Been posting a lot of videos lately but this is just too gorgeous. My anxiety from looking at beautiful men is apparently eliminated when they are drenched in pigments.
Found via Towleroad.
You really don’t even have to be able to hear her to appreciate how awesome she is. Look at her go!
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The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That’s maybe the most important thing.
It’s to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. I think that’s very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you’ll want to change life and make it better, cause it’s kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.
"— Steve Jobs (via Swiss Miss)
"Because our minds seek one another through limbic resonance, because our physiologic rhythms answer to the call of limbic regulation, because we change one another’s brains through limbic revision — what we do inside relationships matters more than any other aspect of human life."
— ‘A General Theory of Love’
Where Do Bohemians Come From?
I’ve had Elizabeth Currid-Halkett’s The Warhol Economy on my wishlist for a while. Today in the NYT she writes on successful art revitalization and that it takes more than just money to make it happen.
The idea that art can be an economic engine is hardly new, and a walk through SoHo, Venice Beach or Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood shows it can work. The N.E.A.’s promotional material makes clear that its goal is to create new SoHo’s in hard-hit cities across the country. But contrary to the N.E.A.’s good intentions, it takes more than grants and tax breaks to make the arts thrive. Too often, art-driven revitalization efforts overlook the mercurial nature of art itself.
Her point is that there are a lot of unknowns in the art world and that money should flow toward areas that are already working. I think she doesn’t talk enough about other location factors of successful arts districts, from density and population to being near a larger world of art consumption and presentation — gallerists, collectors, museums, schools.
NYC in the 1940s — and IN LIVING color. I’ve seen enough old movies to forget that NY wasn’t all black and white before 1970.
Via hitmeupman
Ahh … the suburbs of Brooklyn! From the Typography of Sanborn New York City Maps.
