Author: Brent Lambert

The sun in Las Vegas is a powerful beast.  I honestly don’t know how anyone can live there.  The MGM Vdara Tower is no exception to Nevada’s relentless heat, and is actually making things much worse as a guest recently discovered while sitting poolside.  The building’s curved facade of polished mirror has inadvertently become a “death ray” at certain times of the day.  Here’s what happened to him: Chicago visitor Bill Pintas experienced Vdara’s “death ray” recently. A lawyer, he was here on business for Preferred Capital Lending, which he co-owns. He also co-owns a Vdara condo.  Pintas told the…

There is good graffiti and then there’s bad graffiti.  There’s also what I call “co-op graffiti” where a piece gets continually added and added upon leaving us with an organic work of art that is in a continuous state of change.  Recently, some clever designer invented a graffiti can that uses an LED light with motion capture technology to capture the movement and direction of each squiggle and movement of the artist’s hand as he/she creates their tag. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/15019555[/vimeo] via PSFK Here’s an iPhone photo I took last year here in Montreal at the corner of De Gaspe and Saint…

So today I’m burying myself in some design work for my good friend Laura’s new stair railing.  She recently bought a house with her boyfriend and did an amazing job on the renovation.  Now it’s time for the stair railing and yours truly is hitting the drawing board.  I’ve already done a few concepts, but none feel quite right.  The house is a turn-of-the-century brick carriage house and the stairs are small and simple, so the railing ideally should match (with some book shelves incorporated into it hopefully).  If any of you come across any unique designs for something like…

Here’s a snippet of Peter Travers’ review of “The Social Network” for Rolling Stone magazine: This is the first film I’ve seen so far in 2010 that deserves my highest rating, 4 stars. It’s better than the movie of the year. The Social Network also defines the decade. How so? Director David Fincher, working brilliantly from a dazzlingly complex script by Aaron Sorkin, uses the rise and rise of Facebook to examine a generation that can’t communicate despite its obsession with social networking. The performances are award caliber, led by Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who conceived the…

The National Press Club held a press conference recently revealing a minimum of 120 top-level US Air Force personnel who witnessed unidentified objects and lights in the skies surrounding America’s nuclear missile sites.  They used the term “incursion” because this is the most restricted air space in the world and the aircraft that penetrated the zone were too fast to be followed or fired upon.  The Washington Post was also in attendance and elaborated more: Hastings said that because similar incidents had occurred in the Soviet Union – as attested to in declassified KGB files – it was not the…

Right before “The September Issue” came out, the documentary that profiled Anna Wintour in 2009, Jeanne Beker did a feature on Ms. Wintour for “Fashion Television”.  I absolutely love Jeanne Beker and can’t believe she’s been running/hosting/producing “Fashion Television” for 25 years.  If you haven’t seen it, you absolutely must check out the hour-long 25th Anniversary Special of “Fashion Television” at their website: “25th Anniversary Special of Fashion Television” (or at least watch the first part for the delicious opening theme featuring Animotion’s “Obsession”–or you can take the lazy route and watch the crappy music video below which still has…

On Saturday a Delta flight landed at JFK Airport in New York and the right-side landing gear did not deploy.  Here’s the footage taken by a passenger. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bTkk9wiApw[/youtube]