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This is a tumblelog, kinda like a blog but with short-form, mixed-media posts with stuff I like. Scroll down a bit to start reading, or a bit more to read more about me.
Erin, of all people, would appreciate this site-specific electrical tape installation by artist Rebecca Ward.
via rebeccasward
This post makes me feel a) appreciative indeed. “Ms. Ward, can we get lunch sometime?” and b) embarrassed- Nicki, how on earth do you know about this little fetish of mine?
Somebody’s getting this for Christmas.
LES Tenement Museum
Yesterday the usual suspects (Ryan, James, Mike, Kenny) and I went on a walking tour offered by the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. It was phenomenal. Here are just a few morsels I gathered (via my excellent, new notebook purchased in the museum’s fabulous gift shop):
- 97 Orchard Street was built in 1863 (at the time, 14th Street to Canal Street, if considered a city in its own right, would have been considered one of the largest German cities in the world)
- In 1905 there were on average 2,000 people living in every block of the LES
- Tenement comes from the Latin, tener “to hold.” Any building that houses 3 or more families who have a kitchen in their living space is technically considered a tenement.
- Allen Street was a center for prostitution in 1883.
- In 1882 Wall Street was wired for electricity by Thomas Edison.
- FDR implemented a welfare program in NYC during his governorship. He would later implement it for the rest of the country.
@ Purl.
Oh man, I do love floor plans.
Via Amanda at Oakridge!
Happy birfday eve eve eve Luce!
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find that it is bound fast by a thousand invisible cords that cannot be broken…”
John Muir
Take a few moments to check out Taryn Simon. She terms her work “An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar” and through her photography, investigates things that we hide from one another.
This is a photograph of Kenny, a White Tiger at the Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge in Eureka Springs, Ark. In the United States, all living white tigers are the result of selective inbreeding to artificially create the genetic conditions that lead to white fur, blue eyes and a pink nose. Kenny was born in the care of a breeder in Bentonville, Ark., on Feb. 3, 1999. As a result of inbreeding, Kenny is mentally retarded.
