Some of the little inspiring bits from our visit to the Museum of Modern Art. My favorite exhibit in the entire museum was Taryn Simon’s A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters, I-XVIII. For the full post on that one, go here. Great graphic pieces. Ben’s least favorite art ever. And it follows him everywhere. [...]
… and they’re all made out of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same. This little ditty was the opening theme song for the television show Weeds, whose primary theme for the first three seasons was a critique of the suburban culture, lifestyle, vanities, and contradictions. Housewives and business professionals are smoking dope far more often [...]
For writer Gretchen Rubin’s happiness project, she started a blog as one of her work goals, to expand her identity as a writer and connect with a new community. On this blog, over the course of the project, she shared her own Twelve Commandments for Happiness, and many readers shared some of their own. A [...]
From Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project: One reason that challenge brings happiness is that it allows you to expand your self-definition. You become larger. Suddenly you can do yoga or make homemade beer or speak a decent amount of Spanish. Research shows that the more elements make up your identity, the less threatening it is [...]
So there are an endless number of ways to be inspired in–and by–New York City, and I am only adding myself to the category of people who fell in love with the city upon visiting. It certainly makes itself easy to love, if you would rather not have to use a car, enjoy eating pizza [...]
In the middle of a Saturday afternoon, in midtown Manhattan, we were near collapse after a morning exploring the Upper West Side and Central Park, then shopping around midtown. Then we went to the Modern Museum of Art. I felt it essential to visit at least one of the major, internationally-renowned museums New York City [...]
I love pondering issues like this. The Atlantic headline and subtitle pretty much explain it: “How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit” T. Miles Kelly encourages his students to deceive thousands of people on the Web. This has angered many, but the experiment helps reveal the shifting nature of the truth on [...]