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Skibinskipedia™ is the online wunderkammer of B Dean Skibinski, a graphic designer and writer based in New York City. Launched in 2010, it has since been a repository of inspirations and links related to design, architecture, art, film, literature, music, photography, and, of course, New York City. I take great care to either retain or add accurate attribution to each post, but if for some reason any citations are missing or incorrect, please don't hesitate to let me know. Additionally, if work I've featured is yours and you for some reason don't want it featured, I shall be happy to remove it upon your request. Please email or message me as you wish.

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Skibinskipedia™ Nostalgia

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thenextweb:

New York City-based sharing service Tumblr continues to grow at an incredible pace, hitting 20 billion posts on Monday night, doubling in size in just over 6 months.

I’ve made 11,683 posts here on topherchris.com. (Well, 11,684 now). From February 28th, 2007, here’s the first one.

What’s your stats?

I’ve only made 618 posts here (619 now), but I still get included in screenshots. Also I just made my first post private. Yeesh.

I’ll play: 4,545 posts here on Skibinskipedia™ since 22 August 2010. And the very first post is…so not obvious as a first post of anything to anyone but me, but it’s here, “Erotic Tack on Wall Street.”

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Reblogged from annie werner  Source topherchris

Anti-nostalgia

“In New York City, there are very real concerns about the cost of living, and whether we are creating a city so dense and so expensive that it will repel diversity, both ethnic and economic. That diversity is vital, and correct, particularly as the city contemplates ways to accommodate a population boom over the next ten years.

“But the rest is just nostalgia. We New Yorkers are thought of as a nostalgic bunch, but that’s not quite right. We archive and study the past because we know here in a way that they can’t quite know in Mayberry that things change all the time, and we want to remember all of it. We want to understand all of it, and here, nothing lasts long enough to be understood in its actual lifetime.

“When it comes to ‘knowing’ New York City, the line that I think of is Chaucer’s version of one of the oldest proverbs of antiquity: ‘The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne.’”

—Tom McGeveran in our newsletter. Have you signed up yet?

[via capitalnewyork]

Tags New York City Nostalgia History Tom McGeveran Capital New York

Reblogged from Capital New York  Source capitalnewyork

wallpapermag: October travel news Public Chicago, USAFresh from launching his Editions group, boutique hotel king Ian Schrager has opened the first property of new, more affordable hotel chain in the US. Working with interior designer Anda Andrei, he has completely overhauled the Ambassador East hotel, built in 1926, whose famous Pump Room restaurant was frequented by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor and John F Kennedy. The new hotel’s 285 rooms, are classic, clean and comfortable - ‘we are not trying to be hip - in fact we are anti-hip,’ says Schrager - and start from a modest $135 a night. I practically grew up in The Pump Room; I can’t wait to see what Schrager and Andrei have done to the property.

wallpapermag:

October travel news

Public Chicago, USA

Fresh from launching his Editions group, boutique hotel king Ian Schrager has opened the first property of new, more affordable hotel chain in the US. Working with interior designer Anda Andrei, he has completely overhauled the Ambassador East hotel, built in 1926, whose famous Pump Room restaurant was frequented by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor and John F Kennedy. The new hotel’s 285 rooms, are classic, clean and comfortable - ‘we are not trying to be hip - in fact we are anti-hip,’ says Schrager - and start from a modest $135 a night.

I practically grew up in The Pump Room; I can’t wait to see what Schrager and Andrei have done to the property.

Tags Travel Hospitality Hotels Ian Schrager Ambassador East The Pump Room Chicago Illinois Nostalgia Memories Design Anda Andrei Interiors

Reblogged from Wallpaper* magazine  Source wallpaper.com