January 2012
3 posts
December 2011
4 posts
September 2011
2 posts
August 2011
2 posts
July 2011
3 posts
WatchPeter showing us how to shuck oysters in Portland, Maine. ”It’s just so weird that that blob of goo is alive” says Jenny.
Number of Female Cyclists Lags in New York, With... →
I’ve certainly noticed the lack of female cyclists in NYC, but I can’t say this article helps answer any of my questions about why, in a city with rapidly improving bike infrastructure, male cyclists still outnumber female cyclists 3 to 1. The best answer this article gives is that women are afraid of cycling’s “risks” and afraid of their own sweat. New York is a...
June 2011
5 posts
WatchDoing a full body jump into the sea on an Oregon beach is quite courageous.
emily-m:
Went to Manzanita last weekend. We don’t have those fancy warm beaches here in Oregon. Music from freemusicarchive.org: _jjj_ “I’d Like to Tell You”
May 2011
14 posts
WatchShadow puppet animation. I like your voice over, Peter. And the close-up of Mike’s face. It really takes me back to hear the Turf Club reference.
cubiclecafe:
Produced for MNKINO#21, It’s not you, its me. May 2011. A while back a friend sent me an email asking what happened to Mike Gunther. We’d seen perform a lot while in college, but then he disappeared from the performing scene....
WatchNotion Collective is building radios today. So great, especially since the Polish pop station in Greenpoint is dear to my heart.
It’s a radio factory in here today! That’s some Greenpoint radio flavor you’re hearing in this clip — Polish pop? 22 radios to disassemble and rebuild this weekend for Station Identification. (Photos here)
WatchI made this video essay as a final project for one of my classes this semester, TV & the Development of Youth. It was a fantastic class, even though it brought up more questions than it answered. We watched a lot of TV and we talked about a lot of TV, and from this we tried to figure out TV’s significance to young people. What really is the difference between TV and other mediums, such...
Ushahidi
A colleague of mine gave a talk last night on the crowd-source mapping tool Ushahidi (Swahili for “Testimony”). It’s an amazing open source tool originally developed to help visualize violence in Kenya based on reports from mobile devices. Since then it’s been used to track the spread of war or crime in many other areas, including the current conflict in Libya.
LATELY I JUST WATCH YOUTUBE
This blog will now reflect that.
April 2011
10 posts
“When surveillance becomes omnipresent and ever-more insistent demands are made...”
– Ursula Frohne
“There have been reports that wildlife has flourished due to significant...”
– Zone of Alienation, Chernobyl
March 2011
8 posts
“In wintertime, local TV newscasts in Northern states stream the list of school...”
– This is a heartbreaking story about public education in Detroit. Via Diane Ravitch.
“When I become mayor, you know what I’m going to spend my first year doing?” Mr....”
– Eben Weiss, NYC’s own Bike Snob, talks about the current cycling backlash and ticketing blitz in the city over at Bicycling Magazine.
