hey amber rae

High-res I’m profiled today on WeareNYtech.com! They’re creating a really neat “look book” of the NY tech community. Some highlights from my bio: I had my first profitable business at 5, I fear not taking enough time to slow down and reflect on the moment, itineraries and Amber don’t get along very well, and I’m hoping to get inspiring stories from Frank Chimero, Shepard Fairey and Jay-Z in the near future… :)  Thanks to Matt and team for the interview, and Teresa for reco’ing me!

I’m profiled today on WeareNYtech.com! They’re creating a really neat “look book” of the NY tech community.

Some highlights from my bio: I had my first profitable business at 5, I fear not taking enough time to slow down and reflect on the moment, itineraries and Amber don’t get along very well, and I’m hoping to get inspiring stories from Frank Chimero, Shepard Fairey and Jay-Z in the near future… :) 

Thanks to Matt and team for the interview, and Teresa for reco’ing me!

High-res carlablumenthal: purple-diary: Barbara Kruger downtown new york To build excitement for the new downtown location of the Whitney, the museum commissioned three artists, Guyton/Walker, Tauba Auerbach and Barbara Kruger, to contribute to an ongoing public art project on the site of the future building. The artists stays true to their aesthetics but must use printed vinyl as the medium to mold and cover the fences and surrounding area on the corners of Gansevoort and Washington St. The current Barbara Kruger installation of iconic black and white word images debuted over the weekend and is visible at both ground level and from the High Line, New York. Text and Photo Juliana Balestin I just saw this about an hour ago on the high line. At night you don’t notice that these words are spread evenly across the back of the meatpacking building, on temporary offices/storage units, and across what seems to be greenhouses. You can find a good view towards the end of the highline, facing jersey city. this is beautiful. 

carlablumenthal:

purple-diary:

Barbara Kruger downtown new york

To build excitement for the new downtown location of the Whitney, the museum commissioned three artists, Guyton/Walker, Tauba Auerbach and Barbara Kruger, to contribute to an ongoing public art project on the site of the future building. The artists stays true to their aesthetics but must use printed vinyl as the medium to mold and cover the fences and surrounding area on the corners of Gansevoort and Washington St. The current Barbara Kruger installation of iconic black and white word images debuted over the weekend and is visible at both ground level and from the High Line, New York. Text and Photo Juliana Balestin

I just saw this about an hour ago on the high line. At night you don’t notice that these words are spread evenly across the back of the meatpacking building, on temporary offices/storage units, and across what seems to be greenhouses. You can find a good view towards the end of the highline, facing jersey city.

this is beautiful. 

the best free wifi hotspots in new york

i’ve never had trouble finding a cool cafe with free wifi in san francisco. but damn, new york? the cafe culture doesn’t make it easy to be a traveling business(wo)man who just wants to get things done and feel inspired at the same time.

after asking my temporary nyc roommie msg at least a dozen times where I should go, he finally told me to google it. (which, by the way, if know you michael well, you’re likely familiar with his googleable questions pet peeve.)

anyway, this link got quite a bit of twitter love which indicates two things to me:

  1. why is there not an app for that? (hint, hint yelp, it’s latent demand speaking, here’s how to make your app more useful…)
  2. there’s an opportunity to open a cool, creative cafe in nyc (neighborhood tbd) with free high-speed wifi, phone charging stations, plugs galore, computer cords on hand for those traveling without, delish coffee, newbie art on display, % of profits to charity, free coffee for likemind attendees (pending Noah Brier thinking this idea is awesome) so on and so forth, I could go on for hours…

“So what do we get instead? The future, which is not a bad deal if you ignore all the collateral gore. Young men and women are still coming here to remake the world, they just won’t be stopping by the human resources department of Condé Nast to begin their ascent. For every kid that I bump into who is wandering the media industry looking for an entrance that closed some time ago, I come across another who is a bundle of ideas, energy and technological mastery. The next wave is not just knocking on doors, but seeking to knock them down. Somewhere down in the Flatiron, out in Brooklyn, over in Queens or up in Harlem, cabals of bright young things are watching all the disruption with more than an academic interest. Their tiny netbooks and iPhones, which serve as portals to the cloud, contain more informational firepower than entire newsrooms possessed just two decades ago. And they are ginning content from their audiences in the form of social media or finding ways of making ambient information more useful. They are jaded in the way youth requires, but have the confidence that is a gift of their age as well. For them, New York is not an island sinking, but one that is rising on a fresh, ferocious wave.”

The Media Equation - For Media, a Sunset Is Followed Quickly by a Sunrise - NYTimes.com
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