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bada bing
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images of a dark room filled with cigar smoking, owners....
May 29, 2009
May 28, 2009
Tough to be a sea lion
I used to think that the sea lions at the Prospect Park Zoo had an okay life, that is an okay life for an animal kept in a zoo, but yesterday seeing them surrounded by hundreds of kids making sea lion noises sounds was a bit jarring. They seemed to be in hiding. There must have been at least twenty school groups there. It wasn't the outing I had in mind, so Willa and I left after checking that no sea lion had become a stowaway.
May 27, 2009
May 26, 2009
painting on an iphone
This week's New Yorker cover was drawn on an iPhone using an app called Brushes which also enabled an artist to make the image on the left. I believe David Hockney probably uses it too. There is an interesting post on the iPhne as a medium on a blog called artfagcity. I'm excited to try it out. Anyone have any experience with it?
May 25, 2009
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May 19, 2009
Threadless Tees gets on the twitter bandwagon
threadless is now printing shirts with sayings from twitter. now you can wear little 140 character bits of user generated brilliance instead of endless cute drawings of birds.
May 18, 2009
May 15, 2009
New York Times working to collect GM dealer stories from their article on closings
Just caught this on the NYT home page. See the e-mail addy right below the lead? Also it appears at the bottom of the article. Would be interesting to learn how many respond.
Is Chariots of the Gods a key clue and influence on LOST?
As LOST first flashed on the large Easter Island like statue and spent time down in a Egyptian hieroglyph covered temple, I started trying to remember this book. After last night's finale of LOST I am more convinced than ever that the "pseudo-science" of Chariots of the Gods has played a big part in LOST. In fact I am convinced that Jacob and his fellow islander and sworn enemy (who may or may not have a corporal form, and who may or may not be smokey or maybe a HAL like computer) are aliens. Watchers ,"it always end the same way" waiting in classic fashion until the human race has a breakthrough so they are worthy of contact. On what do I base this astounding theory you ask? J.J. Abrams is about my age and from NY too so I would bet that we both read the book and watched the movie on channel 9 sometime in our childhoods, perhaps many times, since they repeated things often. I'm not saying things are as simple as that but I think there is a connection. Thoughts?
May 13, 2009
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May 08, 2009
Our garden has an unexpected connection to FlatbushGardener
Last night at blogfest I found out that FlatbushGardener used to live in our apartment. We had been getting the occasional piece of junk mail addressed to him and I wondered why so I got to use last night's event to ask. Small world. His blog has long been one of the best gardening and urban nature blogs
around and it first caught my eye when I was running GardenWeb and creating the GardenVoices reblog. We were both blessed with getting to look out on, and care for, the garden that our landlord built years ago. From early spring through late fall we eat most meals out on the deck that overlooks it. The garden lightens our days and even makes things like an oven that sets off the smoke alarm trivial. I also found out that he had planted some columbine which you can see flowering along the wall on the bricks along the wall on the right in the photo. You can also see a close up of them in a photo on his blog that was taken in from 2004. One day we will move on from this apartment too and maybe it will lead to a surprising connection.
May 07, 2009
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