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...almost unnoticeable," says restaurateur Bob Woody. "He's back, full force." Whittington's card-playing buddy Joe Greenhill, a retired Texas Supreme Court justice, says, "He's been besieged with people who want him to be their lawyer." And here's an odd sign of Whittington's fame: a collector asked if Whittington would sell some of the bird shot plucked out by doctors...
Shoe exhibitionism is gaining even more traction with websites for sneaker aficionados like hypebeast.com and kix-files.com and magazines like Sole Collector. Designers like Stella McCartney and Gwen Stefani are stepping in with styles created especially for women, and a slew of customizers is establishing a following by transforming off-the-rack sneakers into one-of-a-kind works of art. There's even an online petition at operationmcfly.blogspot.com for a public release of the moon-boot-style Nikes Michael J. Fox wore in Back to the Future...
...hubcaps, tin cans, glass bottles. Last year, Konono No.1—a tradi-modern Congolese group—brought the makeshift sounds to a world audience when they released their “Congotronics” album. It quickly became required listening for every DJ and music collector on the block. The resulting songs were built on the foundation of African polyrhythms, but have new sounds from the city streets: jagged guitar lines, ambient fuzz, and distorted vocals. This homemade Kinshasa sound stands at an acoustic crossroads between folk, noise, and electronica, and its records are attracting fans from...
...Girl Culture,” a collection of photos of young American women that Greenfield published in 2002. While on tour with an exhibit of photos from the book, Greenfield spoke with Cutler about putting together a film with similar themes. “I was a collector of her work,” said Cutler, who produced renowned political documentary “The War Room” in 1993.The two chose eating disorders to be their primary subject, and preproduction began in September of 2002, during which the filmmakers recruited Micheli and first visited Renfrew.Despite their close work...
...every collector's fantasy. An afternoon in an antique shop produces a gem that lights up a dim piece of the past. This was the seductive story on offer in Beijing last week when lawyer and collector Liu Gang unveiled a map that, he says, proves the Chinese had detailed knowledge of world geography long before the voyages of Columbus, Magellan and da Gama brought such insights to Europe. This "Overall Map of the Geography of All Under Heaven," which Liu says he bought for $500 in Shanghai's Dongtai Road Antique Market, includes notes claiming it was drawn...