shoot down the stars

18:38 2nd Mar 2013

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humansofnewyork:

My name is Brandon Stanton and I’m a photographer in New York City. As many of you already know, several months ago I was approached by the fashion label DKNY, who offered me $15,000 to purchase 300 of my photographs. I politely refused the offer. But earlier this week, one of my fans discovered that DKNY was using my photographs anyway— in Asia. (Full Story:http://thebea.st/13ijYt6) As atonement for this infringement, I publicly requested that DKNY donate $100,000 in my name to the YMCA in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, so that underprivileged children could attend summer camp. DKNY responded on Monday with a $25,000 donation.Over the next three days, my audience stepped in and raised the full $100,000 themselves. Over 3,000 people chipped in, and raised an astonishing $103,710 in 72 hours. (http://bit.ly/YTy4h3)I have no interest in vilifying DKNY. It is a company composed of thousands of good people. The founder, Donna Karan, is highly respected around the world for both her creativity and philanthropy. But I would appreciate if you would REBLOG this post, and lend your voice to my request that DKNY raise their donation to match the $103,710 that we raised. Together, we could create a $208,000 investment in the lives of children in one of New York’s most vital and diverse neighborhoods. Thank you so much.

My name is Brandon Stanton and I’m a photographer in New York City. As many of you already know, several months ago I was approached by the fashion label DKNY, who offered me $15,000 to purchase 300 of my photographs. I politely refused the offer. But earlier this week, one of my fans discovered that DKNY was using my photographs anyway— in Asia. (Full Story:http://thebea.st/13ijYt6)

As atonement for this infringement, I publicly requested that DKNY donate $100,000 in my name to the YMCA in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, so that underprivileged children could attend summer camp. DKNY responded on Monday with a $25,000 donation.

Over the next three days, my audience stepped in and raised the full $100,000 themselves. Over 3,000 people chipped in, and raised an astonishing $103,710 in 72 hours. (http://bit.ly/YTy4h3)

I have no interest in vilifying DKNY. It is a company composed of thousands of good people. The founder, Donna Karan, is highly respected around the world for both her creativity and philanthropy.

But I would appreciate if you would REBLOG this post, and lend your voice to my request that DKNY raise their donation to match the $103,710 that we raised.

Together, we could create a $208,000 investment in the lives of children in one of New York’s most vital and diverse neighborhoods. Thank you so much.

This dude made the hilarious reaction video to Alexandra Wallace. Unfortunately, I completely forgot about him until the other day when my friends marathoned through all his vids. He is hella funny (and a pretty good singer too!). Check out the newest video! And happy new year!

16:14 19th Oct 2011

Notes: 1

“Health Reform Hits Main Street”- This is a really informative video on the main points of the health care reform law that was passed a couple years ago done by Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-partisan organization that is a very reputable source for any issue related to health policy. The video clarifies and untangles the complexities of the reform really well without talking down to the audience. If you aren’t taking a class on it or don’t have time to read all those news articles on reform, it’s an easier and more convenient way of learning about health care reform, and it won’t put you to sleep (unlike that excerpt from the law itself that I had to read the other day). Plus, the cartoons are really cute!

18:58 11th Oct 2011

Notes: 517

Reblogged from theatlantic

The Phantom Tollbooth” is not just a manifesto for learning; it is a manifesto for the liberal arts, for a liberal education, and even for the liberal-arts college. What Milo discovers is that math and literature, Dictionopolis and Digitopolis, should assume their places not under the pentagon of Purpose and Power but under the presidency of Rhyme and Reason. Learning isn’t a set of things that we know but a world that we enter.

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Norton Juster’s “The Phantom Tollbooth” at 50 : The New Yorker

This is just a really great article about a really great book.

(via ryeisenberg)

It was never my favorite book, but I still remember how I learned what doldrums meant because of it.

01:59 9th Sep 2011

Notes: 1

Less than two weeks…

til the big move up! I have this excited/nervous/anxious feeling all rolled up in a ball inside me right now. But I think I am mainly in awe right now…of how much stuff I’ve accumulated all these years. I’ve been packing these past couple weeks, and somehow my moving up stuff has been slowly growing larger and larger, from one box in the corner of the living room to taking up at least an entire quarter of it. And I’m still not done!

Honestly though I am excited about the move, and I think visiting Seattle last week really cemented that feeling. Granted, I came on the perfect week (nice and sunny, with no rain in sight!) Seattle is so green, and I love its old buildings and its public transportation. The skyline is beautiful, almost(!) as great as SF’s. The campus is really nice as well. The Chinatown there could use some work (besides the Uwajimaya, there’s nothing!), and the drivers could watch for pedestrians more often. I nearly got run over twice. Overall though Seattle felt like a place that I could live in for at least two years, if not longer.

01:49 8th Sep 2011

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It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.

— Sun Tzu