Triptrop is a trip...

So I triptropped the commute time from my house to work and it's actually right...it's a good 40 minute commute. Try it out @ http://www.triptropnyc.com/

This is my Goal for 2009!

Loving Day-NYC-6/7/09

Loving v. Virginia was a landmark Supreme Court case in 1967 but it was also the story of Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving. Mildred was a black woman of African and Rappahannock ( Native American ) decent and Richard was a white man. They fell in love and traveled to Washington DC to be wed and return to Virgina to live, however, there were laws that forbade people of different races to marry each other. One such law was the Racial Integrity Act, a law banning marriage between a white person and a non-white person. This law remained true in many states, including Mildred and Richard's home state of Virginia. However, interracial marriage was legal in Washington, DC at that time.

The law in Virginia not only forbade interracial marriage ceremonies, but it also forbade interracial couples from getting married elsewhere and returning to Virginia.

One night, while they were Richard and Mildred were asleep, the newly-married Lovings were awakened by the police in their bedroom.They were arrested and taken to jail for evading the Racial Integrity Act.

The Lovings were sentenced to one year in prison, with the scentence suspended for 25 years on the condition they leave the state of Virginia.

The trial judge in the case, Leon Bazile, echoing Johann Friedrich Blumenbach's 18th-century interpretation of race, proclaimed that

“	Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.

The Lovings left the district of columbia, and on November, 6th 1963 filed a motion on their behalf in the state trial court to vacate the judgement and set aside the sentence on the grounds that the violated statues ran counter to the Fourteenth Amendment.

Loving vs. Virginia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia

http://www.lovingday.org/

@ Hudson Terrace With The Girls

High Life on the High Line

Once an abandoned 1.45 mile stretch of elevated freight train railroad now my soon to be new summer picnic spot, The High Line, will once again serve the people of New York City.

The High Line was built in the 1930's by The New York Central Railroad and used to transport freight along the west side. The New York Central stopped use of the High Line in the 1980's and the elevated structure fell into disrepair.

The community-based group Friends of the High Line had the idea to transform the abandoned High Line into a green park space and in 2004 The New York City Government commited $50 million to start the park project.

The section of The High Line from Gansevoort St to 20th street is scheduled to open in June 2009 and I will have my picnic basket ready and the cameras charged. The entire High Line Park from Gansevoort St to 30th St is expected to open 2010.

The High Line is a pedestrian only park, no bikes and no runners. It's reserved for sitting, stropping, talking, and picnicking, cartwheeling and impromptu amateur photoshoots.

SO COME FIERCE!!

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Kyrk Is Back Ready to Attack!

Even The Simpsons Have Style

Let me find out Homer wears Marc Jacobs and lisa wears lanvin.

Ovah them, lol.

As a promotion for The Simpsons Movie, The August 2007 Harpers Bazaar featured Americas beloved animated family alongside fashions biggest designers. Bart's favorite model, Linda Evangelista takes the Simpson family on a whirlwind parisian fashion tour. Marge in Chanel, Maggie in Gaultier, Selma & Patty in Viktor & Rolf. I'm left speachless.

To compare illustrations to the actual pieces check out Ohnotheydidnt. It's Amazing.

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