December 10, 2012

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Fly Down California’s Craziest Hills on High-Tech Longboards

Beautifully shot videos showcase Loaded Boards’ innovations in longboard design, not to mention some stunning west coast landscapes. 

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Filed under: Video California San Francisco Skate Longboarding Extreme Sports 
October 22, 2012

There’s Always Room for Jell-O Molded to Look Like San Francisco

No architectural model lasts forever, but Liz Hickok’s facsimiles have less time than most: hardly a week before the mold sets in. That’s because Hickok’s choice material comes not from the art room but from the lunchroom.

Despite its undeniable kitsch, Hickok swears she’s not in the urban Jell-O model business for the novelty. “It’s because it’s alive and changing, just as our real cities are,” she writes in an email. “By using a medium that is perishable I can speak to the fragility and impermanence of our cities.”

See more. [Images: Liz Hickok]

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Filed under: Food Art San Francisco Jell-O Architecture 
August 14, 2012

Using Uber Ridership to Compare Cities and Neighborhoods 

In fact, we can quantify how city-like or not city-like any given neighborhood is. That is, we can ask, “how San Francisco-like is the Mission, really?” and “how much more like New York is the Financial District than it is San Francisco?”

And we can do this for every neighborhood. What do we find?

Cities have “stereotypical” neighborhoods that very strongly match the flow of their home cities, and some neighborhoods just don’t really seem to belong to their home city. They’re outliers.

Read more. [Image: Uber]

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Filed under: Chart Geography New York San Francisco Diversity News Politics 
July 19, 2012
The Psychology Behind Why Creative People Cluster  A large body of literature shows that highly creative people - artists, scientists, entrepreneurs and the like - are highly likely to be open to new experiences. An earlier study by Rentfrow and his colleague Sam Gosling of the University of Texas, titled “The New Geography of Personality,” tracked the five major personality types across states. They found open-to-experience people were more likely to “attempt to escape the ennui experienced in small-town environments by relocating to metropolitan areas where their interests in cultures and needs for social contact and stimulation are more easily met.” Read more. [Image: Eric Broder Van Dyke/ Shutterstock.com]

The Psychology Behind Why Creative People Cluster 

A large body of literature shows that highly creative people - artists, scientists, entrepreneurs and the like - are highly likely to be open to new experiences. An earlier study by Rentfrow and his colleague Sam Gosling of the University of Texas, titled “The New Geography of Personality,” tracked the five major personality types across states. They found open-to-experience people were more likely to “attempt to escape the ennui experienced in small-town environments by relocating to metropolitan areas where their interests in cultures and needs for social contact and stimulation are more easily met.” Read more.

[Image: Eric Broder Van Dyke/ Shutterstock.com]

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Filed under: San Francisco Open-Minded Gay Crowds Metropolitan Cities 
May 29, 2012

In Focus: The Golden Gate Bridge Turns 75

Sunday marked the 75th anniversary of the opening of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. Before 1937, the city’s growth was hampered by a reliance on ferry traffic. The 8,981 ft (2,737 m) suspension bridge changed that, creating a link between San Francisco to Marin County. Its construction was completed under budget, but at the cost of 11 workers’ lives. Collected here are images from the building of this iconic bridge, as well as scenes from its 75 years of service and from Sunday’s celebration.

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Filed under: Photography Architecture History San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge 
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