iON | You Only Live Once (YOLO)

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iON | You Only Live Once (YOLO)

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Sherry Turkle Studies How Technology is Shaping Modern Relationships

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/t7Xr3AsBEK4?rel=0" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.ted.com/speakers/sherry_turkle.html" target="blank">TED</a></b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">D</span><b>escribed as “the Margaret Mead of digital cuture,” MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle has now turned her attention to the world of social media and sociable robots.</b><br /><br />Turkle argues that the social media we encounter on a daily basis are confronting us with a moment of temptation. Drawn by the illusion of companionship without the demands of intimacy, we confuse postings and online sharing with authentic communication. We are drawn to sacrifice conversation for mere connection. Turkle suggests that just because we grew up with the Internet, we tend to see it as all grown up, but it is not: Digital technology is still in its infancy and there is ample time for us to reshape how we build it and use it. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Alone-Together-Expect-Technology-ebook/dp/B004DL0KW0/ref=tmm_kin_title_0" target="_blank"><i>Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other</i></a></div>

Sherry Turkle Studies How Technology is Shaping Modern Relationships

TEDDescribed as “the Margaret Mead of digital cuture,” MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle has now turned her attention to the world of social media and sociable robots.Turkle argues that the social media we encounter on a daily basis are confronting us with a moment of temptation. Drawn by the illusion …

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David Bradford | Cabbie Photographer

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/DFMOuQkKP2U?rel=0" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.newyork.com/articles/new-york-moment/be-on-the-lookout-for-cabbie-and-photographer-david-bradford-64677/" target="blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;">newyork.com</span></b></a> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">N</span><b>ot long after becoming a cabbie, <a href="http://drivebyshootings.com/index.asp" target="_blank">David Bradford</a> began taking photographs from his cab to use as reference points for his illustrations. By 1993 he was snapping pictures for the sake of the photos themselves, creating a personal portrait of New York City from a unique vantage point: the front seat of a yellow cab. </b><br /><br />In 2000, Bradford published Drive-By Shootings, which sold out its first printing of 50,000 copies within three months. A second volume of photos, The New York Taxi Back Seat Book, followed in 2006, offering a more intimate view of the people who pass through the back seat of a taxicab in New York City.<br /><br />Bradford continues to capture images of the city, most recently in the form of 15-second movies he shoots from the front seat of his cab with his cell phone’s video camera. The films are accompanied by a “soundtrack” (whatever music happens to be on the cab’s radio at the time) and published on his website as-is, with no post-production editing. Be on the lookout for Bradford; you never know when you might find yourself in his taxi, watching art made on the fly.</div>

David Bradford | Cabbie Photographer

newyork.com Not long after becoming a cabbie, David Bradford began taking photographs from his cab to use as reference points for his illustrations. By 1993 he was snapping pictures for the sake of the photos themselves, creating a personal portrait of New York City from a unique vantage point: the …

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Jorge Colombo Creates New Yorker Covers

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/07m7UACYKn0?rel=0" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.newyork.com/articles/new-york-moment/new-york-moment-jorge-colombo-85261/" target="blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;">newyork.com</span></b></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.newyork.com/articles/new-york-moment/new-york-moment-jorge-colombo-85261/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">J</span><b>orge Colombo</b></a><b> creates art on the iPhone and iPad using his fingers.</b></div>

Jorge Colombo Creates New Yorker Covers

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Queens Painter Created Art Forgeries That Sold For Millions

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/831_sVx7gTE?rel=0" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/nyregion/one-queens-painter-created-forgeries-that-sold-for-millions-us-says.html" target="blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The New York Times</span></b></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span><b>n this recent tale of fake art sold for millions, the artist who created the work has not been charged and the dealer who sold the work has been charged with wire fraud and money laundering. Perhaps if she had not filed false tax returns and concealed proceeds of the sales in overseas bank accounts, she would not have been charged.</b><br /><br />Federal prosecutors say that most, if not all, of the 63 artworks — which fetched more than $80 million in sales — were painted in a home and garage in Queens by one unusually talented but unknown artist who was paid only a few thousand dollars apiece for his handiworks.<br /><br />Authorities did not name or charge the painter and provided few identifying details except to say he had trained at a Manhattan art school in a variety of disciplines including painting, drawing and lithography. He was selling his work on the streets of New York in the early 1990s, they said, when he was spotted by a Chelsea art dealer who helped convert his work into one of the most audacious art frauds in recent memory.</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvGCJT21Z6mNAtWX81TrSN2KuGWAF9jFoT_2gmf9WXUvgqsI3IBy0-e4VfNto9_4Xm3OG64or6dBsnYF4liivSeJYHf2GS3gToXOMRR5GRG2k7ihq4B6kSbbqEOfDifD2LQGYvUx574-A/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvGCJT21Z6mNAtWX81TrSN2KuGWAF9jFoT_2gmf9WXUvgqsI3IBy0-e4VfNto9_4Xm3OG64or6dBsnYF4liivSeJYHf2GS3gToXOMRR5GRG2k7ihq4B6kSbbqEOfDifD2LQGYvUx574-A/s1600/1.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">“Untitled” by Jackson Pollock was one of the forged works.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;">Glafira Rosales, an obscure dealer from Long Island, was arrested after a lengthy Federal Bureau of Investigation inquiry. She has been charged with wire fraud and money laundering in connection to what authorities have called a scam, but her boyfriend, alleged to be the other co-conspirator who discovered the painter, has not been charged.<br /><br />How imitations of the most heralded Abstract Expressionists by a complete unknown could have fooled connoisseurs and clients remains a mystery.<br /><br />“It’s impressive,” said Jack Flam, president of the Dedalus Foundation, the nonprofit organization that authenticates Motherwell’s work. “Whoever did these paintings was very well-informed of the practices of the artists.”<br /><br />One of the first experts to publicly identify some of these paintings as forgeries, Mr. Flam noted that not only the works themselves, but also the backs of the paintings and the way the canvases were treated and the frames constructed aped the styles of the artists.<br /><br />But he said “the way we look at reality is highly influenced by the context it’s presented to us.” The fact that they were sold by Knoedler, a respected gallery, influenced people’s opinions, he said.</div>

Queens Painter Created Art Forgeries That Sold For Millions

The New York TimesIn this recent tale of fake art sold for millions, the artist who created the work has not been charged and the dealer who sold the work has been charged with wire fraud and money laundering. Perhaps if she had not filed false tax returns and concealed proceeds of the sales in over…

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Social Networks & Being Lonely

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/c6Bkr_udado?rel=0" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">V</span><b>ideo by Shimi Cohen based on the book <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Alone-Together-Expect-Technology-ebook/dp/B004DL0KW0/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1376671839&sr=8-1&keywords=Alone+Together" target="_blank">Alone Together</a></i> by Sherry Turkle.</b></div>

Social Networks & Being Lonely

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Casey Neistat’s Studio

<div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://gizmodo.com/the-wildly-functional-studio-of-video-wizard-casey-neis-513828366" target="blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Gizmodo</span></b></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://caseyneistat.com/" target="_blank">C</a></span><b><a href="http://caseyneistat.com/" target="_blank">asey Neistat</a> makes homegrown and eccentric movies which have garnerd a presence on The <i><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/opinion/calorie-detective.html" target="_blank">New York Times</a></i> website as well as <a href="http://www.hbo.com/the-neistat-brothers/index.html" target="_blank">HBO</a>. Much of Neistat’s magic is concocted in a bright SoHo loft that is as every bit as weird and wonderful as his movies.</b></div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/68558518?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=f04e23" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/68710394?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=f04e23" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/68865050?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=f04e23" width="853" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><br />

Casey Neistat’s Studio

GizmodoCasey Neistat makes homegrown and eccentric movies which have garnerd a presence on The New York Times website as well as HBO. Much of Neistat’s magic is concocted in a bright SoHo loft that is as every bit as weird and wonderful as his movies. …

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Georgia | HyperTravel

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Georgia | HyperTravel

Timelapse journey through Georgia by Timelapse Media. …

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Destroid | Elevate Your Existence

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Brent Weingard | Window Cleaner in NYC

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/51xPaJkqpW4?rel=0" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">B</span><b>rent Weingard, of Expert Window Cleaners, has battled dirt and grime high above New York City for over 35 years.</b><br /><br />Read the story at <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/11/realestate/the-grime-fighter-brent-weingard-does-windows.html?_r=0" target="_blank">The New York Times</a>.</div>

Brent Weingard | Window Cleaner in NYC

Brent Weingard, of Expert Window Cleaners, has battled dirt and grime high above New York City for over 35 years.Read the story at The New York Times. …

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