Fotografare persone e infrastrutture di New York dal punto di vista di un tassista. È il progetto del fotografo e tassista David Bradford raccontato a Moment New York, una serie di video realizzati da New York.com che descrivono storie e personaggi degni di nota della Grande Mela.
James Doernberg e Kai Jordan lo scorso mercoledì hanno visitato tutte le 118 stazioni della metropoilitata newyorkese a Manhattan scattandosi un autoritratto. Nove ore ben spese.
The idea just came to me a few months ago. I was probably thinking about ways to make commuting fun/useful, or different records/accomplishments that I could do while in NYC. I mentioned the idea to Kai a few days ago, and she latched onto it and thought it sounded really fun. And it was, the nine hours flew by actually. I planned the route out as we went, and I was really worried that an inefficient route would make it take too long or stretch into two days. But everything fell into place pretty well. I marked each stop we went to with an X on a paper map. I almost missed the 5th Ave stop on the 7 train, but noticed it before it was too late...
L'artista svizzero Thomas Hirschhorn ha portato Gramsci a Forest Houses, nel cuore del Bronx, realizzando una delle iniziative più originali dell'estate newyorchese.
Il Gramsci Monument sarà un'opera da vivere, centro pulsante del quartiere tra happening, reading, internet point, corsi, concerti e una biblioteca dedicata all'intellettuale incarcerato dal regime fascista.
Per Hirschhorn si tratta del suo quarto e ultimo progetto della serie "monuments" dopo quelli dedicati a Spinoza ad Amsterdam, a Gilles Deleuze ad Avignone e per George Bataille a Kassel, in Germania.
Il primo maggio del 1931 veniva inaugurato l'Empire State Building. Speculazione immobiliare in piena Grande Depressione, simbolo di un nuovo inizio per New York e gli Stati Uniti.
Assolutamente attuale 82 anni dopo.
The construction of the Empire State Building reads like a tall tale. Designed by William F. Lamb, his firm produced drawings of the building in two weeks. From its groundbreaking on January 22, 1930, the skyscraper was built in just 401 days and was simultaneously entered into a competition for "World’s Tallest Building", along with the Chrysler building and 40 Wall Street. Even as it was being built, the Empire State building was hailed as a feat of American engineering, with 102 floors, 73 elevators, 9,000 faucets, and, with the addition of the spire in 1952, a height of 1,453 feet. The building was so big that it was given its own zip code: 10118. Upon its dedication on May 1, 1931, it was indeed the tallest building in the world, a title it held for 42 years until the dedication of the World Trade Center towers in 1972.
James Gulliver Hancock ha un progetto, disegnare ogni singolo palazzo di New York.
La vista spettacolare di New York dal punto di osservazione del grattacielo One World Trade Center, in attesa della sua apertura nel 2015.
Un giorno a New York condensato in un time lapse di quattro minuti girato da Samuel Orr.
La splendida mappa di New York disegnata a mano dall'illustratrice Jenni Sparks.
