T-Rex in effex

le-desir-de-lautre: István Réti (Hungarian,...

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:16:41 -0400

István Réti (Hungarian, 1872-1945), Landscape at Nagybánya, 1900, oil on cardboard, 70 x 85 cm, Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs.

fromthere: (via stripes | Flickr - Photo Sharing!)

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:08:19 -0400

fromthere:

(via stripes | Flickr - Photo Sharing!)

poboh: Heat wave in New York. Licking blocks of ice on a hot...

Sat, 11 May 2013 11:30:52 -0400

poboh:

Heat wave in New York. Licking blocks of ice on a hot day, 1911.

lostsplendor: Bear Mountain, New York c. 1943 (via Shorpy...

Sat, 04 May 2013 21:37:40 -0400

lostsplendor:

Bear Mountain, New York c. 1943 (via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)

urbanmetaphysics: Greenwich Village, NYC, c. 1967.

Sat, 04 May 2013 21:33:18 -0400

urbanmetaphysics:

Greenwich Village, NYC, c. 1967.

Tom Waits/Cookie Monster, “God’s Away On...

Wed, 01 May 2013 19:50:22 -0400

Tom Waits/Cookie Monster, “God’s Away On Business”

When did the Delta terminal at La Guardia get so swanky? (IPads...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:12:31 -0400

When did the Delta terminal at La Guardia get so swanky? (IPads and charging stations for everyone!)

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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:31:14 -0400

The Top 20 NYC Rap Albums of All Time: 20 - 11 - New York - Music - Sound of the City

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:58:32 -0400

The Top 20 NYC Rap Albums of All Time: 20 - 11 - New York - Music - Sound of the City

Free Music Archive: New York's Alright: Contemporary Punk & Hardcore Festival

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:29:59 -0400

Free Music Archive: New York's Alright: Contemporary Punk & Hardcore Festival:

mix of current NYC punk bands from WFMU

avenyc: Cirrus // Bonobo [One of the best videos I’ve seen this...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:20:04 -0400

avenyc:

Cirrus // Bonobo

[One of the best videos I’ve seen this year from a band I often zone out to: Bonobo.]

Daria marathon starting at Casa Mahmud…

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 18:54:17 -0400

Daria marathon starting at Casa Mahmud…

All my life has become is working 12 hour days during the week and endlessly netflixing through The...

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 10:51:48 -0400

All my life has become is working 12 hour days during the week and endlessly netflixing through The Office, Parks and Rec, and It’s Always Sunny on the weekends……it ain’t so bad.

Adeline hears Bad Brains for the first time. (by...

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:00:35 -0500

Adeline hears Bad Brains for the first time. (by dudeabides671)

This is the best

joie-of-living: Ayubia National Park - Pakistan

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:49:49 -0500

joie-of-living:

Ayubia National Park - Pakistan

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Sat, 02 Feb 2013 21:38:46 -0500

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Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:16:22 -0500

"The three winners (‘Argo,’ ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ and ‘Homeland’) have all been sold as complex,..."

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:44:37 -0500

“The three winners (‘Argo,’ ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ and ‘Homeland’) have all been sold as complex, nuanced productions that don’t shy away from hard truths about US foreign policy. And liberal audiences can’t get enough of them. Perhaps it’s because, alongside the odd bit of self-criticism, they are all so reassuringly insistent that, in an increasingly complicated world, America just keeps on doing the right thing. And even when it does the wrong thing – such as, I don’t know, torture and drone strikes and deadly invasions – it is to combat far greater evil, and therefore OK.”

- And the winner at the Golden Globes is Islamophobia. (via mehreenkasana)

(via The Census Dotmap contains one black dot for every person...

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 16:21:34 -0500

(via The Census Dotmap contains one black dot for every person in the US, and nothing else | The Verge)

Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America — Vivek Bald | Harvard University Press

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 18:20:14 -0500

Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America — Vivek Bald | Harvard University Press:

In the final years of the nineteenth century, small groups of Muslim peddlers arrived at Ellis Island every summer, bags heavy with embroidered silks from their home villages in Bengal. The American demand for “Oriental goods” took these migrants on a curious path, from New Jersey’s beach boardwalks into the heart of the segregated South. Two decades later, hundreds of Indian Muslim seamen began jumping ship in New York and Baltimore, escaping the engine rooms of British steamers to find less brutal work onshore. As factory owners sought their labor and anti-Asian immigration laws closed in around them, these men built clandestine networks that stretched from the northeastern waterfront across the industrial Midwest.

The stories of these early working-class migrants vividly contrast with our typical understanding of immigration. Vivek Bald’s meticulous reconstruction reveals a lost history of South Asian sojourning and life-making in the United States. At a time when Asian immigrants were vilified and criminalized, Bengali Muslims quietly became part of some of America’s most iconic neighborhoods of color, from Tremé in New Orleans to Detroit’s Black Bottom, from West Baltimore to Harlem. Many started families with Creole, Puerto Rican, and African American women.

As steel and auto workers in the Midwest, as traders in the South, and as halal hot dog vendors on 125th Street, these immigrants created lives as remarkable as they are unknown. Their stories of ingenuity and intermixture challenge assumptions about assimilation and reveal cross-racial affinities beneath the surface of early twentieth-century America.