Heroisch
Then in 1895, German pharmaceuticals giant Bayer came out with a new wonder drug, more powerful than aspirin, that worked phenomenally well as a cough suppressant. Its name was heroisch, meaning strong, or heroic, but in the United States it was marketed under a different brand name: Heroin.
It’s That Simple
“We wanted to stay here, raise our kids here. We know everyone here. It feels like we’re in D.R.,” Ms. Rosario said using the initials for the Dominican Republic. “If you want to make the neighborhood better, really, it’s about preserving it.”
Institutional Thinking
“Lyon’s documentary series became the model for visual work addressing the aging infrastructure of American cities, now sometimes called ruin porn, and the perils of the 1960s policy of urban renewal through demolition.”
Description of Danny Lyon’s “The Destruction of Lower Manhattan” show at the Cleveland Museum of Art. To mention the words ruins porn in any relation to Mr. Lyons work is abhorrent…
If i were to drop some names about capturing disappearing urban places, an obvious one would be Atget, but goes back to Marville in the 1850s.
Muscle Memory
Only 13.9 percent of workers are employed in blue-collar professions, vs, 15 percent in government and 71.1 percent in the service sector. But “muscle jobs” still play an outsize role in some communities.
Thoughts on A.I.
After the debacle, Mr. Musk “Excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake. To be precise, my mistake. Humans are underrated.” But that was way back four years ago.
Smelter Flight
As recently as 2000, the U.S. was home to 23 aluminum smelters. Today there are six. Aluminum companies decided a long time ago that it was cheaper to produce the raw metal in areas outside the U.S. that had easy access to cheap hydro, thermal, and petroleum power—Canada, Iceland, Russia, and the Middle East.
The famed Anaconda Smelter Stack on Smelter Hill, Anaconda Momnatana – built in 1918 and closed in 1981. Copper smelters, of course, began falling, at the beginning of the Rust Belt. Consuming lots of electricity and big polluters, smelting, coke plants and integrated steel mills continue to be pushed out of the Ameican economy.
The Greatest Camera
Hobbel telescope is digital realty based representations that is science, information, knowledge and better than art, or anyone’s paintings that i have seen.
Tech Bubble Life
Sterling turned his attention to the morality of technological advancement.
“How can we get past the ‘Wow’ factor? How can we really inquire with this? How can we treat it with moral seriousness? I think the first step, really the proper step, is to accept that our hands are not clean. We don’t just play and experiment. We kill. When you disrupt the stone box, the stone box goes empty. It’s not merely irritated or disturbed – it’s dead, it’s dead media. It’s dead, it’s been killed. And to be a phoenix you have to admit your complicity in the barbecue fire. It’s your fire; it’s not somebody else’s. It’s like, yes, we killed the past. We didn’t pull the trigger on it directly, but it died for our benefit. It died through things we did. Own up to that. Own up to that. Yes, we burned it up. No one is historically innocent. Yes, we are carnivores at this barbecue. Yes it died, we roasted it and we ate it. And the saving grace here is that we eat what we kill. Go on, eat it. Don’t pretend to be the child bride in white lace who thinks that babies are found under the cabbages. You’re not that young. You’re 26 years old. You’re going to be slaughtering the hog of the 20th Century, roasting it over a bonfire. Live up to it, come on. To kill it and pretend that it was some kind of accident, that is shameful.”
“A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.” Steve Jobs
The Willimasburg/Greenpoint Contextual Rezoning Act of 2005
“I heard the rents on Bedford are now as high as Rodeo Drive,” she said, referring to the iconic retail mecca in Beverly Hills, Calif.
“These people saw these buildings not as commodities, but as their homes,” Mr. Baggett said. Gentrification “can appear in the form of an aesthetic, an art gallery, a planter box, all these things can signal displacement,” he said.