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Interesting anatomy for artists photo finders - pondering on the categories "human" and "female". Also interestingly reductionistic in terms of you search for part by part not by whole pose.

My blog tag for 'art' has some of the results from studio art classes I took. I wanted to see if I could doodle better humans, but also appreciated the permission to look at naked humans without leering.

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Football (and I guess baseball) nerd talk, even though I'm less of a football nerd and more of a casual (and apologetic) fan (I blame marching band in high school) -

Bill Belichick is on the short list for Dallas Cowboys coach, and allegedly Jerry Jones' top pick. That... would generate a fountain of Haterade.

(I think the Patriots dynasty was a three legged stool: amazing player acquisition, Brady, and very smart solid coaching. I think a lot of other teams in the Copycat League figured out what Belichick was doing with the first thing, and so when Brady left there was only one leg remaining, and things collapsed. So if Belichick went to Dallas it would be interesting to see how they handle the player acquisition piece.)

I always thought the Dallas Cowboys and NY Yankees had a similar feel - like some of the biggest and most successful teams of the last part of the 20th century, rather corporate approaches, a bit overmuch coverage on the national scene, and turning that all into great branding.

Yankees gear gets more wear than Cowboys stuff from people who don't give a damn about the particular sport, which of course is irksome for fans of rival teams. Like on the one hand, people wear it to reflect the glamour of the city in a keeping it real style of hat. But to a hater from Boston such as myself, a crisp Yankees hat is kind of like saying "I really love joyless capitalism".

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The Life and Death of the Suburban American Mall. All these malls being just gone is kind of a gut punch, right there for me with Geauga Lake park being wiped out and the old Salvation Army building in Salamanca NY - first home I remember - being a (weirdly small) flat lot.

Malls had a sense of being a destination that a Target or whatever just doesn't. For a mixed groups there were different stores to go to, vs just like, a Toy or Electronics section.