Awesome. Found this in the New York Times today — an interactive map of Holden Caulfield’s journey through NYC. Roll over the different sites and find an excerpt from Catcher in the Rye describing each place. Check it out here.
Thanks for the tour JD Salinger. And thanks for preserving that New York forever.
(Can’t see the video? Try this link.)
Found this at kottke.org the other day. Amazing acceptance speech from Wes Anderson, made in stop motion animation.
Not only cool, but also appropriate: he was accepting the Special Filmmaking Achievement Award from the National Board of Review. Special filmmaking indeed.
And I love the rabbit half offscreen. With her stripes and her neckerchief.
(Can’t see the video? Try this link.)
The brilliant and beautiful Katherine Center has done it again. This time in the form of a video addressing the statement Mom 2.0: Defining a Movement.
I can’t wait to see Katherine in Houston next month at the Mom 2.0 Summit. I feel like time spent with her, regardless of what we’re doing, is quality time. Do you know people like that? I’m lucky to.
Speaking of Mom 2.0 Summit, have you registered yet? Please do. I promise you won’t regret it.
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Beautiful sky at lunch today.
New, limited edition book, about Helvetica’s infiltration of the New York City subway system. Written by Paul Shaw. Including hundreds of photos, along with reproductions of pages from various MTA and NYCTA signage manuals. Oh, I’m sorry — was that me drooling? Goodness, how embarrassing.
I lived in New York for 6 years, and I return every year at least twice, and to count the number of photos I have taken down in the subway would be impossible. I am obsessed with its haphazard permanence, its raw, often accidental beauty, and its consistent inconsistency.
I can’t wait to hold this book in my hand.
Utterly, breathtakingly brilliant.
(Originally found via ReflectionOf.Me. Linked here from Ads of the World.)
Loving this new camera bag from Photojojo. It’s almost as perfect as they come except it doesn’t have room for a laptop, darnit. That’s my number one need — camera + laptop in one. For to take on trips when I need both + lenses. That isn’t so large it tips me over backward.
But if I were just buying a new camera bag, this is definitely the one I’d buy.
Get it here.
I mean, sure the double knob thing was sorta frustrating on the original Etch A Sketch. Diagonals were challenging, and curves were nearly impossible. But that was part of the charm, right? And it was also what separated it from, say, a Magna Doodle (which didn’t exist in my childhood). Or those static-lift drawing pads, which could not have been more annoying.
So now they’ve replaced the knobs with a trackball, eh? And they’re calling it Etch A Sketch freestyle?
Frankly, I’m not sure what to think. You?
(Thanks sub-studio design blog)
Haiti remains a place of profound need, anguish, desperation and danger, with a few glimmers of hope and slowly growing capabilities to receive and distribute the international aid now flowing in. Sporadic looting, sometimes violent, was met with force by security officials and ordinary citizens, resulting in a number of further deaths and injuries. The tenuous security situation has led to at least one temporary evacuation of a medical facility, to protect the care-givers. Despite the long time since the earthquake, at least five people were pulled from the rubble alive this weekend, including a young girl trapped inside a supermarket who was fortunately surrounded by food, and survived on fruit snacks.
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(Description and images from The Big Picture at boston.com)
