Jackson Pearce
Author of books (SISTERS RED, SWEETLY, AS YOU WISH); Keeper of pets (Alcott, Space Dog); Lover of things (pastries, office supplies)
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The Low Line: A plan for a new park banks on subterranean photosynthesis, a neat project from PopTech staffer Dan Barasch.
From The New York Times:
Ever since it opened in 2009, the High Line has drawn out-of-town visitors who hope to replicate its success. Observers of the elevated park on the West Side of Manhattan have come from nearby municipalities like Jersey City and Philadelphia and places as far away as Hong Kong.
Lately, those observers have been coming from across town, with plans for another attention-grabbing green space on a former transit site. But this one comes with a twist — the proposed park would be underground, in a dank former trolley terminal under Delancey Street that is controlled by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Though its promoters call it the “Delancey Underground,” another nickname has already been coined: the Low Line.
From CNN:
Ramsey and Barasch’s romantic vision includes a polished, undulating ceiling plane from which the “remote skylights” — developed by Ramsay to filter out harmful ultraviolet and infrared light frequencies — will flood the park with sunrays all year-round, night and day.
According to Ramsey, the technology is “like a cross between a telescope and an endoscope” — capturing light from the sun and then transporting it through fiber-optic cables onto a relatively small focal point.
Inspiration: “that unexpected moment of discovery when the mind leaps to a new place triggered by something interesting. That something interesting can be a thing you’ve read, or seen on the street, or in a book or gallery, or a piece of music, or something really great or something really awful.”
Influence: “when you see something you like, usually work that is related to the work you do, and you absorb whatever it is you like about it and either consciously or subconsciously emulate it or somehow incorporate something of it into your own work.
Reference material: “when you look at something specific and try to make something like that.”
(via austinkleon)
Salinger’s letter to Hemingway
A fascinating letter, particularly self-reflective observations like, “I am a jerk, but the wrong people mustn’t know it,” and “Nothing was wrong with me except that I’ve been in an almost constant state of despondency.”
It’s worth remembering that Salinger saw about as much combat in World War II as anyone.
lisapizza asked you:
this is really a question for the end of the month, but now that i have a first draft, how do i edit it? i won nano a couple of years ago but trying to edit the behemoth was so intimidating that i never looked at it again.
If you have reached the end,…
Now you can listen to me read the first chapter of The Fault in Our Stars without ever leaving the comforts of
hometumblr. Who are we kidding? Tumblr is home.
I especially love Rue and Cinna in these shots…
(via vlcphoto)
