Assembled by Fabio Di Donato from Cassini-Huygens images. [via evan.]
Category: What I’m Looking At
Things I find and squirrel away.
Automation Anxiety
In his review of a prescient work called The Shape of Automation (1966), by Herbert Simon, a manifold genius who would go on to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, Heilbroner scoffed at Simon’s notion that the average family income would reach $28,000 (in 1966 dollars) after the turn of the century: “He has no … Continue reading Automation Anxiety
As long as it’s black.
Lleida-Alguaire Airport
[via wifeand2kids.]
Star Witness
Kate MacDonald and Janelle Blanchard perform Neko Case’s “Star Witness" from the stairwell of their high school.
Lo quiero vivo.
Best park in the country.
[via escapekit.]
High Drama at DuoLingo.
Clever bedroom storage.
The latest residence to feature a combined staircase and bookshelf is this loft conversion in north London by British design studio Craft Design. The staircase is formed from a series of extruded shelves and leads up from the living room to the mezzanine sleeping area. The designers kept to a simple palette of wooden flooring … Continue reading Clever bedroom storage.
E.L.Doctorow, introducing Ric Burns’ New York: A Documentary
If you imagine an ordinary moment at an intersection in New York City, and there is a pause because there is a streetlight, and some people are stopped and others in motion, and some cars are stopped and others in motion; if you were to put that into film terms as a “freeze frame” and … Continue reading E.L.Doctorow, introducing Ric Burns’ New York: A Documentary
a technology job is no excuse 