February 2010
13 posts
Some idiot pulled the emergency brake on the train...
femaleprodigy:
They had to “investigate” it and they kept us waiting on the train for over an hour! Than we had to get off the train, get on another train, and go one stop back.
FUCKING MTA -______-
Check this video out by Casey Neistat here.
The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New... →
welcometoross:
There is a commonly held belief that Helvetica is the signage typeface of the New York City subway system, a belief reinforced by Helvetica, Gary Hustwit’s popular 2007 documentary about the typeface. But it is not true—or rather, it is only somewhat true. Helvetica is the official typeface of the MTA today, but it was not the typeface specified by Unimark International...
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WatchI first came upon some of Nate Hill’s Club Animals project at Union Square withBunny Butterfly Kisses. Living on the L means you are in the crosshairs as a prime target for performance art it seems. I’m a fan.
Free Bouncy Rides was especially interesting for me. Late summer/early fall, I would see this androgynous looking dolphin which seemed to have questionable intent in it’s plight, but once I...
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“Jacobs’s values — the small blocks, the cobblestone streets, the sense of local...”
– NY Times - A Contrarian’s Lament in a Blitz of Gentrification (Link)
Watchpseudonym:
TOXIC - Brooklyn (Greenpoint, Williamsburg)
This is disgusting and depressing.
lulz
As Seen on the MTA...
dcq:
Foto del Dia goes to Queens straphanger and DCQ pal Todd Obolsky, who swears he remains neutral on the flashpoint issue of guys sitting wide-legged and taking up two seats on the subway:
I am all for the making the rules as we go along… let’s include no personal grooming too.
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Idle Hands: Pontificating ChatRoulette/Documention...
My apologies for all of the colons and slashes; I went to a liberal arts school where indulgent use of punctuation was encouraged.*
*not really sorry :)
Anyways…
My attitudes toward both ChatRoulette as well as my own website are admittedly still in their infancy, but articles like: ChatRoulette by Jonah Lehrer at ScienceBlogs.com, led me to lament more about my own website by analyzing...