One Day It'll All Make Sense

Rubric: "Teenage Heroes Growing Up"

"You can see an artist's status changing when the category of "Tour Dates" on his website disappears being replaced by 'Appearances'." (Quoting an old blog post from Nov 18, 2007)

Now Common has written his memoirs, he's wearing suit 'n' tie on the Daily Show (thanks tsw) and performs poetry at the White House.

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

London Escalator Conundrum

One thing I don't understand in the UK:
People are driving on the left side of the road and are thus overtaking on the right side.
Why do they still stick to the rather continental maxim of standing on the right side and walking (overtaking) on the left side of an escalator?

Sinfest Recommendation 06 08 2007

Hehe--Tatsuya Ishida did it again.
Today's sinfest clip is just great.
I should definitely read it more often. Too bad it doesn't have a feed.

Photolog pt. VI - X-Large FR-EE 1974 - Berlin

X-Large FR-EE 1974 -
Mobile Photos @ Berlin 2006

Once again, once again-gain

I really really dig and recommend Bluejake.
The photos and the commentaries are terrific.
Check out the MomoMetaStyle.

Things you already know

There is a nice small internet platform where you can sell and buy used stuff. It goes by the strange name of ebay.com... Check it out.
Just kidding.

But there is another site you should already know (because I mentioned it earlier):
bluejake.com, the best daily photoblog on the web. There is no way I could over-emphasize its beauty.
Especially check out his recent Top of the Rock series part 1 and part 2, consisting of gorgeous NYC pictures shot from the top of the Rockefeller center.

Even if your interest in photography is small, your sense of aesthetics is hard-wired.

Jake Dobkin is Bluejake

I'd like to introduce my favourite photoblog - run by Jacob "Bluejake" Dobkin, a "28 year-old amateur photographer living in New York City". Every day he uploads at least four pictures, mainly from NYC. At the moment he is travelling France, and some of his buddy photographers are helping out.
He also got the most brilliant shots of Christo's 'The Gates' project I am aware of. I'll pay tribute to his work by permanently linking Bluejake. It is worth a visit every single day.

Tatsuya Ishida's Sinfest

For some time now I've been reading Tatsuya Ishida's Sinfest (you gotta scroll down a little bit). The daily comic strips are stand-alone but in sequence they also yield little stories - about almost everything that matters in life: the good and the bad, God and the Devil, nookie (a word I learned there) and love. The cast: Slick, Monique, Criminy, Squigley, Seymour, Pooch&Parcival, God and the Devil, Ezekiel&Ariel, and The Dragon. My highlight of last month, June 2005.