Librarians Kickin’ Sabotage

http://vimeo.com/66169135

Mississippi Water Flow

Harold Fisk

Concentric Subway Map

wes ANDERSON’s Moonrise Kingdom

Visualizin​g Subway Ridership

The Maestro – Demystifying Conducting

Went to see the NY Philharmonic the other night and I couldn’t help but think the maestro seemed ahead on timing. This video definitely clarified some things and added some humanity to the maestro. demystifying-conducting.html

On Exactitude in Science – J.L. Borges

… In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.

Suárez Miranda,

Viajes de varones prudentes, Libro IV, Cap. XLV, Lérida, 1658

Borges, J. L. 1998. On exactitude in science. P. 325,

In, Jorge Luis Borges, Collected

Fictions

(Trans. Hurley, H.) Penguin Books.

Chap Hop

Charting History

Restoring Dignity to Pennsylvania Station

I could not agree with this piece more. It’s a pleasure to navigate the halls of Grand Central and a misery to traverse the latest iteration of Penn Station. Bring back the glory of the McKim, Mead & White building.