OMAHA, USA: Eat your heart out Rihanna, Lukas Podolski and Ellen De Generes. This year’s most valuable selfie award has been scooped by a 16-year-old kid from Nebraska. Tom White was at the eCreamery ice cream parlour in Omaha when he spotted Warren Buffett and Paul McCartney sitting on a park bench. After taking a snap he posted it on Instagram – and not surprisingly it went everywhere. But then, as Happy Place reports, “the combined wealth on that bench is $63.2 billion ($62 billion for Buffett, a paltry $1.2 billion for McCartney).” The website notes too that the teenager might have stopped for some financial, or even some musical advice from the pair rather than taking a selfie. But you could forgive him for being a little intimidated by two of the planet’s most successful men hanging out eating ice cream together. As for Mashable, they’ve already elevated the story to legend status by providing the selfie’s backstory – a minute by minute account of the build up to the selfie, involving Tom and his three Beatles obsessed mates who had rushed to the ice cream shop after a tip off.

It’s worth noting that Tom and his fellow Omahans took photographs but generally kept a respectful distance from the pair. They’re a polite bunch in Nebraska, apparently. This advice on how to deal with “racist mouthy twats” has gone viral because it’s good advice If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world This hilarious anecdote Ed Balls tells about beef and Gordon Brown is comedy gold Total Eclipse Of The Heart [Flowchart Video] Woman’s Petrol Station Visit Proves Problematicdream experiences, real impact. For a $10 donation, anyone has the donate to win a experience and support an amazing cause of service fellowships were granted to veterans through The Mission Continues were able to travel & compete in the 2015 World Games Special Olympics 1 new hospice site is being built to help life-limited children at Julia's House

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Elsewhere in the issue, a collaboration with the house of REPOSSI is revealed, strong man ŽYDRŪNAS SAVICKAS and his friends flex á la mode, and a variety of fashions accompany models, actors and architects alike from the club to the lounge. AMSTERDAMDinner on the 5th of August 2016 in celebration of EuroPride MEN OF GREAT STYLE AND SUBSTANCE This beautiful FANTASTIC MAN book, published by PHAIDON, is available at many fine bookstores around the world. Edited by the esteemed design writer and curator EMILY KING, the book is chock-full of the many men whose style and intelligence have graced the pages of the magazine. On the cover, that iconic image of OLLIE EDWARDS by COLLIER SCHORR for Fantastic Man’s 18th issue, in which he dons the limited-edition ‘Man Fantastic’ T-shirt, made in collaboration with CARHARTT WIP. Inside, no less than 69 interviews from the archives are reprinted for the first time, plus visual explorations of the singular aesthetic vision of the magazine.

Some of the men featured, in no particular order, include TOM FORD, REM KOOLHAAS, DAVID WALLIAMS, HELMUT LANG, DAVID BECKHAM, and BRYAN FERRY. From the same stable as Fantastic Man comes a whole spectrum of super interesting printed matter. THE GENTLEWOMAN is our cherished sister publication, of course. Produced from the heart of fashionable London, it carries exquisite style suggestions as well as conversations with the world’s most amazing women. FOREVER BUTT is the hard-backed compendium for TASCHEN of the best and baddest bits of BUTT, our celebrated magazine for homosexuals. COS magazine is a chic cultural biannual produced for the retailer of the same name, featuring insightful interviews with luminaries from the worlds of art, design and technology. The book BUTTONED-UP explores the fashions of East London and THE HAPPY READER, made in collaboration with the book publisher PENGUIN, is a bookish quarterly devoted to the pleasures of devouring the written word. A collaboration between Mimi Zeiger and Neil Donnelly

#platform is both a means of production and a place to take a stand. #platform project is a collaborative publication and act of collective criticism. #platform’s physical documents navigate back into the city, lingering as messages. For the past four years, participants in the School of Visual Arts Summer Design Writing and Research Intensive in New York have used Twitter to document, research, and critique the city. The social media platform acts as a productive constraint, distilling individual observations and narratives into a public, digital text. An Inventory of Irritants Journal of Architectural Education The gesture was more graceful than the act. With one generous flick of the wrist I sent the paperback sailing across the room. The book, The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present, is a small volume tri-authored by an intellectual supergroup: novelist and artist Douglas Coupland, international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, and cultural critic Shumon Basar.

In wry deference to its subject, the cover is inked in an oil slick chromo metallic. As Earthquakes arced from the couch to the closet door, which it hit with a thud before dropping to the floor, light reflected off its glistening surface, giving the appearance of a salmon spawning upstream. (For the record, S,M,L,XL also boasts a silver cover, but I can’t imagine throwing the six-pound tome very far. Earthquakes, by contrast, is lightweight at 7.8 ounces). When it landed, facedown, pages splayed and pressed against the floor, the half-light of the living room lamps seemed to illuminate a mysterious object. An alien ship crash-landed on oak boards. And so it sat there for a few days. Until my irritation with leaving a book on the floor trumped my irritation with the book itself and I picked it up. Curators: Karen Kice, with Iker Gil Mimi Zeiger and Neil Donnelly with the School of Visual Arts Summer Design Writing and Research Intensive Architecture is a perpetual conversation between the present and the past, knowing full well that the future is listening.

So what happens when this dialogue is influenced by contemporary modes of communication such as texting, Twitter, and Instagram? Chatter happens: ideas are developed, produced, and presented as open-ended or fragmented conversations and cohere through the aggregation of materials. Chatter: Architecture Talks Back looks at the diverse contemporary methods and approaches wielded by five emerging architects: Bureau Spectacular, Erin Besler, Fake Industries Architectural Agonism, Formlessfinder, and John Szot Studio. MAS CONTEXT x LOS ANGELES On Monday, January 19, 2015, MAS Context and five LA-based contributors will provide a behind-the-scenes look at the publication and discuss the work they contributed. The event will be hosted at Bruce Mau Design Los Angeles. Julia Luke (Creative Director, Julia Luke Design) Deborah Richmond (Architect, Deborah Richmond Architects) Joshua G. Stein (Architect, Radical Craft) David Yoon (Engineer, YoonCo) Mimi Zeiger (Critic, editor, curator and instigator)

Moderated by Iker Gil (Editor-in-chief, MAS Context) and Andrew Clark (Director, BMD Los Angeles). Barbara Bestor (architect and executive director of the Woodbury University Julius Shulman Institute) moderates a panel on the critical and engaged eye that photographers bring to the built environment. In LA the human experience of space has undergone constant transformation and we will discuss the urban environment and its changing representations. Moderator: Barbara Bestor: Architect and Executive Director of the Woodbury University Julius Shulman Institute Frances Anderton: Producer, Writer & Host of DnA, Design & Architecture, KCRW James Welling: Artist & Professor of Photography, UCLA Department of Art Mimi Zeiger: Critic, Editor & Writer Gordon Baldwin: Independent Curator, Writer & Editor, Former Curator Department of Photographs, Getty Museum Public Work, Lines Of Desire If I were to sum up the stylistic forces at work in the design world over the last year, it wouldn’t be too far off to dub 2014 the year of the postmodern revival.

In graphic design, in fashion, and even in architecture we’ve seen a return to the period’s signature formal tropes and a renewed debate over the worthiness of their preservation. Teapots, Public Art, and a Life in Design On the day I arrive at Peter Shire’s Echo Park studio, a pile of fall fruit perches on a countertop. Bright orange persimmons and crimson pomegranates compete with the full spectrum of riotous color in the artist’s workshop. Racks are filled with multi-hued ceramics, and metal sculptures powder-coated in vivid green, blue, and violet hang from the ceiling. And then there’s Shire himself. He’s dressed in a tangerine t-shirt, a red apron, gray shorts, and lime and purple striped socks. Has history become a trove of artefacts ready for appropriation? “Could life be more beautiful?” wrote Deborah Sussman on 1 November 1954 in a letter home to her parents. A young designer living in the Eames house and working for the office, she would become the environmental designer responsible for the iconic colourful graphics of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and countless bold visions, including the cartoonish lettering used on the billboard for the 1972 documentary Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles.

Sussman passed away in August. Sharply present on the LA scene, even at 83, she had been quietly fighting breast cancer over the last year and news of her death was a sad shock to the design and architecture community. How could someone so vital be gone? Graphic designer April Greiman recalled a story of petite Sussman introducing herself by saying, “I’m kinda a big deal”. Host: Natural Histories for Los Angeles Host curators are Mimi Zeiger (Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design), Leonardo Bravo and River Jukes-Hudson (Big City Forum), and Sarah Lorenzen (Neutra VDL Research House). This fall, curators from three Los Angeles-based organizations come together as part of World Wide Storefront, a Storefront for Art and Architecture project, to present Host: Natural Histories for Los Angeles. This series of exhibitions and events is a collaboration between Big City Forum, Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, and the Neutra VDL Research House.

Host: Natural Histories for Los Angeles explores the multivalent meaning of “host” though spectacle, parasitic opportunism, and domestic landscapes. The Neutra VDL Research House serves as the site of these investigations and the house, embedded with spatial effects—mirrors, screens, and pools of water—heightens and confuses the relationship between the domestic interior and the exterior. Emerging architecture and design practice by Mimi Zeiger Let’s get this bit out of the way: Mexico City is dense, Mexico City is colourful, and Mexico City is a place of contrasts. That is to say, in a haze of pollution you can eat tapas on the roof of a boutique hotel designed by Enrique Norton – or scoff down quesadillas on the street, sheltered by a tarp hung between a fence and a lamp post. The city’s famous outdoor markets sell local crafts and produce alongside imported Chinese sundries. Icons of Mexican modernism are tangled in an urban fabric dating back centuries. For a number of young architects, designers, and curators practicing in its colonias (neighbourhoods), Mexico City is more than clichéd observation;