Archive: July 8, 2012
lost-new-york

I love this book! Lost New York by Marcia Reiss is a fabulous collection of historical sites that no longer exist in New York City. The book highlights the most unusual of them all with big photos to show just how NYC looked like back in the day. I was surprised to learn of the [...]

mister-softee

Seriously, nothing is better than a vanilla and rainbow sprinkles cone from Mister Softee.

the-heights-skyscraper-book

Kate Ascher, the author behind the amazingly detailed book called The Works: Anatomy of a City (a book about how a big city functions and operates), has come out with a new book on the makings of a skyscraper. With highly detailed graphics and examples, the book entitled The Heights: Anatomy of a Skyscraper is [...]

we-own-the-night-book-1

Rizzoli has published this fantastic collection of images and writings about the famed Underbelly Project which transformed an abandoned sub-station in the New York City Subway system into an underground art gallery of graffiti artists and street artists. The gallery was notorious for being hard to reach from the general public which made the art [...]

bicycle-arch-angels-playing-cards-1

They’re here and they look great! The Bicycle Arch Angels come with metallic-gold J, Q, and Ks with an embossed box that really feels quite good. Not much to say about these other than the beautiful back design — the cards themselves are all pretty standard. Nice collectible though.

A Thousand Reasons from Dan Britt on Vimeo. Daniel Britt does a spectacular job folding lots of paper cranes and other papercrafts for this stop-motion video about the need to reduce nuclear weapons in the world.