Empire State, conde nast building, Chrystler, GE building, and UN building.

Beastie Boys - Dad remakes the Beastie’s Sabotage video…with his kids. Awesome.

NYC could really use these. Such a brilliant, simple idea.

unconsumption:

Public Trash Cans That Aren’t Overflowing with Empty Coffee Cups - Design - The Atlantic Cities:

Copenhagen designer So Hoj noticed, and was bothered by, piles of spent coffee cups spilling out of trash cans and onto the sidewalk around the city. 

Hoj, a self-employed designer with a background in accessories, took up the problem herself by converting tall, slender cardboard tubes from the post office into receptacles for discarded cups.

The idea is simple enough: you can hold more cups in a smaller space when they’re stacked neatly inside each other. Hoj’s theory was that this would alleviate the cup problem by giving them their own, more compact space, and leaving larger trash cans for other items.

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She mounted her “test tube” cup collectors and put them on two trash cans along the waterfront. Quickly, her fellow Copenhageners caught on.

Here’s what the trash cans used to look like before her solution:

jasonleibowitz:

If you have to give a presentation and you decide to use PowerPoint, for the love of God please don’t do this!

Animated GIF from Getty Images photographs of Mariano Rivera pitching against the Seattle Mariners, 13 September 2011. All photographs by Otto Greule Jr.

Yesterday I went to aa.com to book a flight to Scotland. Their partner on flights to Britain is British Airways. I tried various day/time combos to find the flight that worked best for me at a reasonable cost. I found one that suited me but my girlfriend suggested going to britishairways.com as well. Britishairways.com offered more flight options. This is not surprising since I assume they give only a certain number of seats via their partners. But I was shocked when I chose the same flights I had chosen on aa.com, and they were nearly $400 LESS on britishairways.com! Like I said, I know nothing about how airline partnerships work. But doesn’t a $400 difference seem like a blatant disregard for the customer? Can’t help but think treating their customers like crap contributed to aa’s recent chapter 11 filing.

Beaches: the world’s largest ashtrays.

k-a-t-i-e-:

“In 1981 I happened to see Joe Strummer – he was the singer for the punk rock band The Clash – on the tube. I saw him sitting on the other side of the seat, but I thought he was too private – he might get too angry – but I was trying to be brave, I went up to him and asked him ‘may I take a picture of you.’ he smiled and said ‘yes’, and I clicked several shots. 

Just before he got off the train he said to me, ‘You should take photos of whatever you want. That’s punk.’ ”  Herbie Yamaguchi