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roseann: boutofcontext: neighborhoodr-fidi: 1 World Trade...

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:32:23 -0500

boutofcontext:

neighborhoodr-fidi:

1 World Trade Center, the Freedom Tower, four floors up.

Speaking of American steel… I’m glad to report from my commute that you need no longer peek through chain link fence to observe the progress part of WTCProgress.

In addition to 1 WTC, Tower 4 at 150 Greenwich is passing street level, with the tower cranes plainly visible on the site’s southeast.

i miss seeing this everyday during my commute.

roseann: newsweek: tanya77: themattsmith: thegrasshopperunit: ...

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:32:09 -0500

roseann:

newsweek:

tanya77:

themattsmith:

thegrasshopperunit:

herooftheproletariat:

Colton Harris-Moore, the barefoot boy bandit, outfoxes sheriffs

In the forests and remote islands around Seattle, police are setting traps for a barefoot teenage outlaw who has eluded them for nearly two years.

Police say 18-year-old Colton Harris-Moore, whose escapades are turning him into a folk legend, is a one-man crime wave, responsible for 50 burglaries as well as stealing light aircraft, which he taught himself to fly from video games, and several speedboats.

He lives in the woods, shuns shoes and catches his own food. His only technological aid is a pair of thermal-imaging goggles to hunt at night and his weakness is pizzas, which he asks to be delivered at the edge of the woods.

For some Harris-Moore is a modern Butch Cassidy: a surprisingly agile 6ft 5in cat burglar who thanks his victims by leaving them notes and cheeky photographs of himself, which have sold for £300 on eBay.

Thousands subscribe to his Facebook page and his image appears on T-shirts with the logo “Fly, Colton, Fly!”. Local rock groups have penned songs about him.

Hollywood producers have lodged lucrative film deals with his family and offered to pay for lawyers if he gives himself up.

Raised in a caravan on Camano Island, an isolated community in the Puget Sound, Harris-Moore started living wild at the age of seven. He would break into holiday homes, steal blankets and food and vanish into the woods for days.

In April 2008, after being sent to a juvenile detention centre, he complained that the beds were too short for his lanky frame and went on the run.

Police believe he fled to Canada and then, a few weeks ago, came back across the border to Idaho where he stole a Cessna 182 and flew to Seattle. He crash-landed in a forest clearing and walked away with cuts and bruises.

Since then he has been accused of stealing other planes for hops around the islands in the Puget Sound, including another Cessna belonging to a disc jockey who vented his frustration on radio, saying: “He still doesn’t know how to land a plane in one piece.”

He evaded a police pursuit by crashing a Mercedes-Benz into a roadside gas storage tank, using the explosion as a diversion to escape back into the woods where, he says, he feels like a Native American.

This was followed by the largest manhunt in recent memory. Three dozen sheriffs, aided by specialist armed units and an FBI helicopter, fanned out across Camano Island but failed to capture him. “We saw him, we think, but it’s like he disappeared in front of our eyes,” said one sheriff.

His luck may be about to run out. During a recent sweep a rifle shot was fired at police, raising his status to “armed and dangerous”. His mother, Pamela Kohler, now fears that even if he did not fire the shot he will be held responsible.

Kohler said she was proud her son had stolen the aircraft because he had never had a flying lesson in his life. “I was going to send him to flight school, but I guess I don’t have to,” she said. “I’d tell him the next time he took a plane: wear a parachute and practise your landing.

“If he shot that gun, it was really stupid. I don’t expect him to come out of the woods alive.”

[via]

WOW

This guy is totally in the next Twilight movie…

roseann: brooklynmutt: The University of Amsterdam Library, by...

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:29:37 -0500

roseann:

brooklynmutt:

The University of Amsterdam Library, by Dutch designers Studio Roelof Mulder and Bureau Ira Koers

bunch

meltingnoise: thisiswhyyourefat: IHOP Who-Cakes Inspired by...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:23:05 -0500

meltingnoise:

thisiswhyyourefat:

IHOP Who-Cakes

Inspired by Horton Hears a Who! : A stack of five pancakes drenched in boysenberry and blueberry syrup, covered in rainbow-colored chocolate candy and topped with a pink Dum-Dum lollipop.

(Submitted by Katie Bailey)

If I was 5 years old, I might seriously consider eating this.

roseann: thedailywhat: Google Logos of the Day: Google is...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:29:43 -0500

roseann:

thedailywhat:

Google Logos of the Day: Google is offering a logo twofer today. In North America, the Google logo marks the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street, while its British counterpart celebrates Wallace and Gromit’s 20th birthday.

And many more.

1wayticket: sunrise on top of haleakala crater.

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:54:39 -0400

1wayticket:

sunrise on top of haleakala crater.

You know the world is going to shit when the movies with the best soundtracks are in the Twilight Series. Let's all just give up now.

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:36:27 -0400

roseann:

thewordunheard:

kiamatthews:

Stephanie Meyer is shutting hoes down. How??? I mean did Thom Yorke do this song specifically for the movie? What in the shit? TWILIGHT SUCKS Y’ALL. Yes, I watch the movie at least once a week, but let’s call a spade a spade. The voracity with which I consume something is not correlational to its quality. I’m complex and fucked up like that ok?

The New Moon Soundtrack: (via theoisjonesing)

* DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE — MEET ME ON THE EQUINOX
* BAND OF SKULLS — FRIENDS
* THOM YORKE — HEARING DAMAGE
* LYKKE LI — POSSIBILITY
* THE KILLERS — A WHITE DEMON LOVE SONG
* ANYA MARINA — SATELLITE HEART
* MUSE — I BELONG TO YOU (NEW MOON)
* BON IVER & ST. VINCENT — ROSYLN
* BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB — DONE ALL WRONG
* HURRICANE BELLS — MONSTERS
* SEA WOLF — THE VIOLET HOUR
* OK GO — SHOOTING THE MOON
* GRIZZLY BEAR — SLOW LIFE
* EDITORS — NO SOUND BUT THE WIND
* ALEXANDRE DESPLAT — NEW MOON (THE MEADOW)

I am speechless.

OMG WTF BON IVER + ST VINCENT?!?!?!?!
what, how, whyyyyyyyyy. not here!!!!

"No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not..."

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:32:23 -0400

“No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.”

- Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto (via meltingnoise)

roseann: theduty: always the best.

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:07:13 -0400

roseann:

theduty:

always the best.

omchompnom: Matcha has become the generic name for green tea,...

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:02:46 -0400

omchompnom:

Matcha has become the generic name for green tea, but real green tea, freshly brewed, is leaps and bounds beyond its watery, for-daily-use counterparts. One of the teacher’s daughter has trained for two years in in sadou, or the art of Japanese tea ceremony, and was kind enough to brew us a fresh cup.

meltingnoise: French dog vs. cicada. This showdown is all kinds...

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:01:18 -0400

meltingnoise:

French dog vs. cicada. This showdown is all kinds of adorable. Tediously amusing. [via Japan Probe]

Hahaha!

meltingnoise: A Gundam-themed wedding under the life-size Gundam...

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:59:43 -0400

meltingnoise:

A Gundam-themed wedding under the life-size Gundam in Odaiba, Japan. The groom dressed up as the protagonist, Amuro, and the director of the series even showed up to give the groom and his (un?)lucky bride a plaque. A nerd’s dream come true. [via TOKYOMANGO]

meltingnoise: ぐにゅぐにゅぐにゅぐにゅ〜 [via kissdonttell]

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:03:10 -0400

meltingnoise:

ぐにゅぐにゅぐにゅぐにゅ〜 [via kissdonttell]

roboppy: Fuck yeah whatever this is. kaares: nevver: Julien...

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:52:11 -0400

roboppy:

Fuck yeah whatever this is.

kaares:

nevver:

Julien Vallée

lunchbagart: Caaan you dig it. The art of Cheeming Boey, fellow...

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:16:09 -0400

lunchbagart:

Caaan you dig it. The art of Cheeming Boey, fellow game artist and Sharpie Squaddie. Here’s an interview.

And here’s his new page.

ncroal: nicksummers: How they pick your lockup: Another...

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:27:35 -0400

ncroal:

nicksummers:

How they pick your lockup: Another graphic for Newsweek, based on the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ surprisingly quiz-like form (PDF, page 41) for deciding which inmates go where.

Design firm Number 17 continues to kill it.

For discriminating felons, the only choice is the Oswald State Correctional Facility. Accept no substitutes.

(via meltingnoise)

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:40:53 -0400

(via meltingnoise)

Gullwing Honda Civic (via Adam Kuban)

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:51:24 -0400

Gullwing Honda Civic (via Adam Kuban)

What fast looks like

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:04:25 -0400

What fast looks like

Brand New: The Brand New Sketchbook

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:10:49 -0400

Brand New: The Brand New Sketchbook