December 2010
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In Taiwan
Tumblr-ing on hiatus until I figure out what “copy” “paste” and “image source url” look like in Chinese.
If it walks like one, talks like one, looks like...
Took a walk through an older part of Taipei this morning while my parent’s were at the doctor’s office. As I carefully picked my way through the parked motorbikes and noodle stands I couldn’t help but feel like some alien species invading another host.
Why did I feel so uncomfortable? It’s not as if I’d never explored a new city on my own. New York was wholly new to...
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Doomed. →
“When Dr. Keeling, as a young researcher, became the first person in the world to develop an accurate technique for measuring carbon dioxide in the air, the amount he discovered was 310 parts per million. That means every million pints of air, for example, contained 310 pints of carbon dioxide.
By 2005, the year he died, the number had risen to 380 parts per million. Sometime in the next...
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Joe Hisaishi - the guy who composed many of the...
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10 in 2010
1. Moved. Again. Within the same 2-mile radius I’ve been skirting in Williamsburg/Bushwick. But for the first time ever in 6 years, I think we might actually renew our lease.
2. Changed jobs. Again. And so did 5 other of my friends, whether out of necessity, being laid off, or just plain quit. I don’t think company loyalty exists anymore for our generation and for this economy.
3....
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Dedicated to the misuse of Chinese characters in... →
i can’t stop lol-ing, esp all of the tattoos. Thx Mike!
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“I was on the stairway to heaven or was it the roadway to hell?”
– Epitaph for LES bar Max Fish
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"Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty," A... →
Opens May 4, 2011 at The Costume Institute at The Met
Includes work from his postgrad show from Central Saint Martins in 2002 until his final collection in 2010.
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Restaurant to try: Vinegar Hill House →
Sort of in the middle of nowhere, but from alums of Freeman’s in the LES.
A Kitchen-for-Rent Is a Lifeline for the Laid-Off →
In a recession like this one, we need stuff like this!
Mapping America: Every City, Every Block →
According to this foolish(ly awesome) map, there are 0% Asian people where I live. That hurts. I actually did fill out the census, and so did my other 2 Asian roommates!
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“Miyamoto, then age twenty-four, was a recent art-college graduate, with a degree...”
– Describing Shigeru Miyamoto, the dude behind Super Mario Brothers, Zelda, and so much more. via The New Yorker
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“The film is often ridiculous, yet there are startlingly beautiful...”
– Review of The Black Swan via The New Yorker.
Is the movie a good thriller? yes. Accurate representation of the dance world? more like a gaudy caricature of it, full of prima ballerinas and an overbearing stage mother who paints portraits of her daughter. i’ve seen my share of eating disorders...
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“Most also tend to write a blog and spend all night drinking or involved in art...”
– The Guardian’s description of the residents of Williamsburg
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Art Barter - You can exchange everything except... →
“Here’s how it works: A whole slew of New York artists — from Terence Koh to the Bruce High Quality Foundation to Tim Barber to Tom Sachsto Georgia G. Gray — have put their works up for grabs. You, the public, wander around the gallery space on Chrystie Street. When you see something you like, indicate what you’d barter for the piece on a pin board (you can barter...
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The Fat Radish →
Accidentally walked in here on opening night, they were closed but the owner graciously poured us some free wine. Try it out!
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NASA Earth Observatory →
Watch the world get warmer
8% of online Americans use Twitter →
A Pew Research Center report on who uses Twitter, what they tweet about, and more
Well, I'm doomed. →
“According to the study, any exposure to tobacco, from occasional smoking to secondhand smoke, can damage a person’s DNA ‘in ways that lead to cancer,’ reports USA Today. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin said, “Tobacco smoke damages almost every organ in your body,” adding that for those with underlying heart disease, ‘One cigarette can cause a heart...
Film Biz Recycling →
Abandoned movie props find new homes for charity. Opening their new location tonight. More details here, via Coco Rocha
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“But once people realize that print and online don’t compete, but rather...”
– Ken Miller, my old editor, in answer to “Due to hard times in the economy, a lot of magazines are closing down and are more open to the idea of going online. Where do you see the future of print?” via 01 Magazine
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Exhibition A →
A cool place to buy art
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“People are never happy here. There’s this insane drive and ambition and desire...”
– Bryan Boy, on why he never wants to move to NY via NYMag
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SVA's new graduate program in fashion photography →
“The School of Visual Arts is starting a new graduate program in fashion photography that will begin in September and Freedman will take a faculty position, along with famed retoucher Pascal Dangin. The program is co-chaired by Jimmy Moffat, a founder in Art+Commerce, and Stephen Frailey, chair of the B.F.A. photography department at SVA. Nick Knight, Ryan McGinley, Sølve Sundsbø and Tim...
Fresh Hell - A Boom in Dystopian Novels for YA... →
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“A woman in love is helpless.”
– Coco Chanel
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“Ballet, as it happens, is an ideal vehicle for a story about the blood, sweat...”
– A Dark Transformation to Strains of Swan Lake via the NYTimes
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