I hate cheapo photo albums. I just do. They come in all different sizes, have tacky covers, don’t look good on the bookshelf, often contain print destroying acid, etc. I hate them.
I tried using these, but they are expensive, hard to open and hard to hold. They just don’t feel right.
What is the best photo album that you know?
Yesterday I came up with an idea about a subway hack. It goes something like this:
1) Purchase, or even better, make a pretty porcelain tile or mosaic. Something like this.
2) Purchase tile adhesive and grout.
3) Sneak into the subway, remove one of the broken ugly white porcelain tiles and replace it with the one you brought.
Of course, if caught, you’ll get into a lot of trouble. But that’s true about most hacks.
P.S.
I bet this is not an original idea.
Googling….
Faces in the tiles? Interesting.
Gotta have these two books:
“Subway Ceramics : A History and Iconography”
“Walker Evans Subways and Streets”
“Humanizing Subway Entrances: Opportunity on Second Avenue”
“Ceramic Ornament in the New York Subway System”
“Design For Transportation – 1995 National Awards”
Unfortunately they are hard to find and expensive. Well, into my gargantuan wish list they go.
Most of the old tiles were produced by Guastavino Fireproof Construction Company (didn’t know this, will research later)
This is cool, but was rejected (well, it does look a little weird). Maybe instead of a whole wall they could use this in a small tile somewhere.
Went fishing on Pastime Princess. This time, besides a single skate and a few cunners I caught no throwback fish. I did catch three fat porgies and half a dozen sea bass. The one tog that I caught was short (under 14 inches) :(
What sucked, was that the captain had trouble positioning the ship over shipwrecks (that’s where all the fish are) all morning. Finally, in the very last hour he anchored the ship correctly and people were catching “double headers” (two fish at a time) , but then it was time to go.
And now it’s time for a game show! Let’s play “What the heck is this fish?”
This is a new grammatical low for me:
“errer. You must specify report type, which can be sql or csvtext”