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...VESers in the know—started his affair with sharp objects at a young age. “In Cub Scouts I learned how to sharpen a knife,” he says. “I’ll never forget the thrill of getting a razor sharp tool.” He used his first chisel as a child in the garage of his rural Florida home. Now the official Woodshop Coordinator for the VES department, Stanulcompares working with a table saw to the fox trot...
What's New? The Pocket Mod Electric Mini Euro from Razor ($229) evokes a vintage Vespa, right down to its mint-green hue. Lasting about 10 miles between charges, it has a twist-grip throttle for easy acceleration. Tip: Don't ride it on city streets. It's not meant to compete with cars...
...mind--strange to say of a man with such a dark disposition, but there it is--and with his intricate but unfussy prose, and you understand the gathering power of his work. Perowne finds majestic pleasure even in the simple act of shaving with his "extravagantly disposable triple-bladed razor ... drawing this industrial gem over familiar flesh sharpens his thoughts." Just keep in mind that blades against flesh will come up again in the story...
Don’t get cut by the slashing of my reverse Occam’s Razor...
...history of architecture is filled with visions and then revisions. As each generation of architects corrects the utopias of the one before them, razor-edged towers are followed by biomorphic houses and sky-platform cities give way to clustered yurts. There are lots of these heady innovations in "Archilab: New Experiments in Architecture, Art and the City," the highly entertaining exhibition now at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, where it runs through March 13. Organized jointly by the Mori and the FRAC Centre Collection in Orl?ans, France, it brings together more than a half-century of attempts to utterly...