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Sunday Links

  • Seven block’s on 9th Avenue in NYC’s Chelsea neighborhood are getting protected bike lanes – here’s Streetsblog take: NYC Gets Its First-Ever Physically-Separated Bike Path
  • Sex and Urbanity: Sex in the Park, and Its Sneaky Spectators
  • Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change
  • Don’t miss Performance Z-A: a Pavilion and 26 Days of Events at Storefront
  • Oldie-but-goodie: I Luv Helvetica

Friday, Jetlag Almost Over, Links

  • 2007 Urban Mobility Report
    guess which big city ranks last in traffic?
  • Today is, Talk Like a Pirate Day, Arrrrrrrh
  • This Is Not Charity concerning the Clinton Climate Initiative
  • Adam Greenfield describes what his urban utopia would look like

That is all.

Overwhelming

OverwhelmingOverwhelming, originally uploaded by Calvin Sun

The Canadian Press: Canadian dollar reaches parity with staggering U.S. greenback

Canadian Dollar Reaches Parity With Staggering U.S. Greenback

Will You Marry Me? Say Cheese!

On getting photographs of your marriage proposal: Will You Marry Me? Say Cheese!

Toronto Subway Design

BroadBroad, originally uploaded by Charlatan001

  • Inscribed in the living tile: Type in the Toronto subway
  • Toronto subway station tiles
  • Jose Ongpin’s History of Typography work, History of Typography – Toronto Subway

Dark and Fleshy: The Color of Top Grossing Movies

2070913-movs_color_spectrum.jpgcolor distribution in movie posters

I started to think that NC-17 movies perhaps shared a common visual string in their marketing materials — dark and provocative — to make up in buzz for the large amount of people that could not see these movies.

Dark and Fleshy: The Color of Top Grossing Movies

Ropongi Skyscraper Construction – 35 years in 10 Seconds


Ropongi Skyscraper Construction – 35 years in 10 Seconds is insane. Watch the slowed down version to make sense of the construction.

Down Under, Low Posting

Sydney Opera HouseSydney Opera House, originally uploaded by plemeljr

I’m in Australia for the week so posting will be slow.
But check out my Australia photos which I will be updating as I shoot them.

Oscar Niemeyer

no titleno title, originally uploaded by photostuff

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