Timmy the ToothWe have officially run out of food ideas.
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Timmy the ToothIN A JAR OF WATER ON YOUR COUNTER, DUMBY
Memphis Depay and PSV Eindhoven beat Heerenveen 4-1 to win the Eredivisie title for the first time in seven seasons.
Manchester United, Paris Saint-Germain, Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur are all in the hunt for PSV Eindhoven's Memphis Depay, the Dutch club have revealed.
Depay, 21, is one of Europe's most exciting prospects with 20 goals and three assists in 27 Eredivisie outings this season.
PSV's sporting director, Marcel Brands, told Dutch TV the newly crowned Eredivisie champions have already fended off PSG and Spurs during the winter transfer window.
"PSG and Tottenham wanted to buy Depay in January,...
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Boxed in on both sides, this once-homely little garage space is now a cozy high-end condo, its rusted white corrugated metal front replaced with a still-concealing wood facade serving to hide something much more dynamic inside.
Designed by FABRE/deMARIEN, this ‘100% Box’ home features white walls and ceilings, reinforcing lightness and openness toward the front of the space, an area containing a kitchen and dining room as well as a front entry deck.
A wood-paneled box in back serves all kinds of additional functions, housing a series of desk and seating built-ins, enclosing a small bathroom and supporting the elevated bedroom with bed and storage above.
The sloping roof helps provide higher ceilings in the back spaces as well as accommodating the additional needs of the raised bedroom area, with periodic sunlights to help illuminate all of the above. Enclosed on all sides, this urban infill lot reuse manages to feel spacious and open despite the limitations of its site.
If you see a Buddha in the road, ask which gender pronouns they prefer and then kill them.
One day Atticus lay down in the snow, and called out, “Help me up! Help me up!” His mother came and gave him some cold-pressed juice. Atticus got up and went away because that’s how unschooling works.
What is your original personal brand before you were born?
If a minimalist curates a ten-item fall capsule wardrobe but doesn’t blog the experience and doesn’t count her Acne Pistol Boots as one of the ten items, has she really edited her closet?
A conceptual sculptor asked Tobias when he was weighing some flax at Whole Foods, “What is Buddha?” Tobias said: “Flax helped me lose three pounds. It’s also my daughter’s name.”
If a performance artist self-flagellates at MoMa while it’s closed and there are no guards or cameras there, does it still leave a laceration in the shape of a pentagram?
As the roof was leaking, a yoga instructor told two students to bring something to catch the water. One brought the landlord, the other a bucket with ice. The first was severely reprimanded, the second highly retweeted.
What is the sound of a pop star rapping?
A MFA student asked her professor, “How does an enlightened one return to the ordinary world?” The professor reminded her that he was only an adjunct but alerted her to the fact that Starbucks does offer health insurance to part-time employees.
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Arsenal beat Burnley 1-0, extending their winning streak to 8 games¹. The Gunners were dominant in every statistical category, including the only one that counts, ball recoveries (72-59!). Just kidding, everyone knows the only stat that matters are dribbles (Arsenal were 17/22! 77%!). Offensive aerial duels? Clearances? Final third passes?
Oh… goals.
Yeah, just the 1.
I could get into the individual stats for this match (they are available at whoscored.com and via the 442 statszone app for those who want to see Coquelin’s rather impressive performance) but given Thierry Henry’s rather lavish praise for “The Detective” I’d rather focus this article on the 12 game run since Coquelin came into the team and what Arsenal are doing better in terms of offense and defense.
First, you need to know some stats about Coquelin:
4 – Coquelin is 4th in the League in tackles per game at 3.5. That’s just 0.01 fewer tackles per game than Morgan Schneiderlin. Coquelin has made more tackles than Jack Wilshere in the last two years. Not trying to slam Wilshere, but in both Champions League and Premier League play, Wilshere has 2776 minutes and just 49 successful tackles out of 71 attempted
77 – Coquelin is a 77% tackler. Cesc Fabregas leads the League among CM’s in the category “dribbled past” with 2.5 per90, Coquelin is only dribbled past 1.5 times per game
10 – Coquelin is also 10th in the League in fouls per90 among CMs. WHich is admittedly a wonky stat but what I’m saying here is that he tackles a lot, tackles well, and doesn’t foul
1 – Coquelin leads the League in interceptions per game with 3.8 (tied with Jedinak)
2 – He is second in the League among CM’s with 2.7 aerial duels won per90 (N’Zonzi is 1st)
68 – Coquelin isn’t just a sideways and backwards passer (not that I would have a problem if he was) he averages 68% of his passes forward this season. Nemanja Matic only averages 66% forward passes and Schneiderlin also hits 68% of his passes forward.
5 – Coquelin has only created 5 shots for teammates this season, so he has room to improve!
In the match against Burnley we saw what Coquelin offers to Arsenal:
2 – He created 2 shots for his teammates, he’s improving!
9 – He had 9 ball recoveries, Cazorla and Özil led Arsenal with 10 each
2 – He only made 2 tackles (Nacho had 5) but he was 2/2 and both of them broke up a Burnley counter
11 – He led all players with 11 interceptions, which is a nuts number when you consider that great player average 4 a game
86 – He completed 86% of his passes – he was almost perfect here, except that 4 of his square passes were off
1 – He was dispossessed just one time
Has he changed the team?
As you can see, Arsenal’s shots per game are down from 15.6 to just 14 but Arsenal are scoring more goals, 2.4 per game v. 1.9. This is because they are converting at a much higher 17% rate². It is possible that since Arsenal are scoring more efficiently, they simply don’t need to shoot as much.
Arsenal’s “big chances” numbers (big chances are the shots that you would normally expect the team to score from, such as 1 v. 1 with the keeper) basically haven’t changed. They are creating 2.4 big chances per game and converting those shots at a 50% clip.
The opposition, however, are struggling to get any efficiency against Arsenal’s new swarming, pressing defense and their “big chances” have drastically dried up. Opponents only convert these big chances at a 44% rate (they lack the quality of Arsenal) but still, generating big chances makes up the bulk of goals scored both for and against³. So, if Arsenal can almost cut that number in half, they are doing something right.
In fact, I suspect that limiting the number of big chances is the reason why Arsenal’s opponents’ conversion rate has taken such a huge tumble. They aren’t forcing the opposition into more long range shots than before, it’s only the number of big chances that have decreased.
Defensively Arsenal have increased the number of interceptions per game, aerial duels per game, and clearances. And this is normal when a team are winning because they will play more defense. As noted above, those are all stats categories Coquelin is a league leader in.
The tackles one, though, is odd. That number in the chart is just successful tackles. I expected to see the tackles numbers jump up during Coquelin’s Fin de siècle because he is Arsenal’s most active tackler. Coquelin has already successfully won the ball 60 times this season — that’s tied with Sanchez for the most successful tackles this season at Arsenal. And he’s done it in about about half as many minutes.
So, why aren’t the numbers up significantly? My guess is that he’s tackling more and others don’t have to tackle as much. I haven’t had a chance to go through everyone else’s numbers to prove it, but I would be surprised if that wasn’t the answer.
No matter how you look at it, Arsenal with Coquelin in the middle of the pitch have clearly been much more defensively solid. I think the thing he does best is what Wenger said “he breaks up play”. You don’t know what the outcome of those plays would have been (big chance, turnover, goal, etc) but the fact that the opposition aren’t getting as many big chances as before is indicative of the team playing better defense all around. It could be attributed to Coquelin or it could be that the whole team presses better, it’s hard to tell.
The one thing I am comfortable saying is that the Coq makes Arsenal stiffer in the middle.
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¹It’s 8 in the League or 8 straight in all competitions
²I take goals and divide by all shots for my conversion rates. I know some stats folks remove blocks but isn’t a blocked shot a… wait for it… a shot? I’ve asked around about this and the answer was because that’s how it was done in the old days. I suspect this is because conversion rates were originally a keeper stat and in that case, removing blocks makes sense. Since I think of it as an offensive efficiency stat, I keep blocks in my total tally. If we remove blocks, Arsenal’s shot accuracy is 51% on the season and 58% since Coquelin. And my number might be a further bit weird because I don’t count the own goal at Villa. That wasn’t a shot.
³Big chances is a controversial stat because people complain about its subjectivity but all stats are subjective: a subject views a game and records a stat. I like this stat. It makes sense to me because not all shots are equal and there has to be a way to account for those moments in a game which get everyone out of their seats. 61% of Arsenal’s goals are from big chances and 55% of the opposition’s goals are from big chances.
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Timmy the Tooth“Everything we eat is associated with both higher and lower rates of cancer.”
Timmy the ToothGood bye California. Hello, food everywhere!
A Dutch firm on the cutting edge of indoor agriculture estimates that producing food for the entire world could take place in a space far smaller than the area occupied by Holland, using just 10% of the water needed by traditional farms. The proposal is not without precedent – Japan already has one prototype urban farm that is 100 times more productive than farmers’ fields.
Noting that the vast majority of people will live in cities in the coming decades, PlantLab suggests a solution that involves using existing basements and purpose-built structures for our future food production. This means less energy, space, time and water than conventional methods.
Urban farming in controlled environments lets growers take full advantage of variables like custom lighting, using far-red LED lamps in this case that reduce moisture requirements for plants. Naturally, interior spaces are also free from the uncontrolled variables of weather and pests as well, increasingly reliability.
Automatic systems can optimize yields based on crop types, making indoor farms more effective than greenhouses and far more productive than fields. The ever-increasing efficiency and lowering costs of LEDs mean this method will only become more viable over time.
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Timmy the ToothPretty amazing graphics
A huge infrastructure project designed to prevent future Hurricane Sandy-style devastation, the Dryline is a perfectly-named solution for a city already sporting a successful High Line and an underground Low Line currently under construction. In the wake of that devastating super-storm, over 300,000 homes were left damaged or destroyed and nearly 20 billion dollars of destruction was caused in total – the first section of the Dryline is slated to cost a few hundred million, which in contrast does not seem like so much money.
Developed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), the scheme continuous to evolve with each iteration. This latest video illustrates many of the mechanisms of action through easy-to-understand sketches and diagrams. It also features interviews with New Yorkers about their vision for a greener southern tip for Manhattan.
Designed to be deployed incrementally, the grand plan involves many discrete steps, each intended to shore up the lower portion of the city – the place that takes the brunt of incoming tides. The individual interventions vary, from berms that double as parks to sliding barriers that move into position during unusually high tides. Ultimately, “the Dryline imagines a landscaped buffer stretching all the way from West 57th Street, looping down to the Battery and back up to East 42nd Street, bestowing Manhattan with a protective green cushion.”
At the same time, the design follows classic principles of urban landscape pioneers like Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs, taking this environmental challenge as an opportunity to create more park and civic space. Per The Guardian, “With a sprinkling of fairy-dust, the shoreline becomes furnished with undulating berms and protective planting, flip-down baffles and defensive kiosks, promenades and bike paths, bringing pedestrian life worthy of Lisbon or Barcelona to the gritty banks of Manhattan.”
BIG is a firm known for thinking large and this project is no exception. Then again, lessons learned from the other ambitious urban projects (like NYC’s High Line) can be applied here: built it piece by piece to reduce one-time costs and provide room for adjustment, and take citizen input into account. In the end, anyone who has walked the south edge of Manhattan knows it is a disjointed and, in many places, unwelcoming space – there is a huge opportunity for a new kind of part to provide connectivity and green space from this disparate set of urban landscapes.
“The Dryline consists of multiple but linked design opportunities; each on different scales of time, size and investment; each local neighborhood tailoring its own set of programs, functions, and opportunities. Small, relatively simple projects maintain the resiliency investment momentum post-Sandy, while setting in motion the longer-term solutions that will be necessary in the future.”
How is it even possible that a mess of steel wires or a pile of useless scraps of trash can produce shadows that so perfectly mimic human faces and figures? Whether bringing forth unexpected shapes by combining abstract sculptures with a light source or exploring the psychological connotations of shadows, artists make light and darkness a physical element in each of these works.
Faces appear out of the most unlikely shapes and materials, from scrunched fabric to numbers mounted on a wall, while figures spring out of thin strips of metal. Says artist Kumi Yamashita, “I sculpt using light and shadow. I construct single or multiple objects and place them in relation to a single light source. The complete artwork is therefore comprised of both the material (the solid objects) and the immaterial (the light or shadow.)”
Though they do have a certain beauty in and of themselves, look at Larry Kagan’s wire sculptures on their own, without a light source, and you may find yourself scratching your head at what the word ‘art’ even means. But when they’re illuminated from just the right angle, they transform into something different altogether, becoming birds, insects, ladders and maps of the world.
Artist Rook Floro made a plasticine cast of his body to create this eerie shadow sculpture, which he displayed in a gallery while sitting nearby with his entire body painted black. “My sculpture/performance piece is inspired by Carl Jung’s psychological theory about the shadow. It concerns with the repressed ideas, weakness, and desires of oneself that the conscious mind refuses to acknowledge. It represents my ‘shadow’ which involves my hidden desires to be different and become perfect in y own right. We always feel the pressure to be perfect by everything around us such as the media, social network, advertisement, friends, and family.”
This adorable Japanese children’s book by Megumi Kajiwara and Tathuhiko Nijima is enhanced with the use of a flashlight to bring out extra figures via pop-up silhouettes. The book is hand-made to order.
Two static sculptures suddenly start to dance as a light source swings maniacally around them in this interactive art installation by Lauren Craste, created for the Chromatic festival in Montreal. It seems straightforward at first, but then the figures seem to take on a life of their own, moving in ways that don’t make sense. The secret is a hidden projector that tracks the movements of the light source to create certain effects.
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Timmy the ToothI know where that statue is.
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When life hands you lemons, make lemonade, then sell it—after all, you’ve just gotten free lemons, so aside from the labor and negligible costs associated with the lemonade production, it’s pure profit. Reinvest the money from the lemonade sales in a fledgling lemonade enterprise. Grow your business slowly, adding employees, taking strategic risks, building your brand. Eventually become the king of a multimillion-dollar lemonade empire. Marry a former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, sire three children who will grow up amid excessive luxury and develop expensive drug habits and resent you, go through an acrimonious and public divorce, become sick with a terminal illness, and lie on your deathbed in your private hospital room, with no family members or even friends visiting. Reach for a glass of your lemonade and have a sip. Expect that it will now, in an ironic twist, taste sour.
Nope—it’s actually too sweet. You’ve only just noticed, after all these years. Maybe if you’d reduced the sugar levels you would’ve made more money and everything would’ve been better.
A vendor at a market in Paris handed artist Talwst an antique ring box and said, ‘I want to see you do something with this.’ From that chance encounter has sprung an entire collection of tiny miniature scenes that fit inside these compact little containers, with minuscule figurines and painted backdrops replacing the expected jewels when you open the lids.
The Toronto-based artist depicts everything from surreal scenes, like a couple and a snake on the moon in ‘Space Family Rothschild,’ to historic current events like the death of Michael Brown, in which a group of police officers shoot off their guns with cotton smoke.
The humorous ‘Banksy Is Your Gran’ (top image) reveals the true identity of England’s most famous anonymous street artist, while ‘Errrbody loves McDonalds’ shows a horse and cart in the foreground with an incongruous fast food sign visible within the trees.
“I like to capture memories and fleeting moments,” says Tawlst. “They feel all the more moving because of their fugitive nature. I want the viewer to open the box and feel they have been transported to another world.”
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For better and worse, self-reflection and meta-art is an inevitable facet of the digital age – this artist recognizes the blurred lines between physical walls and their Facebook equivalents, commenting on our relationship to social media while making light of it as well.
iHeart(StreetArt) is a street artist based in Vancouver whose creations span the spectrum from traditional tags and stencils to this series of works reflecting on our virtual lives and interactions, particularly how young people are raised in this strange new culture of communication.
He variously uses, abuses, twists and repurposes elements of our wireless language, giving hashtags and message bubbles new meaning. While he is not alone in this pursuit of geek graffiti or in using street art for social commentary, his dark humor and unique style set him apart.
This is also only a smaller sampling of a much larger body of work by iHeart which spans various street art styles as well as gallery and installation works on topics beyond contemporary digital interaction.
