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NYC Valentine

blowuprobot — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:59:18 +0000

Bloomberg, Sadik-Khan Commit to a World-Class, 21st Century Broadway
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City Museum, St. Louis

blowuprobot — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:13:29 +0000

These pics are from October… I’ve been working recently & haven’t been studying.

You know how sometimes you visit a place and it’s not as cool as everyone (or your cousin) says it is? Or it doesn’t live up to the photos (like fkg caves!)? Well, the City Museum is way cooler than these photos. And it’s not just cuz they’re crappy photos! This place is amazing, it’s like a giant jungle gym of art: all winding stairs, crawl spaces, slides, and tubes made entirely out of reused materials.

I went with my mom & lunchbox & hermyt. My mom was like, “Can we have a map?”

Unrelated: I would like to get my tonsils removed. And my sinuses.

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AIGA 365 30

grumblebox — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:30:34 +0000

from 826 NYC @ AIGA 365 30

The AIGA gallery is nice. It only takes 15 minutes to walk through. There were quite a few designs with a letterpress/woodcut style with an emphasis on funny copy. It seems to go well with the slow food/artisanal stuff movement. And the handmade/real object style is still going strong. It’s like designers are tired of looking at slick, rounded-corner UI style design — at least on paper.

(Future project: compare print design to fashion / rip pages out of a magazine)

Street food

The gallery’s at 164 Fifth Avenue (between 21st and 22nd Streets) in Manhattan. Which is right near Madison Square park, where there are a whole bunch of booths set up right now for the holidays with fancy desserts & meats! (Right by the Flatiron building, in that weird triangle are on the SW corner of the park. Hooray for the DOT for turning so many crazy intersections into pedestrian/picnic areas!)

AIGA Annual Design Exhibition | September 18–November 25, 2009 | M-R: 11-6, F: 11-5
Design by 826 NYC: Writing center & superhero supply company

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My Jesus is better than yours

blowuprobot — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:40:43 +0000

Overheard on the bus from NJ to NYC:

You plant your mustard seed of faith in the styrofoam cup of heaven. And then you just leave it alone. Don’t even think about it! Jesus will do the work and make it grow. Fear and doubt will kill your sprout. Diligent pursuit bears much fruit. [female: Who said that? Where's that from?] I did. I just made that up! That’s Jesus speaking through me!

— Revivalist christian kid (male)

Lunchbox and I were trying really hard not to overhear any of this one-way conversation, but he was on a roll and had several sisters to enchant.

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