paranoia, ya, l'environnement, sapphic romance, possibly not in that order. can't speak french™ but pretend to flip through the odd french book
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Faith, Hope and Carnage is a meditation on faith, art, music, freedom, grief and love. …
Nick Cave, prompted that boredom can be a fertile creative state: Well of course! In my experience, boredom is often close to epiphany, to the great idea. In a way, that is very much the agony of songwriting — because boredom is just boredom until it's not!
— Faith, Hope, and Carnage by Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan (Page 54)
From a New York Times investigative reporter, this “authoritative and devastating account of the impacts of social media” (New York …
To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood …
There's no index. :(
This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of …
After I reached the pinnacle of my career as a producer, making records that connected with millions of people, I was still curious about the wild diversity of the human response to music.
— This Is What It Sounds Like by Susan Rogers, Ogi Ogas (Page 27)
This author has a very high self-image and is prone to incessant name-dropping. But I think there's material in it that I would find interesting. I'll probably pull a Kramerbooks and skim the index.
When Rabbi Rachel Adler, esteemed feminist theologian, decided her new apartment needed a cat, she searched the local shelters. One …
Throughout her childhood, Carlisle Martin got to see her father, Robert, for only a few precious weeks a year when …
…Three Muses captivates the reader from the first page to the last.” —Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Tinkers …
Encompassing nearly 2,000 years of heists and tunnel jobs, break-ins and escapes, A Burglar's Guide to the City offers an …
Encompassing nearly 2,000 years of heists and tunnel jobs, break-ins and escapes, A Burglar's Guide …
At its best, this book is a fascinating flight through the skies of L.A. and scamper through the tunnels below, a cops-and-robbers tale that informs us of the tricks of both trades.
Dampening the action is that the author is as earnest as a puppy; whomever he's sitting next to is his best friend, whether that's a former burglar, a master lock picker, or the LAPD. He repeats police propaganda unflinchingly, but later carries lock picks and handcuffs into a bank and worries he may get caught with them.
We learn about capers through sewers, into rivers, underneath banks and slicing through museums. We meet a burglar who builds himself a Spider-Man themed hideout inside a Toys 'R Us.
In the end his in-laws are burglarized, and The Burglar falls from a perch of "master of misuse of the built environment" to lazy teenage punks.
The tales are thrilling, if …
At its best, this book is a fascinating flight through the skies of L.A. and scamper through the tunnels below, a cops-and-robbers tale that informs us of the tricks of both trades.
Dampening the action is that the author is as earnest as a puppy; whomever he's sitting next to is his best friend, whether that's a former burglar, a master lock picker, or the LAPD. He repeats police propaganda unflinchingly, but later carries lock picks and handcuffs into a bank and worries he may get caught with them.
We learn about capers through sewers, into rivers, underneath banks and slicing through museums. We meet a burglar who builds himself a Spider-Man themed hideout inside a Toys 'R Us.
In the end his in-laws are burglarized, and The Burglar falls from a perch of "master of misuse of the built environment" to lazy teenage punks.
The tales are thrilling, if you can jam your internal GPS and just go where he takes you.
Encompassing nearly 2,000 years of heists and tunnel jobs, break-ins and escapes, A Burglar's Guide …
As a revelatory look at the labyrinthine, previously unexposed back corridors of the built environment… the first "Die Hard" movie remains exemplary. Disguised as an action film, it is actually architectural moviemaking at its best and most spatially invested, turning walls, floors, and ceilings – rooms, corridors, and stairwells – into the unacknowledged costars of the picture, demonstrating that heist films are the most architectural genre of all.
— A Burglar's Guide to the City by Geoff Manaugh (Page 228)
Just in time for Christmas.
Road to Nowhere exposes the problems with Silicon Valley’s visions of the future and argues that we cannot allow ourselves …
McKinsey & Company is the most prestigious consulting company in the world, earning billions of dollars in fees from major …
99% Invisible is a big-ideas podcast about small-seeming things, revealing stories baked into the buildings we inhabit, the streets we …
99% Invisible is a big-ideas podcast about small-seeming things, revealing stories baked into the buildings …
By the makers of the 99% Invisible podcast, this book offers dozens of bite-sized views of the built environment, its limitations, and those who would transcend them.
It has a particular worldview, one somewhere between New Urbanists and City Beautiful. But it acknowledges and calls itself on this view continually, noting that improvement to some is gentrification to others.
