November 30, 2006
Retired
sLop (the blog you are reading) is retiring..
The archives should stay up indefinitely though so feel free to continue linking in if you like..
In the coming weeks, I should have something new up. Please stay tuned.
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September 23, 2006
storymashup
Manhattan Story Mashup
This is what I will be participating in today... Play along online!
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August 14, 2006
Verizon Naked DSL Working!
In July, I complained that Verizon was constantly changing my IP address.
I theorized that it had to do with my impending transition to VoIP and that Verizon may have been punishing me... Well, turns out that I was wrong and that it was probably due to a lightning storm.
After contacting support several times I was finally sent a new DSL modem which is working great. I am still having some period disconnects but the reconnect is almost immediate and I am once again happy with my DSL. The speed is much closer to where it should be as well.
In other news, I was able to transition my phone number to Broadvoice and keep my DSL (without any problems). Now when I pickup the phone at home that is connected directly to the Verizon line I get a message saying that this is a dedicated data line and can not be used to make calls). Yippee!
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ITJ Project Beta Released
Interactive Tele-Journalism
So.. I have finally released ITJ on SourceForge.net.
With support from Konscious and Manhattan Neighborhood Network we have packaged and uploaded the latest version and it can be downloaded at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/itv-ism/.
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July 30, 2006
Popularity Dialer - Relaunch (and Dugg)
Go Jenny and Cory, go!
"Have you ever been in a situation where you wished your cell phone would ring? Maybe you wanted to look extra important or popular on that hot date. Or maybe you just needed an excuse to escape from an unpleasant meeting."
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Verizon DSL constantly changing IP address
So, I haven't called support and I know that is the first thing I should do when problems like this arise but it just seems too fishy.
To make a long story short, I recently decided to switch from regular home phone service from Verizon (who also supply my DSL) to VoIP service. I have had VoIP and regular phone service for quite some time and things were well. Recently though, we had a pretty nasty electrical storm and one of the things that got zapped was my Asterisk box which handled the integration between normal phone service and VoIP.
After a bit of research, I found the Verizon does in fact offer naked loop DSL (DSL without a phone number) for existing customers and that I could continue with my DSL and transfer my phone number over to my VoIP provider and basically save myself $50 a month.
Now here is the troubling bit. After filling out the paper work and sending it to my VoIP provider who subsequently contacted Verizon to get the process started my DSL has been tremendously flaky. So flaky that my IP address is repeatedly changing. Not once a day, not 10 times a day, somewhere in the vicinity of 100 times a day! I probably don't need to mention how bad this is for services like VoIP. Essentially making it useless and unusable.
I could chalk it up to damage from the electrical storm (but I didn't notice it until after sending in the paperwork) or:
Could this really be a Verizon tactic to prevent people from going with 3rd party VoIP?
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May 23, 2006
Big Games Festival in NYC
Come Out
From the site:
The Come Out & Play Festival is a street games fesitval dedicated to exploring new styles of games and play.
Will be held in New York City September 22-24.
Cool.. Can't wait to play the games!
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April 28, 2006
Find your fortune!
Drop Spots
Nice.. Retrieve and leave gifts!
From the site:
Just near the Oriental Pavillion in Prospect Park (looks like a bandstand) , there's a statue of Beethoven. Stand underneath Ludwig and look in the same direction he is. Look at the concrete border to the flowerbed in front of you. There's a broken piece of concrete. Walk over to it, pull it out... that's the spot!
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April 20, 2006
Busker Du has launched!
Busker Du
One of the project from my class, a service for recording and distributing Busker performance has launched.. It is great, I love the podcast!
From the site:
Busker Du (dial-up) is a recording service for buskers through the telephone (preferably public payphones hidden in subway stations).
Audio recorded will be posted to this audio-blog and made available to all who cherish lo-fi original music. Try it out at your favorite subway station or street corner.
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April 19, 2006
ITP End of Year Events - Thesis Presentations and End of Semester Show
ITP Spring Show 2006
A two day exhibition of interactive sight, sound and physical objects from the student artists of ITP.
This event is free and open to the public. No need to RSVP.
ITP Thesis Presentations 2006
ITP's graduating students will be presenting a wide variety of highly creative and interactive projects that they have constructed over the course of their final project seminars.
Students have been encouraged to undertake projects that bring together the conceptual and design issues that they have engaged in during their two years of study at ITP.
Projects will include installation based work, digital video and audio pieces, interactive 3D, games and educational applications, to name only a few.
ITP will be providing a live webcast of all the thesis presentations.
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April 09, 2006
Media 3.0
Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer
A new show to air on NYC TV. I scheduled the recording of the first one which is to air Monday at 11PM. I will give a better report after watching but it sounds interesting:
Media 3.0 is a weekly half-hour news/talk show about the media & technology business hosted by award-winning inventor, technologist, composer, author and producer, Shelly Palmer. The business and technology of media industry are changing at an ever increasing rate. As chairman of the Advanced Media Committee of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences NY, Palmer is one of the experts leading the industry’s rapid evolution.
From PVRs to PDAs, from IP Video to VOD ... Technology changes everyday, but business rules and our legal system don’t always keep up. Is it a parlor trick or a paradigm shift? Shelly Palmer, along with lead analyst Lydia Loizides, and subject matter experts focus on the issues that dominate the front pages of today’s business journals.
Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer is a show for consumers, media execs, investors and just about anyone interested in this exciting arena where the business of media meets technology. Fast-paced and combative, Media 3.0 doesn’t pull any punches. Interviews with senior management, opinions from respected business leaders and smart people who will make even the most complicated issues seem simple ... It’s Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer.
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March 26, 2006
TurnHere - Short Films about Cool places
TurnHere.com ~ The video insiders guide to neighborhoods across the world
My good friend Paul is featured pointing out all of the new buildings going up in the area. Nice..!
The site concept is interesting. I am glad to see that niche video content sites are popping up (as opposed to YouTube and Google Video).
I have a couple of problems with how it is built such as there isn't a search box (I want to see all of the Brooklyn films but could find no way to do it). There is no way to leave comments or otherwise say that I like any particular video. Also, this might be a personal bias but I think there is too much Flash used. It is fine to present the videos in Flash but why the rest of the site? Last, I wish they would give me an RSS feed with MPEG-4 videos so I can watch on my new Mini hooked up to my TV.
Overall though, I love it.. Good content!
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March 23, 2006
'The Fourth Screen' Mobile Media Festival
The4thScreen.com :: global mobile media festival
This festival looks very interesting. They are pushing people to think about the phone in a different way, not just as a television that is carried in your pocket as it seems the providers are pushing for:
'The Fourth Screen' Global Mobile Media Festival will focus on the mobile phone as an emerging social, cultural and technological phenomenon.
We invite artists, technologists, and other creative thinkers to submit creations, inventions and concepts in two categories:
1/ moving images: videos made with mobile phone, movies, animation and games intended for mobile delivery
2/ wise technologies: software art, software and hardware that proposes new uses for mobile multimedia communication, applications that have positive cultural, social and economic impact in diverse cultures
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February 28, 2006
Mobile Monday NY Group
MobileMonday New York
MobileMonday New York is a community of NY metro area mobile professionals. The open community promotes the mobile industry and fosters cooperation and networking among industry people and their companies by providing opportunities for personal and virtual contacts.
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February 24, 2006
MNN goes to the Vlogs
MNN Events
MNN, Manhattan's Public Access Station is starting to offer video blogging classes.
Here is the first:
Going beyond the Channels: Vlogging as an alternative means of Distribution
Wednesday March 1st, 2006, 6:30-8:30 pm
Manhattan Neighborhood Network, Open Studio
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January 30, 2006
Tech Art January Roundup
artnet Magazine - Technical Knock-outs
Dorkbot, "Superlowrez" at vertexList and "Dewanatron" at Pierogi.
From the article:
For the show, vertexList brought aboard eight artists, among them the stalwarts of the Brooklyn art scene: Joe Amrhein, Brian Conley, Matt Freedman, Kristin Lucas, Jillian Mcdonald, Joe McKay, Akiko Sakaizumi and Jude Tallichet. All of them agreed to work with the same gadget for the project, a custom-built box of 12 x 14 electronic light-up "pixels." Since this dimension is calculated to be just under the pixel-content of the normal computer cursor, the format is extremely constraining (additionally, each box has a chip that can hold just 1,984 "frames" of information.)
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January 15, 2006
NYC Grassroots Media Coalition Conference - February 11
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December 09, 2005
Future of Television Conference
Beyond TV: TVSpy.com Next Generation TV
So, I went to the Future of Television conference a couple of weeks ago and was somewhat suprised. Last year, I poked my head in to see what was being discussed and it was a big snooze. After checking out the website, I figured it was worth my time this year so I went.
Wow.. I was surprised. You wouldn't know it but there are people in TV who really "get it"... Larry Kramer from CBS most notably get's it.
Here is what I had to say on the day of:
I am writing from Future of Television Conference at NYU's Stern School of Business today. I am here for several reasons, first of all I would like to know what the networks and traditional media concerns think of the scrappy interactive folks. Second, I am here doing recon. Specifically, I would like to know how long video bloggers and other decentralized media creators have before traditional media begins to offer enough of what they are doing to satiate "consumers". (Perhaps that is not exactly my fear but close enough for now.)
First of all, I have to say that Larry Kramer gets it. He really does. He is open to experimentation. At CBS he has launched many interactive initiatives from a broadband news channel to podcasts of daytime soaps to fantasy sports sites to deep entertainment content add-ons to viewer/user photo posting to writer and producer blogs to actual audience participation through SMS. Phew..
CBS isn't the only media company doing this type of experimentation. The other networks, cable and broadcast are doing the same or similar. Notable is ABC News Now, ESPN, Playboy and the like.
The question is, whether or not this is enough. Will this engage and empower viewers enough to keep them despite the ever growing number of alternative content channels. The networks certainly know how to deliver programming to a passive audience. They are just beginning to support a more engaged and digitally connected viewer.
A later speaker in the day, IBM's Saul Berman described the audience by categorizing them in 3 camps. "Massive passives", the folks that CBS has always served, lean back, over 35, want to be entertained but don't feel compelled to buy the latest gadget or create their own media.
The next camp, arguably the focus of most of these efforts he described as "Gadgetiers". He describes this group as heavily involved in content, they are fans, will seek out other individuals who are interested in the same content they are. They will purchase the latest devices, use time shifting (TiVo) and will space shift (TiVo To Go). They are also the heavy buyers, the early adopters, in short, the people that the advertizers (and therefore the networks) covet.
It remains to be seen whether what the networks are starting to do will appeal to this group in the long run. In the short term, it is clear, if you put it out there they will come. How long they stay is another matter.
The last camp, the "Kool kids", the ones really getting all of the attention, are the hardest to understand. He suggests that this is the group that rejects DRM and "walled gardens", in short, the group that wants media on their own terms. This is the group that uses P2P software and is heavily social. They have dream devices that aren't out in the market as of yet.
I know that the kks (short for "Kool kids") are what have network executives up at night. They are the hackers and inventors who are really driving the internet. TV and media in general will fit into their game or be disregarded.
Ok.. So the big question at the end of the day? Will the cable and TV networks run scared and do everything possible to protect their business models or will they embrace the new like they must. My feeling after this conference is that they have learned something from the music industry and will try to embrace but there will still be a major shakeup and Yahoo! and Google just might become the "new" networks. Good or bad.
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November 06, 2005
MobVCasting on the Vlog Map
vlogmap.org | Vlog Map | Video Blog Map
Map of Vloggers around the world
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November 04, 2005
OMDS Article
TECTONIC: How will you consume your open media?
Michael Sharon has written a nice article summarizing the Open Media Developers Summit.
From the article:
Two weeks ago, on a rainy Friday and Saturday in October, 65 programmers and developers debated these and many other questions at the first Open Media Developer's Summit held at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) in down-town Manhattan.
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October 08, 2005
Advocating Bicycling in NYC
Transportation Alternatives, NYC
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Neighbornode Article
Free Neighborhood Wi-Fi - Popular Science
Pop Sci publishes a nice write-up about John Geraci's Neighbornode project. I had my hands in this a bit early on, a great idea, hope it continues to catch on.
http://www.neighbornode.net/
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September 25, 2005
Sell on EBay via drop off store
iSOLD It - The Easy Way to Sell on eBay
Interesting.. Take your stuff, drop it off and they sell it on EBay for you. Location on Flatbush: 271 Flatbush Ave.
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September 17, 2005
Buckminster Fuller Institute - in Brooklyn
The Buckminster Fuller Institute
I have to check this place out..
Thanks Dad..
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3 Bills up in Congress that will Kill Public Access
MNN Announcement
Hmmn.. I am going to have to read these bills.
Here is some more information from the Alliance for Community Media: http://www.alliancecm.org/index.php?page_id=201
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February 27, 2005
Photos of Starbucks in NYC
Starbucks in New York City
Strange..
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January 07, 2005
VLOGGERCON IS ON
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December 21, 2004
Phasors Built My Hot Rod
NIME documentary, 'Phasors Built My Hot Rod" Fall 2003
NIME, New Interfaces for Musical Expression, is a class at ITP taught by Gideon D'Arcangelo. NIME2 is an offshoot of people from that class and anyone else that is interested. They have been playing individually and as a group around world. Evan did a great documentary about some of the instruments, performances and the concepts of NIME in general.
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December 08, 2004
Art Mobs
Art Mobs
Opens tonight.. Cool, I thought I missed it already. They are pulling together some fun social and emerging technologies, Text Messaging, PodCasting and more.
From the site:
Guests are invited to share their experience of student artworks by text messaging on their mobile phones. View the work while reading the most recent 4 text messages left by others—then leave your own message for the next guests. Guests may also download podcasts of interviews with several of the artists about their works. View the work while listening to the podcast on your iPod or other mp3 player
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December 06, 2004
ITP Winter Show 2004
ITP Winter Show 2004
Sunday, December 19 from 2 to 6pm
Monday, December 20 from 5 to 9pm
A two-day explosion of interactive sight, sound and technology from the student artists and innovators at ITP.
An oversized Greenwich Village loft houses the computer labs, rotating exhibitions, and production workshops that are ITP -- the Interactive Telecommunications Program. Founded in 1979 as the first graduate education program in alternative media, ITP has grown into a living community of technologists, theorists, engineers, designers, and artists uniquely dedicated to pushing the boundaries of interactivity in the real and digital worlds. A hands-on approach to experimentation, production and risk-taking make this hi-tech fun house a creative home not only to its 230 students, but also to an extended network of the technology industry's most daring and prolific practitioners.
Interactive Telecommunications Program
Tisch School of the Arts
New York University
721 Broadway, 4th Floor South
New York NY 10003
Take the left elevators to the 4th Floor
This event is free and open to the public
No need to RSVP
For questions: 212-998-1880
email: itp.inquiries@nyu.edu
http://itp.nyu.edu/show
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Lofts in Redhook
www.central-brokerage.com
The pictures and listings seem better than the reality of these lofts. They are nice though.
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Hillary support's The INDUCE Act
I was dismayed to learn that Senator Hillary Clinton has come out and in fact co-sponsored Senator Hatch's Induce Act. What follows is a draft of a letter that I am writing to Sen. Clinton to express my concern. I hope that others will do the same.
Here is some background material:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:S.2560:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,64315,00.html
http://techlawadvisor.com/induce/
http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/004563.html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20040618-3906.html
http://www.futureofmusic.org/articles/INDUCEanalysis.cfm
http://action.eff.org/site/pp.asp?c=esJNJ5OWF&b=164928
Like your iPod, read this:
http://www.eff.org/IP/Apple_Complaint.php
Please comment on the letter as you see fit.
Dear Senator Clinton,
I was dismayed to learn that you have come out in support of Senator Hatch's Induce Act. I hope that on further consideration of the issues that this bill covers that you change your stance to better reflect the opinions of your constituents and for the betterment of our society.
The Induce act as it currently is written does much to stifle free-speech, artistic and fair uses of media. Imposing legal responsibility on the makers of devices and software for illegal use such device or software will create a burden so great on manufacturers and creators of such programs that they will not develop or offer products that have potential for misuse.
I fear that by trying to curb the theft of copyrighted material you will instead be curbing the ability for individuals and groups with legitimate uses for the technology that enables such to use it. Being thoroughly immersed in an academic and artistic atmosphere, I am witness every day to fair uses of technology that would not exist today were such a law in existence. In fact I feel that the software that I am using to write this letter would not have been developed simply because it includes the ability to cut and paste text from any source into the document.
I believe that should this Bill become law that it will undo much of the progress of free-speech and alternative media creation that has been enabled by the internet, personal electronic devices, computers, tape recorders and so on. Furthermore it will be a giant step backwards and lead to increased power by the media and further relegate citizens to the role of consumer without a voice.
I hope that you will reconsider your position on this matter.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Shawn Van Every
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December 05, 2004
Make your own media
New York Community Access Television Links
If you don't know about Public Access, you should.
Here is a good article about Public Access from the Museum of Broadcast Communication
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NYC Government DOITT
Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications
The Cities department responsible for mobile phone services, cable services, NYC TV, pay phones and more..
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November 18, 2004
New York City's own MapQuest
HopStop
Subway, Bus and Walking Directions AND you can have them text messaged to your phone. Perfect.
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October 26, 2004
WiFi Cablecasting
Daily Wireless - WiFi Cablecasting
A nice wrap-up of some of the work that Drazen and Kenyatta did last year plus a whole bunch more.
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October 14, 2004
Surveillance free travel (through NY)
i-SEE "Now more than ever."
This has been around for a while in one form or another. Finally getting around to posting it here.
From the site:
iSee is a web-based application charting the locations of closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance cameras in urban environments. With iSee, users can find routes that avoid these cameras -? paths of least surveillance -? allowing them to walk around their cities without fear of being "caught on tape" by unregulated security monitors.
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October 02, 2004
Spectropolis, Happening NOW
( (( ((( Spectropolis 2004 ))) )) )
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August 29, 2004
Konscious Convention Broadcast
Konscious.TV Konscious Convention
A bit of blatant self promotion. Monday and Tuesday night we will be broadcasting on MNN (Time Warner channel 34 in Manhattan) and streaming online from within Madison Square Garden during the Republican National Convention as well as from a couple of spots around the city. All of the camera people will be using the Interactive Tele-Journalism system for a truely engaging interactive television experience. Check it out!!!
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Bikes Against Bush creator arrested during interview
NYC IMC: feature/106015
Josh arrested while demonstrating his polictically motivated bicycle to Ron Reagan. Talk about ridiculous arrests, his bike sprays chalk messages on the street/sidewalk. A little water and the message is erased. Are they going to start arresting kids who draw hopscotch squares on the sidewalk?
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Aug. 28th Critical Mass Coverage from Indymedia
NYC IMC: feature/104892
It turned ugly as the police used excessive force and trapped many of us at various spots. It was a good ride and I am proud to have participated.
The video from IMC is particularly disturbing.
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June 02, 2004
I used to say "Pop", now I say "Soda"
I didn't realize that some many parts of the country were "Pop" drinkers. Buffalo is a definite. NYC is a "Soda" place for sure.
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May 31, 2004
My favorite Brooklyn Heights take-out place
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Internet radio goes ART
WPS1
From the site:
WPS1 presents a daily, 24-hour stream of music, talk and historic spoken-word programs focusing on contemporary art, music and literature from around the world.
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Throwing away something valuable?
NY WasteMatch Materials Exchange
From the site:
One companyís by-products can be another companyís raw materials. The Materials Exchange is a free service that matches generators of valuable commercial waste and surplus goods with organizations that can reuse them. Waste producers sell what they once paid to throw away; reusers obtain materials for free or at low prices.
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April 11, 2004
Pro bono lawyers for artists
VLA Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
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April 07, 2004
Crazy networked and responsive environment
RIPLfield info
From the description:
... it consists of light and soundscapes which respond to the actions of people in the environment and remote data from a second environment in new york city. the project is a collaboration between students and instructors at the technical university of berlin and parsons school of design in new york.
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April 01, 2004
Downtown network for the Arts
downtown network for the arts | about
From the site:
Location One has developed a package of hardware, software and support services that enables artists and cultural organizations to take full advantage of Internet-based technologies for creative interchange, program creation, delivery and promotion, both individually and as an arts-based community.
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March 17, 2004
New York City area computer recycling, technician training and reconditioned computer sales
Per Scholas :: Access Through Technology
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Shooting People
Shooting People / Bulletins
From the site:
Shooting People is a very simple idea - that independent filmmaking is about passion, ideas, innovation and finding creative partnerships. By providing a web and email service that allows all groups of the filmmaking community to hook up with each other instantly, swap core advice, debate latest techs and develop creative partnerships
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March 11, 2004
Vegan bags, some fashion I can respect
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The infamous WFMU, freeform radio
WFMU-FM 91.1/Jersey City, NJ; 90.1/Hudson Valley, NY
WFMU is an independent freeform radio station broadcasting at 91.1 fm in the New York City area, at 90.1 fm in the Hudson Valley, and live on the web in Realaudio, or in Windows Media, as well as two flavors of MP3, and all programs archived in Realaudio.
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March 10, 2004
I like candy (art)
eye candy: photographs by craig kanarick
at: http://www.dylanscandybar.com/art.html
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March 02, 2004
Independent news for Brooklyn
Critical perspectives on arts, politics and culture..
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February 29, 2004
Public Access TV Related Sites
The Alliance for Community Media
Global Village CAT
The Buske Group
Study of US PEG Access Center
Policy and Media Activism Sites:
National Federation of Community Broadcasters
Media Reform Network
Center for Creative Voices in the Media
Independent Media Centers
Prometheus Radio Project
Media Access Project
Spectrum Policy, New America Foundation
The Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers
NY State Legislation:
New York State Public Service Commission
New York City Public Access Centers:
Brooklyn Community Access TV
BronxNet
MNN
Queens Public Television
Staten Island Community Television
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February 28, 2004
East Village Radio
EAST VILLAGE RADIO New York City
From the site:
In reaction to a lack of radio in NYC's East Village, a small band of overly opinionated and underpaid illegitimate saints created EVR.
You have reached it's nerve center. We encourage you to contact us, to support our path towards the FM dial, and most importantly to listen.
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Pirate radio information
Great information on creating a pirate radio station.. Why, how and what..
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February 24, 2004
Center for Communication
Center for Communication
From the site:
The Center for Communication is an independent media forum, launched in 1980 by former CBS president Dr. Frank Stanton and Museum of Television & Radio president, the late Dr. Robert Batscha, to bridge the gap between the communications industry and the schools. The Center, supported by the industry, is nonprofit and nonpartisan.
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February 21, 2004
Everything must go...
New York New Media Association
From the site:
For the past ten years, the New York New Media Association (NYNMA) has had the pleasure of serving the New York area technology industry. Unfortunately, we must now inform you that as of Friday, December 19, 2003, NYNMA has ceased operations due to a significant financial shortfall.
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February 05, 2004
New York Event Listings
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February 04, 2004
Independent news program, broadcasting everywhere
About Democracy Now!
From the site:
Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 140 stations in North America.Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S., Democracy Now! is broadcast on Pacifica, community, and National Public Radio stations, public access cable television stations, satellite television (on Free Speech TV, channel 9415 of the DISH Network), shortwave radio and the internet.
The program is hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez and produced out of the Downtown Community Television Center, a community media center in New York City's Chinatown (shown to the right).
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ABC NoRio's InterActivist Network
We seek to offer new, dissenting perspectives, and to disseminate information about news-worthy events often overlooked or misrepresented by mainstream media.
Though the issues we address will be specific to our community, our goal is to instigate both a national and international conversation concerning similar issues affecting other communities.
The InterActivist Network is a model for community action using new media and technology to invigorate notions of public dialogue; to inform current debates within our community, both local and global; and to motivate non-mediated communication between the general public and participants in news-worthy events.
Posted by vanevery at 06:54 AM
Community art and activism
ABC No Rio is a collectively-run center for art and activism. We are known internationally as a venue for oppositional culture. ABC No Rio was founded in 1980 by artists committed to political and social engagement and we retain these values to the present.
We seek to facilitate cross-pollination between artists and activists. ABC No Rio is a place where people share resources and ideas to impact society, culture, and community. We believe that art and activism should be for everyone, not just the professionals, experts, and cognoscenti. Our dream is a cadres of actively aware artists and artfully aware activists.
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Location One - A Converged Gallery
Location One | Manifesto
From the site:
Location One: Catalyst for Content and Convergence
This is our credo:
1. First, the Internet will be about content,
not just serve as a conduit for it. The nature of the technology changes content—not just access and distribution—with implications across the full range of artistic expression and subject matter.
2. Second, Location One is about convergence.
We are bringing together creativity along the two standards that have governed the history of human expression: the axis of expressive discipline and the axis of available technology.
3. Third, Location One is a catalyst.
We select talent, stimulate interaction, supply resources, and provide real and virtual forums. We enable things both cool and consequential to happen. New media transform artistic expression. Conventional barriers of time and distance are erased. With them depart a myriad of social, political and cultural distinctions. Access, distribution, participation become universal (and affordable).
Posted by vanevery at 06:42 AM
February 03, 2004
The Expo is coming, the expo is coming!
International Artexpo 2004
International Artexpo is an art show like no other. It offers unmatched opportunities to network, discover new talent and close deals. Whether you’re an art dealer or retail gallery owner interested in new editions, an art publisher looking to discover new artists or an architect, corporate art buyer or interior designer, International Artexpo promises to deliver unsurpassed opportunities to buy and sell art. Consumers are welcome to explore and buy artwork on the final three days of the show.
Posted by vanevery at 12:36 AM
February 02, 2004
New York Silk Screening
We carry and manufacture everything for the silk screen printer.
Screen printing supplies including Emulsions, Degreasers, Reclaimers, Haze Removers, Plastisol Inks, Water Based Inks, Stretched Frames, Squeegees, and a host of other silk screen supplies.
Posted by vanevery at 11:10 AM
February 01, 2004
Sideshow - Todd
Todd Robbins Carnival Knowledge
From the site:
Todd Robbins, whom New York Magazine calls "a performer of dazzling skill," parts the curtains of the secret world of the carnival sideshow in his amazing new stage production, "Carnival Knowledge."
One of the last practitioners of a quintessentially American art form, Todd Robbins brings us face to face with an oddly beautiful mixture of real-life human marvels and classic carnival magic. TheaterMania.com calls the spectacle "infectious, informative and colorful." The New York Post promises, "this is theater at its most visceral!"
Posted by vanevery at 04:36 PM
January 30, 2004
March 20th: The World Still Says No to War
Momentum is building across the globe for the Global Day of Action against War and Occupation on March 20, the one-year anniversary of the U.S. bombing and invasion of Iraq.
Posted by vanevery at 04:05 PM
January 29, 2004
Creative Time
"presenting art where you least expect it"
Posted by vanevery at 01:39 PM
January 26, 2004
NYC Openings, All of them!
Posted by vanevery at 03:22 AM
January 25, 2004
NYC Green Guide
Gotham Green Guide - New Yor City Green Living Links
Gotham Green Guide
Green Living in New York City
Dedicated to the Vision of a Big Green Apple
And a Kinder, Gentler, More Beautiful World
Posted by vanevery at 05:02 PM
January 14, 2004
Hey, there's my bike..!
Abandoned Bicycles of New York
From the site:
New York has a lot of abandoned bicycles. I don't know why. Do people forget the combinations or keys to their locks? Do they forget they had a bike? Most of the bikes pictured here are pretty cheap bikes. Some of the bikes appear to have been abandoned long ago. Consider this ever-growing photo album a way to remember those forgotten bicycles.
Posted by vanevery at 12:02 AM
January 13, 2004
TKNY ... ?
TKNY home
From the site:
TKNY is an idea lab where the latest in urban lifestyle technology is conceived of, developed, and made available to the public.
This is a store..?
Posted by vanevery at 06:52 AM
January 03, 2004
What is that counter in Union Square anyway?
Metronome.relatedrentals.com: Press Release
New York (October 21, 1999) - On October 26, 1999, at precisely twelve-noon, Metronome, the 98 foot by 200 foot art wall, commissioned by The Related Companies, L.P. for the faÁade of One Union Square South, will come to life with a burst of steam, a melodious tone and the illumination of the digital time piece, officially inaugurating this remarkable gift to the City of New York.
Posted by vanevery at 11:51 AM
Stories from the NYC Subway
Welcome to The Subway Chronicles -
a place for insightful, creative
writing about the
New York City subway system
Posted by vanevery at 11:32 AM
November 29, 2003
Mirror mirror on the wall, why am I backwards...?
true mirror: non-reversing mirrors
Introducing The TRUE MIRROR!
From prehistoric times, people have only seen themselves reflected backwards. As it turns out, the backward images we see and interact with everyday are profoundly different from what is real. No wonder we are so often off in our self-evaluations compared with how others see us!
Posted by vanevery at 01:08 AM
November 05, 2003
SEAL's Burning Man Decompression Party
New York Burning Man Decompression 2003 | BOUNDLESS
Posted by vanevery at 11:16 AM
November 04, 2003
Interesting NYC based arts organization supporting emerging technologies
Eyebeam is a not-for-profit new media arts organization established to provide access, education, and support for students, artists, and the general public in the field of art and technology.
Posted by vanevery at 01:35 AM
October 25, 2003
NYCWireless, the folks unwiring the city.
NYCwireless
From the site:
Our Mission
-Provide Free Public Wireless Internet Service to mobile users in public spaces throughout the New York City metro area.
-Provide a Forum for Wireless Internet technology issues and Access Points Development.
Enough said.
Posted by vanevery at 12:36 PM
October 18, 2003
The institute for craziness, right here in Brooklyn
The Madagascar Institute (Fear Is Never Boring)
The institute does all kindsa crazy things from giving stilting workshop, holding condiment wars in DUMBO (which was insane) to who knows what else..
Posted by vanevery at 12:02 AM
October 17, 2003
Musical robot designers
LEMUR: League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots
Posted by vanevery at 11:41 PM
October 16, 2003
The Urban Divers
A very interesting looking organization..
From the site:
Founded in 1998, The Urban Divers is a registered non-profit grassroots environmental organization of volunteer scientific divers, waterway stewards and monitors committed in the active participation for the restoration, conservation, protection and education of our rivers, oceans, and marine wildlife, with a special focus on the restoration of NY/NJ Harbor Estuary.
Posted by vanevery at 02:05 AM
October 15, 2003
NYC's Famous Mac Repair Shop
Posted by vanevery at 11:48 AM
October 14, 2003
The Frying Pan
One of NYC's hidden treasures. Great art related events on a fantastic old ship.
Thanks to Hans for the URL.
Posted by vanevery at 11:46 AM
October 11, 2003
Great Art/Technology/Media Space/Gallery
From the site:
MANIFESTO :: Our Artistic Mission
Location One: Catalyst for Content and Convergence
This is our credo:
1. First, the Internet will be about content,
not just serve as a conduit for it. The nature of the technology changes content%u2014not just access and distribution%u2014with implications across the full range of artistic expression and subject matter.
2. Second, Location One is about convergence.
We are bringing together creativity along the two standards that have governed the history of human expression: the axis of expressive discipline and the axis of available technology.
3. Third, Location One is a catalyst.
We select talent, stimulate interaction, supply resources, and provide real and virtual forums. We enable things both cool and consequential to happen. New media transform artistic expression. Conventional barriers of time and distance are erased. With them depart a myriad of social, political and cultural distinctions. Access, distribution, participation become universal (and affordable).
4. Creative alternatives proliferate.
Posted by vanevery at 02:28 PM
Remote Lounge
Controllable Video Cameras, VJ's and Booze.. What a combination!
Posted by vanevery at 02:24 PM
The Voice's Best of NYC 2003
Everything from politics to bodily pleasures..!
Posted by vanevery at 02:13 PM
NYLXS
From the site:
NYLXS - Informally known as the New York GNU Linux Scene is an organization dedicated to providing resources to the New York Linux Community. It's about developing Free Software leadership. Bound to no specific local NYC or NY Metro Area organization, it's members support the NY Linux and Free Software Scene with manpower, technology, money and time. It's goal is to enable NYC Area Linux users, Free Software users, and the NY population in general through their lugs, schools, businesses, and government agencies.
NYLXS helps with installfeasts, lectures, tutorials, mailing lists, scheduling of events, political lobbying, educational support to public schools and libraries, training, publicity, and more.
Our membership is doers, not watchers. If you are a doer, then join us, and make a difference for the future.
Posted by vanevery at 11:41 AM
Linux for Businesses in Brooklyn
From the site:
Brooklyn Linux Solutions offers the Tri-State area inexpensive but powerful office solutions with the Linux Operating System
Posted by vanevery at 10:42 AM
Can NYC make sense?
From the site:
What is Nonsense NYC?
Nonsense NYC is a discriminating resource for independent art, weird events, strange happenings, unique parties, and senseless culture in New York City.
What does that mean?
We send out an email every Thursday night about unique events occurring the following week.
Posted by vanevery at 01:04 AM
October 09, 2003
A blog, an online magazine.. New York Centric, opinions on things that matter..?
Posted by vanevery at 11:59 PM
NYC Menu Pages
NYC Restaurants, NYC menus, ratings, reviews, New York City Restaurants Guide
NYC Restaurants & Menus by Neighborhood
Posted by vanevery at 11:01 PM | Comments (4)
October 04, 2003
Have issues with the subway?
Posted by vanevery at 11:59 AM