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Building code

Shortly after moving to New York I read (and re-read) Rem Koolhaas’ Delirious New York. He wrote it as a retroactive manifesto for the city that needed one and didn’t have one, but to me it reads like this really poetic and at times existential critique of the absurdity of NYC. The scale, the numbers and statistics, the unprecedented “grid”, why the city is the way it is, what lie beneath, and so on. Dave and I work in historic building restoration and getting to see the intricate inner-workings of how these old wooden structures are built is both deeply fascinating and horrifying.

@ryan-west

Dec 11, 2023

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NYC MUNICIPAL archives

1939-1941 NYC attempted to photograph every building in all 5 Burroughs. very striking to me is the lack of plastic, there are wooden crates, pallets and barrels instead. There are NO TREES on streets or in the park nearest me. And there’s not a lot of garbage on the ground.

@tracy_

Feb 1, 2024

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Fuck con edison

mysterious city wide hole diggers, reinventing what it means to be a nuisance via an industrial vacuum that is anally probing the corner of my block after midnight

@toilet

Aug 19, 2024

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Late night iTunes carooming.

I call it "carooming" because one ball hits another which leads to another... .  It starts simply: "If you like x, perhaps you'll like y." So off you go deep into the night bouncing from one song recommendation to the next. Hours pass and and, if you're lucky, you own three or four news songs you would not have otherwise found.

@paul-schrader

Dec 12, 2024

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Collecting Modern Firsts.

I've always had collections--cigar bands, stamps, lead pennies--what kid doesn't? I collected basketball cards when that was my son's interest. I collected photography and art but quickly ran out of wall space. Then I realized I could collect something I really treasured and which occupied only bookshelf space: Modern Firsts, which are defined as first edition books starting with the desk jacket era (aprox 1920). The jackets, because of their fragility, are in fact more valuable than the books themselves. So I sit in my nook surrounded by treasured old friends. These are not reading copies--God forbid--these are objects d'art.

@paul-schrader

Dec 12, 2024

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Country Alt.

"Country Alt" is what I call songs I like. It ranges from Phosphorescent to Americana to Bob Manning and Kimberly Murray. I tend to my Country Alt playlist like a bitch does for a pup. Songs are added...songs are removed.

@paul-schrader

Dec 12, 2024

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