/09
“Ms. Cruso, a witty, acerbic Englishwoman, wrote and starred in the weekly public-television program ”Making Things Grow” from 1966 to 1969. In brisk, impeccable diction, she indoctrinated viewers into the mysterious world of cyclamen and spathiphyllum, enjoining them to tend their plants with loving kindness, and to throw them in the dustbin without a backward glance if the little ingrates failed to respond.”
More here
Pat Metheny Group – Last Train Home
ian 6/08/09
6/08/09A jazz guitarist hailing from Lee’s Summit, Missouri, Pat Metheny is as American as apple pie. And yet his music seems to transcend time and place. This one comes from the Pat Metheny Group’s 1987 record “Still Life (Talking)”.
Mid-Week Jam
franklin 6/08/09
6/08/09edited: was originally the Joe Cocker version (seen here), always brilliant, but this is just too good to miss.
101 Spring St.
franklin 6/08/09
6/08/09
When he was searching for the home that he eventually found on Spring Street (November 1968), Donald Judd wrote that his requirements “were that the building be useful for living and working and more importantly, more definitely, be a space in which to install work of mine and of others.” After he bought the former factory, which was erected in 1870 and was in total disrepair, Judd said, “I spent a great deal of time placing the art and a great deal designing the renovation in accordance. Everything from the first was intended to be thoroughly considered and to be permanent.”
