Things you can see from our window

The Mississippi River. A praline factory. A school where they make jazz musicians. A sly purple shotgun house. Church steeples. Tugboats, cruise ships, freighters, trains, every type of person there could be riding a bike, Mardi Gras peddlers pushing lit up carts. The Pontalba apartments. The corner where Homer Plessy insisted on getting on the wrong railcar bound for the north shore. The high rise bridge, the 510 bridge, the bridges over the Industrial Canal. The few tall buildings out on the lake in Metairie. The Marigny’s happy mishmash. The JAX building & the aquarium. The crescent in Crescent City. 

Wilson Miner - When We Build (by Build)

We’re building Timehop into the best way of recording, remembering, and reconnecting around our digital histories,” co-founder Jonathan Wegener told me, “The data exhaust of today’s services can tell your life story, but so far this data remains disaggregated and silo’d across devices and services. The ‘history’ sections of most websites leave a lot to be desired and represent an opportunity to build a service that helps you celebrate the past and reconnect with others around it.

— Timehop, A Time Machine For Your Social Media Updates, Gets $1.1M From Foursquare Founders And Others | TechCrunch

Early Thursday morning, a woman was getting a piggyback ride from a man in the Lavin-Bernick Center lawn on Tulane’s campus, when someone grabbed her off his back from behind and stole her purse, campus police officials said.

— Uptown robbery surge continues despite arrests of at least 20 young suspects over the last week » Uptown Messenger

Everything positive that has happened in my life has been because I was open and prepared to say yes to a chance opportunities.

— The Minimalist Cabin Project | Andrew Hyde

Pip pip. 

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Neither place is in danger of being mistaken for a yoga studio.

— Parasol’s and Tracey’s battle for Irish Channel roast beef po-boy supremacy | NOLA.com

D.H. Holmes, Carnival, 1906

You always see who looked at what. This one queer action—showing who is paying attention to you—has the odd effect of making the space feel like a safe environment to share things. It’s like making eye contact, but time shifted.

— The Social Network that Stole Christmas

Liv & horse (by Brian Oberkirch)