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nypl: Was one of Brooklyn’s finest in Harlem in 1939? This Sid...

Fri, 10 May 2013 15:37:31 -0400

Was one of Brooklyn’s finest in Harlem in 1939? This Sid Grossman photo of “Harlem Loiterers” from the Prints Collection at NYPL’s Schomburg Center for Research In Black Culture has created quite a stir since being posted to the Center’s Facebook page the other day. Why? Because the man on the right looks a heck of a lot like Jay-Z (for evidence, check out these photos of Jay-Z when he visited The New York Public Library in 2011). Cue Twilight Zone music, right? Schomburg’s Curator of Digital Collections Sylviane A. Diouf found the photo while researching an exhibition, and said, “I was immediately struck by the similarity to Jay-Z and actually laughed out loud … I still hope somebody will tell us who that you man really was.”

So is Jay-Z a time traveler? Is this someone else - anyone know who? What do you think?

everything else fades away

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:48:01 -0400

when you are denied your right to housing

Park Slope, Brooklyn. $750.00 “THERE ARE NO WINDOWS. the room...

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:23:56 -0400

Park Slope, Brooklyn. $750.00

“THERE ARE NO WINDOWS. the room has great lighting. it’s beautiful.”

Via theworstroom, a tumblr about trying to find affordable housing in New York

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Sun, 05 May 2013 09:58:52 -0400

(via Information Is Beautiful | The Billion Dollar-o-Gram 2009)

Thu, 02 May 2013 14:37:43 -0400

(via Information Is Beautiful | The Billion Dollar-o-Gram 2009)

timeimmemorial: One grand boulevard with trees with one grand cafe in sun with strong black coffee...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:20:47 -0400

timeimmemorial:

One grand boulevard with trees
with one grand cafe in sun
with strong black coffee in very small cups.

One not necessarily very beautiful
man or woman who loves you.

One fine day.

— Recipe For Happiness In Khabarovsk Or Any Place, Ferlinghetti

SWEATER BEATS: Touch My Body Things that saved me today

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:58:32 -0400

SWEATER BEATS: Touch My Body

Things that saved me today

theremina: kittydoom: spokeart: Here’s a sneak peek inside...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:49:54 -0400

theremina:

kittydoom:

spokeart:

Here’s a sneak peek inside the studio of Oakland-based artist Scott Hove, aptly entitled “Cakeland”

You can view the entire installation via Hi-Fructose Magazine here.

If you are in San Francisco, please join us Thursday, May 2nd for the opening of Scott’s new solo show at Spoke Art Gallery.

Holy what the fuck. This is amazing.

THIS. IS. CAAAAKETOOWWWWWNNN.

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Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:49:51 -0400

via the always fantastic towerofsleep

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:21:40 -0400

via the always fantastic towerofsleep

h0odrich: i wear all black cause everywhere its a funeral for everyone im stylin on

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:17:35 -0400

h0odrich:

i wear all black cause everywhere its a funeral for everyone im stylin on

No Taste for Industry

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:08:00 -0400

Czar: “I have heard the American kitchen is miserable. All the foods are prepared on a big scale and they have no individual taste or flavor. Is that true?”

Chaliapin: “Yes, Your Majesty, that it true. They have a flavor of American corporations and speculation.”

Czar: “That I think is the drawback of the American conditions as far as I have heard. The trusts can manufacture iron and other industrial things on a big scale, but when it comes to the manufacture of food, there the commercial methods fail. As far as I have heard, they have commercialized literature and art, restaurants and homes. A man has to eat what the trust gives and has to be content with a home that another trust furnishes.”

invisiblestories: The Floors of a Book Store (via...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:28:10 -0400

invisiblestories:

The Floors of a Book Store (via lareviewofbooks)

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Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:52:14 -0400

In Praise of Very Large Staircases: A Brief History of the Social Function of Stoops

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:42:44 -0400

In Praise of Very Large Staircases: A Brief History of the Social Function of Stoops:

Jane Jacobs, the great champion of urban living, stoops were as integral to the health of a city as parks, sidewalks, and street life. In our own era, as prices of townhouses soar and they once again become the domain of the city’s wealthiest residents, will the stoop survive as a neighborhood gathering place? Or are we on the verge of a new Gilded Age?

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Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:31:37 -0400

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Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:24:51 -0400

Brick House by Clare Cousins Architects

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:19:36 -0400

Brick House by Clare Cousins Architects

james-blake: James Blake - Every Day I Ran (Bouns Track)

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 23:06:29 -0400

james-blake:

James Blake - Every Day I Ran (Bouns Track)