Photography: Architecture
Architecture, a set on Flickr. Ancient and hypermodern, around the globe. Tagged: architecture, beijing, buildings, cities, hong kong, iphoneography, los angeles, naples, New York, paris, Photography,...
View ArticlePhotography: People
People, a set on Flickr. Portraits and documentation, professional and spontaneous. Tagged: brooklyn, burning man, china, concerts, iphonepgraphy, little boots, New York, new york city, paris, people,...
View ArticlePhotography: NYC
NYC, a set on Flickr. To the Five Boroughs. Tagged: cities, city, New York, NYC, Photography, street photography, urban, urbanism
View ArticleNew York at 780fps
This video by James Nares is utterly hypnotic. Shot with a Phantomflex high-speed camera, it captures the microdramas of street life in midtown Manhattan in a supersharp 780 frames per second, and...
View ArticlePhotography: Transit
Transit, a set on Flickr. Planes, trains, bikes, boats. No automobiles. Tagged: airport, airports, airtrain, beijing, bicycle, bike culture, bikes, biking, boat, boats, brooklyn, circumvesuviana,...
View ArticleBlackout NYC
The 2003 NYC Blackout was 10 years ago today. I was at work at Condé Nast that morning, and in the middle of making a phone call when the power went out, which must have been hilarious for whoever...
View ArticleIphoneography: Back on the East Coast
I’ve been back on the East Coast for a bit, data-fasting and writing an upcoming article in the Adirondacks, and catching up with NYC. I used to loathe August when I lived here, but the weather in Nor...
View ArticleAbiding Cities, Remnant Sites: NYC 11/13–14
I’ll be doing a conference presentation of my “Postcards from the Future” project, on California, science fiction, utopia, and dystopia at the Abiding Cities conference at CUNY this November. I’ll be...
View ArticleOn 15 Years/ 15 Years On
15 years seems an impossibility—for the New York of that time, and the New York before, to be so far in the rearview. It's especially strange when my overwhelming feeling for much of 9/11 was that none...
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