"It's like a snake oil salesmen, selling you jars of snake oil, 

and they don't even have oil in the jars"

thank you rep. Gary Ackerman of Queens Long Island for a poignant metaphor for the AIG bailout

i've taken a small hiatus, but I'm back baby, well at least for as long as I stick with it

anyway have had a few experiences to share with you all,

some more amuse bouche for you

oh AND I've returned to my dear little town of new york city

and well there's quite a bit going on here so 

open wide

and have a shmear

foot fetish?

is it wrong to want to date someone based solely (sorry for the pun)
on their footwear?

living "the life" has been made easier

It's nothing new that products are often advertised as a more than just the product you see before you but rather the means to a certain "lifestyle".
Well now, with the help of the wonders of virtual reality the a complete lifestyle is what's for sale. According to an article in New York Magazine, condominiums are creating SimCity-like worlds that, according to your disposition, give you a taste of life in one of their units down to the absurdly minute detail.
They've got not only the apartment for you but one that includes all the other elements that make up what could be your lifestyle from the magazines on your coffee table to the cereal in your bowl.
Some companies have even "stocked" the virtual closets using real clothing and designer labels to excruciatingly mimic "reality".

“It used to be,” Ruddy says, “a model would show that, yes, you can fit an eight-foot sofa in this room. Now it’s saying, This is who I could be.”

So whether your the guy who works in hedge funds and dines at the Spotted Pig or "an Artforum reader with a taste for Egon Schiele", or, more appropriately, want to be one of those guys, they have the apartment for you.

Is forming your own personality too hard? Do questions about your favorite things leave you baffled? Well worry no more. Now with the purchase of any luxury apartment comes a virtual mock up of the lifestyle to match, the fridge to use, the deodorant to wear and much more..

It decides what you want, so you don't have to.


Isn't the future grand?

another slightly creepy moment

en route to seeing the Kara Walker show at the Hammer,

a gas stop on the opposite end of town revealed this bit of graffiti art

for those who don't know Kara Walker's work, here's a sample



... a timely discovery

creepy

before I can do anything else I have to share an eerie discovery...

please compare the following two images



the first is a photo just shared with me of my mother some years ago
the second a painting by Richard Phillips of Christy Turlington


I've always found some similarity between the two
and took note of the painting because of it's particular resemblance to mother,
but this goes a tad too far
look at those poses - the angle of their faces, the dreamy eyes, both mouths effortlessly parted

...weird, no?

cheers and welcome

like most I enjoy the collecting of life's experiences and offerings, the oddities and tid bits one finds in the world around them - especially when they come often and in bite-size, easy to digest form, so welcome to

SNACKTIME ... enjoy some nibbles