Apparently, it would look just like this. Tom Baker (via NotCot) has produced a stunning set of photographs of a car-free Los Angeles. It’s a tough concept to imagine, but it sure is a beautiful one to behold. Photoshopped or not, these images fill me with a bizarrely wonderful feeling. Though they do make me realize just how much asphalt there is in this city.

Thanks, Amrit.

There’s a post on Kottke today with the headline “I don’t read books anymore” that has me thinking. As recently as two years ago, I was reading between 15 and 20 books a year, most of them novels—and that was in addition to my magazine and blog roll. This year, I haven’t finished reading a single novel. I made it about 400 pages into Infinite Jest, and was absolutely loving it, but I put it…

The Rinpa Eshidan art crew takes a half pipe by storm and performance-paints the hell out of it in this awesome time lapse.

Via Pink Tentacle.

As a butcher and chef at New York City’s Back Forty restaurant, Shanna Pacifico prides herself on using whole animals, not just the conventional cuts. The practice (which we’ve praised before) affords her a deep connection to the food she serves. If you’re going to eat (or serve) meat, this seems like a great way to do it. Have a look at her at work.

http://www.vimeo.com/7294314

Video by SkeeterNYC, via Kottke.

For Brits who text while driving, and for those who share the road with them, things are pretty far from merry in old England. The Times just ran the disturbing story of 22-year-old Phillipa Curtis, who, distracted while texting, crashed her Peugeot into a parked Fiat, killing the 24-year-old Victory McBryde. Curtis was recently sentenced to 21 months in a high-security prison. From NYTimes:

The crash might once have been written off as a tragic accident.…

The Economist’s Matthew Bishop weighs in on Bill Clinton, Dambisa Moyo, microfinance, and the state of philanthropy.

The first edition of Matthew Bishop and Michael Green’s Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World was released, as Bishop puts it, on the morning of the global economic collapse. The book, which outlines the changing landscape of philanthropy and offers a prescription for effective giving through business acumen, was received well by critics but its timing was less than opportune.…

http://www.vimeo.com/5228616

John Carrera’s “Pictorial Webster’s: Inspiration to Completion” is a truly marvelous short, one that I could watch over and over and over.

Via We Love You So.

Apparently, it would look just like this. Tom Baker (via NotCot) has produced a stunning set of photographs of a car-free Los Angeles. It’s a tough concept to imagine, but it sure is a beautiful one to behold. Photoshopped or not, these images fill me with a bizarrely wonderful feeling. Though they do make me realize just how much asphalt there is in this city.

Thanks, Amrit.

There’s a post on Kottke today with the headline “I don’t read books anymore” that has me thinking. As recently as two years ago, I was reading between 15 and 20 books a year, most of them novels—and that was in addition to my magazine and blog roll. This year, I haven’t finished reading a single novel. I made it about 400 pages into Infinite Jest, and was absolutely loving it, but I put it…

The Rinpa Eshidan art crew takes a half pipe by storm and performance-paints the hell out of it in this awesome time lapse.

Via Pink Tentacle.

As a butcher and chef at New York City’s Back Forty restaurant, Shanna Pacifico prides herself on using whole animals, not just the conventional cuts. The practice (which we’ve praised before) affords her a deep connection to the food she serves. If you’re going to eat (or serve) meat, this seems like a great way to do it. Have a look at her at work.

http://www.vimeo.com/7294314

Video by SkeeterNYC, via Kottke.

For Brits who text while driving, and for those who share the road with them, things are pretty far from merry in old England. The Times just ran the disturbing story of 22-year-old Phillipa Curtis, who, distracted while texting, crashed her Peugeot into a parked Fiat, killing the 24-year-old Victory McBryde. Curtis was recently sentenced to 21 months in a high-security prison. From NYTimes:

The crash might once have been written off as a tragic accident.…

The Economist’s Matthew Bishop weighs in on Bill Clinton, Dambisa Moyo, microfinance, and the state of philanthropy.

The first edition of Matthew Bishop and Michael Green’s Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World was released, as Bishop puts it, on the morning of the global economic collapse. The book, which outlines the changing landscape of philanthropy and offers a prescription for effective giving through business acumen, was received well by critics but its timing was less than opportune.…

http://www.vimeo.com/5228616

John Carrera’s “Pictorial Webster’s: Inspiration to Completion” is a truly marvelous short, one that I could watch over and over and over.

Via We Love You So.

After four quarters of decline, the U.S. Gross Domestic Product finally saw a quarter of growth. The upswing from negative 6.4 percent to positive 3.5 (that’s a change of 9.9 percentage points for you non-mathematicians) since Barack Obama took office is the largest rate of increase over two-quarters since 1980.

Like Megan McArdle, I’ve always been a little skeptical of looking at GDP growth as the be-all end-all barometer of our national health. Then again, Andrew Sullivan…

Here’s a tough statistic: According to The Daily Beast, 15 percent of schools produce more than 50 percent of all high school dropouts. The statement accompanies this gallery of the 10 cities with the worst dropout rates in the country. They are, in reverse order, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Fresno, California; Chatanooga, Tennessee; Greenville-Mauldin-Easley, South Carolina; Lakeland-Winter Haven, Florida; Riverside-San Bernadino-Ontario, California; Stockton, California; Augusta-Richmond County, South Carolina; McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas; and, finally, Bakersfield, California. From The…

I find these 3D stereoviews of 19th and 20th century Japan, by the photographer T. Enami, utterly captivating. You can find many more of these at Pink Tentacle.

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