Word: xl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Europe, deejay culture is more widely accepted. Bands like Roni Size's Breakbeat Era--whose new album, Ultra-Obscene (XL/ 1500/A&M), is a winner--and Portishead--whose 1994 album, Dummy, is a classic--build their sound around the turntable. But in the U.S., turntable rock is just starting to have a real impact...
Downtown, New York City; Tuesday, around midnight. Skat is interacting on live chat with Appzworld. A twentysomething blond, she rants into a microphone as a Canon XL-1 digital video camera sends streaming footage of her to a few dozen Webcast viewers across the U.S. and Canada. With her free hand, she types responses to comments posted in the IRC (Internet relay chat) Netfiend room...
...Land Prodigy XL Mute. (Platinum...
...XL Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and Canadian graphic designer Bruce Mau collaborated to create this definitive anti-coffee-table book, an eccentric and exhaustive assemblage of Koolhaas' building designs, jottings and musings. It even has pages of charts showing how his practice has fared over the years. It was the first book ever to have a launch party at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. And no wonder. Squat, garishly silver and with photos that look more like they were taken for a home photo album than an architectural manifesto, it's designed to be dipped into, flicked...
...While XL projects continue to be Koolhaas' specialty, one of the commissions he's most excited about at the moment is another house in France, this one for a client who uses a wheelchair. An orgy of open-endedness, the house is designed around a huge hydraulic platform that interlocks with and completes the different floors as the client moves up and down the house. "And of course," says Koolhaas, salivating at the thought, "the movement changes the architecture." At last, the machine is a house for living...