A new morning. A new week. I know most of us dread Monday mornings but sometimes, when you’ve had one of those weekends, it feels quite good to start out fresh. There’s something to be said for new beginnings, even if they do come with the beginning of the working week. To help ease you…
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I was living in New York when the global financial crisis hit in 2008. The impact was almost immediate, and very tangible. A couple of months into the crash I took a walk with the dog around my neighbourhood and took photos of the shops that had recently closed down. It was one of the…
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I have always wanted to do this. (Photos, video and concept from Improv Everywhere) Also, RUDE FOOD! (I’m writing about the Magic Pudding on English Muse) >>
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I was lucky enough to spend more than a year in New York, and I loved every second. This video brings back so many warm and wonderful memories. A Year in New York from Andrew Clancy on Vimeo. Next, I think I’d like to live a year in Paris. If you could experience a year…
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Have you seen these photographs? This is downtown New York in the early 1940s, photographed in colour. Does it look real to you? While World War II raged on distant shores, an amateur photographer from Indiana, Charles Weever Cushman, took a holiday in New York. He took his holiday snaps on a rare and expensive…
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Remember iPods, antique iPhones without the networks: remember those things? I wasn’t an early adopter but can I tell you, when I was given my first iPod that baby changed my life. Suddenly, my days had a soundtrack. Even something as mundane as walking to work became a swim in an ocean of my favourite…
Read MoreI saw this great “Say something nice” video over on Black Eiffel on the weekend, a public project sending positive vibes out into the city of New York. And of all times, I reckon New York could do with some positive vibes right about now. I hope it brings a little bit of positivity to your day,…
Read MoreI had all kinds of happy stories planned to tell you in my post today, but I find I can’t do it, because my heart is breaking a little bit for New York. As I type, the whole city is being battered by a slow-moving hurricane that, the last time I saw the news, was…
Read MoreYesterday while out shopping for printer toner I came across something a lot more interesting: a surveyor’s map of New York, drawn in the winter of 1766. I couldn’t stop staring at it. Did you ever read Tom’s Midnight Garden as a child? It is a beautiful story. When an old grandfather clock mysteriously strikes…
Read MoreSay what you will about New Yorkers, they are very good at giving directions. They’ll even stop to help a sweet and vulnerable little cardboard robot find its lonely way across the park. What you’re seeing here is Sam the Tweenbot, and I’m willing to admit he is EVEN CUTER than the vintage pink robot…
Read MoreI’m always going to love street art. What’s not to love about generous, creative souls who package up magical little (or big) surprises for us as we go about our daily lives? Why do they do it? Just because. And I think that’s gold. The air vents on the pavements and roads of New York…
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