Pursuit of Happiness

Seen on Smith Street, May 9, 2013. #streetart #Brooklyn

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:13:01 -0400

Seen on Smith Street, May 9, 2013. #streetart #Brooklyn

“Post No Selfies,” East Broadway F train station....

Wed, 01 May 2013 22:21:15 -0400

“Post No Selfies,” East Broadway F train station. #nyc

On Degraw Street, #Brooklyn waterfront.

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:04:28 -0400

On Degraw Street, #Brooklyn waterfront.

"Their boredom becomes more and more terrible. They realize that they’ve been tricked and burn with..."

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:07:16 -0400

““Their boredom becomes more and more terrible. They realize that they’ve been tricked and burn with resentment. Every day of their lives they read the newspapers and went to the movies. Both fed them on lynchings, murder, sex crimes, explosions, wrecks, love nests, fires, miracles, revolutions, war. This daily diet made sophisticates of them. The sun is a joke. Oranges can’t titillate their jaded palates. Nothing can ever be violent enough to make taut their slack minds and bodies. They have been cheated and betrayed. They have slaved and saved for nothing.””

- Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust

Spring comes to #Brooklyn at last.

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:00:51 -0400

Spring comes to #Brooklyn at last.

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:40:27 -0400

Spring comes to #Brooklyn at last.

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2013/04/dont-worry-about-kids-and-touch-screens-worry-about-parents/5199/

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 09:53:29 -0400

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2013/04/dont-worry-about-kids-and-touch-screens-worry-about-parents/5199/:

Lots of people worry about kids and smartphones. I’m actually more worried about the parents.

Makeshift #cricket wicket, Prospect Park, #Brooklyn.

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:20:26 -0400

Makeshift #cricket wicket, Prospect Park, #Brooklyn.

nickgrossman: Wow - powerful infographic on drone strikes in...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:12:54 -0400

nickgrossman:

Wow - powerful infographic on drone strikes in Pakistan (click through for animation). /via @natematias

(via Out of Sight, Out of Mind: A visualization of drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004)

These are real people and real lives. Try to take that in.

Can #architecture and #design help fight domestic violence?

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:44:28 -0400

Can #architecture and #design help fight domestic violence?:

Years ago, I worked in a domestic violence shelter, trying to help women and their children start new lives after leaving their abusers. But the shelter itself, with its cramped communal living spaces and enforced secrecy, created its own distorted power dynamics. Now the domestic violence movement is looking at ways that better building design and an end to the convention of “secret” shelter locations (which were rarely truly secret) can improve the survivors’ experience, and help them take the next steps toward regaining autonomy and agency in their own lives.

Seen on 14th St., Washington, #DC.

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 22:22:27 -0400

Seen on 14th St., Washington, #DC.

People camped out on line for Tuesday’s arguments on #DOMA...

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 18:12:14 -0400

People camped out on line for Tuesday’s arguments on #DOMA at #SCOTUS.

Unnatural Gas: What Will #Fracking Mean to #Youngstown?

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:23:59 -0400

Unnatural Gas: What Will #Fracking Mean to #Youngstown?:

I went to Youngstown to find out why the city had voted to approve fracking on public land to pay for demolishing derelict houses. This is what I wrote about what I learned.

Morning in #Brooklyn.

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 06:59:08 -0400

Morning in #Brooklyn.

Woman files suit alleging she was arrested for criticizing NYPD's stop and frisk policy.

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:24:42 -0400

Woman files suit alleging she was arrested for criticizing NYPD's stop and frisk policy.

I have felt just like this recently. merylfriedman: Watched...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:15:57 -0400

I have felt just like this recently.

merylfriedman:

Watched this in bed this morning and it was the perfect adorableness needed after a rough couple of days.

10secondsatatime:

that was mesmerizing

Can we protect the #Rockaways from another #Sandy?

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:36:49 -0400

Can we protect the #Rockaways from another #Sandy?:

I went out to the neighborhood to talk to some local guys about what’s being done to fortify the beach. As we stood facing into a freezing wind blasting the waves up onto the shore, one of them told me, ”It’s a sad situation. The sense of urgency is just zero.”

It's no 'accident': NYPD changes the way it talks about traffic deaths

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:30:36 -0400

It's no 'accident': NYPD changes the way it talks about traffic deaths:

And yesterday, another New York pedestrian was killed by a driver who went up onto the sidewalk. A 16-year-old Queens high school student. Five others were also hit. Will the driver face charges?

I watched this and it all came back. How people used to call me...

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:20:10 -0400

I watched this and it all came back. How people used to call me “Goodyear blimp.” And to this day… Watch it for yourself. via @developingjen

Can’t wait to see this! storyboard: Hurricane Sandy...

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:58:58 -0400

Director Sam Fleischner sets up a shot on the Rockaway boardwalk.

Actor Jesus Sanchez playing 13-year-old Ricky.

Cast and crew film a Halloween scene in the subway.

Cinematographer Adam Jandrup, actor/musician/sound guy Kevin Bewersdorf, director Sam Fleischner, and cinematographer Ethan Palmer on what's left of the boardwalk following Hurricane Sandy.

Kevin Bewersdorf and Sam Fleischner keep warm in the empty lot next to their house after Hurricane Sandy.

Cinematographer Adam Jandrup, director Sam Fleischner, and sound mixer Ryan Carroll on Rockaway Beach.

Can’t wait to see this!

storyboard:

Hurricane Sandy Empowers a Film It Almost Destroyed

On October 28 of last year, Sam Fleischner was riding the A train out to Rockaway. With him were an autistic child actor, a lighting guy, sound guy — an entire film crew in fact, all under his direction. To hear the name of the film, Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, is to understand that the location was an appropriate one; it’s the story of a 13-year-old autistic boy played by Jesus Sanchez who gets lost on the subway for 10 days. When it’s not taking place on the A train, Stand Clear unfolds in the Rockaways, where the boy’s mother is on a frantic mission to find him. The real-life story on which the movie is based (documented in a New York Times article in 2009) takes place in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. But Fleischner saw parallels between the subway and the ocean, and he wanted the family in his film to live nearby. It was four days before Fleischner’s film was scheduled to wrap, and he needed all the time in the subway he could get. But Hurricane Sandy had other plans.

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