Changing New York was a project by photographer Berenice Abbott for the Federal Art Project (FAP), a Depression-era government program for unemployed artists and workers in related fields such as advertising, graphic design, illustration, photofinishing, and publishing.
Abbott's efforts resulted in a book in 1939, in advance of the World's Fair in Flushing Meadow NY. At the project's conclusion, the FAP distributed complete sets of Abbott's images to high schools, libraries and other public institutions in the metropolitan area.
See more pictures and get more info at the NYPL.
Caroline
Friday, May 27, 2011
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Today: The End of the World
So apparently, the end of the world is today, May 21, 2011 according to Harold Camping.
In the event you have young, impressionable minds worried about their safety and asking you questions, here is a list of helpful answers. These questions are directed toward teachers, but can be adapted as necessary as the answers are universal (ie everyone in tech and IT departments are of Satan’s party, etc.).
By: Charles Haberl
Q: With the rapture coming, should I bother working on my final paper?
A: Yes. The odds are you will not be judged worthy of ascent to heaven, in which case your grades will still be a basis of judgment for rewards in this earthly sphere.
Q: What if my instructor is raptured?
A: None of our instructors bear much chance of being judged worthy. However, on the off chance your instructor is chosen, an army of unemployed secular Marxists is waiting to take his/her place.
Q: If my mother/father/grandfather/grandmother/favorite aunt/etc. is chosen, will I be excused from the final so that I may mourn his/her loss?
A: No. They have not died, but been granted eternal life, thus this does not count as a case of a death in the family.
Q: If my instructor is not raptured, is he really fit to judge me?
A: Yes, seeing as you were not raptured, you are still subject to the earthly judgment of the unsaved. If/when you are redeemed, a change of grade form will be automatically processed by heavenly authorities if they decide your grade was unfairly given by one of the damned.
Q: If my computer crashes and my printer breaks and there is no email on account of the rapture, will I be able to get an extension on the paper?
A: Everyone in tech and IT departments is of Satan’s party, so the internet, your computer, and your printer should continue to work the way they always have: sporadically.
Q: How will the rapture affect your curving, particularly if raptured students are exempt from final tests/papers?
A: Final grades are not curved, but students who are taken up in the rapture will be given incompletes, just in case.
Caroline
Friday, May 20, 2011
The City Limits
Photographer Dominic Boudreault spent a year capturing picturesque cityscapes around the world to produce this jaw-dropping time-lapse video.
"My goal was to show the duality between city and nature." - Boudreault
Locations include:
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Quebec city, Quebec, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Manhattan, New York, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
See pictures and read his interview on MSNBC.
Caroline
"My goal was to show the duality between city and nature." - Boudreault
Timelapse - The City Limits from Dominic on Vimeo.
Locations include:
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Quebec city, Quebec, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Manhattan, New York, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
See pictures and read his interview on MSNBC.
Caroline
Monday, May 16, 2011
Troublemaker of the Moment
Pop culture and information organization. What more could you want? See more at "When the What?"
Caroline
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Condition ONE
Condition ONE is an application currently in development for the iPad that will combine photography and videography in an interactive fashion “to create a new language that is so immersive, that it will shake viewers out of their numbness to traditional media and provide them a powerful emotional experience.” They have plans to develop compatible apps for all Android-based tablets in the near future.
The app is targeted for stories that provide first-hand experiences, such as adventure travel, war activity and breaking news events.
From the team: “Condition ONE sees a quickly approaching future where a network of the best filmmakers and journalists around the world transmit what they are witnessing in front of their lenses directly to mobile devices, allowing viewers to be immersed in those same experiences, bypassing the traditional filters and gatekeepers.”
This is absolutely genius. It combines the immediacy and intimacy of homemade videos, the likes of which we see posted to YouTube that go viral and that news broadcasts are increasingly using as part of their coverage + the credibility of professionally trained journalists + technology. There is no doubt in my mind this company will succeed and pave the way for a new way of reporting. I wonder if they're hiring....
Caroline
The app is targeted for stories that provide first-hand experiences, such as adventure travel, war activity and breaking news events.
From the team: “Condition ONE sees a quickly approaching future where a network of the best filmmakers and journalists around the world transmit what they are witnessing in front of their lenses directly to mobile devices, allowing viewers to be immersed in those same experiences, bypassing the traditional filters and gatekeepers.”
This is absolutely genius. It combines the immediacy and intimacy of homemade videos, the likes of which we see posted to YouTube that go viral and that news broadcasts are increasingly using as part of their coverage + the credibility of professionally trained journalists + technology. There is no doubt in my mind this company will succeed and pave the way for a new way of reporting. I wonder if they're hiring....
My Freedom Or Death - Condition ONE Beta from Danfung Dennis on Vimeo.
Caroline
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Across America
Get lost in ck/ck's photos of a 66-day road trip Across America. The photo series is a phenomenal display of Americana and American landscapes. Rarely does my attention span last long enough to go through an entire flickr set, especially one as extensive as this, but I assure you it's worth it. If this doesn't want to make you go on your own road trip, nothing will.
Caroline
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Actors in Character
Actors in Character is a hilarious photo series by photographer Howard Schatz. He captures actors portraying three separate emotions and writes witty, off-beat captions to accompany each expression.
Left: You're the new longboarder on the secret beach with the famous break, preparing for the onslaught from the territorial locals. Center: You're a suburban car dealer demonstrating in your three a.m. ad slot how much your customers $$$AVE when they come to you! Right: You're a Romanian gymnastics coach, exasperated at the failings of your 12-year-old star pupil, screaming, "You are imbecile!"
Given that Schatz does work for Vanity Fair, he has access to a number of huge celebrities. Other favourites of mine included Ricky Gervais, Laurence Fishburne and Whoopi Goldberg!
Caroline
Left: You're the new longboarder on the secret beach with the famous break, preparing for the onslaught from the territorial locals. Center: You're a suburban car dealer demonstrating in your three a.m. ad slot how much your customers $$$AVE when they come to you! Right: You're a Romanian gymnastics coach, exasperated at the failings of your 12-year-old star pupil, screaming, "You are imbecile!"
Given that Schatz does work for Vanity Fair, he has access to a number of huge celebrities. Other favourites of mine included Ricky Gervais, Laurence Fishburne and Whoopi Goldberg!
Caroline
Friday, May 6, 2011
Symmetry
Everynone has produced another beautiful video, this time called Symmetry. It features a montage of images paired together, like cookies and milk or night and day, and has impeccable editing and sound. Artistic and beautiful for the purpose of being artistic and beautiful.
***You may remember a previous post I wrote featuring their video WORDS. Definitely worth checking out if you haven't already.***
Enjoy.
Symmetry from Everynone on Vimeo.
Caroline
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
How did you find out - Part II
I'd like to highlight some insightful and thoughtful responses I received from my friends in response to my earlier post.
Suzie Sheetz:
Love your last line. That's the exact comment I had to my family. The news went out at 10pm, and by 10:20 I was online waiting for Obama's speech and all of my friends and people in my network had been on facebook, texting, or twitter. Very cool how fast information travels.
Matt Medved:
I was at the high school. I heard the news that a plane had crashed into the WTC over the loudspeakers and figured they meant a small passenger plane. I had an instant flash of a TIME cover resembling the photograph of the plane that crashed into the Empire State Building decades before, lodged in the metal framework miles above the city. Instead of going straight to class, I stopped by the A/V center to get a glimpse of what was happening and arrived just in time to watch the second plane crash live. When I got to math class, the teacher insisted on teaching as though nothing was happening. I got into a heated argument with her and walked out of the class to go watch more footage. I was glued to it for days. Honestly, I think 9/11 was a defining moment that sparked my interest in journalism and international affairs.
You know what I was thinking while I watched the celebrations at the White House?
How, despite the understandable criticism and shock at seeing raucous crowds cheer for Osama's violent murder, in many ways this was not a celebration of a death of a human being.
Osama bin Laden was a modern day bogeyman, a larger than life antagonist that seemed to defy both mortality and our military might. To our generation, he was simply an archenemy in a way that no other dictator or terrorist can match. To be perfectly honest, I've personally believed he was already dead for years. I figured he had disappeared into the shadows and perished peacefully surrounded by supporters or family in Pakistan. The specter of Osama bin Laden has loomed ever larger and far outlived the flesh and blood bin Laden. In many ways, the jubilation I felt at the news of his death was not as much about personal revenge or exacting bloodshed on a single man as it was a mix of wonder and happiness at the rewriting of a historical narrative that will long outlive the principal parties involved. The history books just changed and that ink is going nowhere. It has changed the legacy of Obama's presidency and validated the national security prowess of a President who had been doing far more to root out al Qaeda and disrupt plots than both the previous administration and any of his critics gave him credit for. My joy came not at the extinguishment of Osama's life as much as it did the subsequent legacy that the event will leave.
Jonathan Kent:
I remember exactly where I was on 9/11. When the first plane hit, I was in band class. We had a TV on (that's how we found out) and like the rest of the world, my classmates and I thought it was some yahoo who accidentally flew their cessna into one of the towers. By the time it was established this was no accident, I was in English class, where my teacher had to leave the room because she didn't want us to see her fall to pieces in worry over her relatives in NY. All after school activities were canceled, including my soccer practice, and I went straight to my neighbor's house to watch the news in disbelief on their big screen. I had never thought about al-qaeda or Osama Bin Laden before that.
His death closing the loop of our adolescence is fitting indeed and fascinating to consider in terms of how our generation is/continues to be defined. Thanks for this.
Eric de Feo:
my high school principal came into my English classroom and called us to assembly... it was pretty intense b/c half of our parents worked downtown.
Thanks to all who took the time to share your thoughts with me.
Caroline
Suzie Sheetz:
Love your last line. That's the exact comment I had to my family. The news went out at 10pm, and by 10:20 I was online waiting for Obama's speech and all of my friends and people in my network had been on facebook, texting, or twitter. Very cool how fast information travels.
Matt Medved:
I was at the high school. I heard the news that a plane had crashed into the WTC over the loudspeakers and figured they meant a small passenger plane. I had an instant flash of a TIME cover resembling the photograph of the plane that crashed into the Empire State Building decades before, lodged in the metal framework miles above the city. Instead of going straight to class, I stopped by the A/V center to get a glimpse of what was happening and arrived just in time to watch the second plane crash live. When I got to math class, the teacher insisted on teaching as though nothing was happening. I got into a heated argument with her and walked out of the class to go watch more footage. I was glued to it for days. Honestly, I think 9/11 was a defining moment that sparked my interest in journalism and international affairs.
You know what I was thinking while I watched the celebrations at the White House?
How, despite the understandable criticism and shock at seeing raucous crowds cheer for Osama's violent murder, in many ways this was not a celebration of a death of a human being.
Osama bin Laden was a modern day bogeyman, a larger than life antagonist that seemed to defy both mortality and our military might. To our generation, he was simply an archenemy in a way that no other dictator or terrorist can match. To be perfectly honest, I've personally believed he was already dead for years. I figured he had disappeared into the shadows and perished peacefully surrounded by supporters or family in Pakistan. The specter of Osama bin Laden has loomed ever larger and far outlived the flesh and blood bin Laden. In many ways, the jubilation I felt at the news of his death was not as much about personal revenge or exacting bloodshed on a single man as it was a mix of wonder and happiness at the rewriting of a historical narrative that will long outlive the principal parties involved. The history books just changed and that ink is going nowhere. It has changed the legacy of Obama's presidency and validated the national security prowess of a President who had been doing far more to root out al Qaeda and disrupt plots than both the previous administration and any of his critics gave him credit for. My joy came not at the extinguishment of Osama's life as much as it did the subsequent legacy that the event will leave.
Jonathan Kent:
I remember exactly where I was on 9/11. When the first plane hit, I was in band class. We had a TV on (that's how we found out) and like the rest of the world, my classmates and I thought it was some yahoo who accidentally flew their cessna into one of the towers. By the time it was established this was no accident, I was in English class, where my teacher had to leave the room because she didn't want us to see her fall to pieces in worry over her relatives in NY. All after school activities were canceled, including my soccer practice, and I went straight to my neighbor's house to watch the news in disbelief on their big screen. I had never thought about al-qaeda or Osama Bin Laden before that.
His death closing the loop of our adolescence is fitting indeed and fascinating to consider in terms of how our generation is/continues to be defined. Thanks for this.
Eric de Feo:
my high school principal came into my English classroom and called us to assembly... it was pretty intense b/c half of our parents worked downtown.
Thanks to all who took the time to share your thoughts with me.
Caroline
How did you find out?
With all the news and commentary that has come out following the announcement of Osama Bin Laden's death late Sunday, I find the commentary that Bin Laden’s take-down is a defining point for the millennial generation fascinating. My friend Matt Medved was lucky enough to be in DC at the time and rushed to the White House where he joined hundreds of other people, young and old, to celebrate. He tweeted, shot video on his iPhone and called me intermittently; I could hear the cheering and singing in the background. It sounded like the biggest party ever. The next day, I woke up and checked the mainstream news media and saw that it had been. I also learned that Twitter scooped the world. Many are calling it a defining point for citizen journalism. I loved my friend David Spett's commentary about Twitter breaking the news:
"Thoughts on @spj_tweets' journalistic advice here? http://bit.ly/kg1lzr "Wait for president" strikes me as naive and foolish."
"@spj_tweets Absolutely, be accurate. But why wait for Obama if you can confirm a fact elsewhere? Problem is with those who got this wrong."
Jumping off that, I'd like to share a post-Osama article by a writer from the Baltimore Sun that touches on both 'defining America's youth' and Twitter. Definitely worth a read. Check it out here.
Would love to hear your opinions. Do you remember where you were on September 11? Ten years later, the new question isn’t where you were, but how you found out.
Caroline
"Thoughts on @spj_tweets' journalistic advice here? http://bit.ly/kg1lzr "Wait for president" strikes me as naive and foolish."
"@spj_tweets Absolutely, be accurate. But why wait for Obama if you can confirm a fact elsewhere? Problem is with those who got this wrong."
Jumping off that, I'd like to share a post-Osama article by a writer from the Baltimore Sun that touches on both 'defining America's youth' and Twitter. Definitely worth a read. Check it out here.
Would love to hear your opinions. Do you remember where you were on September 11? Ten years later, the new question isn’t where you were, but how you found out.
Caroline
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