nothing to do with the city. but this makes me happy. Happy Friday.
this gives me life
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Monthly Archives: February 2010
new york i love you
New York, you’re perfect, oh please don’t change a thing!
you let the people see just who you want to be,
and every night you shine just like a superstar
the long here & the big now
Adam Greenfield, head of design at Nokia, speaks about the future of mobile computing.
He touches on some issues that I think are going to be integral to describing and theorizing and studying urban experience today:
leonardo da vinci’s resume
Here is Leonardo Da Vinci’s letter to the Duke of Milan, advertising all of his skills and services, good for times of both war and peace. Talk about creative destruction of the city. An interesting CV for the painter of the Mona Lisa.
If your medieval Latin isn’t great, click below for the translations:
waacking the city
Waacking is a form of house dance which had its heyday in the 1970s. But these London rockers are part of a new wave of dancers keeping this New York City tradition alive. I love this video, in which you see the way the dance itself is a response to the atmosphere of the night time city. In the deserted streets of London’s Chinatown, they glitter and glow like lanterns.
cultural analytics as an archival practice
Imagine this method applied to the vast amounts of visual information about the city, contained on people’s flickr sites, and mobile phones, or blogs and facebook pages. What might we be able to learn about affective experience of the city? This wall of images is a machine for feeling out the resonances between objects.
