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Microscopic Soy Sauce

Yanping Wang from the Beijing Planetarium took this photograph of soy sauce when viewed through a microscope. View the top 20 microscope photos from the 36th annual Nikon Small World competition here.

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Scene in New York

In case you missed it, here are some recent photos from my life including the one I snapped above during Hurricane Sandy when I (stupidly) ventured outside in the midst of it. You can see water from the river flooding slowly but surely into the streets. The water was about waist deep at the end of this block.

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Like Hot Food I Love You

552472_10151045201381879_1057580707_n For some reason I was mesmerized by Kevin Young's poem "Ragtime" that was displayed inside a subway car (as part of NYC MTA's Arts for Transit program).

Like hot food I love you

like warm bread & cold

cuts, butter sammiches

or, days later, after Thanksgiving

when I want whatever's left.

Kind of wonderful, no?

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Gangnam Jazz Style

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmBByDQHJAA] I know at this point we've exhausted "Oppa Gangnam Style" ad nauseam and there should be a permanent moratorium placed on all covers and parodies of this song (though truth be told I still act like this when it plays at the clubbbbs). That said, the above jazzy cover version stands up on its own. And with that I may or may not being seeing PSY live next Wednesday night...

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Then and Now

When visiting the exhibit "Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000" currently on display at the MoMA on its fifth floor, in addition to this...big ass table and two ginormous chairs, you are also greeted by a large display of the above photo (aptly titled "Boy on the Wall") taken in 1973 by Jens S Jensen of a boy, Michael, playing around on "a modernist housing estate in Hammarkullen, Sweden" where "his youthful tenacity [augments] his presence within an otherwise bleak architectural context."

Here is Michael today 39 years later in this photograph below also captured by Jensen:

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