Tag: NYC
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...
An extravagant piece of 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...
Galloping in Grand Central Station
Commuters in Grand Central Terminal will encounter a new obstacle to making the train on time this week: 30 dancing horses. It’s part of “Heard NY,” a site-specific performance by the Chicago artist Nick Cave, in c...
Behind the Signs: A Look at the DOT Sign Shop
From NYC DOT, Behind the Signs: A Look at the DOT Sign Shop: There are more than two million signs in New York City. Ever wonder where they come from? Many are made by DOT’s in-house sign shop based in Ma...
The Event of a Thread
“The Event of a Thread” was a stunning large scale, participatory installation by Ann Hamilton that recently filled the cavernous drill hall at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. The centerpiece of the...
New York City’s pothole repair team
Every day, on a Tumblr called “The Daily Pothole,” New Yorkers get a peek inside the inner workings of a city system few knew existed: the men who repair our potholes. Tumblr spent a day with...
Fall: Time lapse in Central Park
Fall, a time-lapse, season-catcher in New York City’s Central Park, shot from August 2011 to January 2012 by Jamie Scott. via doobybrain.
The 3rd annual World Maker Faire’s Nerdy Derby
The Nerdy Derby is a miniature car building and racing competition that will be held at the 3rd annual World Maker Faire, September 29 and 30 in New York City (video). The competition is ins...
The incredible work of autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire: NYC
New York City by autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire in 2009. Stephen has the amazing talent of drawing city skylines from memory. Having spent only a few hours in a helicopter flying from Brooklyn to the tip of Manh...
cdza: The Human Jukebox
Charles Yang on Violin, Michael Thurber on Bass, and Eddie Barbash on Alto Saxophone… together they are The Human Jukebox, a super-viral musical video experiment by cdza. In this experiment, they use donations ...
New York: A Documentary Film – The Chrysler Building (1929)
From New York: A Documentary Film: the Chrysler Building in 1929.
On the Brooklyn Bridge
A brief visit to the Brooklyn Bridge and all of the usual cars, taxis helicopters, boats, bikers and pedestrians that you’d find walking along such a monument in NYC. This kind of footage reminds m...
