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I am a User Experience Designer at foursquare.
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2010 year in cities
December 31st, 2010 at 6:49 pm 0 comments.Besides Jersey City, NJ (Home) & New York City, NY (Work) I visited 18 cities in 2010
Killington, Vermont
Kitzbuhel, Austria
Munich, Germany
Los Angeles, CA
Wilmington, VT
Montreal, Canada
Buffalo, NY
Piseco, NY
Lagos, Portugal
Monte Gordo, Portugal
Granada, Spain
Gibraltar, UK
Seville, Spain
Gafanha da Encarnacao, Portugal
Orense, Spain
Lisbon, Portugal
London, UK
Phoenicia, NY
paris metro infiltration
December 23rd, 2010 at 10:42 am 0 comments.
Back in October 2007 sometime after midnight and before the first trains rolled into regular service, qx and I took our first timid steps onto the tracks of the Paris metro. With more nervousness and care than I’d like to admit we gingerly stepped down between the metal rails just off the end of a platform wondering what madness had possessed us to do so. We’d never done Metro like this before and this scary new world was full of elements we didn’t understand at all. Looking at every rail critically working out which carried the power, asking ourselves so many questions: how far could the electricity arc, would that even happen, could the cameras on the platform see us, did security wait in the tunnels after hours, were there any trains after service, if so how fast did they go, did anyone live in the tunnels, would we encounter writers? We’d heard lots of stories about RATP security forgoing the usual legal punishments and simply beating up those found in the tunnels and kicking them out onto the street. We weren’t packing paint but would that matter?
Sleepycity’s travelogue from an illicit exploration of the Paris Metro.
tags:city exploring metro paris photo trains underground urbanbreaking up with los angeles
December 21st, 2010 at 11:07 am 0 comments.
Designer Jon Jackson is moving cross country to take a new job in NY. Rather than slip away under the cover of the night he said, Adios LA, with five public billboards.
tags:ads billboards grid public urbanwork
December 13th, 2010 at 4:47 pm 0 comments.
Post it drawings about management by Marc Johns
Included in an exhibition with the theme of Manager in Zurich
tags:drawing workLondon-on-Sea
December 13th, 2010 at 12:52 pm 0 comments.
Practical Action has a slightly modified London tube map showing the impact of rising sea levels predicted for the the year 2100.
via bldgblog
tags:london map sea tubeis this the new google maps ui
December 3rd, 2010 at 5:33 pm 0 comments.Check out that sweet ‘other’ view option window in the upper right.
via 41 latitude
tags:google maps mapsairline bag lounge
December 2nd, 2010 at 3:22 pm 0 comments.
Check out the Airline Bag Lounge at Troyland
stopping the world
December 2nd, 2010 at 10:42 am 0 comments.via kottke
tags:cinema photography the newelectric mountain
November 30th, 2010 at 7:14 pm 0 comments.
photo via ben cooper’s flickr
Deep inside the mountain is an 800m shaft, about 30m wide. During times of excess energy on the National Grid, water from the lake below is pumped up into the reservoir above the shaft. And when a surge of energy is needed on the grid, (say during a football match half-time), it’s released back into the lake, hurtling through the turbines and generating up to 1,320 MW from standstill in 12 seconds.
This isn’t all that surprising, after all it is how all watertowers work, but the name, Electric Mountain, the description of the semi-audible humming present at the site which is somewhere between hearing and feeling, gives the whole place a Tarkovskian type feeling of the Zone.
The wikipedia article about the Dinorwig Power Station has more details.
After we climbed out, I asked about the lake below. “You could say that it’s tidal, but with the television schedules, rather than the moon.”
Mind is blown.
via tom taylor
tags:electricity geography infrastructure mountain naturepaths of flight
November 29th, 2010 at 3:48 pm 0 comments.more from GE
tags:air video
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