The 99% is a site designed to help bring your ideas to fruition, offering tips and tricks for better follow-through in the creative process.

Thomas Edison famously said that “genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration,” and the Behance Network has launched the site with that practical premise in mind. Featured interviews include luminaries like David Chang, who addresses accountability and competition in the culinary field, and Studio 7.5, the Berlin firm that prototyped the Herman Miller Setu chair. Read More »

1. HBO has premiered a full trailer for Jason Schwartzman’s upcoming noir-otic comedy series, Bored to Death. [via Slashfilm]
2. Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Fest announces a lineup that includes Jesus Lizard, Of Montreal, Crystal Castles, Destroyer, Ratatat, Yeasayer, Mission of Burma, Broadcast, Atlas Sound, WHY?, No Age, Les Savy Fav, Fuck Buttons, Times New Viking, the King Khan & BBQ Show, Neon Indian, Shearwater, Buraka Som Sistema, and Death. [via Pitchfork]
3. FOX’s Snakes on a Cane viral campaign for upcoming season of House was all Hugh Laurie’s idea. [via The Wrap]
4. A dance sequence deemed “too gang rape-y” will be cut out of the upcoming revival of Bye Bye Birdie. [via NYDN]
5. It really pays to be the executive director of Friends of the High Line. [via NYT]

Spencer Finch, The River That Flows Both Ways, rendering, 2007

Brooklyn-based artist Spencer Finch is a man in search of lost time. Take, for example, his installation West (Sunset in My Motel Room, Monument Valley, January 26, 2007, 5:36-6:06 PM): 9 TVs face a wall, playing films whose composite, haloed reflection reproduces the colors of a sixty-minute sunset viewed from Finch’s hotel room in Monument Valley. Or there’s 2 hours, 2 minutes, 2 seconds (Wind at Walden Pond, March 12, 2007), in which 44 fans recreate the gusts and ebbs of wind over at the eponymous pond on March 12 of the same year. Read More »

Unless you are living under a rock with no Wi-Fi, you may have heard about the long awaited opening of the Chelsea High Line, an elevated park refurbished from an abandoned rail trestle snaking up the lower West Side of Manhattan. Winding from an entrance on Gansevoort and Washington Streets, under the new Standard hotel, over Tenth Avenue, and past some of Chelsea’s most creative architecture, the High Line is a public space worth its weight in hype.  Read More »