As premature as it might be, GQ magazine has released its Top 10 list of The Most Important Buildings of the 21st Century. PSFK has the details.
If you like a little more history with your architecture, check out Lisa Rochon’s Seven Wonders of Architecture from entries past.

Immediately rising to the position of blog du jour for its name alone, If Charlie Parker Were A Gunslinger There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats hosts an incredibly wide range of rare and sometimes utterly poignant pop culture references from decades past. I feel as though I have barely scratched the surface on this one…

Update on Christian Volckman’s Renaissance.

Filmed by La Blogotheque, current favorite band Grizzly Bear performs an acapella version of “The Knife” while walking through the streets of Paris and then retires to their hotel bathroom for a rendition of “Shift”. If you haven’t checked out their new album Yellow House yet, I highly recommend it.

It is a strange juxtaposition to go hunting for clips of master filmmakers on youTube. But they are there to be found.
In the great democratization of media, a clip from Fellini’s 8 1/2 stands on even par with clips as monumental to the history of cinema as Brandon Davis and Paris Hilton’s crude comments about Lindsay Lohan’s nether regions. That any one of these great film pioneers foresaw this highly compressed small screen fate for their work is asking too much even for such visionaries.
In the end, it …

Environmental arms developers.
Liquid Sculpture.
Print & patterns & more patterns.
Rabbit hunting with Run Wake.
And the return of the Sugarcubes.

Photos from Banksy’s LA exhibit, Barely Legal.
UPDATE: An interview with the elusive artist over at LA Weekly.

September 23 – 30 is Banned Books Week which recognizes those great works of literature that society for one reason or another has taken issue with. Catcher in the Rye, Ulysses, Of Mice and Men, The Great Gatsby, all of these works at some point have been put on trial for the ideas they advance. In fact, 42 of 100 books listed by the Radcliffe Publishing Course as the best novels of the 20th century have been challenged or bannd.e
As part of this celebration, Google has posted a page …

Jacque Fresco designs the civilizations of the future; and in the process, he defines how the human race will need to change in order to get there.

Two legends, evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers (above right) and linguist Noam Chomsky meet for the first time in their respective careers to discuss the topic of deceit over at the always curious Seed Magazine.