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-- Dobkin Sr. uses a legal loophole to keep Tivoli Gardens in Crown Heights rent controlled through 2024. That's some good lawyering.
-- Speaking of housing law, what happens "When Your Landlord is a Cat?"
-- We've always said that yellow taxis needed more frogs.
-- Has Verizon wired your building with fiber optic cable? We're still using DSL over copper wires like suckers!
-- Ok, this pomeranian cuteness is getting completely out of hand.
-- Did you know that in 1936, when the city's pools opened, they were for swimming, and not seeing the Shins?
-- Ex-NY Stock Exchange president Dick Grasso is 50% woman! That must be why he's so sexy.
-- In related rich-guy news, bonuses on Wall Street are supposed to be vomit-inducingly large this year.
-- There's something so existential about doing graffiti murals on traincars, knowing they'll be erased a couple of hours later.
-- Most pointless web project ever? Definitely. Coffee Association of America propaganda? Probably.
-- Aw man... somebody threw out a perfectly good white boy.

Excellent fake tilt-shift image from Ray Olivares' The Little Apple set on Flickr.

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Jeez, are ALL of Gothamist's writers the sons of lawyers?

It's funny because it doesn't offend black people!

I wonder what it means that the song in the coffee video is the same song that Jame Gumb is listening to as he asks himself that timeless question, "Would you fuck me?" in Silence of the Lambs.

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saw those legs on bedford ave on sunday, and said to myself, bet if you searched flickr, you'd find 100 shots of this.

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will someone please just lay it on the line for me and say whether ray olivares photos are real or dioramas a la mr rogers' neighborhood? i thought for sure we were talking models until i checked out the slide show...

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The scenes in the photos are real. He did say that he PhotoShop'd 'em for the tilt shift effect. Without Photoshop, you'd need a $600-1000 tilt-shift lens for that kind of an effect.

Here's a tutorial on how to create this effect in PhotoShop.

MikeBC - Several soundtracks were suggested, Java Junkie (Dance Hall Crashers) was favored by all my film school friends. But sadly, I went to policy school so Goodbye Horses was chosen. Besides Goodbye Horses is more fun to dance too.

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