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About me
I'm Kyle. I'm a dev at Tumblr. I'm an INTP. This is my blog.
I post stuff I like. Stuff like NYC history, pop-culture tidbits that I just don't understand, pics from my travels, and offbeat science.
I started the Black Techies NYC meetup, try to stay upbeat and active, and probably play soccer more than I should.
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City Hall Subway Station under construction, 1904.
(you do know about the long closed, beautiful and ornate old City Hall station, right? right???)
#lonely #bench at the #ditmas #ftrain stop. #mta #brooklyn.
Models Liya Kebede & David Agbodji photographed by Mikael Jansson for an editorial in Vogue Japan, ‘The Vanishing Underground’.
Liya kebede is such a sexy habesh love her
Love the contrast between the models and the R16 subway cars.
(via fearfullymade-locs)
“If we can get people walking on the moon, surely we can get them working on earth”
MTA Vending machines use Windows NT 4?!
This the Brooklyn Bridge in 1904. Notice that the center lanes were for trolley cars. When it was first built in 1883, trolleys, and even cable cars, were popular modes of transport.
In fact, trolleys ran all over Manhattan until the late 1920s, and it wasn’t until the 1940s and 1950s that Manhattan lost all of it’s elevated trains. Did you know that 2nd, 3rd, and 9th Avenue all sported elevated lines?
BOOM! Now, someone give me a sticker!
(via nycpast)
This sign is a lie.
F Train at Ditmas Ave
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
How the WMATA Rush+ Maps Are Printed
Many thanks to Matt Johnson for telling me about this amazing photoset on Flickr that details the process involved in printing the new Rush+ station maps for Washington, DC’s Metro system. Click through to see the whole set!
Even as an experienced graphic designer, I was amazed to see that the maps are screen printed - each colour on the map is printed one after the other, each using a separate screen with its own spot colour ink. With a map as complex as this, that means that there are a whopping twelve different colours to print! These being: river blue, park green, National Mall green, Blue Line, Orange Line, Yellow Line, Green Line, Red Line, Silver Line, District/County border grey, Beltway grey, and finally, black.
I would have thought with the advances in digital printing and stochastic (micro) screening, that these could be produced digitally in one step instead of twelve, but maybe these are special long-lasting UV inks that will withstand many years of use without fading - an important consideration for station maps! In any case, these photos are a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at a process that many people may not even think about.
EDIT: A tweet from a Metro representative confirms that there are THIRTEEN colours used in the printing: 4 greys (Silver Line, Beltway grey, county border grey, and icon grey), 3 greens (parks, Mall, Green Line), 2 Blues (river, Blue Line), Black, Red, Yellow and Orange.
OH MY GOD! I <3 <3 <3 this more than that time I met Bieber.
@NY Transit Museum in BK
joey:
Made a GIF from some photos I took while waiting for the subway earlier.
This is my experience of hustling to catch the train everyday.
-‘Hey train I’m here!’
-‘Sorry, Kyle, I was just leaving’
