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Adam of Skewville talks about the show he curated at Ad Hoc Art in Bushwick Brooklyn with works by Bast, Aiko, and Chris Mendoza. And the history of Skewville. Video by aqua1978 from ad hoc art. photos by aqua1978 and c-monster of juxtapozVia GlobalgraphicaSearch for Skewville on the GammaBlog

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My computer wizard pal, Wrybread, loves non-commercial radio. He’s created this website to make listening to his favorites easy.
damngoodradio.com
Check out his free other free stuff on gizmoware.net. Actually they are “thriftshop ware”, meaning if you use it and like it you have to mail him something from a thriftshop.” No I am not kidding.

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Colbert Report writer.

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Rockets of the type that first sent US astronauts into space, outside the NY Hall of Science in Queens, an original Atlas booster with a replica Mercury capsule (on the right) and an original Titan II booster with a replica two-man Gemini capsule.

Futuristic sculpture left over from the 1964 World’s Fair

These leaf-cutter ants live under plexiglas, and their leaf delivery guy didn’t come the day I was there. A steady stream of hopeful ants came through the plexi tube into the bin, where the leaves usually are. They left disappointed, one escaped.

Costa Rican leaf-cutter ants doing what they like to do best.

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Giant map of NYC in the Queens Museum of Art. Robert Moses had ‘The Panorama of the City of New York’ built for the 1964 World’s Fair, but it has been updated, and supposedly has every building built before 1992. Originally you flew over it on a simulate helicopter ride. Now there is a ramp that spirals around it from the first to second floor of the museum.

www.queensmuseum.org/panorama/about.htm

I uploaded this full size panorama of Lower Manhattan so my neighbors can have fun finding their own apartment building.

Full Size

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