May 2012
23 posts
“There’s just really too much gentrification in the neighborhood now. I wish it...”
– Young white woman in my yoga studio today in Brooklyn (via adriennes)
It is my opinion that the perfect amount of gentrification is that which occurs shortly after I have arrived and found the perfect cafe / bar / yoga studio / garden store etc. Everything else is racist and classist and offensive...
“Grok: “to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the...”
– Robert A. Heinlein from his best-selling 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land
newspeedwayboogie:
Daniel Johnston - Some Things...
Daddyblog photo geekery FTW!
lazydad:
Lytro camera wow!
Click on the pic above to reset the focus.
“From their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting...”
– Maurice Sendak
“I have always imagined that paradise will be some kind of library.”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via nypl)
I hope so
Beastie Boys inspired "battle loop" →
Make GIFs on gifyo!
“Forget about Kurt Cobain for a second: For kids like me, the Beastie Boys...”
– Mark Richardson remembers MCA. (via pitchfork)
April 2012
22 posts
4 tags
American Express « Ephemeral New York →
jeanphony:
Founded in 1850 as just a shipping company, American Express had its headquarters as well as a warehouse with stables (for the horses that actually lugged the packages around, of course) on lower Hudson Street in the late 19th century.
GRR
“King Goldenlocks”: A Newly Translated Fairy Tale →
A cache of five-hundred Bavarian fairy tales were unearthed recently in Germany. The fairy tales were compiled by the nineteenth-century ethnographer Franz Xaver von Schönwerth, a contemporary of the Grimm brothers.
Payback's a bitch, Bama. (Remember, Toomer's... →
The Coaches’ Trophy from this season’s BCS national title was accidentally knocked off its podium and shattered by a player’s father whose foot got caught on a rug that sits beneath the trophy display.
“I should not have to fight with my children every warm day on the playground...”
– Sometimes living in Brooklyn is like living in an Onion article. Some Park Slope Parents Looking to Ban Ice Cream Vendors in Prospect Park. Seriously.
Sixpoint to release four-ounce "picokeg"
brewyork:
Last summer, Sixpoint released their series of 16-ounce “nanokegs” to rave reviews. Then, they released their double IPA, Resin, in 12-ounce skinny tallboy cans. Now, they’re taking it to the next level with their new high-test barleywine in stubby four-ounce cans they’re calling “picokegs.”
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Hope this isn’t an April fools… Sounds delicious.
Brooklyn Celebrity Luv →
Boerum Hill resident and Oscar-nominated actress Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain; My Week With Marilyn) was seen snuggling up to Jason Segel (I Love You, Man) at popular Italian restaurant Frankies this weekend, Us Weekly reported.
March 2012
36 posts
“People who study design methods without also practicing design are almost always...”
– Christopher Alexander
WatchInteractive Farming Installation Prototype at Hall of Science design-ionysci:
Here is some video of our second prototype at NYSCI. The prototype is a farming installation where you use your body to water your crops and then harvest them with a chopping motion. There is an RFID enabled truck which empties the silo of the collected crops, which can then be delivered to another installation.
