On the day after Barack Obama was elected President, people began lining up out side the New York Times in hopes to get a copy of the actual newspaper. As Khoi noted, Print’s Not Dead. As Brian Stelter posted, that they are printing and additional 50,000 copies for the late run for the P.M. rush.

More photos from Nedward.

Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

“The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . All action takes place around NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries . Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent ‘whistlers’ produced by fleeting electrons . Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world?”

semiconductorfilms.com

“Behavior must be moderated and a communal ethos must be preserved”

“The job always comes down to finding the fulcrum in the teeter-totter, the balance that benefits both the individual and the community,”

“Fresh Direct Arrives” - Photo by silencematters

Last night, I received 3 boxes and a bag of frozen goods. The frozen items (3 bags of mixed berries, 2 bags of shrimp) were packaged the most appropriately.

“Fresh Direct Wastes Space” - Photo by silencematters

The smallest box only had 1 container of soymilk in it. It used roughly 35% of the space in that box.

“Avocados” - Photo by silencematters

This is how they package 2 avocados for safe travels. We didnt order any tomatoes on this round, but had we, you would have seen pictures of similar packaging for them.

“Lemons” - Photo by silencematters

“Bananas” - Photo by silencematters

The Consumerist,

“Really, you have no idea how irritating it is to get one package of crackers in a huge box.

Waste of Space,

“I just received my order and was really disturbed by the fact that one large box contained only one 1/2 gallon of milk, and another small box only contained a bag of rice. This is really wasteful packaging and hardly see a need for it. I know I’m not obligated to tip, but i do. so as a way of saying “thank you” to your workers for politely carrying my boxes up three flights of stairs…but now it really just seems ridiculous to have two guys carry four boxes up three flights of stairs when two of the boxes are practically empty. i’d really appreciate some better planning on the packing end of your process.thanks for your consideration,”

In 2007, Fresh Direct publicly announced 5 environmental initiatives they are undertaking in large in response to customer outcry over how much waste they produce as a whole.

You would think that spending a little more time packaging things would amount to a great deal of money, time, and space saved on delivery, which has to be their biggest fluctuating cost in these times.

Ayveq (EYE’-vek), the lovable walrus at the New York City Aquarium has died suddenly, after being ill for the past few weeks. A number of Brooklyn Blogs are mourning the death today. He will be missed.

• More photos of Ayveq from my flickr.
• The Brooklyn Paper has more information on Ayvek’s untimely death.
• What other bloggers are saying…

Have you seen this?

If you ride the N line, you may have noticed that the “Do not lean on door” sign seems to have been cut to pieces before going into mass production.

On every subway car, each of these signs is slightly different. Some have slight varying weights in the typography, some have more spacing between letters than others. Some barely hold consistency within an individual sign - and that is all fine. They mostly conform to the modular system that Massimo Vignelli designed back in 1972, and they get the job done by remaining virtually unseen. This one however crosses that special threshold where it becomes visible to the average person, that someone messed something up along the way.

Lets take a look at what exactly is going on here.
First of all, it is obvious that letters from previous signs have been combined together to make this one. The O’s have been turned on their sides, the A looks as if it has been cut out with scissors, and the N’s come to terse endings on the right side of each letter. I am still not sure if they was built out of 2 separate characters, or also cut, possibly with a straight edge and exacto blade.

What I like about this, is that is it obvious someone tried really hard to make it this way. This was done by hand, and with serious intention. Whomever was on the job that day obviously saw something was wrong and attempted to fix it, and by fixing it they took what was supposed to be a ubiquitous statement to the public, and made it an object of attention.

As eliason said on Typeophile,

“I think it’s clever, the up-and-down alignment suggesting the rumble of a train ride and the fallen-over o’s representing what might happen to riders if they don’t follow the sign’s advice.”

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