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Giant flower dog….
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Puppy, the dog flower sculpture by Jeff Koons is a permanent installation at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Jeff Koons’ works incorporates imagery using painting, sculpture, and other forms, often in large scale. It was in the year 1992 he was commissioned to create a piece for an art exhibition in Arolsen, Germany and the result was Puppy, a forty-three foot (12.4 m) tall topiary sculpture of a West Highland White Terrier puppy created in a variety of flowers on a steel substructure. Again in 1995 the sculpture was put up at the Museum of Contemporary Art on Sydney Harbour on a new, more permanent, stainless steel armature with an internal irrigation system. And it was in the year 1997 the piece was purchased by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and installed on the terrace outside the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain. Made of stainless steel, wood (at Arolsen only), soil, geotextile fabric, internal irrigation system, and live flowering plants, its something waiting to be admired!
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“Do Not Mess With Julian Robertson When He Has A Lot Of Free Time On His Hands
Posted by Jon Shazar, Nov 05, 2009, 4:35pm
“New York City” dayA few former employees are learning that it’s a bad idea to poke a Tiger cub. That applies ten-fold to the leader of the pack, the inimitable Julian Robertson.
The Tiger Management founder had a tough 2000. The then-68-year-old shuttered his legendary hedge fund because he didn’t understand those newfangled gadgets that everyone on the Street was going so crazy for. Then, the New York State Dept. of Taxation and Finance slapped him with a huge freakin’ tax bill, saying he’d spent more than half of the year living in the Big Apple.
Not so, J-Rob countered: He only spent exactly 183 days in the city that year. And he launched an all-out war to prove it. Robertson and his staff spent a ridiculously extraordinary amount of time trying to account for the big guy’s every step nine years ago. In the end, it came down to just four days, including, ironically, tax day, April 15.
Thanks to the reams and reams of evidence presented by Team Robertson, we now know some of Mr. Robertson’s pet peeves, as well as at least one of Mrs. Robertson’s (hint: it’s him). For one, the billionaire has no idea how to use voice mail. He hates LaGuardia Airport (who doesn’t), and his assistant hates him.
But it was all worth it: The Division of Tax Appeals ruled in favor of the Big R, taking 77 pages to do so, but keeping almost $27 million in his pocket. So those “meticulous efforts,” under which “any day the petitioner was physically present in New York City, even for five minutes, was a ‘New York City’ day unless he was in transit between two points outside New York City,” gave one crochety old man a very satisfying victory.
In Tax Case, 4 Days Save Robertson $27 Million [WSJ]
Julian Robertson Has Troubles With Car Service, Voice Mail, Wife [Daily Intel]“
Woah..emails AND RESUME… posted.
“So! Firms are starting to hire again, which is very exciting to those of you trying to improve your situation. Perhaps it’s been a while since a lot have gone through this process, and you’re a little rusty on the Do’s and Dont’s. Which why starting today we’ll be offering little pearls of accumulated wisdom picked up in the field. Tip one: don’t lie about having received an offer from one firm while you’re interviewing with another. Tip one-A: if you’re going to lie about said fake offer, impersonate someone and forge a little evidence: easy on the typos. Spelling Bank of America without ‘c’ is going to be a red flag. Jeffrey Chiang knows what we’re talking about. “
WOAHH…im impressed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Niederhoffer
The story is a profile on Victor Niederhoffer, written by his daughter, Galt. His daughter had a piece in the Vogue sept issue about her life with a father who had made millions and lost it all twice.
I recommend reading about him…very interesting man.
From wiki:
Victor Niederhoffer (born 1943), is a hedge fund manager, champion squash player, best selling author and statistician.
He studied statistics and economics at Harvard University (B.A. 1964) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D. 1969). He was a finance professor at the University of California, Berkeley (1967-1972). In 1965, while still at college he co-founded with Frank Cross a company called Niederhoffer, Cross and Zeckhauser, Inc., an investment bank which sold privately held firms to public companies. This firm is now called Niederhoffer Henkel, and is run by Lee Henkel, the former general counsel to the IRS. Victor pioneered a mass marketing approach in investment banking, and did a large volume of small deals at this firm. Niederhoffer also bought many privately held firms with Dan Grossman, his partner during this period.
As a college professor in the 1960s and 1970s, he wrote numerous influential academic articles about market inefficiencies which led to the founding in 1980 of a trading firm, NCZ Commodities, Inc. (aka Niederhoffer Investments, Inc.). The success of this firm attracted the attention of George Soros. Niederhoffer became a partner of Soros’ and managed all of the fixed income and foreign exchange from 1982-1990. [1] Soros said in The Alchemy of Finance that Niederhoffer was the only one of his managers who retired voluntarily from trading for him while still ahead. In fact Soros held Victor in such high esteem, that he sent his son to work for him to learn how to trade.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bduQaCRkgg4
Wiki: “Auto-Tune is a proprietary audio processor created by Antares Audio Technologies that uses a phase vocoder to correct pitch in vocal and instrumental performances. It is used to disguise inaccuracies and mistakes, and has allowed many artists to produce more precisely tuned recordings. In addition to being used to subtly change pitch, with some settings it can be used as an effect to deliberately distort the human voice.
Auto-Tune is available as a plug-in for professional audio multi-tracking suites used in a studio setting, and as a stand-alone, rack-mounted unit for live performance processing.
Auto-Tune has become standard equipment in professional recording studios.[3] Auto-Tune was initially created by Andy Hildebrand. Hildebrand realized the work that he did on seismic data exploration was applicable to detecting pitch.”
LOVE STORY (Taylor Swift) meets VIVA LA VIDA (Coldplay) – Piano Cello – by Jon Schmidt
“Hi…Jon Schmidt here. This arrangement is dedicated to Sarah, my 7 year old daughter who loves the song Love Story by Taylor Swift. Because of a common rhythm element between the tunes, I decided I could mish/mash the two..”
Wiki: Jon Schmidt (born 1966) is an American pianist located in Salt Lake City. He describes his style as “New Age Classical.” He was born to German immigrants who acquainted him with the works of such composers as Beethoven, Mozart, and Chopin. He began songwriting at age 11. To date, he has released seven albums and seven piano books containing transcriptions of original arrangements.
His work is often described as New Age music with pop elements of hook and melody. He is also noted for his treatment of harmony, counterpoint, and rhythm.[citation needed] His works were also featured on sample discs for the Iomega Hipzip Digital Audio Player with the pieces “Sacred Ground”, “All of Me”, and “Waterfall”.
Jon’s influences include Mannheim Steamroller, Billy Joel, and Beethoven
This rarely ever occurs…and this topic comes up over and over again and the conclusion is:
You rarely see asian men with caucasian women who are considered to be really attractive.
Thus when we got Vogue yesterday we were impressed! May 2009 issue of Vogue: Julia Stegner and Steven Pan, who is Steven Meisel’s first assistant (Vogue’s feature article about Meisel). Steven Pan was also featured as one of the most beautiful new yorkers by NYMAG. She is about 5’11 (and wearing 5inch heels) and he is atleast 6ft…Vogue just made most of the models loom over their bfs.
(http://www.fashionologie.com/3031234)
She graces VS runway and a billion other things:
RUEHL No.925, or simply RUEHL (spelled all-uppercase[and pronounced “rule”), is an upscale American lifestyle brand from Abercrombie & Fitch It is inspired by the artistic and cultural heritage of New York City’s Greenwich Village. The brand is designed for post-graduate individuals aged 22 through 35, retaining consumer basis past collegiate consumers for the A&F company.RUEHL retails its apparel, leather goods, and lifestyle accessories through its stores and ruehl.com.
Amusing new york times article about this store:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/07/fashion/thursdaystyles/07CRITIC.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=ruehl%20925&st=cse
“The store, according to the company’s publicity material, takes its name from the Ruehl family, who moved from Germany in the mid-1800′s and opened a leather goods emporium at 925 Greenwich Street in Manhattan. Abercrombie bought the rights to the name from the family in 2002.
Or so goes the corporate fable. Although the labels on all the clothes read “Ruehl No. 925 Greenwich Street, New York, NY,” there was no Ruehl family. There is no Ruehl store in New York City, and there is no 925 Greenwich Street. (Greenwich Street ends in the 800′s.)..
….Taking an armful of items into the changing room, I hoped to see if the skirt I was holding was black or purple or neon-tangerine. There was just enough light for me to see that the skirt was brown. I think. Apart from that, I couldn’t tell how it would look in daylight or at dusk. I could, however, tell how it would look on a moonless night if I were standing in a cornfield 100 miles away from the nearest light source. “
Gilly Hicks is a lifestyle brand, from American company Abercrombie & Fitch, specializing in women’s “intimate apparel from casual to sexy, relaxed loungewear and personal care products.”Marketed for the female consumers of its parent brand, Gilly Hicks is officially labeled as “the Cheeky cousin of Abercrombie & Fitch.”
The brand is the fifth from A&F, and was initially known as Concept 5. The Australian theme of Gilly Hicks was originally inspired by the phrase “Down Under”. In saying, it is the only brand from Abercrombie & Fitch with a non-American image. The recent brand has been named as one of Mike Jeffries’ best new ideas for Abercrombie & Fitch’s portfolio of brands.
GH is primarily set to compete with large lingerie chains Victoria’s Secret, Frederick’s of Hollywood and Aerie.A sort of gender counterpart is Australian brand aussieBum for men.
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