erinjoan:

A little bike grease never hurt anyone.

What’s a “Burble Bup”? Why, It’s Goverors Island’s First Secret Art Hideout, Of Course

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Corner office. (Taken with instagram)

"He’d once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it."

Don DeLillo, White Noise (via sherry)

The Floating Foundation of Photography

The Foundation was founded by photographer Maggie Sherwood in 1970 after she bought an old houseboat, painted it purple and offered it as a gallery and photo center for many of her friends. Within a few years she added a classroom and darkrooms. The houseboat was originally moored at the 79th Street Boat Basin, but in later years it traveled up and down the Hudson River. Photography critic A. D. Coleman described it as “moored at the literal edge of Manahattan, marginal by definition, it served a key role as the medium of photography itself moved from the periphery to the center of cultural discourse and creative activity.” The Foundation continued to be an influential center for photography in New York until two years after Sherwood’s death in 1984.

Photo via Freebird Books’ For-Gotham Quiz.

Yes, this thing. Don’t bother with the video — just go straight to the site.

At www.mta.me, Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument. Using the MTA’s actual subway schedule, the piece begins in realtime by spawning trains which departed in the last minute, then continues accelerating through a 24 hour loop. The visuals are based on Massimo Vignelli’s 1972 diagram.

The piece follows some rules. Every minute, it checks for new trains launched from their end stations. The train then moves towards the end of the line, with its speed set by the schedule’s estimated trip duration. Some decisions were made for musical, aesthetic, and technical reasons, such as fading out routes over time, the gradual time acceleration, and limiting the number of concurrent trains. Also, I used the weekday schedule. Some of these limitations result in subtle variations, as different trains are chosen during each 24-hour loop.

(Source: blog.chenalexander.com)

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Andrew Cuomo’s birthday cake

Photojojo:

HSBC lined the bottom of this pool with an aerial photo of NYC. Swimming in the pool is like swimming over a flooded city!

They appropriately named it the Global Warming Pool.

(via Shanai)

From the PopTech Tumblr:

NYC Green Infrastructure Plan:

In September 2010, New York City released the NYC Green Infrastructure Plan which presents an alternative approach to improving water quality that integrates “green infrastructure,” such as swales and green roofs, with investments to optimize the existing system and to build targeted, cost-effective “grey” or traditional infrastructure.

(Source: poptech)