What I read today - Oct 3
- Leonard Bernstein on Cynicism, Instant Gratification, and Why Paying Attention Is a Countercultural Act of Courage and Rebellion, Brain Pickings
- Soviet soldier presumed dead found living in Afghanistan, The Guardian
- The Politics of Pockets, Racked
- What San Francisco Says About America, New York Times
- Doing Time in the Gardens of Alcatraz, the Plant Hunter
- America’s Short, Violent Love Affair With Indoor Track Cycling, Atlas Obscura
- How Beige Took Over American Homes, Atlas Obscura
What I read today - Sep 29
- The Secret Life of Trees: The Astonishing Science of What Trees Feel and How They Communicate, Brain Pickings
- Harvest and the Human Spirit: Henry Beston on How Our Relationship to the Earth Reveals Us to Ourselves, Brain Pickings
- Why Do Americans Find Cuba Sexy — but Not Puerto Rico?, Pacific Standard
- What's Happening in Standing Rock?, Outside
- A History and Future of Resistance, Jacobin
My dad just read The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
What I read today - Sep 27
- For the birds, NY Post
- How to Work Remotely Without Losing Motivation, Harvard Business Review
- What Your Starbucks Habit Really Costs You, Yahoo News
- An Un-Conventional Thirst: Collecting 7Up's Most Beautiful, Hallucinatory Billboards, Collectors Weekly
- Confessions of a Ross Perot Voter , New Republic
- The Trademarking of "Taco Tuesday", Pricenomics
What I read today - Sep 21
- Media Silent As Major Pipeline Spills While Protests Against North Dakota Pipeline Continue, Anonymous
- Urban Removal: How A Utopian Vision For Hell's Kitchen Burned Out, Gothamist
- France Just Banned Plastic Cups and Cutlery, Munchies
- City of Cycling: Speed, Urban Omnibus
- OP-ED: IS SUBSTANCE ABUSE LYRICS IN HIP HOP CULTURE REALLY A COVER UP FOR DEPRESSION?, Afropunk
- Standing Rock Sioux Takes Pipeline Fight to UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, NBC News
- HUMANS OF NEW YORK AND THE CAVALIER CONSUMPTION OF OTHERS, The New Yorker
What I read today - Sep 19
- WashPost Makes History: First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source (After Accepting Pulitzer), the intercept
- The Accidental Power of Design, NY Times
- If You Want to Live in a Copenhagen Commune, Get Ready for Red Tape, Atlas Obscura
- Maybe Stop Asking Kids to Recap Their School Days, NY Mag
- Our parents discovered leisure. We killed it., Timeline
What I read today - Sep 13
- Finding an ATM could get harder as thousands of small businesses avoid making upgrades, Mic
Charles Schwab <3 - Modern Teens Willing to Eat Healthy If It Will Piss Their Parents Off, NY Mag
I totally GET this - The Largest Prison Strike in American History Is Happening Right Now, City Lab
- Donald Trump is describing an America that doesn't exist, Mic
- The Pagan Wild Men of Europe, Messy Nessy Chic
In Poland.... "The symbolic ancestors, dziady, wear costumes made of woven straw and masks of sheep skin. They can’t reveal their real identity or talk, and only murmur, whistle and hoot. They usually carry small baskets, into which they get small offerings such as food, or are greeted with a sip of vodka. They perform ritual dances and pull small pranks by each house they stop by." - Asphalt Archaeology, bklynr
What I read today - Sep 12
- Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except the United States?, Pricenomics
- From 280 Tribes, a Protest on the Plains, NY Times
beautiful. - U.S. Suspends Construction on Part of North Dakota Pipeline, NY Times
- ‘I Want to Win Someday’: Tribes Make Stand Against Pipeline, NY Times
- Standing Rock protests: this is only the beginning, The Guardian
What I read today - Sep 8
- A Brief Compendium of Vintage Opium Underworlds, Messy Nessy Chic
- The Vintage Girls of New York City, Bazaar
- Why Is Interracial Marriage on the Rise?, Priceonomics
- Yosemite National Park Grows Toward West In Largest Expansion Since 1949, NPR
- Meet the Woman Who Runs NYC’s First Commercial Farm in a Residential Development, Modern Farmer
- Watch These Girls Take On Body Hair Stigmas And Self-Love In This Inspiring Video, Bust
- Inside Australia’s prison colony, where even children view death as their only hope, Latterly
What I read today - Sep 7
- VERY clever – removes the growth rings to reveal the original sapling, The Vintage News
- A PIPELINE FIGHT AND AMERICA’S DARK PAST, The New Yorker
I'm glad this has hit a national publication. FINALLY! - The last days of Admiral's Row's stately, neglected mansions, Curbed
I've been eyeing the demotion progress during my weekly rides to Red Hook. Makes me a little sad that the city and federal government wouldn't take initiative in preserving these structures since there was debate on who was responsible. - Tracing the History of the Neon Sign at NYC’s White Horse Tavern, Untapped Cities
I think I just might go on this tour. I'm ready for daylight savings and NEON NAIL SALONS - The farm that runs without sun, soil or water, CNN
- Trace the evolution of high heels across 100 years, Boing boing
- FINDING THE BEST FREE FONTS FOR NUMBERS, InVision Blog
I'm confused... are they NOT teaching designers about typography these days in school. ugh.
What I read today - Sep 5
- Why Self-Help Guru James Altucher Only Owns 15 Things, NY Times
- 10 Ways My Life Has Changed Since I Started The Daily Practice, Medium
- How I Moved On From MyWhat Not To Wear Style, Refinery 29
"Sometimes people ... find it hard to measure my value without the traditional milestones of a life lived..."
What I read today - Sep 3
- Pothos Vs. Philodendron, House Plant Journal
- When Is a Pothos Not a Pothos?, New Pro Containers
- FDA bans antibacterial soaps; “No scientific evidence” they’re safe, effective, Arts Technica
- The Forgotten Bohemian Queen of the Paris Art World: Leonor Fini, Messy Nessy Chic
- Butterflies Remember What They Learned as Caterpillars, Wired
- Life in the Native American oil protest camps, BBC
- Native Americans Protest New Oil Pipeline In North Dakota, NPR
What I read today - Aug 30
- The Real Bob Ross: Meet The Meticulous Artist Behind Those Happy Trees, NPR
- City should not trust private equity firms to build affordable housing, Crain's
- Frida Kahlo’s Illustrious Life, Illustrated, Brain Pickings
- Candy brands mourn Gene Wilder with tweets, DigiDay
- To Bond With Your Co-workers, Take Out the Headphones and Blast Happy Tunes, NY Mag
- Goodbye, Seller's Market. Price Growth Cools in Manhattan and Brooklyn, DNAinfo
- The Forgotten Millennials, The New Republic
- The Race to Study a Dying Sign Language Before It Disappears, NY Mag
- 18 New York Post Anthony Weiner Headline Puns, Ranked, Wired
- Urban Agriculture and the New Meaning of “Eating Local”, Vogue
I apprenticed at this farm in Brooklyn. Annie's facebook has been blowing up with photos from this shoot. - Making Modern Toughness, NY Times
Pretty Cool
What I read today - Aug 28
- A Community Garden Became an Alternative to Juvenile Detention, City Lab
- The Cost of Holding On, NY Times
- The Last of the Granny Witches, Appalachian ink
- Appalachian Granny Magic, Witch Vox
- In the ’70s, She Motorcycled Around the World. Today, She’s Fashion’s Unlikely New Muse., NY Times
I don't particularly care that Chloé is basing clothes off Anne-France Dautheville's history because I'll probably never wear them. But I like that she did it because she wanted to and set her ego down. I've been feeling like Franny lately... - The 2016 Presidential Election, According to 8-Year-Olds, NY Mag
What I read today - Aug 25
- The Ballad of Big Freedia: How the New Orleans Bounce Icon Was Betrayed By Her City’s Housing Crisis, Pitchfork
- Giving up alcohol opened my eyes to the infuriating truth about why women drink, Quartz
- If you want to be a better person, find something to do outside of work, Quartz
I made a macrame plant hanger yesterday. I feel pretty proud of myself