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Puddled by Sandy
Victo Ngai
No storm can stop the NYTimes! This free-standing art is for today’s letter page. I was asked by AD Alexandra to create a general image of a storm in NY as we didn’t know what exact impacts Sandy would have. Right around I finished the piece, my internet started going on and off. Luckily the power stayed on the whole time and I was able to deliver it in time, phew…
It’s rough seeing all the damges Sandy has caused. Please be safe and stay strong y’all!
Crazy Eyes, New York Times.
Victo Ngai
I drew some crazy eyes for New York Times’s Sunday Technology page. The article is online now and will be in this Sunday’s paper. (March 18th). Many bifocal glasses wearers have to bob their heads up and down for the right focuses when looking at computer screens, a new type of lens is introduced to ease this strain.
Due to time constrain, AD Minh and I started working on this piece before the article was written. So we only had a rough concept to work with. Minh liked what I did with the “The ghost of tax return” for the NYT a month back and suggested we could use a similar approach to show someone staring at the screen with their head bobbing up and down. I usually like to come up with my own ideas, but this time I found the idea suggested very fun and was happy to play along. It turned out to be a great collaboration, thanks Minh for all the insightful inputs!
The New York Times Has a Tumblr
At least, they have one for photographs now. You can find it at The Lively Morgue and it’s simply amazing. Check out this one, for instance.
Aug. 2, 1976: Doreen Haviland, in front, rides the flume with Tara Nugent and Officer Dick Porteus in this photo, taken in Coney Island at the 40th annual Police Anchor Club outing for the widows and children of deceased police officers. See related archival photos of children on the Lens blog. Photo: Barton Silverman/The New York Times
Who was it who said, “Blessed is the man who has found his work”? Whoever it was had the right idea in his mind. Mark you, he says his work—not somebody else’s work. The work that is really a man’s own work is play and not work at all. Cursed is the man who has found some other man’s work and cannot lose it. When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world. — Mark Twain, “A Humorist’s Confession”, New York Times, November 26, 1905
From Mark Twain Speaks for Himself (via liquidnight)
![Joe Morello, Drummer with Dave Brubeck Quartet, Dies at 82 - NYTimes.com
Joe Morello, a member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, at a jazz festival in Boston in 1966.
Joe Morello, a jazz drummer whose elegant, economical playing in the Dave Brubeck Quartet sounded natural and effortless even in unusual time signatures, died on Saturday at his home in Irvington, N.J. He was 82.
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Joe Morello, Drummer with Dave Brubeck Quartet, Dies at 82 - NYTimes.com
Joe Morello, a member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, at a jazz festival in Boston in 1966.
Joe Morello, a jazz drummer whose elegant, economical playing in the Dave Brubeck Quartet sounded natural and effortless even in unusual time signatures, died on Saturday at his home in Irvington, N.J. He was 82.
[strangest image choice…ever…]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Ulysses S. Grant V, the last surviving great-grandson of the nation’s 18th president, died Wednesday in a southwest Missouri home brimming with artifacts from his great-grandfather. He was 90.
His death was confirmed by a grandson, Ulysses S. Grant VI…
