Andrew Baisley

wood-is-good:

Love this!  Let’s get a bunch of us tumblr peeps who are a bit crazy and move here!  in the mean time enjoy the pics :D  

via cjwho:  finca bellavista: a sustainable treehouse community, costa rica

We've got less than a month to go until Game of Thrones returns for its fourth season on April 6th but HBO is pumping up fans of the fantasy series with several fan events, including a big premiere bash at Lincoln Center this evening. And oh hell yes they've brought a big, scaly, fire-breathing friend along to mark the occasion. [ more › ]

Ridiculous Wheel of Fortune solve. We say stick this guy in front of a map of the Indian Ocean and he’ll find that plane in no time.

-Jody, BL Show-

yolesoteldo:

Dear Cutie-Pie,

Recently, your mother and I were searching for an answer on Google. Halfway through entering the question, Google returned a list of the most popular searches in the world. Perched at the top of the list was “How to keep him interested.”

It startled me. I scanned several of the countless articles about how to be sexy and sexual, when to bring him a beer versus a sandwich, and the ways to make him feel smart and superior.

And I got angry.

Little One, it is not, has never been, and never will be your job to “keep him interested.”

Little One, your only task is to know deeply in your soul—in that unshakeable place that isn’t rattled by rejection and loss and ego—that you are worthy of interest. (If you can remember that everyone else is worthy of interest also, the battle of your life will be mostly won. But that is a letter for another day.)

If you can trust your worth in this way, you will be attractive in the most important sense of the word: you will attract a boy who is both capable of interest and who wants to spend his one life investing all of his interest in you.

Little One, I want to tell you about the boy who doesn’t need to be keptinterested, because he knows you are interesting:

I don’t care if he puts his elbows on the dinner table—as long as he puts his eyes on the way your nose scrunches when you smile. And then can’t stop looking.

I don’t care if he can’t play a bit of golf with me—as long as he can play with the children you give him and revel in all the glorious and frustrating ways they are just like you.

I don’t care if he doesn’t follow his wallet—as long as he follows his heart and it always leads him back to you.

I don’t care if he is strong—as long as he gives you the space to exercise the strength that is in your heart.

I couldn’t care less how he votes—as long as he wakes up every morning and daily elects you to a place of honor in your home and a place of reverence in his heart.

I don’t care about the color of his skin—as long as he paints the canvas of your lives with brushstrokes of patience, and sacrifice, and vulnerability, and tenderness.

I don’t care if he was raised in this religion or that religion or no religion—as long as he was raised to value the sacred and to know every moment of life, and every moment of life with you, is deeply sacred.

In the end, Little One, if you stumble across a man like that and he and I have nothing else in common, we will have the most important thing in common:

You.

Because in the end, Little One, the only thing you should have to do to “keep him interested” is to be you.

Your eternally interested guy,

Daddy

Happy International Women’s Day

Hey look, a feminist post that didn’t take it over the top into absurdity. Good job tumblr. 

huckberryco:

The Everyday Carry Shop

Yesterday, Catholic League president Bill Donohue was complaining about Guinness pulling its support from the St. Patrick's Day Parade, because organizers don't allow gay groups to march with signs in the annual event. Then he said he wanted to march in the NYC Pride parade, with a banner that says, "Straight is Great." Well, as it happens, the gay pride parade's organizers are totally cool with that! [ more › ]

Void Brass & Brown Leather

uhohmarty:

Tree that was shaped by strong winds.

"The driver made a left turn and he’s basically — it looks like he just sucked my daughter in from the left tire and knocked my mom down to the floor." 

—Girl Gone: Anatomy Of a New York City Pedestrian Death

WTF?

Art of Manliness


Art of Manliness


Art of Manliness


Art of Manliness


Art of Manliness


Art of Manliness

nevver:

1 Flannel Shirt, 7 Halloween Costumes | Art of Manliness

You know when you're walking on the street and someone comes out of a building, or turns the corner and is suddenly walking beside you, in the same direction, at the same pace? This is an incredibly frustrating thing that we don't often talk about, because you kind of feel like an asshole for being annoyed by it, right? Someone is walking next to you, that's such a nice thing... but it is disturbing your flow, and your energy, and suddenly you are mad at this total stranger for making everything awkward and also for making you question what kind of neurotic misanthrope you are to get annoyed at such a thing. You are left with three choices: [ more › ]

Singapore-based ONG&ONG have designed the Y-House.

Design: ONG&ONG
Photography: Aaron Pocock

An unfortunate side effect of techy get-togethers: Jargon

Some crazy stats about NYC’s (old, creaky, leaky) infrastructure. Lots more on today’s Brian Lehrer Show conversation with the Center for an Urban Future.

-Jody, BL Show-

jonahreenders:

Munising Falls

By: Jonah Reenders

jsigmon:

Trove General Store outside of Philadelphia, via Cork Grips.

Here's proof positive that it's not just greasy spoons that get put through the ringer by the Health Department's inspection system. Thomas Keller's lauded restaurant Per Se was slapped with 42 points on its most recent inspection on February 19th, earning the pricey eatery the dreaded "Grade Pending" status. The violation number puts the restaurant firmly at a "C" rating; they'll have another opportunity to score higher on a subsequent inspection. [ more › ]

A nice, safe, clean place to relieve oneself can be a tough thing to find in this town. But a new website is looking to change that, letting you go Web 1.0 or 2.0 in a stranger's home for a small fee. The name? AirPnP. Boom. Instant V.C. [ more › ]

After living in a "perfect" Upper East Side apartment for eight months, Nilay Shroff returned home from his IT job in October to find almost all of his possessions gone. The kitchen table, the bed, his dresser, his passport, all of his clothes, kitchen supplies, his precious Mariano Rivera bobblehead—POOF. Shroff tells ABC 7, "Just think of everything that you've acquired in your lifetime in your house just gone!" Oddly enough, his TV and his PS3 were left behind, like unlucky sinners after the Rapture. [ more › ]

Man, the popup restaurant Mu Ramen has had a crazy week. First, Pete Wells gave the restaurant, which operates out of Bricktown Bagel in Long Island City, a very favorable review in the New York Times. After the article ran, the folks at Mu received an overwhelming 2,000 reservation requests in 24 hours. The husband and wife team are currently trying to set up a brick and mortar location in LIC, so they decided to cancel all upcoming meals out of the bagel shop. Keeping track? The latest news, as reported by LIC Post, is that it’s likely Mu Ramen will set up permanent digs at 12-09 Jackson Avenue, between 48th Avenue and 47th Road. That’s the former Malu location; the ice cream shop shuttered last month. The owners didn’t announce the move but have applied for a liquor license there. Their hope is to open the ramen restaurant by the… Read More

I had read Niagara Falls had frozen over, but wanted to dig deeper to verify the photos that were being passed around were real. That’s when I stumbled upon Dave McKinley’s report from WGRZ-TV — the local NBC affiliate in Buffalo. McKinley heads to the Falls and reports in rhyme. It’s beautiful. 

http://on.wgrz.com/1jUVpbO

— SR, S360 

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Daylight Saving Time (United States) 2014 begins at 2:00 AM on Sunday, March 9

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Looking for something to drool over this morning? Then head over to Kinfolk Magazine’s design profile of this classic seven apartment in a Jackson Heights prewar co-op. Here are a few details on the couple’s renovation and design process: After moving in, their goal was to restore and simplify the previous owners’ modern additions to “bring the bones back to the feeling of the 1920s.” They restored the cupboards, redid the wiring, resurfaced the walls, refinished the floors, added some wainscoting, repaired the bathroom tiles, and that was only the start. Once they’d rebuilt the skeleton, they set about decorating with a mishmash of antiques from different eras. The result is pretty gorgeous, with historic elements throughout and a bit of a modern, lived-in touch. We also love that kitchen. Oh, to have a classic seven in Jackson Heights… The Kinfolk Home Tours: The Classic Seven [Kinfolk Magazine] … Read More

Meaningful achievements are, perversely, more likely to annoy the world around you.

Are you losing weight? “You should be happy with your own body!” Saving children in Africa? “You should save your own country!” Curing cancer? “What took you so long?”

Whatever you do, you’re going to annoy someone, and annoying someone can be a good thing. Let me show you the virtue of being an occasional asshole.

Rule 1: There are more important things than other people’s feelings

One of the reasons successful people can sometimes come over like assholes is because they’ve learned there are far more important things in this world than what other people feel.

It’s an uncomfortable truth. We’re raised to be nice, and for good reason. Niceness is safe. It’s excellent at maintaining the status quo. Nice people are conscious of what might upset others, and avoid such things.

Which is deadly if you want to accomplish anything of significance.

If your mission is to lead, create, or better the world, surrendering to the emotional concerns of others will paralyse and kill you. Leaders that can’t make tough decisions can’t lead. Artists that can never offend anyone can never delight anyone either.

This is not to say that being an asshole will make you successful. But an unwillingness to occasionally be one is an almost certain road to failure.

Rule 2: Hate is a side effect of impact

As your actions impact more people, the less those people will understand you:

Imagine a face-to-face conversation, with motives and nuance:

As it spreads, the simple message is interpreted:

And outright distorted:

This happens even when people read the exact same words on a screen. We just do it in our heads.

The only thing this process needs is enough people. If you’re impacting enough people in any way, you’re going to be tragically misrepresented in the time it takes a teenager to poop out a tweet.

You can avoid all of this by not doing anything important. If your biggest decision in life is what you change your desktop wallpaper to, no problem. But if you want to write a bestseller or end poverty or change the world in any way whatsoever you’re gonna have to cope with pissing off people entirely by accident.

Rule 3: Just because someone is offended, doesn’t mean they’re right

Think back to a time when you were angry – say you were cut off in traffic. How intelligent were you when you were pissed off?

Anger is an emotional response, and a spectacularly stupid one. It’s almost never in proportion, nor is it necessarily even just. It’s a fleeting impulse, like thinking a stranger is cute or preferring one colour over another.

And like any such impulse, the usual provocation for anger is association. Some people might hate Apple, others hate Google. Some people are right wing, others left. Say something nice about one group, and you’ll ignite the primal rage in the others before they can stop to think. Pretty much everyone thinks like this, sadly, unless they’re trying really hard.

Which leads to a crucial conclusion: conforming to other people’s anger is caving to the most stupid part of their nature.

Be an asshole and ignore those, um, assholes.

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The only way to avoid pissing people off is to do nothing important. Which leaves you with a choice, whether you like it or not: where will you settle on this scale?

Most of us fear upsetting the emotions of others. When we upset people, we’re compelled to justify ourselves. We yearn to win over our detractors. We seek everyone’s approval. And just one criticism among a hundred compliments burns into our brain like a cigarette.

That’s actually a good sign. It means you’re not really an asshole. Just don’t be afraid to act like one where it matters.

After a busy couple of days filled with kale chips, figure skating Will Ferrell, rapping news anchors, and celebrity cameos galore, Jimmy Fallon closed out his first week as host of The Tonight Show with one of his most beloved recurring bits: "The History Of Rap," with Justin Timberlake. For the fifth installment, the two broke out Beastie Boys, Notorious B.I.G., Outkast, Drake, Kanye West and more. Watch below. [ more › ]