Yolanda Cuomo | Let’s Make A Book

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/I9JzdUt_hPw?rel=0" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/05/video-studio-visit-with-yolanda-cuomo.html" target="blank">The New Yorker</a></b></span> <br /><br /><a href="http://www.yocuomo.com/#/home" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Y</span><b>olanda Cuomo</b></a><b>, a New York-based artist and graphic designer, learned that she had to vacate her Chelsea studio of twenty-five years. The studio, in an old carriage house in Manhattan, has been the site of artistic collaboration for decades.</b><br /><br />The space was decorated floor to ceiling with mementos, collected in the course of making of eighty-five books and countless projects with artists and photographers from Richard Avedon to Laurie Simmons and Sylvia Plachy.</div>

Yolanda Cuomo | Let’s Make A Book

The New Yorker Y olanda Cuomo , a New York-based artist and graphic designer, learned that she had to vacate her Chelsea studio of twenty-...

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NYC Department of Records

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/DsnrewxUPEI?rel=0" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/06/video-the-department-of-records.html" target="blank">The New Yorker</a></b></span> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span><b>he entire history of New York City’s government—from handwritten court records of the first colonial Dutch settlers to the printed agendas of Bloomberg’s latest health initiatives—is filed, digitized, and preserved by the Department of Records.</b><br /><br />In the basement of the Surrogate’s Courthouse, or Hall of Records, boxes upon boxes sit stacked and numbered behind locked mahogany doors. There are safes containing four-hundred-year-old litigation records, freezers keeping film reels fresh, and stacks of maps representing each borough’s early cartographic endeavors.</div>

NYC Department of Records

The New Yorker T he entire history of New York City’s government—from handwritten court records of the first colonial Dutch settlers to th...

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Community Laundry

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/32202954?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=dea52a" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.wired.com/design/2013/09/concept-a-service-that-pays-you-to-wash-your-neighbors-underwear/" target="blank">Wired</a></b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">H</span><b>ello connects people who are looking to do laundry with people who actually have a washing machine. In theory, customers would roll their basket over to the home with a washer and either drop off their laundry or do it themselves.</b><br /><br />Think of it as a personalized laundromat, where instead of sitting in a dank, fluorescent-lighted room, you could be drinking a beer with your new best friend. </div>

Community Laundry

Wired H ello connects people who are looking to do laundry with people who actually have a washing machine. In theory, customers would roll ...

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Only Lovers Left Alive

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/LrRLrNF_Gjg?rel=0" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2013/09/tilda-swinton-only-lovers-left-alive" target="blank">Vanity Fair</a></b></span><br />by Julie Miller<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span><b>dam and Eve are gentleman and gentlewoman vampires—the kind who go to the trouble of impersonating surgeons to procure blood instead of gauchely gnawing on people’s necks. (They even drink it out of long-stemmed chalices.) </b><br /><br />Hipper than their human counterparts, they drive around in vintage cars, lay about in antique silk kimonos, collect rare electric guitars, and play the best blues on vinyl. They’re also in tune enough to be aware of modern-day pop culture; in one scene, for instance, Adam impresses Eve by pointing out Jack White’s childhood home during a car drive.<br /><br />Adam and Eve have interacted with history’s greats and live to tell the tales, such as how Adam, a musician, once gave Schubert a String Quartet. In one of many self-consciously clever lines in the film, Eve blames the modern-day stigma against vampires on “Shelly, Byron, and those French assholes I used to hang around with.”</div>

Only Lovers Left Alive

Vanity Fair by Julie Miller A dam and Eve are gentleman and gentlewoman vampires—the kind who go to the trouble of impersonating surgeons to...

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TouchKeys | Expressive Control For Any Keyboard

<iframe frameborder="0" height="640" src="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/instrumentslab/touchkeys-multi-touch-musical-keyboard/widget/video.html" width="853"> </iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/instrumentslab/touchkeys-multi-touch-musical-keyboard" target="blank">Andrew McPherson</a></b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span><b>he TouchKeys are capacitive sensor overlays which attach securely to the surface of each key of an electronic keyboard that allow you to play vibrato, pitch bends or timbre changes.</b></div>

TouchKeys | Expressive Control For Any Keyboard

Andrew McPherson T he TouchKeys are capacitive sensor overlays which attach securely to the surface of each key of an electronic keyboard t...

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