Whoa! When favorite Internet artists and awesome local galleries collide… (via davidhorvitz)

oversets asked: I will ask you the same question. It seems a lot of people from Tumblr are packing up and moving there this fall. :)

Ah, yes! The original question(s) being: 

When are you moving to New York? What’re you doing there? How many questions can I ask somebody I’ve never met before I seem weird and stalker-ish?

Well,

1. I’m moving at the end of August, giving me one last spectacular Spring/Summer to explore Minneapolis on Le Gitane. I sure will miss this town.
2. I wrote briefly about this before, but some friends and I — many of whom are fellow members of The Rotarians Society — will be coalescing as The Notion Collective. We’re all dabblers of sorts and have many different ideas of what we’ll be doing, but our bread & butter rent-paying work will be in new media-ish stuff (web, video, design, etc.)
3. I’m hoping three.

Corner (Minneapolis, MN)

colinkloecker:

Minneapolis named #1 Bike City in the USA. [via @shardlow]

Woo hoo! (This is an issue I’ve been tracking for some time.)

PDX Dethroned! Let’s be honest folks, we wanted it more…

Dino (Minneapolis, MN)

One of my favorite cafes in this city. They are effective in further proving the butter = delicious hypothesis. (Sorry, vegans.)

madge-world:

Breakfast in south Minneapolis. And when they say “butter” they’re not kidding.

I’m late to the news cycle on this one, but yes that is Ringo Starr in an Electric Fetus t-shirt.

B.T. McElrath - Salty Dog Chocolate Bar

ericaaaaa: “THIS. IS. MY. NEW. FAVORITE. THING.”

YES! I’m not usually one to be emphatic about chocolate, but it’s seriously that good. And, made in MPLS!

How To Be Happy In The Twin Cities

Some helpful hints from Erica. Perhaps it would be more accurately titled “How To Be Happy In The Twin Cities When It’s %#@$#& Cold Outside And The Sun Goes Down At 4PM.” I’d say for the last two years the Art Shanty Projects accomplished most if not all of the things on her list for me.