Here are some bits that interest me and feed my desire to learn from experience, innovation, and the ridiculous. I studied Architecture and the Social Study of Science and Technology at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Since 2010 I’ve been in New York to complete my MS Urban Planning at Columbia University. Feel free to keep in touch with me via Twitter or Linkedin. You might also like to browse some of the links, articles. Presentations and Tunes are always fun too.Tumblr (3.0; @arcktip)http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/Penn Station could be a "Gateway to Dignity": We have become a city too cynical about big change,...http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/17277704789http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/17277704789Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:55:54 -0500<a href="http://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/underground-berlin-the-film-treatment/">Underground Berlin</a>http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/17114525807http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/17114525807Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:31:54 -0500quote<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QvUODzjHemQ?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>What vintage Candid Camera can teach us about the cultural role of the global Occupy movement.</p> <p>via <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/13/asch-elevator-experiment/" title="asch elevator experiment" target="_blank">brainpickings</a></p>http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/16764421832http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/16764421832Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:46:51 -0500<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/35396305?color=ff0179" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>This is an awesome time lapse video of yosemite</p>http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/16357795622http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/16357795622Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:45:11 -0500<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/16355807100/tumblr_ly9j6mnmzo1qznt1a&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><p><p class="exfm_post_song_title">Analog or Digital by <span class="exfm_post_artist">Wildlife Control</span></p><p class="exfm_post_via"> shared from <a href="http://ex.fm/song/1x459" target="_blank">exfm</a></p><img align="bottom" src="http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000012339283-3o5y92-t500x500.jpg?07ffa83"/></p>http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/16355807100http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/16355807100Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:56:46 -0500<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/16355709690/tumblr_ly9j2ktxVE1qznt1a&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><p><p class="exfm_post_song_title">Ohai (Do I Know You?) by <span class="exfm_post_artist">Wildlife Control</span></p><p class="exfm_post_via"> shared from <a href="http://ex.fm/song/1x454" target="_blank">exfm</a></p><img align="bottom" src="http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000013105837-8fzusj-t500x500.jpg?07ffa83"/></p>http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/16355709690http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/16355709690Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:54:20 -0500<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/16355360080/tumblr_ly9inp2oA71qznt1a&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><p><p class="exfm_post_song_title">Spaceman (Original Mix) by <span class="exfm_post_artist">Hardwell</span></p><p class="exfm_post_via"> shared from <a href="http://ex.fm/song/7ihyv" target="_blank">exfm</a></p></p>http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/16355360080http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/16355360080Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:45:25 -0500<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/16353819216/tumblr_ly9gu5O50r1qznt1a&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><p><p class="exfm_post_song_title">Razzberry Mockery by <span class="exfm_post_artist">Keith Caputo</span></p><p class="exfm_post_via"> shared from <a href="http://ex.fm/song/7b9dx" target="_blank">exfm</a></p><img align="bottom" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Zn987YJHL.jpg"/></p>http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/16353819216http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/16353819216Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:06:05 -0500<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/16351745115/tumblr_ly9e7iOr7l1qznt1a&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><p><p class="exfm_post_song_title">Let there be rock by <span class="exfm_post_artist">Tocotronic</span></p><p class="exfm_post_via"> shared from <a href="http://ex.fm/song/ffe1" target="_blank">exfm</a></p></p>http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/16351745115http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/16351745115Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:09:18 -0500“The phrase ‘military-industrial complex’ had been coined not by a radical thinker...http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/15855870311http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/15855870311Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:38:16 -0500“Old fashioned harmony? It’s mostly gone. A more fitting metaphor is the jazz ensemble,...http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/15855804599http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/15855804599Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:36:59 -0500<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/eP0QJ_Ba1Bs?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Looking forward to the release of Moonrise Kingdom</p>http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/15795314097http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/15795314097Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:11:54 -0500<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/26584083?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p><h1>CINEMETRICS</h1></p>http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/15794693923http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/15794693923Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:59:58 -0500“It’s interesting, then, that, in both instances—in both Iraq and in post-war...http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/15722784913http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/15722784913Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:40:36 -0500“it doesn’t make for an easy photograph. It’s all a bit like the sexual act: the...http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/15694401195http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/15694401195Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:11:43 -0500“In my experience, the most successful entrepreneurs have been those with a strong technical...http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/15690476152http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/15690476152Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:00:00 -0500““we are also remarkably adaptable and tend to be quite complacent about our comfort and...http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/15677703699http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/15677703699Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:22:24 -0500“Planners could develop more sophisticated zoning tools to foment commercial diversity and...http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/15659213067http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/15659213067Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:16:01 -0500“Money is like gasoline during a road trip,” he says. “You don’t want to run...http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/15659147539http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/15659147539Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:14:22 -0500<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Hdpf-MQM9vY?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>The Chinese construction crew Broad Group, the same insanely fast contractors that built the Ark Hotel, just completed a 30-story, 183,000-square-foot building in just 15 days. via GIZMODO</p>http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/15610855415http://tumblr.patrickthoffman.com/post/15610855415Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:53:00 -0500