Visiting Coney Island
Today I took the subway to the ocean – Coney Island, to be exact, which is equal parts seaside playground and altar to kitsch.
Here’s what I saw:
I also took this video – I like it better as a soundscape… close your eyes and just listen:
I Want to Learn Graphic Design
Last week I was browsing at the Strand, and I came across a book of typography-based tattoos, like this one:
I was transfixed. I can’t remember the last time I was so inspired. I just wanted to keep looking at the pretty pictures.
More than that: I wanted to make the pretty pictures. I wanted to learn how to create striking prints (more…)
Pants Up!
"Enter the building pants up"
What prompts someone to hang up this sign?
Explain the story behind the sign in 250 words or less.
(Need inspiration? Read people’s stories about the “Parakeet Found” sign I posted last week.)
A Day in NYC
Ice cream truck for sale on the Bowery:
Store selling clothes, scarves and knick-knacks from India, also on the Bowery:
Just another day of sights and sounds in the city….
NY Weekend in Pictures
It was a dreamy weekend in New York. My friend Kate was visiting from DC, and together with Jordan, we traipsed around the city, adventuring – from the Otto Dix exhibit at the Neue Galerie (haunting sketches from the trenches of WWI, and distorted portraiture evoking the excesses of the Weimar Republic); to a Sake bar the size of a studio apartment, with Sam, who knows where to get the best everything in each of the five boroughs; to aimless wandering around the Village and Soho, where we admired the quirky wares of the Pearl River Mart, bought rings made out of flowers, and found the most delicious pizza I’ve eaten in New York so far. Along the way, we saw men in bowler hats, punk rock rubber duckies, and so many cherry blossoms. Here, a snapshot in pictures:
