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SFMOMA is the only U.S. venue for this full-scale survey, the first to gather together Matthew Barney’s entire DRAWING RESTRAINT series. Spanning almost 20 years, DRAWING RESTRAINT is an ongoing, performance-based project exploring the notion that form emerges through struggle against resistance. …. A site-specific installation designed by the artist, the exhibition occupies the Museum’s entire fourth floor, which has been reconfigured to eliminate the gallery walls

Unfortunatley it looks like his talk on June 22 is already sold out… Anyone have a spare ticket?

“Great cities are not like towns, only larger.  They are not like suburbs, only denser.  They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.”
-- Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

If you’ve mucked around with the mobile version of Gmail, you’ve probably stumbled across Google’s mobile proxy.  It does some nice work creating a mobile-appropriate browsing experience (on the fly) for any URLs that you click on from messages in Gmail.  If you haven’t found it yet, send this link to your phone, and keep it handy:  http://www.google.com/gwt/n.

(And yeah, old news.  But hey – if you haven’t seen it, it’s new to you!)

Wanna see what happens when the iTunes Music Store doesn’t live up to expectations?  Check out customer reviews of the soundtrack to Inside Man, where as far as I could tell the vast, vast majority of the 137 already posted were complaints that they’re not selling “Chaiyya Chaiyya Bollywood Joint” as a single.

AdAge.com reports on another important barrier being broken:

Burger King and Microsoft are partnering for a first-of-its-kind deal that will build three video games around the restaurant chain’s ubiquitous mascot, putting him into shoot’em-ups that will be a cross between “Halo” and “Destroy All Humans.”

Burger King expects to sell around 7 million copies.

I’m sure absolutely no one will care about this, but I just need to get it out:  I let my New Yorker subscription lapse a few months ago, and my life has been a living hell ever since.  No Gopnik, no Hersh, no Denby, no Schjeldal (someday I’ll learn how to pronounce that), no Ross, etc., etc. except for the little bits I’ve remembered to suck up online.  (Is anyone out there meta-blogging their site just to produce a usable Atom feed?  Jason, you don’t count.)

There has been one silver lining to this dark, dark cloud – my media diet for the past couple of months has actually included things that are an awful lot like magazines, but thicker.  With fewer pictures.  And no advertisements.  But I’m feeling my attention span start to lengthen beyond a single permalink, which is just killing me at work.

Does anyone know if Amazon Prime gets you a discount on magazine shipping?  Need to return to The New Yorker…and maybe pick up a People sub at the same time.