urban lights at lacma. 

newyorker:

“Gurbuz captured a view that was surreal but also strangely familiar to all New Yorkers: the mirage of the twin towers reflected in all of the city’s skyscrapers. In the first few years, we kept being surprised by what was not there.”

- Art Editor Françoise Mouly on “Twin Towers,” by Gürbüz Dogan Eksioglu, September 15, 2003

Click here for more photos of, and Françoise Mouly’s comments on, other 9/11-related New Yorker covers.

manhattan in motion. 

(via urbnist)

wow. this is really disgusting. at the very best, it’s just really bad comedy.  FUEL TV really took a dump on some students at my alma mater, USC. 

I agree with the University of Colorado ethnic-studies professor that said, “This is demeaning to millions of Asian-Americans who have put down roots in the U.S., claim English as their language, and root vigorously for their favorite sports team.”

And i’m also pleased that Fox Sports intervened. 

culver city wall mural. 

what is the future of print? In a fast-moving world that’s becoming increasingly digitized, can the printed page be saved? And what does the future hold for book culture? 

This photo news story from last year comes from the Boston Globe. It analyzes aerial photos to examine the progress of development (or lack thereof) in an investment area in southwest Florida in lieu of the recent financial meltdown. 

In Bradentown, FL, “many homes there are empty and have been for years. Huge developments sit partially completed among densely built up neighborhoods and swampland. A guest stated that there were ‘enough housing lots in Charlotte County to last for more than 100 years.’ Boom and bust residential development has drastically affected parts of southwest Florida for decades now, and I spent some time (with the help of Google Earth), looking around the area.”

This is another story for which visual methods can usefully capture some of the complexity of the urban sprawl in an easily digestible manner.

Twenty six photos accompany the article. Many of them are truly visually stunning. 

official favoritism in orange county:

layoffs, furloughs… and unjustified raises for high-level execs, of course.

give a listen. 

3-way street: interactions at a busy intersection. 

if the dept of regional planning wasn’t so locked down in politics, perhaps we’d have already implemented traffic designs that allow for safer co-existence between drivers, bikers and pedestrians.