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Haunting Beauty

We are all familiar, to varying degrees, with Alien, Aliens, Alien³, Alien Resurrection, Predator, and AVP. However, have you seen some of H.R. Giger's other works?

This Oscar winner is most famous for creatures from outside space, but he is most prolific with the female form.

The two paintings above were stolen from a Prague exhibition in 2005. The Swiss artist is giving a reward for their return.

Here is a quote about the critically acclaimed exhibition:

Fear
We fear most that which we cannot fully grasp. We don‘t fear the face of foreigners, armed people, or ghosts; it’s the uncertainty of what is to come that scares us most. What will become of us the next time we are confronted with the unknown? The condemned are calmer than their judges. Those who are trapped are calmer than those fleeing. Even if the fate is cruel, those sorts know all know what to expect. Prague’s National Technical Museum will host the exhibition of HR Giger.

Closer to home, there was a Giger VIP room at the Limelight (now Avalon). He is seen here on the left at its inaguration.

See more pictures at H.R. Giger's Official Site. And check out this m.i. favorite, Alien Loves Predator, or "In New York, no one can hear you scream".

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mi-xology mixology : Mojito

This drink finds its roots in Cuba, but Puerto Rican rum maker Bacardi would like to make it its own.
m.i. first made this cocktail years ago, but the mojito has found uncommon popularity in recent times. The fresh taste and uncommon name make it a memorable drink.

2 oz rum
1 oz lime juice (1 whole lime)
2 tsp table sugar
4 sprigs of fresh mint
club soda

Place mint leaves on the bottom of a tall flat glass. Add sugar and muddle, using the graininess of the granules to release the mint flavor. Fill with ice, then include lime and rum. Cover with club soda and stir. Garnish.

Barcadi has a well designed site with only mojitos in mind. It features a everything from a step-by-step recipe to a destination video.

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February 14th

Love is wondrous, but bah humbug to the disingenuousness of Valentine's Day.

Here are some fun SNL V-Day Skits.

It's not the flowers or chocolates, and it's definitely not about the Best Buy Valentine's Day Sales.

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Easy SMS

Why is Short Message Service, or SMS, such a popular telephone instrument around the world but so difficult in North America? It seems that most other countries have only a few dominant mobile carriers that make it simple to send messages. North America users, however, have no way to distinguish a number's cellular service provider and the particular syntax that the provider requires.

North America (Canada, US, Caribbean, Hawaii, Guam) can now rejoyce. Teleflip is the simplest and most efficient way to quickly send directions, recipies, and reminders to a person's cell phone. Just have the 10-digit number with area code ready.

Any of the following email formats are acceptable:

3105551212@teleflip.com
(310)555-1212@teleflip.com
310-555-1212@teleflip.com

Teleflip is completely free to use and has no registration process. They will even take support questions. Gotta love that.

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Beyond Green

From the New York Times Home & Garden section:

An artists' cooperative called the Learning Group has designed and helped build a 538-square-foot hexagonal dwelling in Monterrey, Mexico, using wire mesh, concrete and recycled plastic bottles filled with sand or water. Julio Castro, one of the artists, lives in Monterrey and led the project. A couple from a squatters' community is living in the house, called Collected Material Dwelling No. 002, Mexico 2005. (Information on the project: learningsite.info.) Another version, made with cardboard and a tarp roof, below, will be at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York in an exhibition called "Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art" from Feb 2 through May 7.

--Elaine Louie

The exhibition is on tour from the Smart Museum at the University of Chicago. Here is the review, catalogue, and project site.

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Lingustic nostalgia : Julia Child

Life itself is the proper binge.

--Julia Child

Time magazine quoted the above in its January 7th, 1980 edition. Julia Child had her own PBS TV series and numerous books on cooking. She was well loved legend and inspired broadway producers, comedians, and gourmets alike.

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Pixel Millionare

Visual and original, entreprenuer Alex Tew created the Million Dollar Homepage, literally.

At www.milliondollarhomepage.com, this Brit decided to sell the space on his website for $1 USD per pixel. This has made Mr. Tew a Pixel Millionaire. The media has lauded his creativity and ability, but "a dollar a dot" is simply fun to look at.

The progression of his sales and final auction after the jump.

Read more about his initial brainstorm and the later lawsuit:

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MAC Chinese New Year Kick-Off

So more news off Fifth Avenue and from around Bryant Park.

MAC makeup's fashion show kick-off has a Chinese theme.
The photos explain themselves.

MAC Cosmetics does body painting every year for fashion week, to the chagrin of the cold and topless models.

The inspiration this year is from the Chinese Qi Pao. Seen here in florals and bright red.

Apparently, this was already done for MAC's Shanghai launch back in October.

Fashion week begins today and actually last a fortnight.

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Asian Fusion Gallery

Chinese New Year was January 29th this year, but the commotion was not all down in Chinatown. Meanwhile plenty was (and still is) happening right in midtown.

One that m.i. was able to attend was the Asian Cultural Center's reception at the Asian Fusion Gallery.

The Kwong Lum Solo Exhibition features a set of 14 paintings measuring at least 9' by 9'.

Here is what Robert C. Morgan, Ph.D. wrote about his work:

One of the most intriguing aspects of Kwong Lum’s prolific output as an artist is his ability to weave images from the East into the West and to find amazing correlations between the two.
There are few artists in either hemisphere have done this so profoundly and with such clarity and incisiveness. Several years ago, while painting portraits of American artists, such as Andy Warhol, Pollock, Lichtenstein, and Mark Rothko, Kwong Lum used his technical ability as a calligrapher to integrate background and foreground in a way that had never been done before. The cubists, Picasso and Braque, were interested in this idea in 1910 and so was DeKooning forty years later. They each had their own method, their own style, and their way of pulling the portrait into the space of the frame. But Kwong Lum used calligraphy in a present pictorial space in a new way.