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Cherry Blossom FestivalBrooklyn Botanical Garden

by natecooper | May 3, 2008 | aesthetics, Brooklyn, culture, photography

Finally made it to the Cherry Blossom Festival at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. It was like a festival as to be expected, food, music, tents but I was sort of surprised at how wondrous it felt. I floated from area to area running into kimono-clad Brooklynites and...

MP3 Cassette Player | gadgettastic.com

by natecooper | Apr 24, 2008 | aesthetics, music, style, technology

[link] Wow. This is just too cool. Too bad I ditched all of my cassette players a while ago.

BLDGBLOG: Hotels in the Afterlife

by natecooper | Apr 22, 2008 | aesthetics, architecture, culture

[link] Modernist ruins

The Commodity of © Murakami

by natecooper | Apr 19, 2008 | aesthetics, art, Brooklyn, culture, style

The first thing that strikes me about © Murakami is how blatantly familiar everything seems. Anyone accustomed to Japanese or anime culture may find © Murakami unremarkable. Life-size sculptures of transforming robots — aside from their explicit...

Tim Robbins’ Speech to NAB

by natecooper | Apr 18, 2008 | aesthetics, culture, media

—— update: someone contacted me via email and pointed me to the full length speech (sound only) hosted on fair [link] longer… but worth a listen. (via flingLog )