“We turned 5,000 New York City pay phones into time machines.”
(via The Atlantic Cities)
Also: The payphone of the future.
in my dream someone took a book off a high shelf and showed it to me. this was the cover. i tried to recreate it (using powerpoint!)
(via twin city sidewalks)
Marker for the geographical south pole, by my friend Barry. He also helped run the First Annual Carhartt / Rodwell Water 1/361th and Micro-Marathon. A micro-marathon is 1/1,000,000th of a marathon, or 4.2 centimeters.
Adam Kennedy: “I make planets out of rusty fire hydrants.”
(via Henry Grabar at The Atlantic Cities)
Find The Thing You're Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Nights And Weekends For The Rest Of Your Life
“Because the bottom line is that life is short, and you owe it to yourself to spend the majority of it giving yourself wholly and completely to something you absolutely hate, and 20 minutes here and there doing what you feel you were put on this earth to do.” An op-ed from The Onion.
Urban renewal? We’re qualified. We’ve built up and torn down cities for 20 years. Cities everywhere are calling for artists, and it’s a blank slate there, blocks and blocks. … We want to extend the civil experiment — to see if business and art can coincide and not maim one another.
Larry Harvey, capitalist, bringing Burning Man to Washington.
The Longest Word in English (Pronounced) (by Orkhanoid)
“3 Kinds of Depression that Interfere with Progress,” by Kate Saturday.
Jamie Tanner wrote The Aviary, the best comic book I’ve read in the last couple years. His new book The Black Well is out, and he’s having a Black Friday (weekend) sale. You should check it out.
Here’s a special Halloween edition of Animation Friday; I simply can’t wait 2 more days to put this thing up. “Swing, You Sinners” is probably my all-time favorite Halloween cartoon because of its inventive and imaginative animation… and also because it is BATSHIT INSANE.
This is amazing. (Read more of what Sara has to say.)
