Project Runway eliminated my favorite of the two contestants vying for a chance to compete at Bryant Park last night, costume and women’s wear fashion designer Chris March. While the judges don’t like work that looks too familiar, as last night’s episode shows, the commercial viability of the designer as seen in Rami Kashou, man of Greek drapery, as opposed to creative ability and innovative success, ultimately determines who moves on. Certainly, this year’s decision only reaffirms a bias most obviously revealed in Season 2’s win by banal designer Chloe Dao, who ultimately tipped the judges with her speech about her proven success in the market. While you can’t hold Season 2’s results against the judges — all the contestants sucked that year — their recent choice to eliminate Chris March is amongst the worst they’ve made, and notably without the standard guest panelist.
Half the Internet shut down today when Wizards of the Coast announced the upcoming release of their 4th edition Dungeons and Dragons RPG at GenCon. Witness the above screenshot from Wizards.com and the capture below of the D&D wikipedia entry which has been temporarily closed for editing. Apparently nerds still run the Internet.
The last version of D&D was released 8 years ago, so clearly, this news is enough to induce the above Internet seizure. Having played Dungeons and Dragons all of three times in my life, I can’t pretend I spend much time following wizard.com announcements, but it would seem one of the nicer aspects of the game is the online component. Having pissed off a lot of gamers when they canceled their magazines Dragon and Dungeon in April 2007, they are now attempting to bring back some of that content online. Of course, like all fine American products you have to pay a monthly fee to access the new material.
Originally via: Slashdot
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Other than the fact that this new development lands in Chelsea, I don’t think there’s a way to construe a fine art connection with the cost of parking in Manhattan. But some news is just too stupid not to remark on, and 200 Eleventh Avenue certainly falls in that category. Following a post at curbed, Felix Salmon observes today at this new complex you can have your own en-suite garage for a mere $600,000. As the animation shows, you drive your vehicle into the building’s “car elevator”, it takes you up to your 4.5 million dollar apartment and you park your car in the adjacent garage. I suppose this is a great luxury, but I can’t help but think that if you can afford an apartment like that you probably also have a driver. No room in the virtual tour of the apartment was featured for that employee.
