what i read today sept 14
- A Brief History of Knolling, AKA Overhead Photography, designsponge
- Do Artists and Designers Have an Obligation To Be Political?, designsponge
Totally offputting reading "Art is disruption." Why must everything be phrased in a capitalist, techy sort of way to give value to something? - De Blasio Is Getting Four More Years, Now What’ll He Do With Them?, Village Voice
- Here Is Everything Wrong With 'Bodega,' the Startup That Destroys Bodegas, CityLab
What I read today - Sept 12
- No, I’m from New York, The New Yorker
- Historic Clinton Hill Mansion, One-Time Civil War Veterans’ Spot, Coming Down for Apartments, brownstoner
- Where the Mayoral Candidates Stand on Housing, city limits
- City Council Approves De Blasio’s 2nd Neighborhood Rezoning, city limits
- Greater than Ever?, Jeremiah's Vanishing New York
- Surveying Post-Bloomberg New York With Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff, NY Mag
- Drugmakers Slam Ohio AG's Suit Over Opioid Crisis, Law360
- Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Scar, The American Conservative
- The rise of Trump isn't all about racism, The Week
What I read today - sept 8-11
The First White President, The Atlantic
- Our Guide to Electing a Brooklyn DA (based on their commitment to ending mass incarceration), Medium
- Thinx Founder Wore Breast Pumps Around Burning Man and Shared Milk With Burners, Slate
- Do Conversations About Race Belong in the Classroom?, The Atlantic
- Women Are Taking the Economic Hit From America’s Child Care Deserts, Slate
- Child Care Desert. org
- One of the most common questions in American small talk is considered rude in much of the world, quartz
- Cure Yourself of Tree Blindness, ny times
what i read today- sept 5
- Munroe Bergdorf on the L’Oréal racism row: ‘It puzzles me that my views are considered extreme’, the guardian
- An American Dialect Dictionary Is Dying Out. Here Are Some Of Its Best Words., huff post
- The Hidden Memories of Plants, Atlas Obscura
- The Tree of Languages Illustrated in a Big, Beautiful Infographic, open culture
- Elaine Welteroth, Teen Vogue’s Refashionista, NY Times Magazine
- Creative Lives — Artist Shantell Martin on how she started from scratch twice over, in Tokyo and then New York , lecture in progress
what i read today - sept 1
- Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” Is the First Pure Piece of Trump-Era Pop Art, slate
- How I Infiltrated a White Pride Facebook Group and Turned It into 'LGBT Southerners for Michelle Obama', Vice
- Crown Heights Woman Arrested While Waging Noise Complaint War On Pre-Carnival Festivities, gothamist
- Ceci N’est Pas CBGB, this recording
- Hurricane Harvey Shifts Political Winds in Washington, NYT
What I read today - August 31
- What Should Be Done with America’s Abandoned Malls?, architectural digest
- The Search for the World’s Most Enchanting Greenhouses, atlas obscura
- Yes, That's a Huge Floating Mass of Live Fire Ants in Texas, the atlantic
- What are landlords required to provide in New York apartments?, curbed
- Found in an NYC Junk Shop: Forgotten Postcards between Two Haiku Masters, messy nessy chic
what i read today aug 30
- South Asia Is Also Experiencing The Worst Flooding In Decades And The Photos Are Horrifying, buzzfeed
- Fire Ants Are Banding Together Into Stinging Horror Rafts to Survive Hurricane Harvey's Flood, science alert
- The 5 Types of ‘Becky’, the root
- Baltimore’s Push to Solve Its Affordable Housing Crisis With Community Land Trusts , yes magazine
- 29 States Just Banned Laws About Seeds, mother jones
- Intersectionality Ain’t For White Women, wear your voice mag
- We Need to Talk About Digital Blackface in Reaction GIFs, teen vogue
- Hurricane Harvey, and Public and Private Disaster in Houston, the new yorker
what i read today aug 29
- Taylor Swift and the Tale of Unstoppable White Privilege Meeting Immovable White Privilege, the root
- A Tanker Just Made It Across the Arctic With No Icebreaker for the First Time, atlas obscura
- These Women Entrepreneurs Created A Fake Male Cofounder To Dodge Startup Sexism, fast co
- What the Garden-Hacking Grandmas and Grandpas of South Korea Know , yes magazine
what i read today aug 28
- 20 Genius Hacks And Tips To Make Traveling With A Baby More Bearable, buzzfeed
- The Urban-School Stigma, the atlantic
- After 16 Years of War, Afghanistan Still World’s Heroin Supplier, the conservative american
- Younger adults more likely than their elders to prefer reading news, pew research
- State of the Blog Union 2017: How The Online World Has Changed, Design Sponge
- Equity Investing is Expensive, Risky, and Slow—So Why Are All These Designers Trying to Become Venture Capitalists?, Eye on Design
what i read today aug 24
- My Last Conversation with My Father, the new yorker
- Call it “Boring” or “Aggressively Plain,” The Cut‘s Elegant Redesign Matches Its Editorial Ambition, eye on design
- The Storytelling Ironwork of New Orleans, atlas obscura
- The Remains of 3 More Long-Missing Hikers Have Been Found in the Alps, atlas obscura
- Documenting the Disappearance of America’s Most Toxic Ghost Town, hyperallergic
what i read today - aug 23
- Fried Green Tomato Hornworms, the daily meal
- Herbalist, 94, Lets Nature Heal , Tulsa World
- The Unexpected Ending of ‘Nasty Baby’ and the Invisible Violence of Gentrification, Flavorwire
- Forest School: The Benefits Of An Outdoor Education, Mother mag
- How To Teach Your Kids Authenticity (Just Like The Danes Do), Mother mag
- Why Suburban Schools Are Inflating Kids' Grades, the atlantic
- How to Talk to Kids About Death, According to Picture Books, The New Yorker
- The 'Fitbit for fertility' celebrates a milestone: A baby, USA Today
- Late Bloomer, Lenny
- Working to Close the Breast-Feeding Gap, NYTimes
- Forget love and marriage before baby: New styles of parenting are revolutionizing the American family, Salon
“Radical Self-Reliance” Is Killing People., Medium
- Village Voice, vanishing newyork
- How I Finally Found My Personal Style At Age 36, design sponge
- What I Wish I’d Known Before Starting Design*Sponge, design sponge
what i read today - aug 22
- How Our Conversation Around Breastfeeding Hurts Black Infants, the establishment
- People Who Have Never Lived In Poverty Should Stop Telling Poor People What To Do, the establishment
- Small Business Spotlight: Claudette Brady, owner of Slip Stitch Needlecraft, bed stuy blog
- Fun Maps: Which Brooklyn Neighborhoods Have the Best Internet Service?, untapped cities
- Nabisco's X-Rated Toy Scandal of 1971, mental floss
- Experiments on this infant in 1920 were unethical, but became a staple of psychology text books, Timeline
what i read today - aug 21
- This Designer Built A Secret Studio That Hangs Beneath An Underpass, Fast Co Design
- The Haunting Magic of Ghost Buildings , Messy Nessy Chic
- Documenting America’s Long, Venerable Tradition of Roadside Dinosaurs, Atlas Obscura
- Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights?, Atlas Obscura
- How 7 Sisters Made a Fortune off Their Rapunzel-Like Hair, Atlas Obscura
- Aging Parents With Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t Want It, NYT
- New York City Guarantees a Lawyer to Every Resident Facing Eviction, City Lab
- Texas Women Will Now Be Forced to Take Out 'Rape Insurance' for Abortion, Broadly
- It's Been Almost 100 Years and Women Still Don't Have the Tampons We Deserve, Broadly
what i read today - aug 16
- Get Washington’s statues off their high horses, washington post
- Urban Farmer Annie Novak Might Just be the Coolest Grower We Know, martha stewart
- The Case for Reparations, the atlantic
what i read today - AUG 14
- Object Permanence Box -- Montessori Baby Week 36, the kavanaugh report
- ‘The Munsters’ Reboot In Works At NBC From Jill Kargman & Seth Meyers, Deadline
- Man who's collected over 9,000 beer cans in 40 years is finally getting rid of them - and it's down to his wife, Mirror
- How Katonah was moved for New York City's water system, Curbed
- The Phenomenon Of “Crown Shyness” Where Trees Avoid Touching, this is colossal
- After Another Artists’ Enclave in Williamsburg Is Sold, Tenants Live in Uncertainty, hyperallergic
- White People: I Don’t Want You To Understand Me Better, I Want You To Understand Yourselves, The Establishment
- So, about this Googler’s manifesto., Medium
- Mic Investigation: About 90% of US House members don’t pay their interns, Mic
What I read today - Aug 11
- How to Stop Gentrification, New Republic
- 9650 Marcy Rd, Zillow
<3 dream house - Parenting Is Not a “Job,” and Marriage Is Not “Work”, New Republic
- Most Mothers Feel Judged, With Families Often the Worst Critics, NY Times
- Four Castaways Make a Family, NY Times
- Can We Retire the Wine-Mom Phenomenon?, parent.co
- Robin Williams and the Myth of “Battling” Depression, Flavorwire