“Anytime I ever downloaded something it felt disposable and it hasn’t matter as much. But like when I would buy something, especially when I was a kid and I didn’t have much money to do that, you would sit there and you would really like look at the artwork and you would think about it and you would listen to it more than once, because you couldn’t just delete it. You weren’t just going to throw some CD out that you just bought; you’d actually give it a chance and some of those things that started becoming maybe some of your favorite things. You actually gave them some time because they were more real, you know? — Tom Fec on Black Moth Super Rainbow and how music may or may not be a product.
The pet fawn of Brad Curry of Galesburg, Michigan, watches him depart from home every morning on his schoolbus, 1960 (via Vintage Photos LJ)
Places, with books, for teens to stay.
“A lot of public spaces try to keep teenagers out (remember those high-frequency noise generators that play a pitch only kids can hear?). But the New York Public Library is trying something different. What if they designed a space specifically for teens? What would that look like?
Their answer can be found on the third floor of Harlem’s Hamilton Grange branch. The 4,400-square-foot space is the NYPL’s first full-floor space dedicated to teens. It cost $1.8 million to build, and was just honored as a 2013 winner of the American Institute of Architects Library Building Awards.”
Amanda Erickson speaks with architect Lyn Rice of Rice+Lipka Architects about his firm’s teen-centric library design.
Read: Designing Libraries that Encourage Teens to Loiter
[Images: Rice+Lipka Architects]
(via theatlantic)
Well paired with this.
To walk like a mermaid.
“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.” — Willa Cather
