Gendy Alimurung

LACMA Deconstructed

For photographs of the LACMA Machine Project, view the slideshow here.    Something weird happened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art this weekend. A girl walked 6.4 miles from LACMA to Machine Project gallery in Echo Park, connecting the two sites with a very long piece of string......
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Cat Cafe: Los Angeles Needs One, STAT

Here is a business idea for those casting about for things to do in the economic downturn: start a cat cafe. Japan has one. No, correction, they have seven. Seven places where visitors to the cafe pay $8-$12 an hour to sit with cats and drink tea with cats and......
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Retainer Necklace vs. Gum Necklace

Kinda sick, yet kinda cool. That could be said for a lot of creepy fashion these days. Especially for this 14K gold-plated Retainer Necklace by 24-year-old wunderkind designer Kiel Mead. He cast the piece from his brother's retainer. Hangs from a 30" chain. Buy it for $300 at Fred Flare...or......
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Furniture Your Imagination Vomited Up

It must be one of the best jobs in the world to work for Droog, the Dutch design collective that creates furniture like this Log Bench (which you can buy for $20,932 from Retromodern). Or maybe it's one of the most insane jobs in the world. They make stuff like......
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Last Supper Lunchbox for Dire Economic Times

How about those layoffs? Those of you who still have jobs, do you still have lunch at restaurants or buy takeout? Magazines and various lifestyle segments on TV "news" programs are saying that to save money, people are brown bagging their lunches more these days rather than eating out. It's......
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Japanese Schoolgirls at the Museum

They were at the Getty Museum this past week. Masses of them. I was there with my dad and all of a sudden we were surrounded by a crowd of uniformed students. I went to Catholic school as a kid. It brought back, uh, fond memories of mean nuns, pleated......
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Puppy for Obama? The Ultimate Presidential Accessory

There's been much to-do about Obama's future dog. Screw the economic crisis. This dog's got to be hypo-allergenic, because Malia is allergic. It's got to be from a shelter, preferably. The American Kennel Club has weighed in, suggesting poodles and Portugese water dogs. The Dog Whisperer Cesar Milan has advice......
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Buy the Gossip Girl Closet: Only $38,560!

If you've been watching Gossip Girl, maybe you too have fallen in lust with their outfits. I've always had a soft spot for the preppy, WASP-y, schoolgirl look. Bluefly.com has been doing a promotional "buy the Gossip Girl closet" thing (though have been ever careful to include a "No celebrity......
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Even The Otter Voted

Even the otter cast a vote. This guy is in Sea World in Orlando Florida. No hanging chads for Opie, the Asian small-clawed otter!......