Tagore, Rabindranath
August 21st, 2010 •
Rabindranath Tagore was an Indian Bengali polymath.
The Tompkins Square Park Riot occurred on August 6–August 7, 1988 in New York City’s Tompkins Square Park. Groups of “drug pushers, homeless people and young people known as ‘skinheads’” had largely taken over the East Village park, but the neighborhood was divided about what, if anything, should be done about it. According to Times reporter Todd Purdum, the clash had its roots in music. The park was a gathering place for scores of drunken rock fans and their boisterous street parties. According to Times reporter Todd Purdum, the clash had its roots in music. The park was a gathering place for scores of drunken rock fans and their boisterous street parties.The riots were commemorated in the song “Hold On” by Lou Reed.
Take Ivy, originally published in Japan in 1965, set off an explosion of American “Ivy Style” fashion amongst the students of the Ginza shopping distrcit in Tokyo. Take Ivy has been the Ivy League Bible for the Japanese baby boomers, who were very much into the whole Ivy League look, having been a very rare find in the West, garnering auction prices as high as $2000. Take Ivy was authored by four japanese sartorial style enthusiasts and is a collection of candid photographs shot on the campuses of America’s elite Ivy League universities.
Oliviero Toscani was so good, so simple, so provocative, so blunt. Just like a man should be.
Bill Tilden is often considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time. An American tennis player who was the World No. 1 player for seven years, Bill Tilden dominated the world of international tennis in the first half of the 1920s.
Genius. Jay-Z, Tom Waits, Basquiat, Picasso, Warhol, Carax. Same level.
Light Years Away. A young drifter meets up with a strange old man who claims that he has been taught to fly by birds.
The Talipot palm flowers only once in its lifetime, producing the biggest inflorescence in the flowering kingdom. The palm grows for 30 to 80 years, storing up energy and strength in its trunk to send out this massive inflorescence. After flowering and fruiting the plant will die.
New book from Wako Books and Wolfgang Tillmans.