Category Archives: design

A sliver of Kusama

Yayoi Kusama exterior take over of Louie Vuitton midtown New York flashship store.

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Haring and Android

Pre-dating the Android mascot by 20+ years is this Keith Haring work, currently on display at the Brooklyn Museum.

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Borges wrote on graph paper

I had the fortune in participating in the Find the Future event, which was part of the on-going Celebrating 100 Years exhibition and series of events marking the century-old Main Branch of the New York Public Library. I spent 12 … Continue reading

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What I did today…

Today was the second of three sessions of Introduction to Synthetic Biology, given at Genspace. Going great to so far, considering that I haven’t taken a biology class since high school. We’ve been learning how to create bacteria that smells like bananas. Seriously. There … Continue reading

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Totally out of order, but the January Gowanus Grassroot Mapping pictures

On a freezing 11 degree day, (January 22, 2011 to be precise) the Gowanus Grassroot Mapping crew hiked out to Gowanus Canal to document the Superfund site. These balloons were made out of Mylar emergency blankets, and filled with helium … Continue reading

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More grassroots mapping on the Gowanus…

I’m admittedly way behind on my grassroots mapping updates… but here some more photos from our grassroots mapping excursions. In our March 27th excursion, we also got immensely helpful assistance from Charles Stewart, who is a kite enthusiast / expert … Continue reading

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What I did today: Grassroots Mapping

Today, I worked with Jeff Warren, long time friend Liz Barry, and students from Parsons and the New School on Grassroots Mapping. With what amounts to DIY Satellite Imaging, a camera was attached to Mylar balloons, which was tied to … Continue reading

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8-bit + Interactive Map of NYC = <3

Brett Camper made a wonderful interactive map of New York with 8-bit graphics. http://8bitnyc.com/ (Thanks Vanessa!)

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US Census Maps Participation Results

I hope that everyone’s mailed back their 2010 US Census forms, which are due April 1, National Census Day. While it’s a rather arcane approach to studying people’s location, it is still important because of its scale, use to allocate … Continue reading

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Museum of the Phantom City Redux

The fine folks at Urban Omnibus and WNYC are hosting a meet up at Bryant Park this Saturday to explore New York’s unbuilt future from the past with the project I worked on: Museum of the Phantom City. Details below… … Continue reading

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