Tisch Students Unveil Apps for New Boxee Product
“While NBC Universal gets scooped up for $30+ billion by Comcast, I urge you to stop caring and watch as a startup video company revolutionizes the way we consume video and entertainment.”
Lucca opening her Rody on Christmas morning, 2009.
Lucca working on mommy’s present
A couple projects that Jenae and I finished lately are a credenza that I built and a vintage chair that Jenae and her mom re-upholstered. Jenae’s dad helped me build the box for the credenza. We built it out of MDF and painted it white. The doors are just made out of a thin piece of wood with an Oak (I believe) veneer that we stained. We took the base and legs off of a hutch that we purchased off craigslist a few months back. I sanded them down and stained them to match the doors.
The chair is a a mid-sixties Jerry Johnson. The patent calls it a “chair with unitary suspended seat and backrest.” Jenae’s grandparents had the chair but the upholstery was in bad shape. Jenae picked out a gray fabric and her mom helped recover it. One of these chairs was also recently featured on the cover of Atomic Ranch magazine.
Check out the photos below:
See full size photos on Flickr.
Very stoked about this
Johnny Cash’s next posthumous release in the Rick Rubin-helmed “American” series and first official follow-up to American V: A Hundred Highways from his infamous recording sessions in the months between the death of June Carter and his own last days in the fall of 2003 will hit shelves on the week of his birthday in February of next year.
According to the founder of Cash’s official site and an Amazon import listing, the album will come out on February 23 (Cash’s birthday is the 26th) and is titled American VI: Ain’t No Grave. No official confirmation has come through the wire just yet and both the artwork above and the track list below are in a pseudo-rumored stage at this point, but here’s the list of tracks to (possibly) make the cut:
going for a walk
We live in a time of great social crisis. Our children rank at the bottom of nineteen industrial nations in reading, writing, and arithmetic. The world’s narcotic economy is based upon our own consumption of this commodity. If we didn’t buy so many powdered dreams, the business would collapse — and schools are an important sales outlet. Our teenage-suicide rate is the highest in the world — and suicidal kids are rich kids for the most part, not poor. In Manhattan, 70 percent of all new marriages last less than five years.
Our school crisis is a reflection of this greater social crisis. We seem to have lost our identity. Children and old people are penned up and locked away from the business of the world to an unprecedented degree; nobody talks to them anymore. Without children and old people mixing in daily life, a community has no future and no past, only a continuous present. In fact, the term “community” hardly applies to the way we interact with each other. We live in networks, not communities, and everyone I know is lonely because of that. In some strange way, school is a major actor in this tragedy, just as it is a major actor in the widening gulfs among social classes. Using school as a sorting mechanism, we appear to be on the way to creating a caste system, complete with untouchables who wander through subway trains begging and sleep on the streets.
from Why School’s Don’t Educate
by John Taylor Gatto (HT @forehand)
