New Yorks East Side-Subwaybagger
Die Metropolitan Transportation Authority von New York hat eine Reihe CC-lizensierter Bilder der Bauarbeiten unter dem Grand Central Terminal auf Flickr online gestellt, ein paar mehr und andere Bilder gibt’s beim Atlantic: The Tunnels of NYC’s East Side Access Project. Ihr wisst schon, Höhlen, gigantische Bohrer und Riesenbagger.
A huge public works project is currently under construction in New York City, connecting Long Island to Manhattan’s East Side. Deep underground, rail tunnels are extending from Sunnyside, Queens, to a new Long Island Rail Road terminal being excavated beneath Grand Central Terminal. Construction began in 2007, with an estimated cost of $6.3 billion and completion date of 2013. Since then, the cost estimate has been raised to $8.4 billion, and the completion date moved back to 2019. When finished, the line will accommodate 24 trains per hour at peak traffic, cutting down on commute times from Long Island, and opening up access to John F. Kennedy International Airport from Manhattan’s East Side. Collected here are images of the progress to date, deep beneath Queens and Manhattan.
Flickr: East Side Access Update – 2/12/2013 (via Interweb3000)
Atlantic: The Tunnels of NYC’s East Side Access Project
Awesome Shot of New York
Ich liebe diesen Panorama-Shot von New Yorks Central Park, der die Stadt wie einen Chip auf dem Supercomputer namens Erde aus Douglas Adams Hitchhiker aussehen lässt, oder als Megastadt in Sim City. Das Bild von Sergey Semonov hat grade zurecht den ersten Preis in Epsons Pano-Awards abgeräumt, hier gibt’s das Teil in einer interaktiven Version und hier in 3000px-HighRes.
Day view of Manhattan, New York, USA • 360° Aerial Panorama (via The Verge)
Bloomberg nails it: It’s Global Warming, Stupid!
Cover Story der kommenden Business Week-Ausgabe, hier der Artikel dazu: It’s Global Warming, Stupid. (via Gawker)
Empty America: New York Timelapse
Das Thrashlab hat Ross Chings dritten Teil seiner „Empty America“-Serie online gestellt, heute passenderweise New York. Passenderweise, weil dort grade Hurricane Sandy (Pics, Live-Updates) auf New York trifft und die geräumte U-Bahn praktisch dasselbe zeigt, wie der Clip von Ross Ching, nur in echt. Jedenfalls: Empty Amerca, New York, Snip:
Thrash Lab’s “Empty America” timelapse travel series takes you to New York City. All the bridge and tunnel people have been sent home and Manhattan has been wiped empty! Penn Station, Wall Street, Central Park, Times Square, The Met and Fifth Avenue have never looked so vacant. Sorry New Yorkers, you won’t have much luck getting a cab, but you can experience your city beautiful and empty and take in the iconic streets and architecture without clutter!
Das dazugehörige Bonusvideo dazu: What Makes A Video Go Viral?
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Empty Seattle
Empty San Francisco
Empty Los Angeles
Los Angeles sans Cars
Matt Logues Fotoserie „Empty L.A.“
Abandoned London
Playing Cards printed on used New York Metro-Tickets
Metro-Deck verkaufen Poker-Sets, die sie auf benutzte Fahrkarten der New Yorker U-Bahn drucken. Schick!
Printed on found and repurposed New York City subway fare cards, Metro Deck attempts to visually capture the common thread between commuters, public transportation, and chance. Every card has been gathered at random, after having been purchased, used, and discarded by either a visitor or resident of New York City. Some have been signed or otherwise marked, making each card unique with its own narrative potential.
Appropriating the language of playing cards, the work asks us to consider our intimate connection with the subway and the city. The face cards are inspired by landmarks across the five Boroughs, referencing the tremendous reach of the subway system. Whether it’s a delay because of a sick passenger, train traffic ahead, or the ever-popular police activity, a “lucky hand” can make the difference between a brisk fifteen minute commute or a grueling, hour-long one.
Metro-Deck (via Coudal)
New York City Rollercoaster
Vimeo Direktnyc, via Animal NY
Sehr schickes Video von Fernando Livschitz mit New York als Themepark. Und ich liebe „Grace“ von Supergrass! Der Mann hatte das vor ein paar Monaten bereits mit Buenos Aires gemacht, den Clip gibt’s hier.
The Underground New York Public Library
Ourit Ben-Haim dokumentiert auf Tumblr seit Dezember 2011 Leser und ihre Bücher in der New Yorker U-Bahn: The Underground New York Public Library. Die Fotos gibt’s auch gesammelt in einem Flickr-Set, die Storys zu den Bildern nur auf der Website. Tolles Projekt! Aus einem Interview mit Ben-Haim:
What inspired you to begin the UNYPL?
The first time I photographed a subway reader, I did it just out of photographic instincts. After that I felt compelled to do it again, and the photographs I collected inspired me to build a visual library. Concentrating on the Reading-Riders led me to discover layers of meaning in their presence and activity. In time I resolved to create an extensive series, in revelation, preservation, and celebration of them.What does a book say about its reader?
To read is to be willing to engage ourselves towards discovery. Reading any book demonstrates this willingness. When I see the Reading-Riders, I see people who are contemplating description of new possibilities. In this way, every book says that its reader is simply great.
Letterpress Artshow in NYC
Schöne Print-Ausstellung im ADC New York, für die sie Sprüche auf der Straße aufgeschnappt haben und zu Prints auf alten Druckmaschinen verarbeitet haben. Von Behance: „ʻNew York Typesʼ an exhibit held at the Art Directors Club in New York as part of New York Writes Itself. A project we created for The Village Voice. The exhibition brought to life the real words heard on the streets of New York.“
The Times Square Photographs of Bill Butterworth, 1983-1984
Vice hat ein schönes Preview der Street Fotografie von Bill Butterworth vom Times Square der 80er voller Huren, Zuhälter und Drag Queens. Ein paar Bilder mehr gibt’s auf der Website des Verlags, Snip:
In the 1970s and 80s New York was internationally renowned for its seedy underbelly; the world capital of leisure, luxury, and sin. And the epicenter of New York vice, hands down, was 42nd Street-Times Square—a.k.a. the Forty-Deuce. On any given night on the Forty-Deuce you could take in the latest blockbuster, B-movie, or skin flick; cop drugs or cop a feel. A playground for the perverse, as well as a destination for thrill-seekers and partiers from every borough of New York City and beyond, Times Square was the electric heart of the city that refused to sleep.
The Forty-Deuce: The Times Square Photographs of Bill Butterworth, 1983-1984 is a series of photographs capturing a gritty, glamorous, and authentic old-school New York, well before Mickey Mouse took over Times Square and scrubbed it clean. Curators and editors Beatriz and Hilton Ariel Ruiz have collected and preserved the work of local street photographer Bill Butterworth, and have drawn from his work to create a revealing portrait of the Forty-Deuce, inside and out—capturing the unique street life and street style of the era, but also drawing us deeper in, to the peep shows, sex shops, backroom brothels, dimly lit arcades, and low-budget theatres where the action happened.
Amazon-Partnerlink: The Forty-Deuce: The Times Square Photographs of Bill Butterworth, 1983-1984 (via Animal NY)
80s Porn-Stores at Times Square
Doc Katze hat eine Reihe von Bildern der Porno-Läden am Times Square aus den 80ern gepostet und schreibt auf Interweb3000: „Beim Rumstöbern im Life Archiv bin ich auf eine kleine Fotoserie von Ted Thai mit Porno-Läden am Times Square aus dem Jahr 1986 gestoßen. Eine Übergangszeit, als der Times Square nicht mehr ganz das gefährlichen Pflaster der späten 70er, aber noch ein paar Jahre von der Disneyfizierung unter Rudolph Giuliani in den 90ern entfernt war.“
Street-Photography from ugly New York in the 80s
Tolles Flickr-Set von Steven Siegel mit Bildern aus dem Drecksloch, das New York in den 80ern war. Die Bilder der zerstörten U-Bahn-Wagen in Betrieb sind der Knaller. (via Jason Kottke)
The Roots and the Future of Occupy Wallstreet
Beide klassischen NYC-Magazine, der New Yorker und das New York Magazine, haben jeweils einen tollen, langen Artikel über Occupy Wallstreet. Ersterer über die Wurzeln und Adbusters, beide über die Zukunft der Bewegung.
This is how Occupy Wall Street began: as one of many half-formed plans circulating through conversations between [Kalle] Lasn and [Micah] White, who lives in Berkeley and has not seen Lasn in person for more than four years. Neither can recall who first had the idea of trying to take over lower Manhattan. In early June, Adbusters sent an e-mail to subscribers stating that “America needs its own Tahrir.” The next day, White wrote to Lasn that he was “very excited about the Occupy Wall Street meme. . . . I think we should make this happen.” He proposed three possible Web sites: OccupyWallStreet.org, AcampadaWallStreet.org, and TakeWallStreet.org.
“No. 1 is best,” Lasn replied, on June 9th. That evening, he registered OccupyWallStreet.org.
Pre-Occupied – The origins and future of Occupy Wall Street
When histories of Occupy Wall Street are written, those days in November will no doubt be seen as a watershed. In just two months of existence, OWS had scored plenty of victories: spreading from New York to more than 900 cities worldwide; introducing to the vernacular a potent catchphrase, “We are the 99 percent”; injecting into the national conversation the topic of income inequality. But OWS had also suffered setbacks. The less savory aspects of the occupations had provided the right with fuel for feral slander (Drudge: “Death, Disease Plague ‘Occupy’ Protests”) and casual caricature. Even among some protesters, there was a sense that stagnation had set in. Then came the Zuccotti clampdown—and the popular perception that it meant the end of OWS.
It’s perfectly possible that this perception will be borne out, that the raucous events of November 17 were the last gasps of a rigor-mortizing rebellion. But no one seriously involved in OWS buys a word of it. What they believe instead is that, after a brief period of retrenchment, the protests will be back even bigger and with a vengeance in the spring—when, with the unfurling of the presidential election, the whole world will be watching. Among Occupy’s organizers, there is fervid talk about occupying both the Democratic and Republican conventions. About occupying the National Mall in Washington, D.C. About, in effect, transforming 2012 into 1968 redux.
Girl Walk All Day – Movie-Trailer
Vimeo Direktgirl, via Swiss Miss
Im Januar bloggte ich über ein tolles Projekt vom Cargo Collective: Girl Walk All Day, ein Impro-Dancevideo zu Tracks von Gregg „Girl Talk“ Gillis letztem Album „All Day“. Seit damals haben sie per Kickstarter daraus einen kompletten Tanzfilm gemacht mit der kompletten Platte als Soundtrack. Der ist jetzt fertig, hat am 8. Dezember Premiere und wird vorher und danach in Teilen auf ihrer Website veröffentlicht. Oben der Trailer dazu, alle Teile werde ich hier sicherlich nicht einzeln posten, aber wenn das Ding fertig ist, bringe ich ein Update dazu.
We’ve set out to combine the amazing talents of improvisational dancer Anne Marsen (and a supporting cast of contemporary dancers) with the epic new Girl Talk album, All Day, creating an album-length music video of grand proportions.
Girl Walk // All Day is a feature-length dance film that follows three dancers across New York City’s sidewalks, parks and public spaces.They turn the city into an evolving stage as they spread the joy of movement. A non-stop adventure to a soundtrack you won’t be able to sit still to, Girl Walk // All Day is the ultimate love letter to New York City.
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Girl Walk All Day: Improdance-Videoprojekt für Girl Talks „All Day“
Neues Girl Talk-Album „All Day“
Girl Talks „All Day“-Samples
Girl Talks „All Day“-Samples (2)
The Midnight Archive Ep.4: The Automata
Ronnie Thomas von The Midnight Archive hat mir grade die vierte Folge seiner Webserie über komische Dinge in Brooklyin geschickt. Heute gehts um Jere Ryders seltsame Automaten.
The Automata And Automatic Music — Tucked away, in a quiet and pleasant suberb of New Jersey, there exists one of the most fascinating collections of artistic engineering ever collected. The collection belonged to Murtogh Guiness, of the Guiness Brewering company. Its contents are, what i can only desrcibe as the early days of robotics, engineered for our ancestor’s entertainment. Dolls that perform incredible tasks, full orchestras in the middle of your parlor, and my favorite of course, a banjo that plays itself. The collection is maintaned and managed by Jere Ryder who began his interest at a very early age. He is now entrusted to the collection at the Morris Museum located in Morristown New Jersey.
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
The Midnight Archive: Webisodes about the strange Things
The Midnight Archive: Modern Day Mummys
Occult NYC Walking Tour
The Midnight Archive Ep.3: Making Men out of Mice – Anthropomorphic Taxidermy
Occult NYC Walking Tour
(Youtube Direktghosts, thanx Ronni!)
Ronni vom Midnight Archive schreibt mir: „We are excited to announce the second episode of The Midnight Archive series – now available at www.themidnightarchive.com – this week Mitch Horowitz who give the Brooklyn Observatory’s Occult NYC Walking tour shows us some of the finer points of living in this fine city.“
The master or all things intriguing, Mitch Horowitz, takes us on a virtual tour of a city not very often associated with the Occult historically: my home town, New York City. Mitch is among many other fantastic things, the author of Occult America. In this tour we learn about our old time New York pals talking to spirits, channeling the dead and getting in touch with our ascended masters.
