julie mehretu earned $5M for the goldman sachs mural.
production costs were, apparently, $4M.

this feels like a very sad story in the unravelling. woman has car accident at the wrong place, or is confused and angry and makes compounding bad decisions as she gets scared and runs away, police kill her with her daughter in the back seat. the whole congratulatory tone to all the quotes about the 'security apparatus working perfectly' and threaded through the reporting is a little disturbing.

ebrahim noroodi.

the sternfeld / wyeth palette.
it's fall.

anna and the blind tobit.
via.

academia.edu raises 11M.
blackberry is also looking for investors, as long as you're making bad decisions.

i wish that michael mann had actually directed this, because then it probably wouldn't just feel like rich kids playing paintball.

closet drake fans, ta-ku.
leak.

the alchemist's vinyl set on the anthony valadez show, kcrw.
28 minutes of soul sample heaven.

* the new new.

Long-form articles like this still feel important.
The New Yorker shines a light on civil forfeiture.

A few gems:

Unlike criminal forfeiture, which requires that a person be convicted of an offense before his or her property is confiscated, civil forfeiture amounts to a lawsuit filed directly against a possession, regardless of its owner’s guilt or innocence. One result is the rise of improbable case names such as United States v. One Pearl Necklace and United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins.

...

“It was an area of the law that was under the radar and very prone to abuse,” Rulli told me when we met at his clinic, in a wing of the law school with a separate entrance and an air of potted-plant competence reminiscent of a doctor’s office.

The Wall Street Journal sold six years ago for $5 billion; the WaPo is selling for 1/20th of that. That's the direction the newspaper business is headed. It is becoming a boutique business for extremely rich people— a way for them to luxuriate in the prestige, and cultural respect, and political influence that newspapers still command, to some extent. How this shit will turn out is anyone's guess.

Update: As WaPo reporters begin considering the conflicts of interest that will come along with having Bezos as their boss, here is a special one for the paper's vaunted national security desk: Amazon recently landed a $600 million contract to build an entire cloud computing system for the CIA. The company is reportedly staffing up on engineers with top secret clearance. Does Jeff Bezos have top secret clearance? That would be something that the Washington Post might want to think about, considering how much reporting their journalists have done on the topic. A huge CIA contractor is now Dana Priest's boss. Think about that.
via.

the basics: smooth transitions.

discovery cockpit 360.

don't get turned all inside out over it.

lucky number 8 brings many 元

ps: middle row left - probably the best-ever related video suggestion

the graven image.

tintypes in afghanistan.

romance.

chvrches gun through groundislava, and the final impasse.

a visit to the farallon islands.

2,500 year-old, $12M inlaid bronze tapir.

who can? popcaan.

If I were a person of color in Florida, I would pick up a brick and start walking toward that courthouse in Sanford. Those that do not, those that hold the pain and betrayal inside and somehow manage to resist violence — these citizens are testament to a stoic tolerance that is more than the rest of us deserve. I confess, their patience and patriotism is well beyond my own.

Behold, the lewd, pornographic embrace of two great American pathologies: Race and guns, both of which have conspired not only to take the life of a teenager, but to make that killing entirely permissible. I can’t look an African-American parent in the eye for thinking about what they must tell their sons about what can happen to them on the streets of their country. Tonight, anyone who truly understands what justice is and what it requires of a society is ashamed to call himself an American.

David Simon.

aviation & conservation.

kingdom: OG master.

bandolero.

Probably Approximately Correct.

loeb on pikes peak.

the power of touch.

after a certain point, material objects have a tendency to crowd out the emotional needs they are meant to support.

paris.
kevin dart.

regan, goneril, and cordelia.

bosh no like.

s f-j nails it.

wayne mcgregor works well in reverse.

what goes around.

as depressing to find/hear as that cassius sample from i love you so.
sampling isn't really sampling when it's just taking.

daft punk, circa 1997.

peer pressure.

about time for a dj honda comeback.

One step at a time is good walking.

You power down your console and head to the kitchen in search of something to drink, and by the time you’ve poured yourself a cup of coffee, the memory of the mind-numbing excitement of an afternoon of gaming has dissipated into a hundred other empty hours you won’t remember. That’s You.

global market share of personal computer platforms 1975-2012.
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very little in life is as good as a martin parr photograph from an english beach in the 1980s.

five hours of pure bliss.

US revenue and expenses at a % of GDP.
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de la still sounds like de la.