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Video: Restoring the Rockaways

Sat, 18 May 2013 21:27:30 -0400

Video: Restoring the Rockaways:

The city of New York is investing $140 million to restore Rockaway Beach.

America’s Most Bikeable Neighborhoods

Sat, 18 May 2013 21:19:37 -0400

America’s Most Bikeable Neighborhoods

Ralley Van by Allison

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:56:49 -0400

Ralley Van by Allison

thevansarebackintown: Inside 1976 Dodge 70’s Custom Van Shag...

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:54:43 -0400

thevansarebackintown:

Inside 1976 Dodge 70’s Custom Van

Shag and Velour! Sweet!

Nice clean Dodge

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:54:01 -0400

Nice clean Dodge

explore-blog: In his fantastic SVA commencement address on the...

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:50:50 -0400

explore-blog:

In his fantastic SVA commencement address on the false division between “high” and “low” culture, critic Greil Marcus adds to history’s finest definitions of art.

newmuseum: MTV Scratch visited “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set,...

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:47:46 -0400

newmuseum:

MTV Scratch visited “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star” and spoke with the curators of the exhibition.

Closing in less than two weeks on May 26, ”NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star” attempts to capture a specific moment at the intersection of art, pop culture, and politics.

jtotheizzoe: What is Evolution? Excellent video from Stated...

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:47:22 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

What is Evolution?

Excellent video from Stated Clearly explaining just what evolution is … using great illustrations from Rosemary Mosco’s Bird and Moon comics.

This is a great video to share with friends/enemies/confused relatives that might have trouble accepting evolution and how simple it can be to understand.

I’d like to add one thing to this video. Single amoebas, pairs of parents and a few children are used in these evolution illustrations to simplify the concept of evolution, but it’s important to remember that evolution is something that happens to populations, not individuals. The changes within a generation are random. It’s only after those changes have been passed on for several generations that a survival advantage or disadvantage (followed by either more or less individuals carrying the trait) occurs. That’s where evolution happens, it’s not in the change itself. And sometimes even harmful traits can become frequent in a population, like we see in diseases that are prevalent among isolated ethnic groups.

Bonus: I’d also recommend Understanding Evolution’s “Common Misconceptions” FAQ for those who want to dig deeper.

whitneymcn: ZZ Top - I Gotsta Get Paid (Screwed Up Click cover,...

Fri, 17 May 2013 07:20:38 -0400

whitneymcn:

ZZ Top - I Gotsta Get Paid (Screwed Up Click cover, basically)

If you missed it when ZZ Top released this record last year, here’s what you need to know: while it might be a little bit of a stretch to call it a cover, this song is effectively an extended riff on the theme from a hip hip song that was a huge regional hit a while back.

Further, the song was for all intents and purposes released as a commercial for a malt liquor company.

It’s hard to define ZZ Top, but whatever they are they’re the totally unreconstructed, unapologetic, unembarassed version of it. And I’m pretty sure they’re either the ur-hipster or the ur-antihipster…or possibly, maybe most likely, both at the same time.

In conclusion: fuck yeah, ZZ Top.

Agreed

Super clean

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:04:35 -0400

Super clean

Emptyage: Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:33:32 -0400

Emptyage: Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It:

Generation X is tired of your sense of entitlement. Generation X also graduated during a recession. It had even shittier jobs, and actually had to pay for its own music. (At least, when music mattered most to it.) Generation X is used to being fucked over.

Nails it.

thedaddycomplex: markcoatney: colchrishadfield: With...

Mon, 13 May 2013 06:56:06 -0400

thedaddycomplex:

markcoatney:

colchrishadfield:

With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here’s Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World.

Huge thanks in the making of the video to the talented trio of Emm Gryner, Joe Corcoran and Andrew Tidby, plus Evan Hadfield and all at the CSA.

Honestly, this is even better than you think it will be.

Holy living fuck, you guys.
Space Oddity. From actual space.
Just watched this with my boys.

Artist Captures The Ruins of Star Wars

Sun, 12 May 2013 08:36:43 -0400

Artist Captures The Ruins of Star Wars

nypl: Need we say more? Nah, we think this 1899 sheet music...

Sun, 12 May 2013 08:30:33 -0400

nypl:

Need we say more? Nah, we think this 1899 sheet music from our Library for the Performing Arts pretty much covers it. Don’t forget your mother, and Happy Mother’s Day to all!

Photo

Sat, 11 May 2013 21:16:16 -0400

inothernews: The spire for the top of One World Trade Center...

Sat, 11 May 2013 21:14:50 -0400

inothernews:

The spire for the top of One World Trade Center was hoisted into place at the top of the building in New York Friday, bringing the building to a symbolic 1,776 feet above ground. (Photo: Gary He / EPA via The Wall Street Journal)

poptech: And the highest paid public employee in your state...

Sat, 11 May 2013 21:10:56 -0400

poptech:

And the highest paid public employee in your state is…

Can’t be

nevver: Frieze New York

Sat, 11 May 2013 21:01:41 -0400

nevver:

Frieze New York

nice print: Reza Rasoli - Whatever, van!

Thu, 09 May 2013 18:56:07 -0400

nice print: Reza Rasoli - Whatever, van!

Amid Brooklyn Navy Yard’s Ruins, Space for a Comeback in...

Wed, 08 May 2013 23:10:55 -0400

Amid Brooklyn Navy Yard’s Ruins, Space for a Comeback in Manufacturing