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Hi. My name is Dennis. I enjoy such things as snowboards, four square and unemployment. I live in the East Village, NYC. You can email me at: dens at teendrama dot com
![Broadway @ 8th Street. I walked under this 2x yesterday. Yikes!
Pic by Jesse Chan Norrie [more]
hifiny:
Well, that’s reassuring. I walk under this scaffolding twice every weekday. [At Broadway & 8th Street … Via]](http://19.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksgmxnTI901qa65uwo1_400.jpg)
Halloween 2009 = two dance parties, two pinatas, a lil’ piggie and Cru Jones
Started pre-bar’in at my apt, hit up Seth’s @ Porch, then to Grellan’s @ Mary’ Os, then to Becca’s @ Summit and then sleepytown. JJ& Jac rocking the pinatas (complete with candy tossin’ action), Chelsa went as a Piggy Bank, McSimmons as some SNL character (sorry!), Xtian as a bat made from busted umbrella parts (brilliant).
I threw together some last minute Cru Jones action: www.imdb.com/title/tt0091817/ You have no idea how hard it was to find a pair of red warmup pants (I ended up finding a pair of Kids XL in the basement of Paragon)
There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter - the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last—the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York’s high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.
And whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh eyes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company.
Here is New York, E. B. White, 1949 (via cdixon + fred-wilson)
Slightly related, but is there a better NYC anthem than Jay Z’s “Empire State of Mind?”
[Chorus: Alicia Keys]
New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of
There’s nothin’ you can’t do
Now you’re in New York
These streets will make you feel brand new
Big lights will inspire you
Let’s hear it for New York, New York,
New York
“REACH New York”- An Urban Musical Instrument
by Christopher Janney (January 1996)
More here: www.flickr.com/photos/dpstyles/4061238252/
And here: www.nycsubway.org/perl/artwork_show?121
Ha! I don’t remember ever got any dodgeball halloween costumes back in the day :)
And the first of the foursquare halloween costumes :)
Just saw this tweet from my friend @heathercapri:
“Look! @elaineellis is a foursquare scout! Look at all those badges she’s earned! No wonder she’s mayor”
More:
http://brightkite.com/objects/1e84bec1f9fe3264109b724ca8b842d5?referer=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2F
caro:
…Ran into these guys on the train. They win Halloween.
Team foursquare was here late last night working on this and 100 other fixes. I’m finding this tiny tweak is already 100x better than before.
Hey hey - anyone notice our new “Places” screen on the iPhone? :) We tweaked the way we show nearby places, so we can call attention to your favorites vs. your friends’ favorites vs. everything else that’s nearby.
A small tweak, but this should fix the “foursquare never knows where I am!” bugs we’ve been hearing about. We’re finding it’s also a great way to find out about places you’re friends frequent that you haven’t had a chance to check out yet.
Anyway, play with it tonight and let us know what you think! As we’re getting closer to our code re-write you should see lots more little improvements like this coming from us.
Busy week here at 4SQ HQ!
Have you seen this video? It’s from a subway station in Stockholm, Sweden where some designers were trying to create an incentive for people to skip the escalator and take the stairs. Their solution was to turn the steps into a piano where each step would play a different musical note - basically creating a way to make the taking the stairs more fun than taking the escalator. And it worked.
I feel like this is also what we’re trying to do at foursquare - how do you make exploring cities / meeting up with friends / discovering new places more fun?
Last week we announced a partnership with San Francisco’s BART (the mass transit system) that let’s foursquare users earn badges for riding public transportation, unlock tips about the interesting coffee shops, music stores, etc you can find near BART stations and even win free train tickets on BART trains for checking-in.
… and just like the piano steps that make taking the stairs more fun than taking the escalator, we’re trying to make taking public transport more fun than being stuck in highway traffic. :)
We’re loving this and hopes it foreshadows the types of things we’re thinking about and the types of experiences we’re planning on creating.
Official press release from BART: http://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2009/news20091022.aspx
