We Waste Obscene Amounts of Food

Vancouver’s Food Strategy Program

Travel Photo of the Week

Sørvágsvatn, Faroe Islands

Antarctica

Antarctica from Kalle Ljung

Underhill - Hobbit-Like Eco Cave House

Book Conservator Nobuo Okano Repairs Tattered Books to Make Them Look Brand New

Fun Time! Brazilian Kite Fighting!

Kite Fight from Victory Journal

My 3D Printer Arrived Yesterday

And what did I have greet meet upon my arrival home from NYC yesterday? My brand new M3D Micro!

It took a little while to set up and I had to back the filament out once to get it to grab hold.

I got it all working, so now I'm going to have it print something. Wish me luck!

A Nosh and a Show

That certainly covers it. I'm not one to post pictures of my meals, but this one's special. I don't often get to have one of my Kosher favorites, but yesterday, before I went to Broadway, I had lunch at Ben's deli on 38th. Beef chopped liver, rich and sweet, on fresh rye. It was delicious and deeply satisfying in a way that's hard for me to understand.




Then off to see "Hand To God" which is about a teenager who's lost his father and is "dealing" with the loss through his possessed (and extremely vulgar) sock puppet. I won't go into details, but suffice it to say that the show was hilarious and serious at the same time. I highly recommend seeing it if you're in town or it tours.

Tomorrow it's back to posts which aren't so much about me. Thanks for watching!

A Day at the Met

I spent yesterday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I ignored the everything else and went right for the musical instrument collection hoping to see something new to me and about the only thing really interesting was a double manual Bosendorfer piano.

After that it went to to my favorite painting school, the Impressionists. I'll share three of my favorites.

I love Monet's waterlily series.

My daughter started her stage career as a dancer, so Degas' Little Dancer holds special meaning for me.

I've been trying to make it to Chicago to see Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte for some time, so imagine my delight on finding that the Met had one of the studies.

Rainy NYC Monday

Yesterday it rained in New York City. Sometimes a driving rain. When I got on the Staten Island Ferry the fog was so thick you couldn't see 100 feet ahead of you. I wondered how they crew managed to navigate to lower Manhattan.

I took the R train up to Lexington and 5th and walked to my destination, 225 East 67th and lunch at the Jim Henson Legacy with Bonnie Erickson and Nathaniel Wharton.

After I got back to Staten Island there was dinner and shopping with our daughter. She is poised to graduate from Wagner College in a month and there's still so much to do.

Sorry, No Post Today

NYC for Five Days

Seen any good movies lately?

Our daughter is poised to graduate college in a month and awhile back it struck me that she's been in NYC for all that time and I've barely even visited the city during those four years.

So I decided to spend a few days enjoying. I'll share a few pictures and a little of what's happening. Today I'm going over to lower Manhattan and just hanging out for a while. Then dinner with said daughter.

Outside the Hampton.

Fun Time! LEGO Train Terminal Fully Automated by Arduino!

The Skate Girls of Kabul

From Colossal...

"Australian skateboarder Oliver Percovich created the non-profit Skateistan in 2007, a grassroots project that connects youth and education through skateboarding in Afghanistan. The organization, which has since grown to an award-winning international NGO, caught the attention of London-based photographer Jessica Fulford-Dobson and inspired her to visit the program in Kabul in 2012—especially after learning 45% of the students were female."

Skateboard diplomacy is a good thing.

Google Presents: Inside Abbey Road

Take the tour and have a complete look inside HERE.

Travel Photo of the Week

Varadero Beach, Cuba

The Chronology of the Universe in 3.5 Minutes

Simulacra - Aerial Video and Still Images of Landscapes Blended Together

King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man Instrumental Version

I almost never post music, so here's something neat. King Crimson's original 21st Century Schizoid Man with only bass, sax, drums and guitar.

Fun Time! LEGO Great Ball Contraption By Akiyuki!

And You Think Your Harley Is Cool

"Back in 2014 Netherlands- based custom motorcycle shop Revatu Customs unveiled Black Pearl, a motorcycle powered by a functioning steam engine. The bike may look fierce but it is by no means a speed demon–it tops out at about 5 MPH."

But it's still cooler that your Harley.

‘PBS Game/Show’ Examines the Illusion of Choice in Video Games

Travel Photo of the Week

Sybillini Mountains, Italy

Massive Mural of a Sleeping Man in Lyon, France

French street art duo Ella & Pitr recently created this massive, nearly 26,000 square foot mural of a sleeping figure in an industrial yard in Lyon, France.
 

Incredible Egg Art Will Awe You

In Bukovina, a northern region of Romania, the Easter tradition of dyeing eggs has been elevated into an art form. Filmmaker Titus-Armand Naprilica along with production company Jungles in Paris profiles the beautiful work of Elena Craciunescu in "The Egg Painter."

Relax. You couldn't have gotten this done before Easter, anyway.

Alaskan Wilderness Home Right Out of a Dr. Seuss Book

Found on Colossal. There's more info HERE.

Fun Time! YOU Need A Guitar Lesson From Danny Gatton!

Over Population, Over Consumption In Pictures

The Guardian online asks the question, "How do you raise awareness about population explosion?"

Show it in pictures. Disturbing photos of just what we're doing to the only world we have. Not so fun fact: in 2013 the world lost an Oklahoma sized area of forest. Time to wake up, folks. Or it's lights our forever.

Sprawling Mexico City rolls across the landscape, displacing every scrap of natural habitat

"If our species had started with just two people at the time of the earliest agricultural practices some 10,000 years ago, and increased by one percent per year, today humanity would be a solid ball of flesh many thousand light years in diameter, and expanding with a radial velocity that, neglecting relativity, would be many times faster than the speed of light." - Gabor Zovanyi

NOMAD Micro Home

I posted a picture of this home when it was in development awhile back and now it's available directly from Nomad Micro Homes.

Elegant, energy efficient. With a kitchenette and bath. Perfect as a guest house, vacation home or in-law suite. Less than $30k. Have a look.

Travel Photo of the Week

Baie de St Pierre, Martinique