Reproduction ID: P07390
Maker: Unknown
Date: about 1911
From the National Maritime Museum’s “Animals at Sea” flickr set.There are some of kitties!
The Official Management Company is responsible for all the lovely design at the Ace Hotel (in New York and Portland and a few other places).
These are some of my favourites, but the OMC website is certainly worth a look.
This is a good post from my friend Laurie about bike lanes. She rides in Toronto, but what she’s saying applies everywhere.
And what she’s saying is that drivers should be in favour of bike lanes. Especially the drivers that hate cyclists the most. Cyclists are not going to go away, but they will be less bothersome to drivers if there is a safe place for them to be on the road.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot (I drive in the city, as well as cycle), and the thing that slows cars down (which is what seems to make drivers the most angry) is unpredictability. It’s not cyclists specifically, it’s mostly double-parking! Double parked cars, delivery trucks, taxis…they force cars and cyclists to change lanes and zoom around them, which is what makes driving (and cycling) awful. And dangerous.
Every time I read blog comments on bike-related things I get all upset at the mean-spirited anti-cyclist sentiments. The anti-bikers actually need to support bicycle infrastructure to get what they want! And traffic needs to behave better so that things are safer, but also so driving is predictable and moves faster. Transportation Alternatives has been pushing the Biking Rules, shouldn’t AAA push good driving? It will make the streets better for everyone.
Only slightly related, here are some photos of the April 9th Critical Mass ride in Brooklyn. It was lovely: we went to eat ice cream and check out the new Brooklyn Bridge Park. About 20 cyclists at peak, about 20 cops (in a van, a few cars, and those half-car golf-cart things) following us for some unknown bureaucratic reason.
I’m addressing 12 envelopes to mail CDs off to people in my CD exchange. It feels incredibly magical that you can just write where you want the thing to go, put it in a box, and it goes there!
This feels especially true as I write “Canada” on the envelopes. Go to Canada little package!
Last summer my brilliant friend Sarah and I were musing about a strange turn of phrase: “I’m in a place where I can’t date right now” or “I’m in a place where I can’t go for coffee.” Where is this place? Sometimes the phrase is framed in the negative, “I’m not in place where it makes sense for me to see you,” but if you’re not in one place, you must be in another, right? So still, where are you? Where is this place?
We imagine this place to be an awesome fantasy park, full of dudes throwing baseballs around, hanging out with puppies, maybe there’s a hot dog vendor. There are definitely no girls allowed in this place, but it’s awesome, and the guys are having a good time and the appeal is apparent. Still, being in this place prevents them from being in a place where they can go for coffee or go on dates or make out or whatever.
So when dude says “I’m not in a place where I can date right now” what they’re not saying out loud is “BECAUSE I’M AT THE SECRET BOY AND PUPPY PARK!”
So what the awesome girls do, is they bike down to the place, on their 3-speed Schwinns with good stuff in their baskets. And they lay out a blanket and set out a picnic full of baguettes and brie and mason jars full of gin and tonic. Now this picnic spot is open-access, and the boys can totally see it from dude and puppy park, and maybe they’ll be tempted by the smart girls who planned for the day with all this rad stuff that the dudes didn’t think of. All they have are hot dogs and baseballs and maybe they’ll start to think that if they got out of the place then they too could have fancy cheese and picnic cocktails.
Sometimes Sarah and I think that the Place is the Red Hook Ballfields, but the food is too good there for this to make total sense.
Anyhow, welcome to spring everyone. It’s bikes and picnic season!
Here are some unrelated photos of dudes and puppies.
(photo by buzzchap)
(photo by thebigblackmariah)
(photo by unfocused mike)
1. Buildings Along Orchard Street, 2. Cooper Union John Downer Sign Painting Workshop, 3. Leaf applique cardigan, 4. nick’s luncheonette, 5. In Memory 9-11 and Katrina, 6. midwesterners. they’re a good-looking bunch., 7. food for peace stamp single, 8. Jeff Canham: Studio visit, 9. Jeff Canham: Studio visit, 10. wood & wool stools, 11. Bicycle love, 12. _MG_3499, 13. St. Teresa Thrift Shop, 14. 9 triangles down, 171 to go, 15. Cushion, 16. 59/365
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I just noticed the 3D option in streetview. This is incredible, but I don’t have any blue and red glasses!
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