“Death: I don’t believe in it, because you’re not around to know that it’s happened.” —Andy Warhol, From A to B and Back Again Dale Carnegie has written that in the lexicon of the successful man there is no such word as “failure.” So have the funeral men managed to delete the word death and […]
A Fine Disregard
Kawasaki’s New Breed of Subway Trains It’s not often that you can talk about objects that both move through and contain public space. Conventionally, public space is any area in common use by converging groups of people. Only in vehicles does this convergence move, and whether on a skateboard or a motorbike, in a car […]
Ethics of Ambiguity
Ice Hockey’s New Televised Surveillance System Ice hockey is a cruel game. Unlike other international sports involving a projectile of some sort, at no point in a hockey game are you guaranteed possession of the projectile. After every goal in soccer, touchdown in football or basket in basketball, the rules stipulate that the other side […]
Collier
There once was a person named Schorr, Who thought that she’d been here before. So she called up a clerk And without too much work Got a file on the Schorrs of yore. While reading the file in her parlor, She discovered another Schorr, Collier, Whose identity it said could be easily had Through a […]
Artist Curates: DIY
Although many artists can be said to contemplate mortality in their work—usually in a veiled, Robert Frost kind of way—a clearheaded few have cut through the allusive haze and made their contemplation plain. Whether natural selection, mercy killing or suicide, intimations of death have gotten artists through many a hard night. Sensing her failing beauty […]
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