Zef Narkiewicz cleverly subverts an iconic logo for "a non existing, (so far as I know) event."
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The video below (citizen journalism!) was of the scene outside an open call casting here in New York City for America's Next Top Model. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbtNyTfTlhQ&fmt=18]
Gothamist has more here.
This is the civilized way to enjoy the Johnnie Walker blends. This tasting kit comes with "four etched rocks glasses, one etched snifter, one official tasting guide, one laminated tasting mat, and one aroma wheel." $50 here.
Of course, I wouldn't complain if it was handed to me in a plastic cup at an open bar.
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One German company's horribly misguided attempt to cash in on Obamamania. On the other hand, their discontinued Guantanamo line of TV dinners ("So good you'll want to be placed in solitary isolation with sensory deprivation!") were surprisingly delicious.
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Seasonal restaurant Park Avenue (approximately every three months the menu and decor changes to match the four seasons) is offering free dinners and tequila shots from after 9:30 pm through March 20.
What's the catch? To celebrate the restaurant's appearance on Gossip Girls, this offer is open to anyone dressed like...a school girl. I think this falls in the lowbrow and brilliant section in New York Magazine's Approval Matrix.
The guy not doing a shot and looking depressed for it should look familiar to frequent readers of this blog. He's usually featured in last night's party recaps holding a Jameson bottle or some variation thereof.
Dedication is another word that comes to mind. As does "man, religion is a beeyatch sometimes!"
Create your own motivational posters here.
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
Here's a literary perspective on Bernie Madoff.
Mr. Madoff was 700 years too late to join Dante’s Who’s Who of sinners, but it is easy to imagine where the poet would consign this scam artist, who admitted to stealing as much as $65 billion: to the Pit, the Ninth (and deepest) Circle of Hell. It is where sins of betrayal are punished in a sea of ice fanned frigid by the six batlike wings of the immense, three-faced, fanged and weeping Lucifer.
Yup, hell does freeze over.
Utilizing the familiar layout of the periodic table, this "particular table lists 100 of the most popular, influential and notorious typefaces today."
As with traditional periodic tables, this table presents the subject matter grouped categorically. The Table of Typefaces groups by families and classes of typefaces: sans-serif, serif, script, blackletter, glyphic, display, grotesque, realist, didone, garalde, geometric, humanist, slab-serif and mixed.
Each cell of the table lists the typeface and a one or two character "symbol" (made up by me simply based on logic), the designer, year designed and a ranking of 1 through 100.
More information on the ranking methodology here and larger image here.
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Last Saturday, I went to the Knicks game then Namik's birthday party.
Watching the pregame shoot around.
Andy and I noticed the worst media buy ever. Who ever looks up UNDER the scoreboard? Advertising FAIL.
We arrived to the party and found an exciting game of left center right in progress. I had never played this game before and well by the end of the night, I fell in love with it.
Silly string punishment for the winner!
KG goes in big with...his beer.
Who's the big winner? Mary is the big winner.
Mun taking the house cut.
Hahaha.
Stairway dancing!
Afterwards we decided to swing by the Heights, a familiar bar for anyone who attended Columbia or Barnard. Note the drunk girl in the back who wanted to get in on the picture.
Drunk girl's man trying to manage her. Haha
Note Pooja's empty plastic drink cup. "Hey Pooja, lets have a drinking contest." "OKAY!"
The End.
A scaled visualization of what one trillion dollars looks like in cash.
A stack of $10,000 in $100 bills.
Here's a million dollars worth of those $100 bills.
And here's one trillion dollars.
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John Huntington explains the crowd's delayed reaction during Garth Brooks' performance of the classic participatory song "Shout" during the President Obama's pre-inauguration. It's more fascinating than it "sounds." [vimeo=http://vimeo.com/2887685]
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My friends and I noticed this absurd scene in the Best Buy near Columbus Circle last week: a gold painted busker, typically spotted performing the robot for tourists and extra change in the park, just chilling in the video games section playing basketball on a demo Xbox 360. He was quite cool and let me fire off a few photos.
[Thanks Andy for letting me use your camera!]
Here's a solid place for your Sunday Funday: Every Sunday get unlimited beer if you order a burger ($16) at Paris Commune located on 99 Bank St. The restaurant website lists other weekday promotions.
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