todd webb: New York City 6th Avenue in 1948, between West 43rd & 44th - UHQ Photo

The enlarged panorama, 93 feet long by 11 1/2 feet high, completely fills the thirteen windows of ICP along West 43rd Street. In great detail, it shows the many small shops that existed in 1948 along the west side of Sixth Avenue between West 43rd and 44th Streets. Today, this block is home to the museum of the International Center of Photography. Many of the storefronts feature bars and record shops, but on the far left is the Hanover House hotel where, in 1940, songwriter Woody Guthrie composed his well-known ballad, "This Land Is Your Land."

Special edition launch: Marmite XO

Core Design has created an exclusive run of 200 hand-crafted jars for the launch of new extra-matured Marmite ‘XO’. A brand iconic in the UK, which has remained virtually unchanged for decades. The new flavour variant has been developed through an innovative social media campaign, creatively directed by The Core. In a unique example of consumer engagement, the brand offered its thirty biggest fans (so-called ‘super-lovers’) the chance to be inducted into a secret society, The Marmarati...

There they were given responsibility for refining the flavour, telling their story via blogs, social media sites and recruiting a wider group of members. Thanks to their work, hundreds of Lovers submitted proof of their love to www.marmarati.org in the hope of being initiated into The Marmarati’s ‘Second Circle’. One hundred and sixty made the grade.

Tasked with creating a beautiful, highly-collectable piece to reward this group for their efforts and welcome them into the society, The Core focussed on building rich vintage cues around Marmite’s key equities: black and gold. Each jar was hand-dipped in black wax and stamped with the gold crest of the Marmarati. The lids were finished with a watchstrap detail, individually signed and numbered by Lord Marmarati himself.

The resulting packs arrived with fans, selected press and buyers with an accompanying ‘taster’ jar of the finished XO product. Says Unilever’s Tom Denyard, Marketing Manager for Marmite, “The commemorative jar had to be something special – we were asking people to give up their time to submit proof of their love for the brand and the jar was their reward. It’s a testament to the quality of the design that when we ‘leaked’ images of how it would look, Twitter and Facebook exploded with conversation and entries increased threefold. Our Lovers just had to have one.”

DC Council Considers Banning Single-Slice Pizza

One of the more ridiculous legislations to be put up for vote: Washington DC is considering banning the sale of single slices of pizza. Yup, that’s right—a slice of cheese and pepperoni will no longer be available for purchase after a drunken night of bar hopping around Adams Morgan. The real issue at hand is a recent rash of street fights, stabbings, muggings, and even a shootout involving two plainclothes police officers.

Councilman Jim Graham is trying to combat the late-night wrongdoings by putting an end to the throngs of drunken folk scarfing pizza after hours at the city’s late-night slice joints. Clearly, banning pizza by the slice will end stabbings. I can’t believe they haven’t done this before!

DC is stupid.

crab cakes, ribs and cheerwine

nothing says king like ribs and crab cakes for lunch. and the cheerwine brings it all together. a tier 1 approved meal

mila Kunis is attractive

and a fan of In & Out.

Which is all fine and dandy but I feel that Five Guys is far superior to the Cali-centric chain which needs to involve that 'spread' on every burger. For those who don't live on the East Coast, Five Guys is King Shit when it comes to grilled meat inside bread and their fries don't suck like In & Out. Those in & out fries really fucking suck.