Inaudible Nonsense

Can I tell you how many times a week I quote from this movie?...

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:33:00 -0500

Can I tell you how many times a week I quote from this movie? It’s just over 26 years old at this point. At yet.

Been posting a lot of videos lately but this is just too...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:23:00 -0500

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...

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:57:51 -0500

You really don’t even have to be able to hear her to appreciate how awesome she is. Look at her go!

“Don’t fuck with me fellas!”

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:06:35 -0500

“Don’t fuck with me fellas!”

"The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will pop out the other..."

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:42:27 -0500

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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)

Energy, Department of

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:48:00 -0500

Energy, Department of

"Because our minds seek one another through limbic resonance, because our physiologic rhythms answer..."

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:53:39 -0500

“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?

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:34:07 -0400

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...

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:20:11 -0400

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

Photo

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:02:27 -0400

Ahh … the suburbs of Brooklyn! From the Typography of...

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 23:51:09 -0400

Ahh … the suburbs of Brooklyn! From the Typography of Sanborn New York City Maps.

Um yes. Also? Terry Gilliam was hot. Or at least cute enough to...

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:02:57 -0400

Um yes. Also? Terry Gilliam was hot. Or at least cute enough to not kick out of bed.

Presto, Instant Playground

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:10:48 -0400

Presto, Instant Playground:

The trend of urban interventions continues to solve really problem with design methodology.

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Wed, 11 May 2011 21:25:24 -0400

Robot: Part of nearly continuous mural from Irving to...

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:16:44 -0500

Robot:

Part of nearly continuous mural from Irving to Knickerbocker on Myrtle in Bushwick.

Brunch. Bourghetto style. I’ve been become something of a...

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:35:00 -0500

Brunch. Bourghetto style.

I’ve been become something of a known brunch hater. The reasons are myriad: the food is almost uniformly poorly done (it’s a cheap way for a bar to make extra money, and they don’t skimp on the cheapness); conversely the food is way over-priced; the ideal of brunch is full of bourgeois trappings that are about nothing more than keeping up with the Joneses; etc. (cf. Amy Sedaris quote at end of Urban Bohemian on the subject.)

But that’s not my complaint now. No it’s far worse.

I’ve agreed to go this thing — a gay blogger brunch on Sunday. It’s at an Italian restaurant. (I mean COME ON. There’s no breakfast tradition in Italy! Why? Sputter. Meh. Pant.) Okay, why did I agree.

Peer pressure. More specifically twitter pressure.

I’m trying to spin this as an opportunity to meet some of my favorite gay NYC bloggers. One or more I may or may not have a crush on but that’s all I’m saying. If I have nothing more than toast an OJ. Well that’s life.

But here’s the other deal — brunch is mostly a group gab fest. And as any of you that are late deafened know, there’s almost nothing more anxiety producing (and if not that at least completely useless) that being in a group conversation.

This may or may not be influencing my thinking on brunch overall. I’m not introspective enough to know yet. And you’re not paid enough (meaning at all) to help me figure this out.

So I’m looking forward to sitting, in a what I’m sure is a lovely Italian restaurant, staring at my overpriced breakfast food while trying to get the person next to me to write things down in my sketchbook. And thinking about the fact that I could be doing laundry. I may have an attitude problem here.

At least, let’s hope I get drunk.

From the platform at Broadway-Myrtle Ave

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 03:03:00 -0500

From the platform at Broadway-Myrtle Ave

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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:37:56 -0500

"We promise it will have the most beautiful presentation of legal stats you have ever seen!"

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:39:23 -0500

“We promise it will have the most beautiful presentation of legal stats you have ever seen!”

- From Immigration Equality about the new annual update. Go take I look, it’s my design.

Comment spam, climate change edition

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:35:00 -0500

Rule29, a creative agency in my hometown of Geneva, Illinois, enters the fray about whether massive snow in the mid-Atlantic mean that “global warming isn’t real.” It’s an odd argument that seems to be percolating. My response:

Or a case of bad branding? The trouble is “global warming” — which all evidence by any peer-reviewed scientist indicates is happening at an alarming rate — sounds like everything (all seasons) should be getting warmer. And while they are. It also means that there will be extreme weather, horrible storms that dump massive amounts of snow on areas unused to it.

“Global climate change” is a term that aligns more with our experience of living in a warmer planet better. (And by “our” I mean those in North America, ask drought and heat plagued Southern Hemisphere about the heat thing. Australia may be uninhabitable the situation is getting so dire there — they are running out of water and suffering under massive wildfires.)

The issue is not whether global warming or global climate change is real, but how are we going to deal with the extreme weather, the pressures it puts on fragile international networks of people: more war, starvation, island nations and coastal cities lost to rising sea levels, and yes massive snow storms.

But we can spend time arguing about word choice too. As long as we make some hard choices about our consumption patterns and how our ecological choices reverberate around the globe.