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Tag Archives: New York City
Reading Room
New York City’s Faded Ethos in Colson Whitehead’s ‘Zone One’
I was not surprised when the “occupation” of Zucotti Park was cleared out last November by the NYPD. What surprised me was that it could persist for nearly two months in a place as spatially constricted as Manhattan. New York City is not particularly hospitable to those who wish to live off-the-grid or create autonomous spaces for themselves — artistic,…
Information Society
Augmented Reality: June 20th, New York City
A dispatch from the ‘uncanny valley’.
The first time I ever actually saw augmented reality, I was living in Albany, NY. My friend loaded LAYAR onto his phone and we walked around our neighborhood, watching real estate data instantiate alongside buildings.
Cultural Notebook
Back In The Day: Turning Everyday People Into Icons
The New York Times‘ Lens blog has put together a slide show commemorating the 10th anniversary edition of Jamel Shabazz’s book “Back in the Day” (powerHouse): “Photography gave Jamel Shabazz direction in life — straight to the young men and women he saw every day in parks, on stoops and on streets. When he started in the mid-1970s in Brooklyn’s…
