“On November 6, 2012, employees from MTA New York City Transit loaded subway cars onto flatbed trucks for transportation to the Rockaway Peninsula. The cars will be used to create shuttle trains that will operate on the A Line in the Rockaways until full service can be restored.”
/See complete set here: Rockaway Shuttle Train Staging
I made this little card for the United States 2012 presidential election, which is tomorrow Tuesday, November 6th. VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!
Laminate it, bike it as a spoke-card, postcard it, read as bookdivider Etc.
‹‹ Get the (4x) set per letter-size sheet on Scribd. HERE ››
Print › share › use them as you’d like.
Some of the links +sites, twitter and Etc., Thought I’d share some of the ones I’ve been glued to+read constantly:
MTA photo stream
The MTA has a frequently uploaded set of daily pictures here: MTAPhotos
Casey and Sandy
I’ve been a huge fan of Casey’s work for his curiosity-what-if why-not awesomeness.
Here is the latest video he produced during Sandy. His twitter feed is a must @CaseyNeistat
/His twitter feed pics, latest today on Staten Island:
“do not try this. also, i know i spelled incident wrong. but thank you for letting me know that over and over again. you see, in addition to the entire city being flooded we also lost electricity. editing video is tricky with no electricity. most of this video was edited at a starbucks in harlem, where there was electricity and some corners were cut. all that and i can’t spell very well. i really did think incident was spelled with two e’s.”
I love Jimmy, more than he loves Guillermo in drag.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VYLwvan5x4
Speaking of Samsung, also this:
And the Avett brothers played this week: The Avett Brothers with the Brooklyn Philharmonic Perform “I and Love and You”
Bitchcakes
As a long-time reader of her blog, she is pretty much straight-forward with her thoughts and yes she is awesome. I’d like to share her site (again, if I haven’t already many times) because with the recent marathon cancellation/postponement – when we think of runners and marathon participants, we often tend to think of certain runner stereotype Etc., and she has openly shared her thoughts+feelings about if the NYmarathon was to happen as well as if cancellation happened.
“From the second the news was announced, and for the next few hours, everything exploded — my facebook, twitter, phone, blog comments… Many were apologetic, sorry for me that I couldn’t run. Some were surprised. Others were angry. But I think most were relieved.” –The Marathon Diaries, Part 10: Canceled
She is a woman that has proven time+time again, that she has overcome not only weight +confidence challenges, but to prove that you can do it because (in her words) “the only person stopping you, is you”.
© by *Bitch Cakes* // “free waffles courtesy of Jet Blue! this line was even longer than the dry ice line!”
© by *Bitch Cakes* // “never saw so many buses in my life”
I also love seeing her mural pictures and everyday NY/Brooklyn snaps, YOU GO GIRL graffiti.
Read that +much more: sherylyvette.com +her marathon posts here: sherylyvette.com [labes: Marathon]
NYTimes
An interesting perspective from parenting+memory: For Adults, a Catastrophe. For Children, a Memory. by KJ DELL’ANTONIA
Wired
How We Can Redesign New York’s Unsafe Shoreline by Tim Maly
Design Work Life
JC Lemon Photography: Exploring Powerless Manhattan
New York magazine
via @TheAtlanticWire
Cuba
Not often mentioned by the media, one has to do a little digging on the cyberspace to find Carribean +Cuba reports, also hit pretty hard by Sandy.
The Guardain / Hurricane Sandy: it hit the Caribbean too, you know
Reuters / Cubans start cleanup of Hurricane Sandy destruction
NBCnews / Sandy slams Cuba; ‘high impact’ likely in US Northeast
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Reporting from San Francisco, our thoughts are with the east coast all+any one affected by Sandy.
Okay, that is all for now. Stay strong +be together.
Fist pump for the weekend!
xxom
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Dioses ocultos
Como te extraño
Nubes
Pensando en ti
A daily celebration of life. A daily re-learning to live and be, pain and grief, love and strength. And a daily appreciation of every-single-thing.
We all experience different paths, different lives, different perspectives yet share the same two parallels, birth+death.
// Día de los Muertos November 2nd (+Nov. 1st All Saint’s Day).
Mission Bicycle has always been a small business very active and involved in the local community and are based out of the Mission District on Valencia street. I am overdue to pay a visit over their shop, but make sure you stop by to see their display of their popular papel picado sometime this weekend. I’d like to thank them for sending these fotos over, David one of their creative crew members hand-drew this, pretty cool 🙂
Very elegantes calacas, I’m sure Posadas would have love to ride this bici.
Dia de los muertos bike
“We wanted to show our recognition of Dia de los Muertos and it’s importance to our neighborhood, and it seemed only natural that we’d include a bike. So we asked our staffer David, who’s a talented artist, and he gladly took on the project. He went home with a naked white frame and came back with a beautiful artifact for the holiday. He drew the entire thing by hand, covering the bike in images, and then reassembled the bike.” -Mission Bicycle.
See complete set here, fotos are also posted on their fb page
// missionbicycle.com // Flickr stream //
First Thursday of the month: Lower Polk Art Walk
November 1st, 6 – 10pm
First Thursday is for the Lower Polk Art Walk
Más info:
+ website: thelowerpolkartwalk.com
+ facebook page
+ other whitewallsSF
+ bayareafacepainters.com
November 1+2 and Día de los Muertos San Francisco +around the Bay Area:
+ San Francisco Friday Nov. 2nd:
Day of the Dead Procession: Meet at 22nd and Bryant, 7pm.
Day of the Dead Festival of Altars: Garfield Park, 26th and Harrison, 6pm-11pm
Alcohol-free event
More info here: Day of the Dead SF
/image via dayofthedeadsf.org
+ Oakland [was this past oct.28th]
+ Various events all over the Bay Area listed here LatinBayArea: Dia De Los Muertos in Bay Area
First Friday Bike Party: November 2nd
SFBike Party has their new outlook out.
Read it here: bit.ly/XNF6TE // Follow them here // Map is here
Paseo de bicicletas en Dia De Los Muertos (RIDE) by Oakland Spokes
9:30- 11ish to Oakland First Friday After Spot @ PArkway Lounge 1850 Park Blvd (between 18th St & 4th Ave) Oakland, CA 94606
Kuhsterd: Nov. 3rd
Rumor has it that “the best frozen custard made in the last 95 years” is here…
Read more here.
Stafford Lake (Novato, Calif.) CX: Nov. 4th
9AM-4PM
more info+details:
+ facebook event page
+ staffordlakecx.com
+ tickets for various age groups+cat: eventbrite
/foto via murphy staffordlakecx.com
SOMARTS Day of the Dead Exhibit
Free
Exhibition runs through November 10th.
SOMArts is located at:
934 Brannan St. (between 8th & 9th), San Francisco.
Gallery Hours / T-F 12–7pm, Sat. 11am–5pm, Sun. 11am–3pm
Más info here: DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS EXHIBITION 2012
/Foto by homie and curator Rio Yañez
SFMOMA: Nov. 6th
Reminder that the SF MOMA is free on the first Tuesday of each month. Next up is Tuesday, Nov.
sfmoma.org / FREE FIRST TUESDAY
/From a SF MOMA visit earlier this year in July.
Note: there is blue bottle coffee and those distinctive Mondrian cakes (other than free Tuesdays, requires admission unless you are a member)
Found these teal patches a few weeks ago and just got the chance to snap some fotos.
This mural is alongside McAllister at Divis, right at the west bound Muni bus stop for the 5.
I’m assuming the teal is covering up graffiti but I am completely in love with the unintentional junction and the uneven combination of the blocky teal/mural contrast as a result.
/see it in full screen here
Here are some of the detail up close:
April 2010, 2.5 years ago that same wall (and that pink cursive ‘divisadero’ lettering) looked like this:
