brooklyn flea moves

Brooklyn flea moves to Fort Green January 9th

the black list

look here

los libros

2009 notable books according to the new york times

i love this!

ooooh pulsatilla

just one click

I almost forgot about The Lonely Island! Most if not all of the Saturday Night Live digital shorts are there!

colbert mimes

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Better Know a Lobby - Ploughshares Fund
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somehow my friend heather was reminded of me while watching this...the nuclear miming part. I think i am flattered?

it's real

touched by a monkey
thanks e

misprinted type

I'm gushing over Eduardo Recife work, so beautiful!

hort

Eike Koenig from Hort from Leonardo Mercado on Vimeo.

paper toys

make you're own free paper toys of Brett and Jermaine
image from little junkies

mom and dad

My parents just left NY from they're visit. I found some old photos that I snagged when I was last in Detroit. Photo on top is my Dad when he was in college and the bottom (far left bottom) is my mom on her high school basketball team. Check out this my parents were awesome site it is so sweet!

ira vs the chicken

see photos of Karen Davis' chickens here

so inspiring

just look, such a great blog!

Pedro Almodóvar

native vermont

beards

repost tuesday

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis from Between Two Ferns

"when you started hosting you were nervous and sweaty
and under prepared and desperate"

thanks ben

fantastic!

GO see the movie then these guys! You can see all of the original figures in the Berdorf Goodman window!

today was a good day

yes

presidential weather

obama weather
thanks hk!

learn something everyday

learn something everyday
via swissmiss

thievery

reuse

cassette tape ties!!

lyrically thinking

I Felt Your Shape - The Microphones

I thought I felt your shape but I was wrong
Really all I felt was falsely strong
I held on tight and closed my eyes
It was dumb I had no sense of your size

It was dumb to hold so tight
But last night
On the birthday in the kitchen
My grip was loose my eyes were open

I felt your shape and heard you breathing
I felt the rise and fall of your chest
I felt your fall
Your winter snows
Your gusty blow
Your lava flow
I felt it all
Your starry night
Your lack of light
With limp arms I can feel most of you

I hung around your neck independently
And my loss was overwhelmed
By this new depth I don’t think I ever felt

But I don’t know
The nights are cold
And I remember warmth
I could have sworn I wasn’t alone

my sister

My sister Anne is one year older today, but she is
still as cute as she ever was.
Happy Birthday bean!

ice house

Gregory Holm, a photographer, and Matthew Radune, an architect, are collaborating on this winter of 2009-2010 architectural installation. The project, which involves working with several Detroit organizations, aims to uphold concepts of neighborhood integrity, material reuse, public art, social empowerment, and urban farming.

Check out the video and blog
thanks juanes

map my run

I run on the track 2-3 times a week, but I would venture out to the streets if I could measure my distance. My friend Josie found a website that does just that, check it out- map my run

map cuts

new york city paper cut map

dining in detroit

"From a local, I would have just written it off as city pride, but Charles is, as he himself puts it, a citizen of the world. Born in the French Caribbean and reared in Paris, he ran a French joint in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene and lived in Brazil before winding up here. When I pointed out the risks of starting up in a city as troubled as Detroit, he shrugged it off. “When I moved to New York in the late ’80s there was not a day when someone in the city wasn’t robbed or beaten or killed,” he said. “This is so much better than that.”

read article here
thanks ann

a different beyonce

tea time

I was in Chicago a few weekends ago and had my first cup of masala tea. It was so delicious! Make some.

• 1 Cup milk • 2 Cups water • 4 tsp Tea leaves • 1 Piece cinnamon • 1 Chunk dried ginger • 3 Cardamoms, crushed • 3 Cloves • 2 Black peppers • Sugar to taste

•	Boil two cups of water.
•	Add all ingredients except sugar and milk.
•	Boil for about 30 seconds.
•	Allow it to stand for a minute.
•	In a pot, heat the milk.
•	Filter the tea into cups.
•	Now add milk and sugar.

love from brooklyn to meghan

on the ground

neat

dollhouse

my new friend bobbi

gone digital

Such a well thought out magazine in print, and it completely translates to the web. It's going to take me awhile to get used to these digital mags. Check foam magazine out!

graphic design referenced

Graphic Design, Referenced is a visual and informational guide to the most commonly referenced terms, historical moments, landmark projects, and influential practitioners in the field of graphic design.

wall art

states united

chicagoland!

I'm headed to Chicago this weekend for one of my bff's Bachelorette party. I can't wait to bring her and friends to the zoo! My friend Angie is one of the zoo keepers at Lincoln Park Zoo and has graciously invited us to take a behind the scenes tour tomorrow!! If I do get to see this cat I might just have to take him back to Brooklyn with me. Photos to come after the weekend's festivities.

With the closing of 4 titles (including Gourmet!!) at Conde Naste yesterday, to find out that a shelter magazine has been launched online is no surprise. Check out lonny magazine.

just because

thanks stacy!

roller derby

I can't wait to see this movie, filmed in Michigan and Drew Barrymore directs, with a pretty amazing cast!

tait simpson

mossy

You too, could make these.
design sponge

oh craigslist

Wired magazine is trying to figure out a way to spruce up Craigslist, in my opinion it's not that horrible. Check out some of the designers ideas...

article in wired

fools on fire

Tonight is the last night to see this great little play- Kill Me Loudly a Clown Noir! I saw it last night, it was clever, interactive and really entertaining. Worth the $15. thanks RP

Kill Me Loudly: A Clown Noir

A show about temptation, betrayal and murder. Done by Clowns.

Do you long for the days of lonely office buildings, dead-end alleys, and glitzy clubs? So do we. And by the time we're through, you’ll leave longing for them all the more. Director Eric Davis (Red Bastard, Cirque du Soleil, Bouffon Glass Menajoree) wields his magic sword to create a world where there is not one, but two femme-fetales, neither of whom are women, and the main Dick doesn’t even have one.

We break our hearts and bare our souls to give you
the film noir you deserve. We try. We’re good at trying. And we fail. That's the best part of all.

Here is a clown noir.

Very good intentions. Very bad clowns.

passion pit

Passion Pit - The Reeling



Going to see Passion Pit tonight in Central Park! I can't wait!!!
you have to watch this!

jack's life lessons

I found this on swissmiss awhile ago, I don't know who Jack is but he makes some good points.
Jack's Life Lessons
don't be a jerk
don't take anyone for granted
enjoy the moment
be honest, always
be humble
be kind
respect people's wishes
allow endings
fail openly
have an amazing haircut

health care, what health care

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell

My friend Ben opened my eyes to this wonderful video.
Check out his HILARIOUS blog

I've collected some information that has helped me (sort of) understand the state of heath care today.
ny times article

An email my friend Emily forwarded to me, that is interesting:

"Control the food and you
control the people,
control the oil and you
control the country,
control the money and you
control the world."
Henry Kissinger - [convicted of war crimes in Belgium]

As a US citizen, a medical doctor currently living in Germany, a country
where health care is universally available for its residents at affordable
rates, I might have some perspectives on this debate you haven't yet run
across.

What I find most astounding about our US health care system is not only how many people don't have coverage (some 46 million, and going up). But rather, how fragile and precarious health care coverage is for so many people who think they are well insured.

How does our US health care system compare? Let's go through some important
points in the universal health care system in Germany, which I'm very familiar with:

Here in Germany you are mandated to have standard comprehensive health insurance:
• your employer pays half the monthly family premium, you pay the other half,
• you don't get rejected because of any previous condition,
• you don't pay more or less working for a large or small business,
• you don't pay more or less if you are male or female, black or white,
• German or foreign born, gay or straight, the rates don't go up if someone in the small (or large) business gets sick,health insurance is not a consideration when changing jobs or careers because you take the policy with you
• you don't lose your policy if you get sick, if you become unemployed, or even if your employer goes out of business.
• you won't be billed for "out of network" services in hospitals or elsewhere these services are part of your coverage, no matter which hospital or teamof doctors treats you,
• you don't have annual, lifetime, disease-related, or disease-recurrence caps,
• you won't be billed at 20%, 30% or more for expensive medications
("price-tiered" pharmaceuticals), because there is no "tiering", legally approved pharmaceuticals are fully covered when you need them, even if they're very expensive, nor will you ever go bankrupt due to unpaid and unaffordable medical bills piling up, - that simply doesn't happen - you enjoy completely comprehensive coverage.
• Also, forget expensive copays ($40/year max. for doctor visits @$10 per quarter, a few dollars per prescription, a minimal meals expense during a hospital stay.

Forget too the denials, the constant slog of endless 0800 calls (yours and your doctor's) to your insurance company for requests for coverage or adjustments, wasting huge amounts of people's time, energy, and productive capacity every business day - this doesn't happen in Germany, because this is a comprehensive coverage system (which is an important reason why it's so efficient).

I might add that Germany is a democratic country with a freely elected government; its residents are free people - this is not "Russia". In fact, this is the country with long stretches of Autobahn without speed limits, right? (Here, it's your responsibility to drive safely, and most do.) People here freely change jobs, careers, and locations without any regard for health insurance, and they are free of the fear of going bankrupt or losing their homes or life's savings if they were to get seriously ill, because their comprehensive insurance protects them from that!

Germany and its residents are not going broke paying for this, either. On the contrary, this fair, efficiently run health care system costs roughly a third less per person that the US system - that's right, about 1/3 less per capita - despite (or because?) everyone being on board and receiving comprehensive health care.

That figure doesn't come from rationing, long waits to see a doctor, or long waiting lists to get an operation, either - that doesn't happen here. What that figure does reflect, however, is just how much waste, duplication, and gouging of consumers must be taking place in the US health care system every day.

My point in describing the German health care system is not to encourage you all to move to Germany, but to prove to you, that for one-third less money than you currently already spend, you should be getting comprehensive, universal health care, like every resident of Germany does (yes, including all immigrants!). But you're not.

May I humbly suggest: advocate, and work with your friends and neighbors for health care reform now, absolutely including a strong public plan, which is the lynchpin for any meaningful reform.

Don't let the lobbyists, their surrogates on TV, or their gun-toting mobsand pre-organized advocates at town hall meetings, scare you, confuse you, or drown out your voices yet again.

It is time to face up to this national challenge as adults, and finally join the peoples of the 17 (seventeen!) other advanced democracies (not "Russia", but, yes indeed, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Norway, Australia, Japan, S. Korea and even Taiwan!) around the world, who already enjoy the benefits of universal, comprehensive, and affordable health care.

Dr. Frederick B. Lacey Jr.
Frankfurt am Main, Germany

the informant

adorable lottery

thanks am

Grown in Detroit

grown in detroit
The documentary "Grown in Detroit," about growing movement of urban agriculture and harvesting for profits, will air on Detroit Public Television on Sept. 22 at 9 p.m.

r.i.p

Patrick Swayze 1952-2009

good resource

the 99 percent

little

slinkachu's clothes

rifle

rifle via ohjoy

details

wow this is some great work by Siong Chin