Posts Tagged ‘New York Times’
Van Phillips
“When you land on something that’s like a crutch, it’s going to feel like a crutch. When you land on something that has a bendable or an energy-absorbent membrane, it’s going to spring with you.”
- Van Phillips, athlete and designer
Looking over the shoulder of Charles Dickens
“Charles Dickens left behind one, and only one, manuscript for “A Christmas Carol,” the tale he wrote in 1843 of an unfeeling rich man and the boy who pricked his conscience. Kept under lock-and-key for much of the year at the Morgan Library and Museum, the manuscript is not widely available, one reason, perhaps, why it has been all but impossible to track the many revisions Dickens made to the manuscript as he struggled to get his story right.
A high-resolution copy of the manuscript’s 66 pages, which you can examine here, may finally change that.”
- The New York Times
Photograph by Earl Wilson/New York Times.
How Different Groups Spend Their Day
I first noticed this piece in print, peering over a fellow commuter’s shoulder while on the El Train. When I logged on to NYTimes.com to locate it, I was surprised it had also been created in an interactive format, with 16 more demographics for comparison. The resulting is a fluid and beautiful graphic.
Of particular interest is the difference between the Employed and the Unemployed. I was the latter for a month this past winter, and can vouch one’s daily routine switches entirely. Between the cover letters and resume versions, you’re building in “class time” to recap on the latest methods and related occupational procedures to stay ahead of the game. When you’ve fulfilled that hour, you find yourself touching things you never imagined — vacuuming the mini blinds or polishing the oven door.
Removed from the familiar pace of the office, there remained a need to feel productive. What would’ve been obsessive-compulsive behavior weeks before was now cathartic and an efficient use of an open schedule.
