Oh god how I’ve missed my headphones. I took a music-less flight to LA this morning– I was feeling pretty tragic about this at first, but I still had a pencil and a window seat. I *guess* this beats watching a 5-hour ANTM marathon.
To the huge, hot, glorious mess that is THE city to end all cities.
If I were to attempt to sum up this beautiful video and all the feelings that it encapsulates in my own words, it is very likely that I would embarrass you and myself with an unacceptably high dosage of cheesy, irrelevant rambling… Soo as put by Brain Pickings, cos they said it so well:
New York is a slow love. Beyond its typical emotional roller coaster — a target of all the world’s tourist lust, from the intense infatuation of the infrequent visitor to the quick disillusionment of the recent transplant — lies a rich and beautiful middle, a neverland between the black and white not grey but vibrant and colorful and magnificently enchanted, that over time swells into a powerful attachment.
That slow New York love blossoms when you cease trying to live the city as it should be and surrender to it as it is. When you embrace its uncontrollability and take comfort in its chaos, its whisper in your ear, its breath on your skin, its heartbeat in your heart. When you let the city grow on you and, in the process, you let yourself grow with it.
Here’s to New York, its vibrant neverland between infatuation and disillusionment, its allure of surrender, its promise of growth and, above all, its slow love.
Like the feeling described above, the video builds up slowly. It’s well worth the 30 minutes out of your life to just kick back and let yourself drown in a maze of color, sound, and movement. Oh and the music on these videos is the $hit. Also, that’s gonna be me casually strolling the Brooklyn Bridge in one week.
Do you like Korean food? Do you like tiny Los Angeles K-town digs run by very nice ajummas who serve boiling hot soup and a host of other good things; all filling, yummy, and irresistibly Korean? Then it is highly possible that you will enjoy Beverly Soon Tofu Restaurant. Check out the site. Will you? It was scratched together by yours truly. Better yet, visit the restaurant itself.
And look at how much fun my dad is having. I absolutely did not make him pose like that.
FYI: I designed this site for a family friend. ZERO BIAS (in case you were feeling suspicious). Also, the top image is, in its original state, a Soviet-era punk rocker. He appeared to be someone who wouldn’t mind being affiliated with my cause, so naturally I would put him there.
Paper cuts from Art in Paper, published circa 1970. I swear that somewhere out there there are other people who are also tragically obsessed with paper art pulled from crunchy old library books. I hope you enjoy these as much as I do.
Also, the book only credits the European artists by name… so for now, everyone else will have to remain anonymous -____-
Tools tools tools.
Some contemporary work from China.
Shadow theater cutout figures of Mameluke emirs, made of camel hide (I would not be able to explain what this means… the book’s caption, not mine…)
By Hans Christian Andersen.
Another by Andersen. In this one you can find goblins, witches, elves, and other creatures from his fairy tales.
And just cos ships are awesome. Paper sculpture by Augustine Walker, 1761.
This makes me happy. Stop-motion urban-pastoral landscapes by DaBrainkilla to such clean, clear music. If you listen, you will understand that clean and clear is the most accurate way to describe what’s going on here. Please ignore the association with less exciting things like acne-fighting medicine.
This vid, composed of 4500 photos, is like grabbing the window seat on a magic school bus. Or a really awesome commuter rail. I would prefer all of my morning commutes to look and feel like this.
