BEATNIK INDUSTRIES, a BREAD
BOWL of IMAGES and GENERIC ASPIRIN
August 16th, 2010 | by nick | published in Out and About.
photographed in Manhattan, New York on August 14, 2010
It is a cool and rainy morning in New York City, and Cheryl Petit de Mange wants a cup of coffee. Two big, bright Starbucks shops beckon from 200 yards in either direction. But Petit de Mange instead joins 14 other hardy java junkies crowded around what [...]
August 12th, 2010 | by nick | published in Out and About.
photographed in Chicago, Illinois on November 14, 2009
That innocence is the receptacle of all heavenly good things, and therefore that the innocence of Little Children is the plane or ground of all their affections for good and truth, may appear from what has been said before … The innocence of Children was imaged to me [...]
August 10th, 2010 | by nick | published in Out and About.
photographed in Quincy, Illinois on September 5, 2009
When the Franciscans were asked, in 1859, to make a foundation in Quincy, it was expressly stipulated that, besides engaging in parish work, they would open a high school for boys and young men. There was, indeed, urgent need of a Catholic high school and college in this [...]
August 2nd, 2010 | by nick | published in Out and About.
photographed in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire on May 30, 2010
Lake Winnipesaukee is about thirty miles long and varies from one to ten miles in width. The lake is almost five hundred feet above the sea level and the water is very clear and pure. Winnipesaukee has an area of seventy-one square miles, exclusive of two hundred [...]
July 26th, 2010 | by nick | published in Out and About.
photographed in Manhattan, New York on July 3, 2010
A market-place for the accommodation of the butchers and the country-people was anciently under the trees in front of the fort, near the corner of Water and Whitehall streets. As the city enlarged, the market-places were removed to the east and north, first at the foot of [...]
July 18th, 2010 | by nick | published in Out and About.
photographed in Brooklyn, New York on July 14, 2010
Early that evening while Chaumonot, worn with travelling and overcome with sleep, threw himself to rest on a bed that was not made up since the creation of the world. Father Brebeuf, to escape for a time the acrid and pungent smoke that filled the cabin, went [...]
July 13th, 2010 | by nick | published in Out and About.
photographed in Manhattan, New York on July 3, 2010
But all of a sudden I realized that he knew also, just like I knew. And that everybody in the bookstore knew, and that they were all hiding it! They all had the consciousness, it was like a great unconscious that was running between all of use [...]
June 27th, 2010 | by nick | published in Out and About.
photographed in Castries, St. Lucia on April 8, 2010
These were spread out upon the sand, and an more brilliant piscatorial picture I never saw before, but such variety and beauty in a fish market I saw again and again in the markets of the Windward Islands. The fish were of all shapes and sizes, from [...]
June 24th, 2010 | by nick | published in Out and About.
photographed in Brooklyn, New York on June 6, 2010
Now, what I am going to say is almost unintelligible, but I shall say it all the same, because it responds to a true sensation. These marionettes are like the Egyptian hieroglyphics, that is, they have a certain pure and mysterious quality, and when they perform a [...]
June 16th, 2010 | by nick | published in Out and About.
photographed in Yankee Stadium, The Bronx, New York on May 4, 2010
My invention has for its object to provide an efficient means for producing candy cotton and which is so constructed that carbonization of the sugar used in the formation of the candy will be entirely eliminated and the revolving cotton forming member may be [...]
June 4th, 2010 | by nick | published in Out and About.
photographed in Canaan, New Hampshire on May 31, 2010
All history should be the history of the people. It is what the people are doing in villages, communities and families, that lie at the foundation of national character, and sentiment, and consequently of national events. Those matters which possess a natural interest to a particular neighborhood, [...]
May 13th, 2010 | by nick | published in Out and About.
photographed in Manhattan, New York on February 13, 2010
Some people to-day declare loudly against the influence of heredity and environment, saying the innate good of a child will conquer everything. It will under the right cultivation and conscious individual effort, after the child is old enough to realize and throw off the shackles of childhood [...]
May 11th, 2010 | by nick | published in Out and About.
photographed in Manhattan, New York on March 7, 2010
Of the nature of his present trade, and of the class of his customers, I had the following account from a man of twelve years’ experience in the vending of street jewelry :—
“It’s not very easy to tell, sir,” he said, “what sells best, for people seem [...]
April 29th, 2010 | by nick | published in Out and About.
photographed in Toms River, New Jersey on April 18, 2010
It is precisely to distract attention from its theoretically inert landlords and capitalists that neoclassical economics complicates its initial story and introduces another character into the drama: the entrepreneur. Here is an economic actor par excellence. The entrepreneur sees an opportunity, rushes to take advantage of [...]