01. Matthew Herbert Makes a Record Completely from a Pig (from birth to plate)

“You can always count on Matthew Herbert. The counter-cultural electronic music icon has done a lot with his talent, uncompromising ear, and dedication to using found sounds in his music. Composed entirely of sounds sourced from the life and death of a British pig, One Pig is the artist’s most recent (and most controversial) album.” (coolhunting)

02. The Microbial Home by Philips

“For the 2011 edition of Dutch Design Week, Netherlands-based giant Philips will be showing five lifelike models of concepts for the Microbial Home, a forward looking group of design concepts that represent an innovative and sustainable approach to energy, waste, lighting, food preservation, cleaning, grooming, and human waste management.” (moco)

03. Red Sox Fans Ask Siri To Help Stop the Pain

“For those Red Sox fans still seeking solace — and for many, the pain and bewilderment seems to be lingering — the folks at Grantland (specifically thereliably entertaining Mark Lisanti) kindly put together this article, whichpurports to consult another recently popular source of wisdom about the Red Sox, epic collapses, and the meaning of existence: Siri, the computer assistantbundled into the new Apple iPhone.” (nyt6thfloor)

04. Charles Bukowski on Censorship

“Thank you for your letter telling me of the removal of one of my books from the Nijmegen library. And that it is accused of discrimination against black people, homosexuals and women. And that it is sadism because of the sadism.  The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.” (lettersofnote)

01. Set Free Richardson (pictured)

“Set Free Richardson is a creative director and strategic marketing professional. He also an editor at Highsnobiety. His wife, Liza Richardson, is a visual brand consultant. Some of her work can be found here. Portraits taken at their apartment in the Bronx.” (An Afternoon With)

02. Original Sin: An Interview With Lana Del Rey

“She talks like a dairy queen, like Britney Spears, like a cheerleader. 24 years old and exuding the hardy effervescence unique to healthy American girls, there is nothing in Del Rey’s manner that connects the voice at the end of the line to ‘Video Games’, the YouTube smash hit carried by a purring vocal performance so rich you can feel almost feel David Lynch’s velvet carpeting under your fingers.

That is until I hit playback on my telephone’s dictaphone. Slowly all the years of a weary, haunted youth spent in backwoods New York State unravel from under her bubbly facade, like furtive murmurings on the other side of a door. As per the many doomed chanteuses and dead movie idols she invokes in her cinematic music, it seems Del Rey is a good actress. In true Lynch fashion, beneath her white picket-fenced cheer hide the writhing earthworms that plague her heavy heart.” (The Quietus)

03. Fine Candidate

“Was in town yesterday, Spencer Hart HQ, and while picking up the pertest of chocolate brown chinos (they’re too good for the chino moniker frankly, more of them later) ended up thumbing through a book on Dave, one of many in the shop. I bought it as there were a number of early shots that had never seen, others simply couldn’t resist.” (Style & Error)

04. The Sweet Science; A Sour Saturday

“Now I know how it feels to be a Zab Judah fan:

Rushing to your man’s defense with flimsy excuses after yet another poor outing.

Suspecting he has wasted his talent yet finding reasons to believe he’ll one day cash in on the vast potential he once showed.

Assuring others he’s still relevant even though you don’t quite believe it yourself anymore.

Trying hard not to feel that way about boxing these days, but a pair of bouts from this past weekend…” (By Morgan Campbell)

01. Visionaries: Tom Ford

“”Visionaries: Inside the Creative Mind” with Tom Ford. Airing Sunday, October 23 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on OWN” (fashionologie)

02. Warhol Authentication Board to Dissolve Due to Millions of Dollars in Legal Fees

“The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts announced today that it would “dissolve” the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board, Inc. in early 2012. The 16-year-old board, which has been charged with reviewing and authenticating artworks by the Pop artist, has been subject to criticism — and numerous lawsuits — for its questionable and controversial authentication practices.” (artinfo)

03. My Three Favorite Collections of Private Papers

“To check Debbie Nathan’s piece on the multiple-personality postergirl Sybil, a photo researcher and I headed to the special collections room at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, which houses transcripts of Sybil’s psychotherapy sessions. Going through the boxes of Sybil’s late biographer, Flora Rheta Schreiber, which also contain her personal letters and photographs, impressed me with the intimacy of such collections. Here are some striking private details from the archives of three great public figures.” (nyt6thfloor)

04. PEN International Photoshoot

PEN International is fighting censorship with some typewriter design. (retrotechgeneva)

05. Studio 54 reopened for “One Night Only” to celebrate the launch of SiriusXM radio station. See the party slideshow

Photos photos photos! (vogue)

01. Julie Faure (pictured)

“Julie is a young business woman, who has taken her love for organic food, retro fashion and created her own communication company mixing her passions to luxury and sustainable development. Her apartment is her own beautiful creation, which mixes her close to ideal dwelling with her work space; everything from her dog Malitzia (that loves to be photographed), old photographs of her grandparents nicely arranged in a cabinet, to her antique jewelry, works together seamlessly. In this sweet and airy afternoon interview, she shows us her vintage universe, her fascinating objects and her passions beyond fashion and nature.” (Freunde Von Freunden)

02. Matthew Carter’s timeless typographic masthead for Private Eye magazine

“Tony Rushton has been art director of satirical magazine Private Eye for 49 of its 50 years. The fortnightly is celebrating its half-century with a small, free exhibition in two rooms at the Victoria & Albert museum.

I interviewed Rushton prior to the opening of the show, close by a wall covered with 50 of its distinctive covers (below), writes John L. Walters.” (Eye Magazine)

03. That’s Lester Bowie Baby

“Gotta love Lester; playful, challenging, always restless Lester. Ever see The Art Ensemble Of Chicago? A complete assault on the senses – all six of them. The musicians would come on stage and take you on a crazy journey thro’ the past, the present and onto the future of music – Great Black Music, as they’d announce at the end of the show. So extreme; from the verge of collapse, the music would magically become something beautiful and mesmeric, and yet with the threat, (or promise, maybe) of anarchy never far away.” (Garmsville)

04. For Boxing Pay-Per-Views In 2011, Skip The Main Events And Watch The Undercards

“For a long time, the conventional wisdom among boxing promoters was that fans only paid for the main events of pay-per-view cards, and that spending cash on the undercard fights was a money pit. As such, hardcore fans grumbling about poor undercards has been one of the more serial grumbles of their beleaguered fandom. I quote them directly: “Rabble, rabble.”

But in 2011, it’s the main events that are leaving fans uttering “Rabble, rabble.” And it’s the undercards that are reminding them why they love the sport, whether by the design of promoters or lucky accident.” (Queensbury Rules)

01. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix – From A Mess To The Masses

“Antoine Wagner and Francisco Soriano chronicle Phoenix’s 2009-2010 tour in From A Mess To The Masses, which documents the Parisian’s band’s international breakthrough. Wagner also directed Phoenix’s sunny clip for “Lisztomania.” Stream the entire doc…” #highlyrecommended (stereogum)

02. A Serious Man, a Serious Fan on His Own Viking Quest

Mr.Gervino says: “I’m a Minnesota Vikings fan. This fact will invariably come up in conversation within a half-hour of our meeting. My life story usually unfolds in this order: I’m a New Yorker, I don’t own an iPhone — by choice — and my lifelong allegiance to a snakebitten N.F.L. franchise that plays its home games 1,020 miles away from my Greenwich Village apartment imbued in me an existential crisis long before I could correctly spell either word.” #highlyrecommended  (nyt)

03. Introducing Instapaper 4.0 for iPad and iPhone

The absolute king of short and long form articles reading on the iPhone and iPad, Instapaper, updates to 4.0 with major layout adjustments and foot note support. #highlyrecommended (instapaper)

04. Wilco: Tiny Desktop Concert

“Armed with acoustic guitars, tiny amps, a desktop percussion unit and a ton of grace, Wilco plays three new songs from The Whole Love and an old favorite in a stripped-down but powerful set at the NPR Music offices.” #highlyrecommended (nprmusic)

01. Guto Requena (pictured)

“Guto Requena is one of Brazil’s most innovative up and coming architects. His work is based on the ever-evolving world of communication and technology, reflecting how these new advancements affect us. Drawing from his bucolic childhood in Brazil, Requena creates a world where flexibility and reclamation of materials and objects make the space both simple and comfortable.

His projects always push the envelope, redefining both physical and virtual space. With the Google offices in Sao Paulo as his next venture, it seems for Requena the sky is the limit.” (FvF)

02. Bozella gets helping hand from Hopkins

“Dewey Bozella’s story is an amazing one that certainly could be made into a movie.

If the man’s life ever does become the subject of a film, the outcome of his professional boxing debut won’t be a proper ending. The movie should end with the mere act of him stepping into the ring to fulfill the most unlikely of boxing careers.

Bozella’s well-chronicled journey has been incredible. He is 52 and set for his first pro fight — and only one, because he wants only one — on Saturday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on the Bernard Hopkins-Chad Dawson undercard. Oh, and there’s also this: Bozella served 26 years in prison — half of his life — for a murder he didn’t commit and was released in 2009 after witnesses against him recanted their stories.” (ESPN)

03. 20 Years On: A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory Revisited

“There’s a wonderful moment in Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, Michael Rapaport’s fascinating new documentary about A Tribe Called Quest. Jive records CEO Barry Weiss recalls the label’s internal reaction when staff first heard the group’s second LP, The Low End Theory. “It was very different to the first album,” Weiss tells Rapaport. “It wasn’t as ‘left’ in some ways, and we were concerned that maybe it was gonna miss the mark – that maybe they were trying to go too commercial, that it didn’t have the artistic integrity that [the debut] People’s Instinctive Travels [In the Paths of Rhythm] did. Um… and we were fuckin’ completely wrong.” (The Quietus)

04. Confidences

“If you are a writer with any presence on the Internet, even a very obscure one, you often get e-mails from strangers. Sometimes these strangers are quite eccentric, like the guy who once sent me a short story about men who were enslaved for breeding purposes and fed dog food. So I didn’t give much thought to a cryptic e-mail I got in the summer of 2009 from a person named Innocente Fontana.” (The Paris Review)

01. COS supports Frame at Frieze Art Fair 2011

“COS are continuing their support in partnering with Frame at Frieze Art Fair this year. They believe the Frieze Art Fair reflects this outlook by supporting artists which challenge the boundaries of contemporary art.” (youtube)

02. Garbage Collectors: Scott Webel / Museum of Ephemerata

“Ephemerata Gardens collects all kinds of objects and life forms.1 Some are added on purpose, and others move into the landscape patch of their own volition. Collecting is a process whereby a habitat temporarily gathers things together in a net of emergent relationships. Sometimes a sorting mechanism aggregates collections by size, weight, composition, or information content. Other times everything is anarchically roiled and churned. Shiny silver candy wrappers and Styrofoam cup shreds blow into the yard from the alley. Nesting blue jays drop six-pack rings. A plastic grocery bag parachutes from the sky onto the tomatoes.” (flow)

03. Massive Attack vs. Burial – ‘Four Walls’

“Because despite the fact that Will Bevan clearly knows his way around a beat (I mean, ‘Near Dark’, come on), what makes his music so affecting is its rich, endlessly layered atmosphere and the timing with which those trademark flashes of light are deployed. That’s probably nothing new to anybody who’s listened to Untrue, but it’s worth noting when you listen to ‘Four Walls’ – Burial’s longest track to date, and for all intents and purposes, an ambient one. Sure, there’s drums – a clock-esque tick-tock fills the majority of the track, and a gated kick-drum closes it – but it’s never once concerned with rhythm; all that minimal tick-tock really represents is blank space for Burial to get as virtuoso and experimental with sound design as he ever has before.” (fact)

01. 11 October (Pictured)

Another set of great pictures (The Blue Hour)

02. The genesis of Mayweather’s greatness

“Bouncing back from a loss can be a daunting task for any athlete in any sport. Perhaps especially so for those who don’t get much practice at it.

In the case of the young fighter who walked into a Las Vegas ring exactly 15 years ago Tuesday, his previous loss had been one of the few defeats in a long and fruitful amateur career. But the victory he was about to savor would be the first in a long series of them that would include five championships in as many divisions, one of the most extraordinary success stories in boxing.” (ESPN)

03. Box set club: Frasier

“I’m currently rewatching all 264 episodes of Frasier. It’s the third time I’ve done this, which means I’ve spent roughly a week of my life watching the Crane clan’s on-screen antics. I’ve dedicated 7.92 days to the life and times of a pre-eminent Seattle psychologist, his friends, his family and his canine nemesis. And I cannot recommend it highly enough.

For 11 staggeringly enjoyable seasons, Frasier follows former Cheers regular Dr Frasier Crane, a psychologist turned talk-radio star who returns to his hometown, Seattle, after the failure of his marriage in the Boston-based sitcom. His time is divided between dodging fights with his father – a retired policeman who now lives with Frasier after being shot in the line of duty – lurching from one failed romance to another, and trying (unsuccessfully) to clamber up the greasy pole to acceptance among the Emerald City’s cultural elite.” (Guardian)

04. Breaking Down: Sly and the Family Stone’s “Sing a Simple Song” (1968)

“Joseph Schloss, music scholar and author of two essential books – Making Beats and Foundation – joins the Soul Sides Sliced team by breaking down one of the all-time funk classics, Sly Stone’s “Sing a Simple Song” from 1968.

To best appreciate the break down, listen to this on headphones. If that’s not convenient, stereo speakers can work too (just not as well).” (Soul Sides/Sliced)

01. Report: World’s oldest running car fetches $4.6 million at auction

“The world’s oldest running car, an 1884 De Dion Bouton Et Trapardoux Dos-A-Dos Steam Runabout, made history Friday, fetching $4.62 million at RM Auctions’ Hershey, Pennsylvania event. Before a packed house, the 127-year-old ride quickly eclipsed its $500,000 starting bid.” (autoblog)

02. BODY MILK PROJECT (above)

“Milk may be good for your bones, skin and hair, but in these very titillating photos it will get your pulse racing, too.” (feeldesain)

03. Comparing Big-Ass Smartphone Screens to 1950s Tail Fins

“This is the absolutist position, and I don’t agree with it. I don’t think 4-inch and bigger screens are silly or needless. For some purposes, bigger is better, and for people who value those purposes, these are better devices. What I believe is that 3.5-inches (or so) is the sweet spot — the best trade-off.” (daringfireball)

04. Icarus Stealth Track

“This is the first Icarus to be exported to the Ukraine, but if he keeps producing work like this, it won’t be long before Ian Sutton is getting orders from all over the world. Roma Skripchenko is the proud owner of the Stealth Track, and I doubt there’s been a slicker machine seen on Ukrainian streets.” (cycleexif)

01. The V&A announces plans for a major exhibition of British design

“British Design 1948-2012: Innovation in the Modern Age Sponsored by Ernst & Young 31 March – 12 August 2012. The V&A’s major spring exhibition will showcase the best of British design and creative talent from the 1948 ‘Austerity Olympics’ to the summer of 2012. It will be the first comprehensive exhibition to examine the ways in which artists and designers who were born, trained or working in the UK have produced innovative and internationally acclaimed works from post-war to the present day. Ranging from the Morris Mini Minor (1959) to the newly commissioned model of Zaha Hadid’s London Aquatics Centre (2011), the objects on display will aim to reinforce Britain’s status as a global leader in design. (dezeen)

02. Ishac Bertran: Analog Vinyl Sampling

“a few decades to a time before music went digital. Using nothing but LPs and simple laser technology (oxymoron) he physically cuts and pastes chunks of vinyl together to create tangible audio mash-ups that look and sound surprisingly awesome. He’s also made an informative video documenting the whole process. Keep an eye out for Lil’ John and Supertramp spinning on the same piece of shellac. Inspired.” (itsnicethat)

03. Look Silly, Save Coffee

“If ‘Oh come on, what the?!” came to mind when you saw this, you can sit next to me. The SpillNot doesn’t look like a time-saver, but it claims to be a real coffee saver.’ ” (incrediblethings)

04. Thom Yorke: ‘It’s not who you steal from, it’s how you steal’

“NPR’s Guy Raz asked how the band reinvents themselves every time and how the band approach every album. Thom Yorke: “We’re not trying to be experimental or anything. When I first started doing demo’s on my own, I was quite a good imitator. I see it in my daughter, she’s the same. You’re constantly learning from other music and then there’s that Lennon thing about it, ‘It’s not who you steal from, it’s how you steal.’ I’m constantly absorbing other music and that’s what stimulates me the most. And to have the ability within our group with Nigel to move around in all these different areas.’”(atease)