Archive for February, 2009
Music: Röyksopp – Happy Up Here video
Happy Up Here from Röyksopp on Vimeo.
Unbuilt Robert Moses Highway Maps
I present my Google Maps version of the proposed Lower Manhattan Expressway and Mid Manhattan Expressways. Now there have been maps showing these proposed highways before (they are included in my Unbuilt Highways Map of NYC) but the point of doing it up to look like a Google Map was to put these highways in a modern context (also I’m sure there are plenty of people who didn’t even know about these). We have become so accustomed to viewing the world through Google Maps (or some other online mapping software) that I feel like these maps are starting to shape our view point of the city.
Market Hotel Pics
Went to the ToddP line up last night of Soft Circle, Teengirl Fantasy, These Are Powers, and Telepathe. I wasn’t a big fan of TAP until I saw them. They have a real primal beat to them that can only be experienced live. Telepathe I have seen once before and they sound [...]
