A Landmark Event in Publishing

One of my goals as a kid was to have a picture of mine in Life Magazine. Then it went under. It was my first magazine subscription and it had a profound effect on me.

So it's good news that the sorely missed Life Magazine has made their photo archives available via Google's image search.

A quick perusal through some of the images is awe-inspiring and a lot of fun. Some of the etchings date back to the 1750's to modern day digital stuff.

Google's done a good job of organizing them into categories, but you can just do a search for whatever you want and browse.

When you get a few minutes, you should seriously check it out. It is a big deal.

This is a Movie Theatre

R-77th St, Bay Ridge
Originally uploaded by subatomicfilms.

If you take the Q or B trains (or to a lesser degree the N or D) into Manhattan from Brooklyn, you may have noticed the weird animations and bright lights just before you pass over the Manhattan Bridge.

I thought originally it was part of some advertizing campaign, but it's just art... for art's sake!

The piece is called 'Masstransiscope' and was done by Bill Brand. It is constructed by the abandoned Myrtle Ave. station and was originally unveiled back in 1980. It's been recently cleaned and re-installed for all the straphangers to see.

Only showing on the subway, or here.