My cousin-in-law, Spencer Heyfron, shot these images for New York Magazine on the first day of gay marriage in NYC
Tribute to Adam Yauch: MCA’s opening lines from every Beastie Boys song
Video: GE Healthcare’s Wisconsin employees meet cancer survivors
OK, diving back into the waters here. I relaunched this Tumblr blog, #Communic8, to give myself someplace to think through some of the issues facing communications… and generally to point out some things I think are cool.
It used to be called “Gravel and Cheese…” after a crazy little shop somewhere in the Chenango Valley, New York back in the 1990s.
Yeah, it was dumb. No, they never had any cheese. I am sure both my followers will be distraught by this radical change of direction.
So for my friends at work, at times I may migrate my thoughts over to @inspira
I’ve unlinked this on Twitter because, well, I’m not sure Tweets belong on here but I will Tweet when something appears on here.
I might even talk to my friends over at @themustachelab
Facebook will remain an island whose shores are not reached by this content. Except for the Boys at the Lab.
Maybe I’ll find a way to bring Linked-In into the mix if I can find the right balance. I don’t like my own feed being filled by everyone else’s minute-by-minute posts so I promise not to do that.
Instagram will be my friend.
I reserve the right to go off topic, at any time, and bring up the Jets, Mets, Rangers, Brooklyn Nets or Celtics (Knicks are persona non grata); music or anything else.
Here goes…
By John Dineen
And we are supporting it with ‘GE Global Pink Ribbon’ events in 25 countries over the next four weeks. GE employees from the US, Brazil, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Turkey, UAE, India, China and Japan will come together to form ‘human ribbons’, helping to…
I can see the influence of my brother-in-law @philstraub in this “War in the North” screen shot
Found on the HuffPost :
Leonardo Da Vinci’s 500-year-old Vitruvian Man is back, in a very big way. Los Angles-based artist John Quigley teamed up with Greenpeace to construct a giant recreation of Da Vinci’s famous drawing on Arctic sea ice.
The “Melting Vitruvian Man,” which is the size of four olympic-size swimming pools, was built “to draw attention to how climate change is causing the rapid melting of sea ice to outstrip predictions,” according to a Greenpeace press release.
Quigley traveled on Greenpeace’s ice-breaker, the Arctic Sunrise, to a remote area 800 kilometers from the North Pole. The installation, which is made out of the same copper strips often used in solar panels, was built on ice in the Fram Strait between Greenland and Norway’s Svalbard Islands.
The giant Vitruvian Man was designed so that it would appear to be disappearing into the sea. Quigley told Greenpeace, “We came here to create the ‘Melting Vitruvian Man’ … because climate change is literally eating into the body of our civilisation.” Time reports the Vitruvian Man “will serve as a visual marker as the ice continues to melt and more of the man’s body goes along with it.” All of the work’s copper strips will be saved and reused, however.
This is not Greenpeace’s first message sent from the Arctic. In June, Kumi Naidoo, the head of Greenpeace International, and another activist were arrested for scaling an oil rig off Greenland.
A recent study found that a new record low for volume of Arctic sea ice in the summertime may have been set last year.
Photos and captions courtesy of Greenpeace.
Woo hoo! Thanks Nike + : “300 miles. You’re hauling!” http://t.co/hbDKpxWH
Photo: Freaky birds at the Soho Grand… http://t.co/WOh5vvXv
Photo: My dad with Pele when they both worked for .@TheNYCosmos http://t.co/d6EggK7y
