That’s Asia over there. (Taken with Instagram at City Lights Bar)
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The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach. This was a very good book.
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This is one of the best fonts I’ve seen in ages!
Yes, I care far too much about typography. I know.
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Designed by Henning Gjerde.
I WAS THERE (Taken with instagram)
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I don’t know, but I have a sinking suspicion that this is Ogilvy.
Good read, regardless.
“You will run out of money. You will be glad it’s always warm. You will stare at the sea. You will stare at the sun. You will stare at the birds breaking up blue. You will stare at the wind leant palms.” — Fielden Nelson’s “Failure Map” is the best thing I’ve read in a while.
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The Band’s Levon Helm has passed away after a battle with throat cancer. He was 71. Photo by Elliott Landy.
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Driving through northern Virginia with my family at age fifteen, we came across a record store. I’d recently gotten into Neil Young, but wasn’t quite the nerd I am now. My mom picked up a live record by a band with a very uninventive name and told me that I would love it. That was Rock of Ages by The Band, and my mom was very right.
A year or so later, one of my best friends told me that I needed to watch an early Scorsese flick recorded live on Thanksgiving 1976 in San Fransisco’s Winterland Ballroom with lots of folk singers and post-production-removed blow. That film was The Last Waltz, the first ‘rockumentary’, about The Band’s final show, and my friend was very right.
Most of the members of the The Band seem to have had a rough go of things since that final tour ended (some obviously more than others), but it’s very sad to see a long battle with cancer lost by Levon.
I had a chance to see him play at the TLA in Philadelphia a few years back and I ended up backing out. I can’t remember why, but it was probably something dumb like it was raining that day, or Center City seemed one trolley stop too far that day. I’m regretting that decision now, as I thought I had to have another chance to see Levon before he stopped touring. Clearly, I was wrong.
Nice, simple shots of every station on the Northern Line taken on an iPhone 4S using Instagram by a man that loves the Northern Line. This one’s my favourite.
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This image has been my desktop wallpaper for the last month or so. It’s from Game 1 of the 1914 World Series, where the Philadelphia Athletics were taking on the Boston Braves at Shibe Park. The Braves had been in last place halfway through the season, but swept the Philly A’s in four games; but all the nervous players in the dugout trying to calm their nerves before the start of this game didn’t know that yet.