I love that in his funny interview with New York Magazine's Daily Intel, David Alan Grier plugs his personal food blog "Chocolate Glutton" that chronicles his "cooking adventures" (with photos!). When explaining what he disliked about Times Square he also mentioned one of my favorite activities: "I love walking through carefully posed group shots on the streets in Times Square and ruining them."
Sure, this is super staged (note all the security presence in the background), but for what it's worth here is Prime Minister David Cameron and Mayor Bloomberg eating hot dogs outside of Penn Station. Damn, they even kicked out the hot dog vendor from the photo.
Update: Here's another photo from a different angle with the vendor, but no pedestrians and even more security.
Terry Richardson's photo of Zach Galifianakis nonchalantly wearing a beard suit for a GQ photo shoot. What a wild and crazy guy.
An improvement to a G train sign. I approve this message.
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And Non trick question: Without checking first do you know if "ideate" is a real word? I asked a few educated friends of mine this question and they didn't know. Neither did I when I first encountered it in a job posting for an open position at Google. Under "responsibilities" it stated:
Ideate, develop, and execute marketing campaigns that drive business growth.
At first I thought it was a typo, then according to a dictionary I learned it wasn't. It means as its root suggests: "To form an idea of something; to imagine something."
Moral of the story: Google is so fucking smart that I learned a new vocabulary word from one of their job posting.
Update: My friend Monica hit on exactly why I thought it was a typo. "Ideate" sounds like a George Bush-ish or Palin's "refudiate."
Mike Tyson's abandoned mansion photographed by Danny Willis.
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Is it still a trompe l'oeil if what it looks like is actually not what it is and it is actually what it is not? That question aside, I want this match quality soccer ball silk screened with wood textures by Eric Quebral. Currently in pre-order status.
Amazing photo of Bruce Lee and his son Brandon. Both of their deaths were so tragic.
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Hugh Brown's "Roy Lichtenstein (Why, Roy Darling, 1962)" is a nice little left hook. It made me chuckle.
Last week someone dicked around with Shepard Fairey's mural on Houston Street in the Lower East Side.
Now I know how new parents feel. I'm obsessed with my new bike. Here's another photo of me and my baby (snapped by Mariya who got her own lil ride too). Permanent smiles all day.
Love this photo of Tom Wolfe and Kurt Vonnegut. And Wolfe isn't wearing an all white suit either.
This a bit outdated but back in February, the director of Toy Story 3 Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
- H.G. Wells
Jake Lodwick's neat peephole photograph of hilarious and talented Reggie Watts.