New York

68 posts

Thu 05 Nov
2009

Twenty-seven

12:41 AM
Remarks (5)

Fri 24 Jul
2009

Tuesday at Galapagos

12:55 PM

Come see me speak next Tuesday evening at Galapagos Art Space.

Sun 19 Apr
2009

Merce at 90

5:38 PM

Merce at 90, Brooklyn Academy of Music

Audience members exiting the Howard Gilman Opera House at Brooklyn Academy of Music following today’s world premiere performance of “Nearly Ninety,” choreographed by Merce Cunningham on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday.

Tue 03 Mar
2009

People Want Coffee Even in a Snowstorm

1:32 PM
Remarks (6)

I was really feeling sorry for myself for having to put on my winter boots in order to make it through the snowstorm and cold weather to get to work yesterday. And then, right there in front of The New York Times building, was a reminder of how thoroughly pampered and just plain soft I am: at least I got to wake up hours later than the woman running this coffee and pastry cart, and at least I don’t have to spend my workday beneath the flimsy protection from the elements that her cart provides, and at least it’s warm enough inside my office for me to take off my coat. In retrospect, I really should have bought a cup of coffee from her that morning.

Sun 08 Feb
2009

Fail

6:14 PM
Remarks (3)

Sun 02 Nov
2008

Horsemen Antiques

11:51 PM
Remarks (6)

Mon 27 Aug
2007

A Subway System in Your Pocket

12:30 AM
Remarks (31)

The NYC subway map chopped up into little tiles for your iPhone.

Thu 23 Aug
2007

Four Pictures

11:10 PM
Remarks (9)

Presentable pics from a week with visiting family.

Tue 17 Jul
2007

New Site, New Blog for AIGA New York

11:43 PM
Remarks (7)

A new face and voice for the New York chapter.

Tue 29 May
2007

You Got to Move It, Move It… to Brooklyn

7:12 PM
Remarks (27)

If you live in New York City and work in media, another borough awaits.

Tue 24 Apr
2007

Putting the High in Highrise

11:19 PM
Remarks (20)

First day in a new New York Times building.

Tue 03 Apr
2007

Lately at AIGA New York

11:17 PM
Remarks (5)

Digital goings on for Spring at the New York chapter.

Mon 11 Sep
2006

Five Years

10:02 AM

Thinking about September 11th half a decade later.

Wed 30 Aug
2006

Forest for the Banners

9:56 PM
Remarks (4)

Public art from AIGA New York in Times Square.

Mon 14 Aug
2006

AIGA Wants YOU

5:52 PM
Remarks (4)

A wealth of opportunities at the New York chapter of AIGA.

Thu 03 Aug
2006

Before the Blackout

11:05 PM
Remarks (5)

Retail businesses get through heat waves differently from people.

Wed 07 Jun
2006

How to Shoot People (and Places and Things)

11:35 PM
Remarks (18)

Initial results from the photography class I just enrolled in.

Fri 19 May
2006

A Glass House on Fifth Avenue

9:08 PM
Remarks (9)

A quick visit to Apple’s new retail store on Fifth Avenue.

Thu 27 Apr
2006

Event of the Summer

5:46 PM
Remarks (3)

I’ll be there as a speaker when the rolling design conference, An Event Apart, comes to New York in July.

Tue 20 Dec
2005

Strike Force Delta

11:08 AM
Remarks (14)

Sheepishly, some good things about the transit strike that hit New York today.

Tue 13 Sep
2005

The Write Stuff: Paragraph

5:43 PM
Remarks (25)

New work for my old lady: an identity and Web site for Paragraph, LLC.

Mon 25 Jul
2005

I, Jury

9:15 PM
Remarks (3)

I got jury duty, and I kind of really want to serve.

Tue 12 Jul
2005

The City in Seventy-Seven

11:45 AM

Jonathan Mahler’s account of New York City at the edge of disaster.

Tue 05 Apr
2005

Replacing iPod Earbuds

11:31 AM
Remarks (27)

Subway thefts of iPods are up in New York City, sending me into the market for new earbuds.

Wed 09 Mar
2005

Day in Court

8:53 PM
Remarks (14)

The wonders of our criminal justice system.

Sun 20 Feb
2005

Barbarians at The Gates

3:31 PM
Remarks (8)

US$21 million dollars on an art project makes some people angry, and that makes me angry.

Tue 15 Feb
2005

Walk This Way

6:58 PM
Remarks (37)

Last week I decided to count how many iPods I see on my walk to work.

Mon 06 Sep
2004

Little Bit of Little Saigon

10:09 PM
Remarks (3)

The exception to New York’s rule for lackluster Vietnamese restaurants.

Sun 22 Aug
2004

Painted into an East Village Corner

5:53 PM

Locally painted canvases at the Howl! Festival of East Village Arts.

Mon 09 Aug
2004

Ooh, Ooh, It’s Magic

10:31 PM

The magic — and magicians — of old New York.

Thu 03 Jun
2004

Teach a Man to Fish

9:34 PM

My day started very, very early this morning at the Fulton Fish Market.

Fri 14 May
2004

A Little Bit of Nice

7:35 PM

I watched a kid get a cheap egg sandwich this morning.

Thu 01 Apr
2004

Manual Dexterity

6:17 PM

I found a little bit of old New York when I tried to get a typewriter repaired.

Tue 23 Dec
2003

Old Drawings of New York

9:57 PM

The reissued “This Is New York” from M. Sasek.

Sat 06 Dec
2003

Twelve Inches of Fun

8:12 PM
Remarks (1)

Seven inches of snow and a foot of PowerBook.

Thu 11 Sep
2003

On This Day

9:41 AM
Remarks (2)

This morning, many people went to work without compunction or fear.

Thu 28 Aug
2003

Labor Day Weekend, Citysearch-Style

6:35 PM
Remarks (1)

It’s nice to spend the holiday weekend in New York, bu don’t count on Citysearch.

Sat 16 Aug
2003

Scenes from a Blackout

10:26 PM

What I did to preoccupy myself during the blackout.

Fri 15 Aug
2003

Where Were You When the Lights Came Back On

9:55 PM
Remarks (1)

The end of the biggest blackout in American history finally comes to the East Village.

Mon 28 Jul
2003

Location, Location, Location

7:56 PM
Remarks (1)

The struggles of moving two blocks away.

Mon 21 Jul
2003

Ill Communication: It’s Hot

5:44 PM

Heat is hard on the unwell and the four-legged.

Tue 10 Jun
2003

The Morning Commute

11:28 AM
Remarks (3)

Two anecdotes from my daily walk to the office.

Fri 09 May
2003

Hat Trick

11:44 PM

What better present for a girlfriend’s birthday than a customized baseball cap.

Thu 08 May
2003

The Man without a Face

5:58 PM
Remarks (2)

It’s impossible to find an image of a local suspected serial rapist on the Web.

Sat 12 Apr
2003

Tokenism

11:07 AM

The NYC subway token is officially retired as of today.

Tue 01 Apr
2003

Fool’s Cold

11:14 AM

April Fool’s Day odds’n’ends

Thu 26 Dec
2002

Waterworld

12:39 PM

A Costneresque vision of New York.

Fri 23 Aug
2002

Last Year’s Model

4:33 PM

Elvis Costello in graffiti form.

Sat 06 Jul
2002

Word to the Weiserman

11:02 AM

How one man foiled a scam.

Sun 30 Jun
2002

Subway Gold

10:38 PM

Dude, check out this map I got off some dude on the street.

Mon 17 Jun
2002

Village Veloce

2:51 PM

Random violence in my neighborhood.

Mon 10 Jun
2002

Mob Mentality

7:40 PM

John Gotti has left the building.

Sun 09 Jun
2002

Life and Times

9:59 PM

Reading about the family behind The New York Times.

Sun 02 Jun
2002

Who What Where

10:46 PM

A map of New York City bloggers.

Sat 06 Apr
2002

French New York

11:13 PM

Watching old Movies abotu New York.

Wed 30 Jan
2002

Keep Stills

10:18 PM

The MOMA’s Film Stills Archive is going away.

Mon 12 Nov
2001

Two on Nine

11:02 PM

Ninth Street shopping.

Thu 01 Nov
2001

Damn Yankees

6:36 PM

Watching the Yankees.

Thu 06 Sep
2001

A Three-Hour Tour

10:16 PM

Getting around Manhattan, I mean really around Manhattan.

Tue 19 Jun
2001

The City in Time/Space

9:15 PM

Four incredible views of New York’s growth.

Thu 19 Apr
2001

A Mean Town

2:46 AM

Some asshole lit a trash can in front of my building on fire.

Tue 20 Mar
2001

Like a Bouncing Ball

11:32 AM

I found myself in New York again last Friday.

Mon 08 Jan
2001

A List of Things I Consumed

12:00 PM

A list of movies, books, magazines and other pop junk that came my way in the year 2000.

Wed 20 Dec
2000

It Don’t Cost Nothing

11:05 AM

On leaving New York: a tip on how to make life here more pleasant.

Fri 08 Sep
2000

Anywhere I Go, Here I Am

12:00 PM

Leaving New York a second time isn’t going to be much easier than leaving it the first time.

Mon 17 Jul
2000

New York, See You Later

12:00 PM
Remarks (1)

As I prepare to leave New York for Asia, some parting thoughts.