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If New York were a blank slate, how would you fill it in? (via: The New York Times).
By ZACHARY SNIDERMAN
“I remember standing at the top of Manhattan and being terrified,” says Becky Cooper, the 25-year-old New York native behind “Map Your Memories,” a project she started in 2009. Cooper hand-printed hundreds of blank maps of Manhattan, each self-addressed and stamped so they could be mailed back to her. Then she and a friend trekked from Marble Hill — the very top of the borough — down to its southernmost point, handing the maps out to strangers with one simple instruction: fill it in with whatever best captures your experience of the city.
“Mapping Manhattan: A Love (and Sometimes Hate) Story in Maps by 75 New Yorkers,” is set to be published by Abrams Image in April.
This is what I Loved New York has been talking about for years, out with the old and in with the new and so forth….although this piece is excerpted from the perspective of an economics side.
The impact is felt everywhere in the United States, but it may be most evident in the Village. The artists, weirdos and blue-collar families that I grew up with (save the lucky rent controllers) are long gone. They’ve been replaced, in large part, by guys in suits.
During the ’70s and ’80s, the Village was the Jane Jacobs ideal, a neighborhood crammed with small mom-and-pop stores. That’s changed too. That old house-plant store is now a Marc Jacobs boutique. The dowdy bird store with the parrots in the window became Magnolia Bakery. The onslaught of luxury brands — Ralph Lauren, Jimmy Choo, Burberry, among them — has been so relentless that I’m happy when I see one of the old shops still in business.
(Continue reading Can Mom and Pop Shops Survive Extreme Gentrification)
Question: Is the New York Times Lens Blog ever off?
Answer: No.
“To me, they’re almost like a sleepwalker’s view of the city,” the filmmaker Jem Cohen said of the ghostly Polaroids he has taken of New York over the past 30 years. “I might walk around for a whole night, but only shoot one or two pictures.”
The lost, intimate work of photographer Robert Frank. Uncovered, candid and perfect.
From The New York Times (Lens Blog): In 1958, the promotions department of The New York Times hired a young Swiss expat to take pictures that were collected in a slim hardcover book for prospective advertisers. The book, “New York Is,” extolled the virtues of the city and of the newspaper as the best way to tap its prosperous postwar consumers.
A bittersweet piece in New York Times about the amazing work of homeless artist Anthony Horton (who died in a subway fire) done from charcoal and fax machine ink he found in the trash. Excerpt below:
Mr. Horton found solace in the blackness of the tunnels. He made the subway the subject of his canvases, the muse for a graphic novel that he co-wrote, and the place he called home for the better part of his adult life, even when he had other places to stay.
(more excerpts from Pitch Black here)
18 West 11th Street; the site of the Weatherman explosion. The New York Times recalls the blast:
Neither of the women had much on in the way of clothes as they ran out. One had apparently been taking a shower, and the other had been ironing. As the fire trucks pulled up, a neighbor let them in to clean up and gave them clothes. Then they left, coolly heading to the subway.
Before long, the details of the bomb-making emerged. “Shortly after that,” Mr. Lockwood recalled recently, “I started getting visits — one from the New York Fire Department and two from the F.B.I.” His friends at Princeton were nonchalant. The Federal Bureau of Investigation agents found him at his eating club. The second time they showed up, someone yelled, “Charlie, the F.B.I.’s here again.” read on
Worth as much time as the title suggests.
The New York Times on 54 Indiviuals. (through sounds and images)
The New York Times weighs in on the 200th Birthday of the map that made New York City. Not everyone loved it either. It’s stood the test of time and lays intact.
“Two hundred years ago on Tuesday, the city’s street commissioners certified the no-frills street matrix that heralded New York’s transformation into the City of Angles — the rigid 90-degree grid that spurred unprecedented development, gave birth to vehicular gridlock and defiant jaywalking, and spawned a new breed of entrepreneurs who would exponentially raise the value of Manhattan’s real estate.”
“The thing about that New York Times request to commingle Milton Glaser’s logo with other slogans or Brands was that many if not all of the submissions did not follow the assignment! That alone was funny.
I loved the submissions especially the pretzel one and I think there were two of them. One in red and the other was a picture of an actual pretzel in place of the heart. How did I decide on the my design? The first thing that popped into my head was my friend Andre Betz who works in New York at his own company Bugedit. He wears the characteristic nerdy glasses and he is like the epitome of a successful sheik nerd. Actually, I think his glasses kind of define him. That and he is bald on most of his head, but he looks good bald. not like most of us. I have this kind of game I play with him where I send him Photoshopped images of pictures- I randomly find on the internet-referring to his glasses or him in some way. Basically, I like to poke fun at him, but it is because he is easy to make fun of and sometimes I think he needs a little more fun and not take himself too seriously. Actually the same is true for myself. One was of him as Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes. I found this image on the internet of an older Calvin holding a stuffed animal of Hobbes. I made him bald with some silly badly drawn wisps of hair on his head and also stuck in an iphone and earphones and a set of Audi carkeys in his hand. I sent it to Andre. He loved it and put it as his profile picture. So back to Logo. I searched for an image of the quintessential nerdy glasses on Google images. Found one at a decent resolution and saved it. Brought it into Photoshop. Cut out all the white around and inside the glasses and then copied it and pasted it onto the I Heart NY logo. I mean it was quick and dirty. I sent it to Andre immediately after. Incidentally, I got no response from him on this one. But I am going to send it to him again. I like the design, I think I mis-labeled it when I put in “I love Nerds in New York” I think it should read. I Love Nerdy New York. Oh well, It was fun.”
Andrew Hopkins-Lisle is a Sculptor and Painter who was born in New York and is a New Yorker even though he lives currently in Portland, Maine with his Photographer wife Grace and daughter GiGi. He is a graduate of The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Tufts University. His favorite thing to do in New York is to ride the Subway and draw the unsuspecting passengers between stops. His most notable sculptural works are a Giant Brain Model for Harvard Medical School and MIT, and a Portrait of Ali Akbar Khan, one of India’s most famous musicians. Currently, he is working on a series of multiple 5″ x 7″ Aluminum Panels that include four letter text and etchings that will make-up a linear aluminum wall sculpture.
Dozens of Ways to ♥ New York.Via The New York Times: “Now that JetBlue Airways is using Milton Glaser’s famous “I ♥ NY” logo in a new advertising campaign, The Times asked readers to imagine commingling Mr. Glaser’s logo with other New York brands or slogans.”
“When I read the Times piece asking for reader submissions, this image instantly popped into my head. My first thought about it was that I was juxtaposing two New York brands. I also thought you could read into it in many different ways. Whatever your thoughts about New York City, New York providing condoms or safe sex, I thought it would be provocative and hopefully make people think a little.”
Rob Yasharian was born in Sydney, Australia, and grew up in Binghamton, New York. He interned in NYC in 1993 for designer Massimo Vignelli and always wanted to return. After working in New Hampshire for a few years, he finally moved to New York in 1998. He experienced a lot while he’s lived in New York: 9/11, blackouts, crazy housing prices, recession, etc. and he’s still there. “Still not sure if I feel like a New Yorker yet though.” Currently, Rob is a graphic designer at Arnold Saks Associates where they create solutions for print, branding, environmental graphics and web design. He resides in Kew Gardens, Queens with his wife and daughter.
Dozens of Ways to ♥ New York.Via The New York Times: “Now that JetBlue Airways is using Milton Glaser’s famous “I ♥ NY” logo in a new advertising campaign, The Times asked readers to imagine commingling Mr. Glaser’s logo with other New York brands or slogans.”
“I was born in Italy and grew up in Rome, Tel-Aviv and New York. I was a New Yorker in my teens, 9th and 10th grade (this was in ’74 to ’76, the Twin Towers were growing out of the ground).I kept a delicious nostalgia of the city as experienced by a 15 years old : Baskin Robbins’ “Fudge Twirl”, guitar lessons at the “Y”, a pair of carton-stiff “Levi’s” from (a cool new store around the corner” the Gap” (yes!), ice skating in Central Park. We could see the reservoir from our living room window (12th floor), and the sunset firing up the windows of the west-side front line. Magic!
“Speaking the local language of places you visit changes one’s traveling experience, and gets you closer to people you meet.”
I came to Paris to study Graphic Design with the clear intention of going back to NY after graduation, and “live the NY pace to the full”, this
time as an adult. And nearly 30 years later, I’m still in Paris.
time as an adult. And nearly 30 years later, I’m still in Paris.I did go back to NY a few times, to visit friends, but I now feel “a stranger in the city” and the “NY pace” I longed for, does not seem as appealing to me anymore …
“I’m still in Paris.”
I used to rush to the cinema to see the new Woody Allen and get my yearly NY dose (but he’s been “traveling” in his last films) and any romantic NY Christmas comedy will do ! These movies make my nostalgia simmer!
“I did go back to NY a few times, to visit friends, but I now feel ‘a stranger in the city’, and the “NY pace” I longed for, does not seem as appealing to me anymore …”
No, the pace in Paris is NOT the same, nor is the attitude (I think…it might have changed.)
As for food, there is French food in NY and American food in Paris… No, I don’t think THAT’s the primary difference.
(The Paris vs New York blog you made me discover is BRILLIANT !)
I think that knowing foreign languages opens up one’s mind and life in general. I was lucky to have to learn 4 languages in my childhood. It comes so easily when you’re a kid. Personally, I don’t mind Americans not speaking French, as I can manage English. But I know from experience that speaking the local language of places you visit changes one’s traveling experience, and gets you closer to people you meet.
Daniela Bak is an Italian free-lance graphic designer based in Paris, France. After 12 years of television graphics, she moved to the printed media, designing and art-directing magazines, newspapers and books. She creates logos, brand manuals and posters. She also works as an illustrator and has illustrated four children’s books. Speaking four languages allows her to work worldwide. She just finished designing a logo for a Creative Media company in California, a brochure for an african food industry, and a logo for an Israeli Insurance Company. Right now she is designing brochures and posters announcing a future Parisian tramway line. Her work always takes into account sustainable aspects of graphic design (see more Bak Office).
I Loved New York: Daniela’s writing was so great and personal I kept in its stream of conscious essay format. It also echoes; to an extent; how I feel about New York. These are the questions I Loved New York posed to Daniela: You live in France? How often to you get to New York? What are your favorite landmarks or icons? Do you have a routine when you land in the city; lunch here, cafe here, dinner here? Have you seen the Paris Vs New York blog; it’s really great. What are the primary differences between Paris and New York; is it the food? The attitude is much the same; as is the pace. Don’t you wish more Americans spoke French; when I visited with my sister years ago; I was embarrassed not to know the language even as my sister did.
Dozens of Ways to ♥ New York.Via The New York Times: “Now that JetBlue Airways is using Milton Glaser’s famous “I ♥ NY” logo in a new advertising campaign, The Times asked readers to imagine commingling Mr. Glaser’s logo with other New York brands or slogans.”
“Milton Glaser’s “I Heart NY” is the eponymous rebus for Gotham. As an artist, I have painted many of Manhattan’s landmarks, on location, becoming part of the fabric of the city. The instant I heard about the New York Times redesign project, I knew I had to get in on this.First, I brought Glaser’s original image into Photoshop.
After selecting all four shapes, I then selected the inverse and clicked delete — revealing a simple template. Next, I took snippets of my location paintings, and began inserting them into the background. After some trial and error, I chose four paintings near and dear to my heart. The top two icons include sky, the bottom two show purely architecture… this was a dialectic visual cue to create depth.
“All in, this design allowed me to share my love of every inch of this city, from Battery Park to the Upper, Upper East Side.”
The “I” features the Woolworth Building at night, which was painted from the 32nd floor of 7 World Trade Center; the Heart is made up of the skyline from Time Out New York’s 12th floor office; the “N” is the 59th Street Apple Store; and the “Y” is The Guggenheim. Each painting captures important views and experiences in my life.
The Woolworth Building was my first night painting, and provided a true opportunity to soak up the evolving World Trade Center rebirth. There is something indescribably peaceful about painting the sparkling lights. Following being named Time Out New York’s Most Creative New Yorker in December 2009, Time Out agreed to let me paint their stunning view.
Spending a few weeks at TONY HQ truly illuminated how hard everyone works to give New York a list of what’s hot each week. Behind the Apple Store lies the GM building, where I was part of a team that closed a 500 million dollar construction loan. The closing took 48 hours… I remember the sun setting, rising, setting and rising again before we were done. And, of course, The Guggenheim, a building I intend to paint every summer for the next twenty years (this is painting number two.)
All in, this design allowed me to share my love of every inch of this city, from Battery Park to the Upper, Upper East Side.”
Borbay. Voted Time Out New York’s Most Creative New Yorker in 2009, Upper East Side artist Borbay has painted on-location around the world, including The Guggenheim, TriBeCa Grand, Woolworth Building, Elaine’s, Chrysler Building, Hancock Tower (Chicago) and San Marco Cathedral (Milan). His work is composed of collaged New York Post headlines, and layer upon layer of acrylic paint. Driven to capture the actuality of society, this series visually displays the paradox of love, lust, murder, sex, sports, betrayal, triumph, religion, rape and politics in one place… concepts any person reading a daily newspaper will see juxtaposed without a second thought.
His architectural impressionist collage paintings have been featured in Time Out New York , Wall Street Journal Japan, New York Post, Whitewall, The Huffington Post and more. Carlos Fresneda of El Mundo recently penned, “The undisputed kings of the season are undoubtedly Banksy, Shepard Fairey and Mr. Brainwash, backed this week by the new local hero, Jason Borbay , re-inventor (of) collage.” Process-driven, Borbay shares the creation of each piece through social media, posting frequent updates to his blog, Twitter, LinkedIn andFacebook accounts. If art plus social media is the new frontier, Borbay intends to be at the forefront. His works have been acquired for private collections around the world; as well as the permanent corporate collections of Red Bull, Pabst Blue Ribbon and BEVFORCE.
Get on it and follow @borbay
Dozens of Ways to ♥ New York.Via The New York Times: “Now that JetBlue Airways is using Milton Glaser’s famous “I ♥ NY” logo in a new advertising campaign, The Times asked readers to imagine commingling Mr. Glaser’s logo with other New York brands or slogans.”
