History In the summer of 2008, Eric DeMenthon was struggling with a challenge that many of us are quite familiar with--trying to find an apartment in New York City. The painful experience of clicking through thousands of ...Read More
My research topic of ”the coffee house” has developed into a study of the characteristics of the evolution in ‘the production of a social public sphere’, and the coffee shop’s role throughout history as a facilitator of different kinds of ...Read More
Two weeks ago (coincidentally, the same day I went on my paper route), I visited the New York Historical Society library to view several photo collections of newspaper boys in the early 1900's. Luckily, I had blocked out my entire ...Read More
One of the walking tours I'm mapping, from Carol J. Binkowski's book Musical New York (1999), starts with a surprising story from 1736. It has nothing to do with a musician, composer or singer, or even a performance venue, but ...Read More
panoptICONS Utrecht 2010 I found this link, and it immediately reminded me of Hethre's original project, but with a considerable twist. Here, the project has turn sculpted birds into cameras to comment on the ubiquity of forms of surveillance. Have a ...Read More
As I headed to Tribeca on a recent research trip to follow two of the walking tours I’m mapping for my project, a pair of free podcasts released by The Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting in 2009 that ...Read More
A few blog posts ago, I wrote about how I wanted to approach my research as one large database. Possibly the most useful aspect of this approach is that I have a pretty organized way to look at all the ...Read More
I went on my first paper route Thursday night. Er...yesterday morning? I feel like I have a bad case of jetlag; I stayed up all night on Thursday, trekked to Bay Ridge at 2a.m., and met up with Ronnie, one ...Read More
[caption id="attachment_1119" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="The Metro desk in the 3rd floor newsroom, 1970s"][/caption] The arts section of today's NY Times contained articles on the afterlives of historic newsrooms and speakeasies! The old NY Times newsroom on 43rd Street is now a ...Read More
The Chronicle of Higher Education featured an article about a new report that addresses the use of copyrighted materials in student multimedia projects. From the report: "The following is the four-pronged fair use rubric from U.S. copyright law. The existence ...Read More