Van Leeuwen's artisanal ice cream is one the best in New York City. In this interesting video in the Eat Seeker series from our friends at Thrillist, see how founder Ben Van Leeuwen started up the company, and how their ice cream is much different than others.

Ben Van Leeuwen got his start on Good Humor truck. He sold strawberry shortcake bars and chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwiches to the masses. But he wasn’t satisfied. He wanted to be serving the highest quality product he possibly could with zero stabilizers and real cookie crumbles, jams, and brittles. So he launched Van Leeuwen and set out to create ice cream so delicious that it could satisfy anyone and everyone’s cravings, even those who are vegan.

The excellent video producers at Sparky Stories recently created this cinematographic profile of a sweet, old lady selling cotton candy out of her bright pink Jeep on Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Check out the accompanying article on [Bushwick Daily]((http://bushwickdaily.com/bushwick/categories/arts-and-culture/5257-cotton-candy-symphony) for more on the film.

In this beautiful video for Bushwick Daily, the Libbey Brothers give us an artistic frame of the hustle and bustle of one street in Bushwick, reminding us that while it's easy to rush from place to place in this busy city, there's always beauty to be found.

Back in February, we shared this incredible scale model of Manhattan that used discarded electronics, chips, and hot glue. Zayd Menk, the artist who created the piece, recently put out this behind-the-scenes, making-of video showing how it all came together. Check it out!

this is what midtown manhattan at the .0635 : 100 scale looks like. the meticulous construction of this 165 X 80 cm model took zimbabwe-based artist, zayd menk, 3 months of spare-time-googling and repetitive-calculating, sawing and gluing. in all, it took 263 hot glue sticks, 11 CPUs, an unprecedented number of wikipedia searches, 27 motherboards, 10 CRT monitor motherboards, 15 batteries, 2 clocks, 4 watches, 3 hard drives, 3 graphics cards, 4 audio cards, 7 power supplies, 13 floppy disk readers, a lot of maths, much patience, ‘a few other bits and pieces’ — and yes, before you ask, the empire state building does light up via 4 micro LEDs.