The Digest. 02.21.08.

Soklak in Paris. Photo by vitostreet.

• When yet-to-be released films imitate decade-old children’s TV shows: Is Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind a rip-off of an old Nickelodeon program called The Amanda Show?
• Would Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty get built today? Probably not. “The thing would never make it through even the planning stages in today’s environmentally conscious world,” says Laurie Fendrich in The Chronicle Review. (Via MAN.)
• Hair Wars.
• And I Quote… Sue Webster, on the electric fountain she and Tim Noble are putting up in New York’s Rock Center: “It’s starting to look like something you’d see outside the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.” Because that’s what we need more of here in NYC: Vegas.
• London’s Science Museum picks up Listening Post, a piece by Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen.
• Is suffering good for art? It sure seems so.
• Audio Slideshow: Kevin Connolly, a legless skater, discusses his photographic pursuits.
• The Day in Aiding and Abetting: UK apologises for allowing U.S. rendition flights to stop in British territory.
• Graff of the Day: Popay in Paris.
• Hic Lit. (Via The Elegant Variation.)
• Somehow I missed this: Lucas Cranach the Elder’s nekkid Venus has been allowed inside the London underground.
• A photo from last night’s lunar eclipse.
• Austin Museum of Art to expand. (Via ArtForum.)
• Renzo Piano chosen to design Greek opera/library complex.
• Circular communities. (Via ackackack.)
• A photo set of architectural models. (Via ArchiDose.)
• The game of architectural who’s is bigger?
• It Ain’t Easy Being Green: Garbage Warrior.
• The drinking life: In praise of Mexican cantinas.
• Your moment of Stand By Me.