silencematters

There was a fantastic article in today’s New York Times, by Gina Kolata, about overcoming your mind to maximize your performance while running. Now, I am not much of a runner - or I should say, I would like to be more of a runner than I am. I have running shoes, and run about 50-60 times/year, with in these 3 month bursts of found discipline.

Anyway, this article got me thinking in more ways than running… (more…)

Casa de Hormigon, (Concrete House) - BAK Architects - via Monoscope and BlueAntStudio

I am adding this to the list of places that inspires the house that I will build some day. It seems to be really inspired by the Don Judd works, which I recently saw in Marfa, TX.

Fred No. 23 by Louise Ma - This little drawing is part of a series called One Hundred Views of Fred.

Hello Louise would like you to meet Fred, 100 times over. I feel like I know him already, and we have only met 23 times.

It has been labeled as “The Safest U.S. City”. Sounds like a rare anthropological find. I bet there are all kinds of creepy American values to be found there. - via All-Terrain

So I have been looking for the best way to keep up with my feeds while on my iPhone, and recently, I have come across 2 really interesting ways to go about this. (more…)

Upon leaving BAM, in the stairwell there is a nice looking wall with a E positioned smack in the middle - see the flickr entry

The lady and I went to BAM this weekend and saw The Darjeeling Limited. Now I am huge Wes Anderson fan and love all of his previous movies, but this one didnt really get anymore exciting than the poster. It is a shame. The poster didnt move, so I guess the movie had it’s benefits. It was a visually appealing movie.

One thing I do like about seeing these eye candy movies is leaving the movie with the feeling that you are in a movie, and everything around you is perfectly lit, and timed to fit. For this reason alone… I love seeing movies.

After many years on hiatus, Fray.com is starting back up again. Fray was, and now is a community story telling experience, originally started by the ever talented Derek Powazek and Heather Champ from SF.
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I recently tried out the Installer.app on my iPhone, and have been really impressed. Not only was this install extremely easy, but so were all the smaller apps it helps you to install onto your iPhone… and it does it all without a Finder. Isnt it great how changing a form factor and limiting a few resources can greatly improve a process that we thought was easy enough to begin with? (more…)

There is music aboard the Voyager 1 space probe thanks to Carl Sagan and Frank Drake. (via - CP)

“Containing photographs, natural sounds of Earth and 90 minutes of music from all over our world, the record was intended to preserve something of human culture beyond what an intelligent extraterrestrial, encountering the craft at some far-distant time and place, might infer from the spacecraft itself” - NYT

Improv Everywhere’s MP3 Experiment IV - see the flickr entry

A few weekends ago I was one of 826 people who followed these directions and this was the outcome.

Dont you find it just a little odd to find yourself in other people’s photos? - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4

The City Room blog reported this morning that there is a bill moving through the City Council to prohibit the use of polystyrene in all New York City Schools. This is great news! Geoff McGhee reported on this back in June. I was hoping that Councilman Bill de Blasio would take this a step further, and it looks like he did. Way to go! Now we just need to convince him to use an ecologically responsible alternative, like make the tray’s re-usable.

I personally have refused to eat out of anything made of styrofoam years ago because of it’s toxic qualities, and have wanted to extend that ban to all polystyrene products as well. However, that could require more discipline than I can muster up at the moment. I hope to one day soon.

Last night, I went to see The 11th Hour, a new documentary by Leonardo DiCaprio about global warming and our impact on the earth over the last 100 years. It really got me thinking about the footprint I have left on this earth thus far, and the type of impact that I want to have going forward. It couldn’t be better timing.

First of all, the movie was well worth the price of admission. It is not often that you can pay $10.75 to see something that will still have an affect on you the next day. The 11th Hour reviews the scope of human progress over the last 100 years and projects how it will undoubtedly affect change within our lifetime. I would suggest seeing the movie. I think it is important to face this information each time you have the chance. It’s not going to sink in, unless you are informed.

This is the reality that I am still coming to terms with. I am 29, soon to be 30. (more…)

This weekend I, like so many other Americans, piled in to see The Simpsons Movie. I rarely get out to see a film in the theaters. I see probably 4-5 movies in a year! So you may be asking me why this movie? …I am asking myself the same thing. (more…)

A Quiet Identity - see the flickr entry

On Friday, as I was walking through the city, I kept seeing this truck, and it’s logo kept catching my eye. I am not sure if I kept seeing this particular truck, or separate trucks making deliveries, but this was the 3rd time It crossed my path, so I figured I had to pay attention.

I have an affinity towards industrial packaging and identity. I like how abstract it usually is. Much more so than most products in our daily view.

Sent from my iPhone, posted via flickr