New York based programmer Brian Foo has a fascinating project called Data Driven DJ in which he creates songs and other music experiments derived from data, algorithms and borrowed sounds.…
Brooklyn-based videographer Keiichi Hiramoto headed outside with his camera after the non-blizzard Juno last week, and shot some great footage around Dumbo of kids playing in the snow, dogs…
New York City journalist Ken Sander hosted a public access television show on cable in the 1990's called "Speak Out" in which he asks viewers to call in with opinions on the serious question…
The Lively Morgue is a daily photo blog from the New York Times in which an original photo from the newspaper's archives is reposted along with tidbits of information gleaned from the…
A new project from the University of Waterloo School of Planning in Ontario called Generationed City has been compiling data on youthification in major cities across the world, including New…
Couldn't get any tickets to that free Kanye West concert we mentioned last week? Don't worry because you can still watch the show, albeit from home. Tune into JAY Z’s Life+Times on this…
A recent multi-media essay from Good Magazine highlights 4 different couples living homeless lives in shelters and on the New York City streets. The couples talk about how being a couple…
The Downtown Alliance, an organization striving to make Lower Manhattan a better place to live, work and play, recently unveiled a proposal to create a large new pedestrian plaza by…
The first annual Roc City Classic was held yesterday on a temporary stage built directly in front of the Flatiron Building in the pedestrian plaza adjacent to Madison Square Park. Over…
The Atlantic posted an article this morning entitled Skipping the 13th Floor about how we assign so much meaning to numbers that our superstition affects infrastructure design. Local housing…
