Games for Change, the non-profit devoted to promoting, well, games for change, will hold their fifth annual festival in New York City from June 2-4. Keynote speakers are Henry Jenkins and Jim Gee and the closing keynote is the Honorable Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
The first day of the festival will be a free, one-day workshop. [...]
TmoNews has gotten their hands on a seemingly internal T-Mobile doc discussing their imminent 3G plans. As tipped, it’ll launch in NYC tomorrow and 20+ major markets by the end of the year. One thing to note, in the doc it discusses the “great call quality” and “more network availability” 3G will offer — not [...]
This awesome street art was spotted here in NYC in the East Village, and I friggin’ love it. Pixelart beats sloppy, illegible tagging any day of the week, thank you very much. Unfortunately, some jackass didn’t agree, but at least we have a picture of it in its original state.
This video is of a man filming a cop who parked illegally in front of a fire hydrant. He follows her, asking questions, and she mostly ignores him. Then something truly disturbing happens.
A retired police woman comes by and informs the first cop, and the man filming that citizens aren’t allowed to film anybody who [...]
Cheer up, New Yorkers! Sure, the Red Sox beat our Yankees in this week’s series and we fell to the Birds last night and we’re in 3rd place in the AL East, but there’s good news, too!
ifoAppleStore is reporting that two new Apple Stores have been confirmed for The Big Apple. First, the borough of [...]
Date: June 20 – July 6, 2008
Place: the IFC Center
(323 Sixth Avenue, at West 4th Street)
and
Japan Society
(333 East 47th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues)
It’s back like a bad dream – the New York Asian Film Festival kicks off its seventh edition this summer and they’re exploding with the rich smoky taste of pure Asian [...]
Hundreds of retired New York City subway cars are being sunk sixteen nautical miles off Delaware’s Indian River Inlet and about 80 feet underwater, continuing the transformation of a barren stretch of ocean floor into a bountiful oasis, carpeted in sea grasses, walled thick with blue mussels and sponges, and teeming with black sea bass [...]
Speed Racer, the Wachowski Brothers’ live-action take on the classic 1960s car-racing anime, has been selected as the closing film of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. The festival, which was founded by legendary director and actor Robert De Niro, will utilize various locations throughout New York City from April 23 to May 3.
The film is [...]
A federal judge in New York has ruled that the RIAA cannot sue people for simply making copyrighted music available for download. Rather, the recording industry needs to demonstrate that someone has actually downloaded the file. Otherwise, it’s not clear that a crime actually took place.
It’s much trickier to demonstrate that someone actually downloaded the [...]
New York City hipsters have struck again, bringing quick and easy mixtape sharing to the ‘net at Muxtape.com. The site was built by Justin Ouellette, and early mixes have been uploaded by Jakob Lodwick (of Vimeo) and Patrick Moberg (of nygirlofmydreams.com fame). Muxtape is easy as pie: upload songs in mp3 format, drag and drop [...]
On Friday, March 28th (April 4th rain date), join Free Culture @ NYU and Free Culture @ Columbia on a quest to get the best shots of NYC. Bring your camera and a way to get around town for the biggest scavenger hunt in Free Culture’s history. All photos will be uploaded to the Wikimedia [...]
Cab drivers rallied Wednesday in downtown Manhattan to call on the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission to allow drivers to use hands-free cell phones while on duty. NY Top 1 reports.
Currently, it is illegal for drivers to use a hands-free kit.
“In all professions workers have some form of communication that they carry [...]
Over at ZDNet, Larry Dignan has an interesting piece up today about an information-sharing network that exposed New York governor (soon-to-be ex-governor) Eliot Spitzer’s alleged ties to a prostitution ring.
From the Article: “On the surface, Spitzer’s downfall is a New York tabloid’s dream. Headlines like “Ho No!” scream on the New York Post. Wall Street [...]
In anticipation of a soon-to-be-realized retail store in New York City, NAU invites the public to discover the eco-minded clothing brand at an upcoming warehouse sale featuring merchandise marked 40% - 75% off.
5% of each purchase will go to Kiva, the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending site, encouraging anyone to lend as little as $25 to [...]
A new international, annual competition to launch in conjunction with the first ever New York Photo Festival, the New York Photo Awards, will honor talented photographers from all over the world whose exceptional work “breaks new grounds visually, intellectually and aesthetically.” The awards will give those visual artists the opportunity to reach key decision-makers in [...]
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