In her Gastronomy Map series, Lucy Stephens uses typography to outline various regions, creating virtual tasting tours along the way.

I’m currently working on a project that has led me to become quite the expert on where to find balloon helium kits in this city. Take for example this afternoon, when I called Michael’s and asked if they had any kits in stock. The girl put me on hold (to truly dreadful music) only to resurface and say “no, we don’t carry those.”

False. I bought one from that location a few days ago.

Sunset on 23rd, looking west. No instagram filter needed.

And yes, if you were wondering, this shot did cause a huge roadblock. It was just too perfect - anyone passing couldn’t resist whipping out their cameras…

“Cardon Webb’s work for a series of Oliver Sacks books is stunning in print. But more importantly, shrunk down to icons, it forms a compelling whole.” - Craig Mod, “Hack the Cover”

This is my favorite shot from yesterday afternoon in Riverside Park. Seems so peaceful… and cool - giving no hints of the unbearable heat that caused probably as much sweating as grilling on Memorial Day.

I spent the afternoon wandering around Riverside Park. The goal was to finish reading my book but what actually happened is I kept getting distracted by super important things, like watching pickup soccer games. Typical. Then I kept getting distracted further by silly thoughts like “when did neon cleats get so popular?” And then most of my afternoon was gone and it was time to go to the gym.

Standing in line to get into the free NY Philharmonic concert. Now’s probably a good time to admit I could have planned this better. What you see is about 5% of the people in front of me.

Giant clothespin bench, designed by Michela and Paolo Baldessari of Baldessari e Baldessari (via Design Milk).

Apparently just because you might be too old to throw paper planes at people, doesn’t mean you have to strip them from your life altogether. Enter the Paper Plane Coffee Table, designed by Lorraine Brennan.