Floating Architecture: Finding Ways to Live With Rising Water
“The Ark is a hotel by Russian design firm Remistudio and is meant to be self-sufficient. The transparent foil roof would allow light to reach plants inside, and the waste produced in the building would be converted into fuel. The cupola form is meant to be energy-efficient, and its shell basement with cables and arches is designed to distribute weight evenly to make it earthquake- and flood-resistant. ”
They do exist! Our tailors in Shanxi province have come through once again.
miss eartha kitty just had a bottle and a bath and instead of falling asleep like a good kitty baby should, she’s taken to perching on my shoulder and nonstop meowing directly into my ear. giiiiiiiiiiirl, you just got here. wrong note.
Eartha Kitty
What Does Your Favorite Wes Anderson Movie Say About You?
With the advent of Wes Anderson’s latest entry into his compendium of eight—the movie Moonrise Kingdom, out in New York and Las Angeles Friday—there’s enough of a catalog to ensure that there’s one for each of us. So, what’s your favorite Wes Anderson film? You would be amazed at what your preferences say about who you are, at least according to this entirely unscientific but completely authoritative exploration:
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
You like bands that other people like, but you only like their really obscure stuff. When you describe a piece of art or something as “difficult,” you mean it as a compliment. You probably have a graduate degree in something specific or you just work at a used book store. You want to move to Portland but you just haven’t done it yet. Sometimes people call you an asshole and you respond, “All I’m saying is that it’s important to understand what the term ‘craft beer’actually means.” If you’re a straight guy (and you probably are) you have a girlfriend named Cara who is a research assistant and wants to move to France, but not Paris. When you have a kid (not with Cara), it will have, for a first name, the last name of a writer you like. (Maybe Wallace, because you love Infinite Jest.) One summer when you were a kid you spent a month with your cousins at their island house in Maine and something big happened that you never told anyone else.
Scumbag Joe
Yo dawg, I heard you like Joe Biden memes, so I made you a Tumblr meme about Joe Biden memes.
Sometimes it gets so hip I can’t help but weep a bit.
gq:
Watching TV: UR DOIN IT RONG
There are rules, you know. Or at least we made some up. Presenting GQ’s The New Rules of TV, including:
Rule #13 SHUT YOUR DANG MOUTH! (Spoiler etiquette)
Don’t spoil something and then say, “That’s not really a spoiler.” Critics do this all the time, especially with stuff that happens early in the episode. As if an event in the first five minutes somehow doesn’t count. It all counts.
There’s now even a Twitter dedicated to calling out people who use The Wire as pick-up bait in their online dating profiles. (Exhibit A: “On our first date, we can quote scenes from The Wire.”—Male, 29) As a lady who has ventured to grab a drink with such males, I can tell you that a good proportion of them seem to confuse owning the DVD box set with, oh you know, fully understanding the plight of the urban poor in America.
Admit it. When you heard about his new series on HBO, The Newsroom (debuting June 24)—the one where Jeff Daniels plays a media mash-up of Keith Olbermann and Tom Brokaw with a hint of Howard Beale— you rolled your eyes: Here come the same tricks—Sorkin’s patented zippy-speechy-preachy trifecta, this time applied to news rather than sports (Sports Night) or politics (The West Wing). Same old shit. And yeah, it is the same old smart, addictive, entertaining-as-hell shit. Which is why you’re going to watch it. Resistance is futile.
