The First Decade of the 21st Century

Air Traffic Map

This is so cool!

Saxophone Silhouette

On my way to the Met yesterday, I snapped this shot of Rakim, the saxophone player under the bridge in Central Park. Visit www.meteveryday.com for accounts of my trips to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Casualties of April Showers

Spotted these headless tulips on Park Ave. — it seems April showers destroy May flowers.

Great Walks

Time Out New York has an article on Great Walks

Pantone Perfect

Fun, interesting, well-designed site... I like.

Words of Wisdom by Maya Angelou

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ...
enough money within her control to move out
and rent a place of her own,
even if she never wants to or needs to...


A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ...
something perfect to wear if the employer,
or date of her dreams
wants to see her in an hour....


A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE …
a youth she's content to leave behind....


A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE …
a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to
retelling it in her old age.....

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE .....
a set of screwdrivers,
a cordless drill,
and a black lace bra...


A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE …
one friend who always makes her laugh..
and one who lets her cry...


A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ...
a good piece of furniture not previously owned
by anyone else in her family...


A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE …
eight matching plates, wine glasses with stems,
and a recipe for a meal,
that will make her guests feel honored...


A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE …
a feeling of control over her destiny..


EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
how to fall in love without losing herself..


EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
how to quit
a job,
break up with a lover,
and confront a friend
without
ruining the friendship...

EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
when to try harder...
and WHEN TO WALK AWAY...


EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
that she can't change the length of her calves,
the width of her hips, or the nature of her parents..


EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
that her childhood may not have been perfect...but it's over...


EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
what she would and wouldn't do for love or more...


EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW....
how to live alone... even if she doesn't like it...


EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
whom she can trust,
whom she can't,
and why she shouldn't take it personally...


EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
where to go...
be it to her best friend's kitchen table....
or a charming Inn in the woods....
when her soul needs soothing...


EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
What she can and can't accomplish in a day...
a month...and a year...


AND REMEMBER:

GOOD FRIENDS ARE LIKE STARS. YOU DON'T ALWAYS SEE THEM, BUT YOU ALWAYS KNOW THEY ARE THERE!

Be yourself.....everyone else is already taken.

Updated Desiderata

One day when I was playing around instead of actually accomplishing anything, much like I am today, I created a type project for one of my favorite poems, Desiderata. Here is an updated version of that design.

Sagmeister

Came across these guest blogs by Stefan Sagmeister on NYTimes' The Moment Blog. I saw him speak last year at an AIGA book signing, and then went to Deitch Gallery in Soho for the exhibition: Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far. The annotated version of his book, Made You Look, is set to come out in June. I'll be looking forward to it!

Hypnopaedia

I was browsing through my font library, like I frequently do, and found this font using individual letters to create interesting squares. Cool.

April Showers Bring Cherry Blossoms

From the 100-Acre Wood to NYC

I remember when I first came across Winnie the Pooh and friends at the Fifth Avenue Library, I was utterly thrilled. The real Winnie the Pooh, Eeyore, Piglet, Kanga and Tigger all live in the children's library downstairs. The stuffed animals were given to the real Christopher Robin in the 1920s!

Sprint

In keeping with the theme of how amazing technology is, Sprint has launched this commercial (quite entertaining):

Mind Boggling

This video spells out the state of our modern world, definitely an exciting and somewhat frightening time.

Magic

Just makes your heart flutter!

Earth Hour

I'm so into this: The Boston Globe posted interactive photos from Earth Hour, March 28, 2009.

This is Crazy

Desiderata

I was revisiting one of my favorite poems today and I got a little creative bug. It's by Max Ehrmann, 1927, click above to read the text.

Spring is Springing!

On my way home from the Met yesterday, I happened across the first blooms of spring in Central Park. So pretty! I can't wait til the weather catches up.


Since they are right by the 81st Street exit, I walk by these trucks all the time and they always remind me of toy Tonkas or somethin. They are park-sized, so smaller than you'd expect. I can just see my brother as a five-year-old going apeshit over these.

This Better Be Good

...and it actually does look like it at least does the book justice. I have always loved Where the Wild Things Are, from my childhood when my mother would read it to me and my brother, to my college days where I would read to the kids at my job as a nursery school assistant. Maurice Sendak was truly a genius, his words and drawings have stuck with me over many years; they are, to me, definitive of nostalgia.

Color in Commercials

Just came across these new BMW ads:




The above remind me of these ads for Sony Bravia, that I was so into a couple years ago — if you like 'em, you should check out the "making of" videos on youtube too.

Lucy Doesn't Like

Today's New York Times includes a story about the struggle of the planned national tour of Lucy, the oldest human skeleton found in Ethiopia in 1974. As disappointing as the report was, it did give a glimmer of hope that the exhibition may travel to New York this summer — bring it on, we'll appreciate my namesake! (and yes, I admit over and over to being a dork).

True Diversity NYC

Spotted, in front of the Met: The world's largest dog and the world's smallest dog loafing along side-by-side behind a shorter than average Asian woman. I laughed out loud. I love New York!

Johnny 5 vs. Wall-E

Tonight we decided to watch Short Circuit - the movie we thought was a nostalgic piece of our childhood (though it turns out, Short Circuit 2 must have been the one we all remember). We could not concentrate because Johnny 5 bears an undeniably striking resemblance to Wall-E. I mean, they must have done this on purpose! There is no way that this "new" Pixar version of a robot is not a direct reference to our childhood friend, which I think is also brilliant of them, since their audience almost equally includes adults in my age range. I swear I thought of this all on my own, but several sites have mentioned it, including funnyordie.com, which has a hilarious post on the subject.

LEGO Mania!

Coolest thing I've seen in a long time: a blog with a different Lego scenario for each day — legomyphoto.

Universe in 09

This was a great discovery — the Universe in 09 visually organizes a TON of information, perfect for someone like me who is constantly struggling to wrap my mind around the world at large! Thanks Tina Roth Eisenberg at swiss-miss.com.

I'm pretty sure mine is...

Check out these signs to see if you have Killer Kitties

Mourning a Paper

Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.
My good friend Andrew, who produces tahoeticker.com, wrote a piece proclaiming RIP Rocky Mountain News. After reading his story, I visited RMN's website, and haven't been able to tear myself away for the past two hours. I just feel deeply affected by the loss of a paper I had read maybe once in my life. I know that the real reason for my upset is that this has become a sign of the times, another dose of reality in the bleakness of economic recession.

Pretty Storefront

I like the type on this chocolate store's windows on 83rd and Madison... and then I decorated my photo.

Best. Thing. Ever.

Reverse Graffiti is Sweet

Just came across this on Planet Green TV. reversegraffitiproject.com

The Trader Joe's Song

This embodies my very strong feelings about Trader Joe's:

(I found it on a vegan blog my friend suggested: www.quarrygirl.com, though my views are somewhat milder, I respect environmental/culinary extremists)

Bookmark It

Something to return to over and over, freerice.com is a vocabulary game that donates rice to the UN World Food Program for each answer you get right!

Beautiful Imagery

Came across this stunning video by Jeff Scher today. Check it out (unless you're highly susceptible to seizures from blinking light), this is a must-see. Beautiful watercolor collages come to life in his stop-motion pieces. As a bonus, his homepage is a nice clean and simple typographic layout: