"New York City: giant wasteland of awesomeness."

Jason

On the Waterfront.
Exciting things are happening! Last weekend Ariel and I moved into our place in the Columbia Street Waterfront District. It’s a strange, wonderful little neighborhood with a disputed name — the woman we’re subletting it from calls it Cobble Hill, Michael insists it’s really just part of Red Hook, and we’ve been affectionally calling it “CoWaDis”.

Another big thing happened to me before the weekend; I accepted a part-time position as a front-end designer/developer at PopTech’s DUMBO office. The more I dig into what this organization does, the more exciting I am about it; while at first glance they may appear to be just another TED, much of PopTech’s emphasis is now on actually making things happen. I’ll be helping update the website to better tell this part of the story.

And finally, with a new place to live and a new workplace comes a new commute —  which is one of things I’m most excited about. It’s actually significantly easier and faster for me to get to work via bike than it is via public transportation. That’s because my commute is almost completely through the brand new Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway (which I mentioned earlier). This means I have just about zero excuse not to bike to work every day. 

New apartment, new view.

That’s a definite like.

Job Interviews Unincorporated: New York Office

Hey, remember that project I did in June for Works Progress’ exhibition at Intermedia Arts? Well, I’m finally getting around to writing a follow-up post with some good news: Job Interviews Unincorporated will be opening its New York office on September 24th, as part of the DUMBO Arts Festival. 

For those of you that interviewed at the Minneapolis office last June, you may be contacted soon for some potential follow-up work — Job Interviews Unincorporated is looking for a few select employees to telecommute from the midwest.

In the meantime, some props are in order. First off, thanks to my friends at Works Progress for helping put together the Minneapolis office (including setting up the lovely arrangement you see above). Second, thanks to the folks at The Work Office for contracting Job Interviews Unincorporated to be included in their portion of the DUMBO Arts Fest.

More details to come!

(photo: Zoe Prinds-Flash/Works Progress)

Le Gitane’s maiden voyage in NYC on a Sunday sunset ride. We took a little tour of Red Hook and went over to Brooklyn Bridge Park — a wonderful new waterfront greenspace that’s part of the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway. More photos below…