Summer Streets will take place for three consecutive Saturdays in August (August 9, 16, & 23) from 7:00 am – 1:00 pm. The route will connect the Brooklyn Bridge with Central Park and there will be recommended connections to the Hudson River Greenway, allowing participants to plan a route as long or short as they wish.

This event takes a valuable public space – our City’s streets – and opens them up to people to play, walk, bike, and breathe. Summer Streets provides more space for healthy recreation and is a part of NYC’s greening initiative by encouraging New Yorkers to use more sustainable forms of transportation.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/summerstreets/html/about/about.shtml

generally, i’m scared to bike ride in the city, but my dad sent me this link and i’m really excited about it; it’s like hopstop for bike lanes!

http://www.ridethecity.com/ 

http://tessevans.muxtape.com/

i meant to post about this about a week ago, but i’ve been so busy watching it that i haven’t gotten around to it: www.hulu.com

i love online tv, it’s the poor man’s dvr.  and there are tons of greats things to watch on hulu. they have entire seasons of shows, old throwbacks, clips, and movies.

but i knew i was in love when i saw this on the “most popular viewed video”:

SNL’s Iran So Far

the New York Times Slideshow

previously: the high line

this post is for a friend who just found a mouse in her apartment. its new york. its bound to happen.

we had one about a year ago, which, after a lot of deliberation i decided needed to be killed humanely (NOT with a glue trap) because catching and releasing it would just be putting it in my neighbor’s house, as the mouse would be unlikely to find a home in any nearby field.

the whole episode ended horribly; mice screams, in case you don’t know, sound human. and after the whole ordeal i thought: there has got to be a better way.

a couple months later i read this post (link: Mice Capades Article) on the Blueprints blog Bluelines, which i really enjoy, and i immediately bookmarked it because i knew, invariably, i would need it one day.

Victor Electronic Mouse Trap (with batteries) – on sale too!: here

you can also pick one up at Home Depot.

everyone is excited about muxtape, which is exciting, because it means mixes will rain like from the internet like candy.

so you upload songs from your computer to your muxtape page (up to 12 songs, none larger than 10mb) and then you have a mix, and a url, to share. if you already have one you could add your link below in the comments.

you can see lifehacker’s feature on the site here.

just click once on the title to Play or Pause.

http://muxtape.com/

unless its a national holiday i usually don’t know why the empire state building is lit up in particular colors: green, purple, & yellow? and it’s not mardi gras…. oh, right, of course, the dog show.

now you can make guesses and have a definitive answer source.

http://whatcoloristheempirestatebuilding.com/

“willyousitnexttomeonthebus?!”

http://www.juliapott.com/

so maybe you’ve gotten your $600 tax economy stimulus check, have paid off your bills, put some in the bank, and bought yourself something lovely, and still have a spare $20 and feel like doing some big picture good.

one of my favorite online writers margaret mason(formerly berry) wrote this article for the morning news on Virtue: Ten Bucks? Ten Charities (if i could quote the entire article here i would) which led me to one of my favorite organizations www.heifer.org which gives families in need a crop of seedlings or an animal, like a llama! that sets up a sort of giving tree for the families, who are given classes on how to care for their gift animal/crop. (and then you can put things like “just bought a water buffalo/helper monkey (different organization, see article)” on your google/twitter/aim, because that is hilarious.)

WaterAid  is also on my list.

www.heifer.org      www.wateraid.org     www.habitat.org

i just found this and cannot get over how great it is:

i think the polar bear is my favorite. i was going to save it for the summer08 mix, but i couldn’t deprive you of this video as your first impression.

the artist’s site: http://jennyowenyoungs.com/

MoMA has an amazing exhibit on right now. i saw it recently and it blew my mind. it’s pretty much a sure thing you’ll see designs which will make you think “i totally thought of that” and/or “i can’t believe someone thought of that/figured out how to make that work.”

I highly recommend going. and if you’re not in going to be in NYC you can still visit the online exhibition- (but if you’re in NYC i promise it’s worth going. if you can’t swing the $20, $12 for students, it’s always free on Fridays after 4pm)

you may have seen this on MoMA’s promo materials and wondered what, exactly, it was. well! it’s a glass blown object that uses live bees to determine fertility cycles and detect diseases- including cancer. apparently bees have phenomenal odor perception and can be trained to target a specific odor (in breath.) – click here to learn more.

this is pretty much exactly what it looks like. indoor/outdoor furniture. i bet new yorkers are peeing their pants when they see this. – click here to see this object on the online gallery.

Merry-Go-Round Water Pump: the children spin around on the toy, pumping water into a nearby vessel. this reminds me of an exhibit that the MoMA put on a couple of years ago- Design for the Other 90% (of the, not affulent, population) I think it’s a great example of good design for a real need. -click here to see it on the online gallery.

MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York
You can see the exhibit online here: http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind

like an egg timer, but for your tabs.

i like that there’s nothing to download, just open the link and input your time. i think i originally found this through lifehacker.

good for breaks, or making sure you leave for work in exactly 10 minutes.

http://theinsomniacsociety.com/timer.html

i have mentioned jason sho green before; i first found him through his valentines cards/images:

perfect.

you can buy them/see his other work here: www.jasonshogreen.com 

an illustrator created this video for the times which i really liked called ‘tulips,’ about the kiss:
 http://scher.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/tulips/