Weekly Notes: August 5, 2011

Check This Out:

• 20 Scents That Secretly Defined Your Childhood. Warning: may cause a nostalgia overdose.
• The Envisioning Development Toolkit. Upper East Side Manhattan median income = $178,000. Just next door, East Harlem median income = $29,000.
• The Interconnected World of Tech Companies. Inbreeders.
• US Debt Visualized: Stacked in $100 bills. On a related note: The Chart That Should Accompany All Discussions of the Debt Ceiling.

Look at This:

• Mozambique’s “Trash Land.” On a somewhat-related note,: A “Wastelandscape” made of 65,000 discarded CDs.
• Ellis Island’s Abandoned Hospital
• Dorothea Lange’s Depression-Era Photography
• The US-Mexican border
• I Wish I Was Older. It’s all downhill from here.
• Forty Fords – a tribute to mumblecore king, Mr. Harrison Ford.
• Brilliantly pointless street fliers. People have way too much time on their hands. What?

Read This:

• How the Film Industry’s Big Budgets Are Killing Movie Theaters
• 6 Technologies Conspicuously Absent from Sci-Fi Movies. Someone please remake The Road with bicycles.
• 5 Amazing Abandoned Wastelands … Within Walking Distance
• Big Oil’s Dirty Secret: There’s a Serious Spill Almost Daily in America

Listen to This:

• Blackfilm – Midnight to 4AM
• Washed Out – Soft
• Kristin Rule – Nature of Reality
• Lisa Hannigan – I Don’t Know
• The band Our Ceasing Voice asked me to post a download link to their new release ‘Live’ on our blog, so here it is.

Watch This:

• LA Light

• Eyrie

• Porcelain Unicorn