Jordan Fischer

I also have a collection of cameras. No floral comforters, though.

excellence-on-a-bottle:

Excellent storage!

idancohen:

Citi bike station at the corner of our street. These are popping up like mushrooms in the EV. (at H. Brickman & Sons / Ace Hardware)

Same in Ft Greene. Excited to see what the bikes will look like!

On repeat all morning.

zachklein:

Beaver Brook School

My friends Armin and George are hosting the first Beaver Brook School on Aug 25th through Sep 2nd, an intensive 8-day course to learn how to design and construct a building.

Ten applicants will be invited to stay in bunkhouse, spend long days in workshops and at the job site, and walk away with construction know-how. You will also have built a building.

More details on the site.

Apply to spend a week at one of my favorite places.

winesburgohio:

I quit my job last month. A lot of people were surprised. To be honest, even I was a little surprised. Since then, though, I’ve fielded a lot of emails, phone calls, coffee dates, and dinner conversations about The Big Decision.

How does it feel? How did I make it? Was it the right one? (Great….

You tell em Cassie. Taking time off was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.

brianjacobs:

thehighestbidder:

Papua New Guinea Sepik River traditional swordfish headdress woven cowry shell

Grace’s blog of curated eBay photos, “The Highest Bidder,” is vastly underappreciated.

One of my favorite social commentators.

jtotheizzoe:

Ever wonder just why some music makes you feel so good? Virginia Hughes reports on some super-interesting new neuroscience research by Valorie Salimpoor at her National Geographic blog: Only Human

There’s quite a bit of nitty-gritty brain science at play here, but here’s the highlights:

The Big Questions: The major mystery in the biology of music is “why?” How do mere vibrations in the air bring on such deep emotional responses? Did this have any influence on our evolution, or is it just a side effect of the myriad of tweaks and evolutionary forces that made us human?

What They Found: When test subjects listened to songs they had never heard before and asked whether they wanted to buy them, they engaged brain pathways involved in reward, pleasure, memory, prediction and judgment. When we hear new music, we appear to call upon “templates” for what we like in our memory. Then regions involved in prediction and judgment decide how much it fits our expectations, and searches for a “Goldilocks zone” of novelty and familiarity. If it fits, then we get a rush of pleasure in the brain’s reward pathway.

What Questions Remain: Why do people with similar exposures have such different tastes? How similar and different can things be before they become pleasurable/not pleasurable? 

New music is a series of memory, prediction, judgment and pleasure. It’s a whole-brain activity, and it’s a uniquely and wonderfully human experience.

I highly recommend checking out Ginny’s full article. This is fascinating stuff. There will be an episode of It’s Okay To Be Smart all about music and evolution in the near future. Stay tuned!

On top of an interesting article, this is my favorite gif ever.

jtotheizzoe:

If you happen to be the first person to make contact with aliens, here’s a handy guide: First Contact: Don’t F**k This Up For Us.

Seriously, keep it cool. We’re all counting on you.

(via Science-Based Life)

I designed and painted a superhero cape for my colleague Ibanga’s promotion party.

colchrishadfield:

The river hiccups like a zipper on an old coat.

idancohen:

at Aéroport Paris-Charles de Gaulle (CDG)

Beauty is the promise of function.” - Horatio Greenough.

NY route 97 roadside attraction.

Looking for examples of family blogs, I came across and geeked out on Beyonce’s Tumblr for a little.

jtotheizzoe:

Zhangye Danxia - Geology From a Storybook

Long ago, colorful sediments were deposited in western China, layer after layer, century after century. If you were there at the time, you would have seen unremarkable ground, a single hue of dirt no different from a thousand other places on Earth. 

But after thousands and thousands of years subject to the forces of pressure and tectonic movement, the total of those layers has been pushed upward, letting us peek at a rainbow-hued slice of Earth’s past perhaps unmatched on this planet. The planet looks more like the cross-section of a jawbreaker candy than layers of rock in these photos, near Zhangye, China.

The Zhangye formation, not to be confused with this danxia, a UNESCO heritage site, reminds us how our crust is heaved and hurled throughout the ages, a slow evolution that will continue into the distant future. It’s yet another story of Earth’s past, written in stone, but perhaps with the same pen as a fantasy storybook.

Check out more photos from Flickr user Melinda ^..^, and take some time to tour the formation in Google Earth.

Leo

lizseibert:

I’m currently working on a typeface design with Leigh Mignogna, based on early Apple font designs, including the early Apple II bitmap font and the amazing work of Susan Kare. We’re getting our hands dirty with the programming language Metafont (any Metafont experts out there?), which allows us to make an infinite variety of permutations based on a simple internal structure of points. This has been a really cool learning process so far. Excited to see where it goes. 

Cool, Liz!

The milk monster rears his head.