October 2011
1 post
Anonymous asked: hi
April 2011
3 posts
“Like many New Yorkers, I could map out my life in the city as a series of taxi...”
– “Thin Yellow Line,” Lizzie Widdicombe (The New Yorker)
my new favorite!
February 2011
1 post
January 2011
1 post
“It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where...”
– Let The Great World Spin, Colum McCann
December 2010
4 posts
library wisdom
from a survey of library + museum digitization projects.
question fifty six: “What has been your experience with digital asset management software? Have you developed in-house solutions? Purchased commercial software? Used open source? What do you recommend?”
answer (one of many): “Recommendation: Take this soft you need to do, but do not rely on a special soft. The most...
yet another track from teen dream, which i firmly...
October 2010
1 post
back to tumbling.
which mostly just means - back...
June 2010
1 post
“I suppose that a lot of us who have been very young in New York have the same...”
– joan didion
May 2010
4 posts
“THE ASCENDANCY OF REASON OVER BLIND FAITH WILL BE MADE MANIFEST BY OUR...”
– jeremy wolos, on announcing the annual philosophy vs. religion keg race.
hilarious color survey →
i like xkcd a lot, but this is much better than any of the comics that i can remember. the entire second half is fantastic.
April 2010
1 post
Listen
March 2010
8 posts
my favorite track off of twin sister’s...
my way →
love this collection of maps for the silly and for the real world. now i just need these directions for my own life…
yes! we! can!
the name of that last spiritualized song might be...
old dreamy favorites—this last day? weekend?...
February 2010
15 posts
harbin ice/snow sculpture festival →
think that snowman you made last week was impressive? the harbin ice/snow sculpture festival has a little something to show you.
started in 1984, the festival features massive snow sculptures, ice slides…illuminated at night by internal lights. the result is a colorfully surreal scene in the middle of winter—words cannot describe:
hello mr. colosseum; you look awfully green...
sunset on a beach, or as close as you can get with...
“It’s never the changes we want that change everything.”
– Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
loved and lost →
another series from pictory: the one who got away. this isn’t as visually stunning as some of their other collections, but the combination of words+pictures is so … personal; it’s hard not to be moved.
sometimes you fall in love with a city instead of the person in it
OPENrestaurant →
art as food? food as art? the mind reels.
wake up
and goodness knows it’s been a wonderful...
local flavors →
food = love
art? calendar? advertisement? →
love the tilt-shift photography here, and the bolero is also pretty excellent. in terms of purchasing though, i don’t know…
colorstrology →
completely unfounded, as are all of these sorts of things—but at least it’s colorful nonsense
smile! →
“put a smile in your coffee! or, put a coffee in your smile”
—via @tchu88; via @christine_y
playing with food →
anthropomorphized food. a little weird to me how—though we usually think of the face as the most human part of us—just adding arms and legs (nothing else!) makes them oddly people-like…
(how adorable is this?)
January 2010
3 posts
you go for a walk in the park because you...
“we have to create ourselves as a work of art”
– michel foucault
