Topic: NYC
Icebreaker Boats: Breaking Ice on the Hudson River
The rivers surrounding New York City no longer freeze over completely --despite a lot of ice, water salinity and boat traffic keep the waterways open -- but farther north on the Hudson River, in this case near Germant...
Cookie Monster’s food-related “showerthoughts” at the museum
What was the best thing before sliced bread? Cookie Monster considers some food-related "showerthoughts" -- those random, seemingly-profound thoughts, ideas, or questions that you might have while taking a shower, day...
WNYC: Bodega Cats In Their Own Words
"There are no cats quite like New York City bodega cats—if only they could talk. Well, now they can." This charming series by Amy Pearl and Jennifer Hsu chronicles the lives of New York City Bodega Cats In Their...
Subway musicians play together from 9 different subway stations
In Chris Shimojima's Signal Strength, eleven musicians unite in a live experiment about connectivity and community: they play a song together from nine different New York City subway stops with the help of WiFi-enable...
This may be The World’s Largest Tuba
The world's largest tuba, if it is indeed the largest and if you consider it a tuba, sounds like "a jackhammer" or "a helicopter." Listen as Derek Fenstermacher, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra's principal tuba player, ...
Where Does New York City’s Trash Go?
We recently got a glimpse of the work inside of one of the largest sanitation departments in the world, but this The New York Times report on NYC's trash is much more in depth: If you're going to have this many pe...
Earth Observations: Astronauts search for cities from ISS’ Cupola
What do volcanoes, islands, dry lake beds, and big cities look like from space? Join International Space Station Expedition 38 crew members Mike Hopkins and Rick Mastracchio as they chitchat about Earth's cities and c...
Paper’s Passage: From Waste to Product by NYC Sanitation
Made from 5,902 photos by NYC Sanitation's Director of Photography Michael Anton, Paper’s Passage: From Waste to Product shows us where paper and cardboard waste goes after the New York City recycling trucks drive awa...
What Happens When 350 Musicians Meet For The First Time?
This summer, around 350 musicians of all kinds -- "Young, older, professional drumlines, community marching bands, seasoned jazz players, Indian wedding band musicians, Brazilian samba drummers and scads of amateur pl...
Streets: New York City
Visit the fast-moving streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens in majestic slow motion -- from water balloon fights to pigeons taking flight to sunset skies between skyscrapers -- with Streets - New York City from Ti...
Meet the People Who Retrieve the Stuff You Drop On the Tracks
What happens if you drop your stuffed bunny rabbit on the tracks of the New York City Subway System? Never jump down to get it! Instead, go to the booth and tell them what and where. The booth clerk calls Rail Command...
Electric Company: Sign Songs
In the 1970s, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown composer Clark Gesner made a series of found signage-based videos for PBS’ The Electric Company. The song above is our favorite becaus...
Tom Tom Magazine‘s The Oral History of Female Drummers
Watch Tom Tom Magazine's The Oral History of Female Drummers, presented with ARTBOOK @ MoMA PS1. Featured drummers include Mindy Abovitz, Sean Desiree, Kiran Gandhi, Linnea LaMon, Ashley “Say Wut?!” Moyer...
Mentoria Hutchinson, NYPD’s Dancing Traffic Cop
From The New York Times, Mentoria Hutchinson, NYPD’s Dancing Traffic Cop. In the archives: more New York City.
cdza music: Intro to Drums
The cdza music team is at it again with the second episode of their series The Instrumentals: Intro to Drums. After introducing the drum set, drummer Allan Mednard compares and contrasts two kinds of rhythms: rock an...
cdza: Daft Pianists
How many people can play the piano at the same time? Music video experiment makers cdza help answer this question in Daft Pianists. Damian Sim, Erika Dohi, Michael Thurber, Allan Mednard, and Mark Johnson conceived ...
James Nares’ STREET
With a soundtrack by Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, artist James Nares’ STREET is an experiment in people watching with the benefit of slow motion. From the New York Times: Mr. Nares’s 61-minute video...
Extravagant furniture with secret panels, doors, and drawers
If you’ve ever wanted a cabinet with secret compartments — and we’re talking about a lot of secret compartments here — then you’re going to like videos from the Extravagant Inventi...
