This definitely helps demonstrate the different densities of New York City and Chicago. The MTA serves over 5 million weekday rides in a city of over 8 million, while the CTA serves over 750,000 weekday rides in a city of over 2.6 million. We have fewer lines and fewer stations, but they reach further away.
CTA lines superimposed over NYC.
MTA lines superimposed over Chicago.
(via sunnysunny)
President Obama, yelling at Presidential Candidates after they do nothing to stop the booing of gay soldiers.
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This. Just fucking this.
(Source: gerardthehomosexual, via motherjones)
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nypl:
The Library has just launched Stereogranimator, a site that lets users turn our historic collection of stereographs into animated images like the one above. Read all about it in the Times and then go play! It’s the latest way we’re using technology to bring our collections to the public, following our What’s on the Menu, Biblion iPad app and map warping projects.
Caturday will never be the same …
There goes the rest of my afternoon. [Here’s Brian May from Queen talking about his love of stereographs.]](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lydravgClx1qesw8yo1_250.gif)
nypl:
The Library has just launched Stereogranimator, a site that lets users turn our historic collection of stereographs into animated images like the one above. Read all about it in the Times and then go play! It’s the latest way we’re using technology to bring our collections to the public, following our What’s on the Menu, Biblion iPad app and map warping projects.
Caturday will never be the same …
There goes the rest of my afternoon. [Here’s Brian May from Queen talking about his love of stereographs.]
OK, well, if I’m not mistaken, this was a failed attempt to capture a young French girl named Adriana, from Bordeaux, if my art history serves me, who came to Paris to study costume design for the theater. I’m pretty sure she had an affair with Modigliani, then Braque, which is how Pablo met her. Picasso. Of course, what you don’t getfrom this portrait is the subtlety, and her beauty. She was just a knock-out. I’d hardly call this picture marvelous, it’s more of a petit-bourgeois statement on how Pablo sees her. Saw her. He’s distracted by the fact absolute volcano in the sack.
(Source: purplu, via theamericanscholar)
i’ll be out back, i’m going to find a tree to chop down.
“ It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known. ”
Carson McCullers (via psychotherapy)
