Why I Love Craigslist

http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/w4m/1743465743.html

Makes Finals Seem a Little Less Important - From http://blog.jmlynch.org/2010/02/13/pale-blue-dot/

 

"It’s the twentieth anniversary of the famous “pale blue dot” photo – Earth as seen from Voyager 1 while on the edge of our solar system (approximately 3,762,136,324 miles from home). Sagan’s words are always worth remembering:

"Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

Cassette Art

From http://2photo.ru/en/post/17620

Quiet Corners and Green Thumbs

120 Liberty Street

I went on a field trip to the World Trade Center Tribute Center at 120 Liberty Street the other day. We went on a walking tour around ground zero and an audio tour with sixteen personal stories of people who experienced the September 11th attacks in some way.

I honestly don’t understand how people can work there. Being there for a few hours alone was too intense for me.  The people that work there, like John Henderson – who gave us our tour – spend whole days surrounded by reminders of the tragedy. They have a twisted I-beam from one of the towers, a charred piece of an airplane window, and – perhaps most moving – a wall reproducing the many flyers people put up searching for loved ones following 9/11.

Marvin (Not the Martian)

Marvin Taylor absolutely hates nostalgia. He also happens to work in a library. Surprisingly, this isn’t much of a problem.  Marvin works at Fales Library and The Grey Art Gallery, New York University’s fine arts museum, which is located at 100 Washington Sq. East.

His left foot in a cast, his right in a Converse sneaker, Marvin, 48, stops every few moments as he shuffles around the gallery. Around him are black-and-white pictures, along with a few videos, from the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. The Grey Gallery is the nation’s leading archive of art from downtown New York during the '70s and '80s.

Couchsurfers!

I have my first couchsurfers coming tomorrow! They are a young, French couple from Lyon, and I hope they don't mind my small, smoke filled apartment. Here's hoping it goes well.

Here's a link to my couchsurfing profile, if need a place to stay.

http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/wolfe88/