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Category Archives: USA
The next best thing to being there
Yesterday, The Portal, a public technology sculpture arrived in New York City and Dublin. Serving as a virtual bridge, the installation will transmit a real-time unfiltered live stream of both cities, transcending physical barriers and putting New Yorkers and Dubliners instantly in … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Europe, Tech, Tourism, USA
Tagged Dublin, Ireland, New York City, Street Art
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Tell me what it’s like to live without curiosity
Letter to the Person Who Carved His Initials into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America by Matthew Olzmann … Continue reading
Free Comic Book Day
Today is Free Comic Book Day, in which you can go to any participating comic book store and get certain designated comic books, absolutely free. Enter your zip code at this website and you can find the participating comics shop nearest … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Art, Books, Bookstore Tourism, USA
Tagged Comic Books, Comics, Doctor Who, Spider-Man, Star Wars
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Literary Leviathan
I was saddened to read about the death of the great American writer Paul Auster, who succumbed due to complications arising from lung cancer, aged 77. Auster, who has been celebrated as one of the most important American authors of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Film, Freedom of Speech, USA, Writing
Tagged Brooklyn, novelists, Paul Auster, Sunset Park
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Waiting to Work
I was recently surprised to discover a glass enclosure about the size of a large shipping container with mummy-like figures peering out. The installation is situated in Philadelphia’s Independence Historic National Park, at Market Street between 5th and 6th, near the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Museums, Tourism, USA
Tagged Independence Historic National Park, National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, Street Art
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Conflict Cartography
I was recently bemoaning the fact that the main stream media in the United States can’t seem to focus on more than two serious conflicts at the same time, and even then, the coverage is sorely lacking. But I just … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Europe, History, Maps, Middle East, Tech, USA
Tagged Cartography, Gaza, Israel, Ukraine
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New York City is the best movie set in the world
Texas-born filmmaker Jordan Studdard grew up with dreams of living in New York City. Now that he’s been there for seven years, he created an homage to his adopted hometown with a wall-sized map of the city, dotted with tiny … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Film, Maps, movies, Tourism, USA
Tagged Cinema, Friends, New York City
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Go To A Happy Place
One Minute Park: I really, really enjoy this pure dead simple website. One Minute Park couldn’t be more basic – click the link and you get transported to a full-screen video, in landscape, which lasts for exactly 60 seconds and … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Europe, Film, Tourism, USA
Tagged Amsterdam, Brooklyn, green space, parks
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Nightfall
Imagine a planet in a system with six suns where total darkness, in the form of a solar eclipse, comes only once every 2,049 years. This is the setting of “Nightfall,” a short story that appeared in the September 1941 … Continue reading
Posted in Books, USA, Writing
Tagged Isaac Asimov, Science Fiction and Fantasy, solar eclipse
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