It’s sad to see that Penn Station used to be such a stunner! See other Beautiful Train Stations That Fell To The Wrecking Ball (And The Crappy Stuff Built In Their Place). Interesting side note: all three cities I’ve lived in so far (New York, Atlanta and Savannah) are represented on the list…
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I’ve been rocking out to Phoenix’s new album for roughly a week, now, so, needless to say this tickled me greatly!
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And happy Weekend Before St Patrick’s Day, too! Have a fab weekend!
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Story time! Once, while in the New Museum, Jack and I were staring out a side window that was part of a small hallway. The view itself was pretty crappy, just the side of another building (which is a very common thing in this city). We must have looked like we were really studying it. A woman, who was part of a tour group, came right over, looked out and went, “Beautiful!” and walked away. We looked at each other, then at her as she walked off, and Jack, questioned her, “What?” We laughed for a good 5 minutes straight about it and bring it up every now and again for a smile.

Klara.be (belgium art radio/channel) did an experiment with Belgian painter Luc Tuymans (who’s paintings go for million usd). What if you take art out of its usual context and expose it in the street? Would people even notice it?

This is fantastically amazing to me! I’ve always thought that a lot of people only think its art if it’s in a museum. They can’t seem to appreciate that “art” is anywhere and everywhere. It’s not defined by it’s space.
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I’m not sure why, but this has always been a topic of interest for me. Never really had serious body image issues, I think it’s just a fascination with their culture…

French people eat until they’re full, Americans eat until the food’s gone
Furthermore, we have found that the heavier a person is — French or American — the more they rely on external cues to tell them to stop eating and the less they rely on whether they felt full,” said senior author Brian Wansink, the John S. Dyson Professor of Marketing and director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab in the Department of Applied Economics and Management, now on leave to serve as executive director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion until January 2009.

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Along the same lines, close friend of mine also recommended the above book to me French Women Don’t Get Fat.

…you’ll find simple tricks that boil down to eating carefully prepared seasonal food, exercising more and refusing to think of food as something that inspires guilt. It’s both a practical message and far easier said than done in today’s ‘no pain, no gain’ culture.

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Steampunk version of Justice League of America: “The Guild of Justice-Minded Citizenry” (Flickr pool)

How To Behave On An Internet Forum (video)

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