August 2012
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In the Shadows of the High Line - NYTimes.com →
But the problem isn’t just the crowds. It’s that the park, which will eventually snake through more than 20 blocks, is destroying neighborhoods as it grows.
And it’s doing so by design. While the park began as a grass-roots endeavor — albeit a well-heeled one — it quickly became a tool for the Bloomberg administration’s creation of a new, upscale, corporatized stretch along the West Side. As...
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Jamaica Bay, Where Pirates Can Dock and Dine in... →
At the Wharf, the fish tacos are more like wraps, and the open-faced lobsterrolls taste as much of cucumber as crustacean. But there’s no quibbling with the view: the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge to the west, the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge to the east, and Manhattan far off to the north.
The place is just one link in a loose archipelago of restaurants and bars facing the...
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Work by Niki de Saint Phalle and Bruce High... →
Public art makes me think of what the Conceptualist Douglas Huebler once said: “The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.” That may be a funny thing for an artist to say, but if you live in a place as densely packed with objects of all kinds as New York City, you may appreciate its wisdom.
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40 years later, 'Deliverance' causes mixed... →
Before the movie came out, the number of people who visited the Chattooga was in the hundreds. Afterwards, it was in the tens of thousands. Rafting is now a $20 million industry here and tourism is the area’s number one source of revenue. So you can understand why the organizers of the Chattooga River Festival decided to highlight the film.
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“He knew how demanding architectural photography is. You can only work on Sunday...”
– THOMAS RUFF: “I MAKE MY PICTURE ON THE SURFACE: VISITING THOMAS RUFF IN DUSSELDORF” (2005) « ASX | AMERICAN SUBURB X | Photography & Culture
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Bookstores as Galleries of the Page - NYTimes.com →
Over the last few years the city has entered a kind of golden age of art-book establishments that transcend the bounds of the bookstore. Relative newcomers like Karma, a tiny publishing-office-meets-shop in the West Village, and 6 Decades, upstairs in a ramshackle-looking building on Canal Street, have joined veterans like Specific Object in Chelsea and, a few blocks away, Printed Matter, the...
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This is now! →
This is Now project is a visual composition which uses real-time updates from the ever popular Instagram application based on users geo-tag locations. The tool streams photos instantly as soon as they are uploaded on Instagram and captures a city’s movement, in a fluid story.
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Tech Firms Flee Suburbs for City Homes - Bloomberg →
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The Key To A Thriving Creative Class? Give Artists... →
Artspace, the Twin Cities-based organization, has pioneered what sounds like the ultimate niche idea: It’s a nonprofit real estate developer for artists. Its flagship project, the Northern Warehouse in the Lowertown district of St. Paul, Minnesota, has been housing artists for more than 20 years in the heart of a neighborhood that’s undergone vast transformation.
This is a promising subject,...
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Ascii Street View →
Real-time Ascii Art conversion of Google Street View panorama’s done in WebGL.
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New Orleans’s Lively New Cocktail Scene -... →
