Patrick Moberg

I was given a microscope a little over a year ago and was frustrated that I couldn’t save images of the things I saw in it. Michael Franklin, who has access to some incredible equipment, posts wonderful photomicrography on Flickr. She goes to RIT in upstate New York (where I went), and studies Biomedical Photography.

April 8

Everyday Importance: Robitussin

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caseypugh:

What a new and unique experience!

April 5

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Watched The Point last night. It was bizarre and wonderful.

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“ Whenever inspiration don’t find you, you have to find it.
Jay-Z

April 3

A recent favorite.

April 2

Murakami exhibit opens at the Brooklyn Museum this Saturday.

April 1

“ Imagining is the process of thinking ‘what else it could be like’, ‘how else could things be’, and we practice that all the time with objects of culture.

Brian Eno

From a talk between Will Wright and Brian Eno that I have on my iPod. Every few months I go back and listen to it. Near the end Eno talks about how we try to extrapolate a lot of information from small choices people make in their physical appearance. Likewise, you embed information about your own lifestyle, or perhaps a lifestyle you wish you had, in the clothes and style you adopt.

March 29

Celebrity

I saw two famous people today. Demetri Martin getting on the L train and John Malkovich getting in a car with his family. At both encounters there was a split second reaction of “Whoa! A friend of mine. I should say hi.” Immediately followed by an abrupt realization that this person is not my friend, but a complete stranger. It dawned on me that the danger of celebrity arises when that second realization doesn’t hit.

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Before he was in Vampire Weekend, lead singer Ezra Koenig was in a rap duo called L’Homme Run.