Sub city.

Sub City New York from Redglass Pictures on Vimeo

This video is about that moment in New York when you emerge from the subway and find yourself in a new and sometimes unexpected world. Nothing is better…

More NYC metro(card) love.

via My Modern Met

Last year, artists Jean-Pierre Roy and MIchael Kagan had a brilliant idea. They would recycle the countless, used MetroCards New Yorkers mindlessly throw away and turn them into something amazing. These discarded pieces of trash would serve as canvases on which to create miniature works of art. They would call the show Single Fare.

Last night I decided to clean out my purse – who knew that would make me nostalgic for New York City. Floating around the bottom of my huge purse were three MetroCards I collected during my trip last month to New York. This blog is always an ode to my love of New York City, so I thought a photo from the Sloan Fine Art Gallery on the Lower East Side would be perfect for today’s post.

My ode to timelapse videos.

I love timelapse videos (hence this previous post) – but this video is beyond love for me. The City That Never Sleeps provides us with gorgeous still images everyday, but no one still moment can define it. This timelapse combines thousands of still images and gets about as close as possible. I really should start calling this blog an “ode to New York City” I think…

Snow in the city.

Via Sunday Morning Tumblr

Even the holidays are more glamorous in black and white.

My doppelganger still lives in NYC.

via Cosas Minimas

“One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years” – Thomas Wolfe

Getting the upper-hand.

via Kate Spade

Don’t let chilly weather get the upper hand. hail a cab-or simply channel the city-with the bold embroidery on these colorful mittens. Gotta give props to those who like fashion to be fun.

Pretty in pink.

via Hey I'm Anna

The making of a New Yorker.

In “The Making of a New Yorker” author John Steinbeck writes something that encompasses a lot of my summer experience in New York City…

ew York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it-once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough. All of everything is concentrated here, population, theatre, art, writing, publishing, importing, business, murder, mugging, luxury, poverty. It is all of everything. It goes all right. It is tireless and its air is charged with energy. I can work longer and harder without weariness in New York than anyplace else…

via A Society Story

Drop cap artwork from www.dailydropcap.com

What the King of the beach says.

I read Vanity Fair for the interviews. It seems like when they go talk to a celeb or just some random guy on the street, usually VF reporters get something good and, more importantly, real to come out of their sources’ mouths.

I liked a recent interview by Bill Bradley done for the article Wavves: We May Sing About Smoking Pot, but My Mom Likes King of the Beach. In it lead-man for the Wavves, Nathan Williams, says…

“Every time you open your eyes in New York, you see a weird guy or a beautiful woman.”

via The Sartorialist

Legal larceny.

Look at them Apples - my very first class in college. Enough Apples and journalism nerds in the room to scare anyone away.

I figured out why companies want interns. They want to steal our ideas.

That may sound mean, but it’s true – it’s legal larceny.

This week I participated in a discussion group about SI.com. A group of interns and I sat around and took questions from SI.com staff. We talked about online use, twitter accounts, video content, page design, mobile applications, and social media identity – pretty much everything any journalism nerd skips class to sit around RJI to debate.

And the discussion was a perfect setting for me – I like to talk, I like having opinions, and I really like talking about my opinions on online/social media. Plus they threw in sports. Screw volunteering for this, I would have PAID to be part of the group.

The beauty of it all was that everyone in the room was exactly like me. Nerd haven. They gave us one question to start the discussion – what do you think of our facebook page – and off we went. The simple lunch discussion turned into two hours of complete brand evaluation. The best part was that our group was the perfect mix. Interns have a facilitating combination of journalism knowledge, millennial generation ideology, understanding of a company’s capabilities, and ambitious attitudes willing to suggest ideas outside the box.

Before you knew it we had redeveloped SI.com (okay, not really – but we did have some worthwhile comments).

SI.com got a lot out of our discussion. I think we confirmed and contradicted some of their decisions – giving them ideas to grow and recreate. But, how about us interns? We had our ideas willingly stolen. Besides that, what did we get out of it?

More than you may think.

We realized that, yes, sometimes we do know more than the bosses. We can see from an outsider’s perspective, but with an insider’s understanding. Yes, we are valuable. They listened to our opinions and genuinely wanted to understand our thoughts. What we said can create change. Yes, we can contribute. Interns can be more than fact checkers, sometimes those little ideas you come up with sitting in your cubicle can actually be put in effect. So, overall, yes – we are earning our pay (at least for today).

If there is another intern discussion in the next few weeks, count me in. I like to talk, but, more importantly, I like what I get out of it.