Category Archives: USA

I Heart NYC and These Maps

Posted on December 15, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

London-based artist and illustrator Jenni Sparks has created a new series of fantastic hand-drawn maps of New York City. The cleverly amusing maps include elaborate images of iconic neighborhood and borough hangouts that no tourist wants to miss. If you … Continue reading →

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Fables for Living

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Readers with a proclivity for short-form fiction will relish Electric Literature. This uber-cool multimedia literary magazine can be read on mobile devices, e-readers or even in traditional, old-fashioned paper format. Publishing for three years, Electric Literature commissions work from contemporary … Continue reading →

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Frequent Fliers

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Sparked by Korean photographer Ho-Yeol Ryu’s now iconic composite photograph (above) of planes at the Hannover, Germany airport, documentary filmmaker and photographer Cy Kuckenbacker created this phenomenal time-lapse video (below). While much of America was out worshiping at the altar of … Continue reading →

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How Many Have You Read ?

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

I never finished Infinite Jest, nor have I read any of David Foster Wallace’s other overvalued twaddle, but I found Goodread’s infographic a hipster lit flowchart quite entertaining. The inclusion of Open City and Leaving the Atocha Station, two other … Continue reading →

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Empire State of Mind

Posted on December 2, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

This week, New Yorkers were treated to a brand new LED lightshow on the fabled Empire State Building. The remarkable show, synched to music from Alicia Keys and Jay-Z, was made possible by Philips Color Kinetics. The company replaced an … Continue reading →

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Borrow One If Necessary

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Tomorrow, December 1st, marks the third annual Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day. More than 1,000 bookshops in North America, along with stores in the U.K. and Australia, will be hosting special events to celebrate young readers. Many bookstores … Continue reading →

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Parade Redux

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Of course I missed the actual broadcast of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade last week (good excuse: I was cooking for 15), so I was amazed to find that former street artist and fellow Jersey boy KAWS had a balloon … Continue reading →

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Happy Thanksgiving Day

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Like most every kid growing up in the United States, each Thanksgiving Day holiday morning I was glued to the television in anticipation of the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade broadcast from New York City. It’s been quite a while … Continue reading →

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Go The Extra Mile

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

The Extra Mile is a brilliant start-up charitable organization with a very straightforward mission: they collect frequent flyer miles from all those folks who never use them and then provide access to the miles to people who need to travel … Continue reading →

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Serendipity Now

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Launched last month, Wanderous is a diverting free travel navigation app that creates serendipitous urban routes that are optimized for adventurous journeys. Users just enter a destination into Wanderous and it will offer a convoluted route suggesting local sites, landmarks, … Continue reading →

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