“rust-red scar”

just like all you see of 9/11 in the media is the spectacle of the towers falling, all one sees of hiroshima is the mushroom cloud.  From ground-level the true force of the blast, hidden by the sterile awe of the cloud, is observable on a human scale.  The story behind the pictures is pretty [...]

darling of nyc

david byrne seems to be having a pretty excellent year—“playing the building” was well-recieved, and is still open until the 24th of this month, and now, through a serindipitous series of events, he designed a number of metal sculptures that double as, “accidentally very useful” art: bike racks.
[nytimes]
(image from flickr)

sim city

flickr stream of “rich people rooftops” in New York City.  the isometric angles remind me strongly of simcity, and there’s a pretty wide variety of styles evident…

hiatus

the hours of mandatory computer time enforced by my job have thus resumed, so grumblybear.wordpress.com will go untouched for months on end no longer.

the golden age of advertising

i am amused. 

infantile

okay, like, I understand that it’s traumatic when the university expands, and that every tree in upper-campus is, like, a precious jewel of the ecosystem and stuff, but really, you’re not lending yourself credibility when you express your contempt for The Man in such a juvenile way:

and how about getting the fucking acronym right, eh?  [...]

imagine if you woke up…

…and your house looked like this.

har har har

my childhood!

it’s not too often…

that a UK Military officer has to assure that, “We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.”
bbc