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Last Copies! Out of Print! Evil People in Modernist Homes in Popular Films / Available at www.draw-down.com / Designed by Benjamin Critton. Offers a serious but lighthearted investigation of the representation of modernist architecture in popular film, reflecting on the convention of associating evil characters and events with modern buildings, and also, more generally, on the relation between cinema and architecture. A series of film stills, quotes and accompanying texts point to examples in The Damned Don’t Cry (1950), #Diamonds are Forever (1971), #BladeRunner (1982), Body Double (1984), Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), L.A. Confidential (1997), The #BigLebowski (1998), and #Twilight (2008). #graphicdesign #typography #architecture #zine #archizine #drawdownbooks #modernism #BenjaminCritton #film #popular #evil #villian #design

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Sébastien Plassard Illustration

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Advanced Style with Photographer William Eggleston

Sometimes you come across a dress idiosyncracy that you don’t particularly want to emulate but damn you have to admire the chutzpah. We’ve featured the style of William Eggleston twice before–the legendary photographer obviously has as strong grasp of how he likes things to look–and a recent New York Times profile by Augusten Burroughs shows his style has continued to evolve.

Eggleston is impeccably dressed in what he wears every day: a dark suit that he tells me was made for him on Savile Row, highly polished black shoes, a white shirt and an untied bow tie around the neck.

An untied bow tie! Dude leaves the house every day looking like he’s leaving a really good party.

Photo by Wolfgang Tillmans

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Queen Latifah “Fly Girl” music video, 1991.

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 Groucho Marx by Richard Avedon

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A young Alfred Hitchcock on the set of his first film, ‘The Pleasure Garden’, (Italy, 1925)

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VISUAL SELF-HELP VOL-1: HOW TO BE FUN by Rory DCS

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“Fatal Attraction” polish poster

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Florence, 1958, photo by Leonard Freed

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Elgin Baylor shoots against Bill Russell during the 1966 NBA Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena. A Hall of Fame forward, Baylor earned All-American honors at Seattle University before spending 14 seasons with the Lakers, where he posted career averages of 27.4 points and 13.5 rebounds. The first overall pick of the 1958 NBA Draft won the 1959 Rookie of the Year made 11 All-Star teams. Baylor turned 82 years old on Sept. 16, 2016. (Walter Iooss Jr.)

GALLERY: Classic SI Photos of Elgin Baylor

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To Boldly Name…

President Ford officially signed off on the name Enterprise for the first U.S. space shuttle on September 8, 1976. The Enterprise was the culmination of many years of hard work by the federal government, private contractors, and Star Trek fans. 

Yes, Star Trek fans. 

In the late 1960s NASA began planning for a vehicle that was capable of multiple trips into space.  By 1974, NASA had settled on plans for a prototype designated OV-101 (Orbiter Vehicle). The prototype in its original configuration was not meant to be used as a space shuttle but as a test vehicle with the option to upgrade the shuttle later.  NASA did not add many of the necessary features for space flight such as main engines, radar equipment, or even adequate fuel cells.  

By late 1976, construction on OV-101 was complete and the head of NASA, Dr. James Fletcher, informed the White House that they were contemplating naming the shuttle the Constitution. Before plans could go much farther a highly motivated and very organized letter writing campaign was conducted by fans of the show Star Trek. The fans wanted America’s first shuttle to be named after the spaceship in their favorite show: the USS Enterprise.  

In a memorandum to President Ford, William Gorog states that “NASA has received hundreds of thousands of letters from the space-oriented ‘Star Trek’ group asking that the name ‘Enterprise’ be given to the craft.  This group constitutes millions of individuals who are deeply interested in our space program.” Though the letter writing campaign was never officially credited with the changing of the shuttle’s name it was successful. President Ford told James Fletcher that he was partial to the name Enterprise because of his naval service during World War II and the significance of the name in the U.S. Navy. 

On September 17, 1976, the Enterprise was unveiled to the public. Despite the success of the tests the cost of upgrading the shuttle for spaceflight was too great, and the Enterprise never made it into space.

Images:  Model  of the Space Shuttle Enterprise in 1:100 scale presented to President Ford by James Fletcher on 9/8/1976; Dr. James Fletcher presents a model of the Space Shuttle Enterprise to President Ford in the Oval Office, 9/8/1976 (White House photograph  B1424-23A);  Memo from William Gorog to President Ford regarding naming the space shuttle, 8/3/1976, from the Presidential Handwriting File.

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Marco Franco

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Johnson Tsang

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