Fashion meets (somewhat irrelevant but utterly beautiful) Function

Chanel has opened a "Tempoary Art Container" in Central Park til November 9th. The New York Times has a great slideshow of the project and a really interesting article about the concept of the space itself, which was designed by the brilliant and amazing Zaha Hadid, whose ideas are literally out of this world. sadly i won't be able to make it to the City before the exhibition closes but there's plenty of info, photos and videos available online, and the exhibit will be making stops in London, Moscow and Paris over the next 13 months, so maybe i'll catch the last one.

Generation Kill is incredible...and I haven't even seen it yet

9.3.08 7:30 pm
so i'm writing this post without having fully watched the HBO mini series "Generation Kill," but i am going to already claim that is it amazing! you may be wondering how i could make a statement like that without ever having watched a full episode. this article backs my insanity because i could/should have written it, here's how it starts:

I was a huge fan of David Simon's HBO series The Wire. I never missed an episode. You probably read about The Wire, since it was the kind of show that caused 1 million journalists to write 1 million articles complaining that only 1 million people were watching. (Hey, we tried.) So when HBO scheduled Generation Kill, Simon's seven-part miniseries about the members of a Marine platoon during the early weeks of the Iraq war, it went straight to the top of my must-watch list. And stayed there. For a really long time. Unwatched.

I don't remember why I missed the first episode, but I get credit — don't I? — because I DVR'd it. In fact, I DVR'd all of them. They sat in an orderly list on my ''My Recordings'' screen, glowering at me, reproachfully saying, ''You must watch me. I must be watched. Man up!'' I confessed this to a
friend via e-mail, and she wrote back, ''I know just what you mean. This show is constipating my DVR!''

by the time i actually post this i will have finally given "Generation Kill" the focus it deserves. David Simon is truly brilliant and i'm really excited to dive into this show before i get carried away by the tidle wave that is the Fall TV season. (to be honest i think i kind of forgot how to watch network TV since the writer's strike; i'm so used to watching the shows i truly enjoy On Demand. which is how i was able to get into one of the most outstanding shows on television "Mad Men.") i'll make sure to report back from the front lines.