New Year's Day: Steinway Street, Astoria, Queens, NY

Someone had left LabCorp an interesting sample on New Year's Day...

Was für eine schöne Farbe!*

Bleecker Street, West Village.

Beverley Road near Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn.

* Was für eine schöne Farbe! is German for 'What a lovely color!'

I Think About This Sort of Process Often

An artist called Drew Dernavich drew this cartoon, above, and had it rejected by The New Yorker in 2007. Then some years rolled by...

...and he thought about it, and refined it, decided to resubmit it...and this time it was accepted.