If You Love Me (Official Music Video) / BenZel x Jessie Ware
A collaboration by UK RNB sensation Jessie Ware and a pair of wunderkind producers from Osaka, Japan. The duo is known as BenZel (15 year-old Umi Takahashi and 16-year old Yoko Watanabe) and are based in New York. They both traveled to New York through their local foreign exchange program. They met in early 2012 through an online […]
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Lights Out (Photos of NYC Blackout) / Several Seconds (Paul McGeiver)
Here are some eerie and gorgeous photographs by New York City-based photographer Paul McGeiver (Several Seconds). They capture Manhattan during the heart of the blackout, the mass power outage caused by Hurricane Sandy. McGeiver manages to capture the darkness and rich texture of the metropolis in its most haunting hour; the city appearing like an apocalyptic […]
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New York City – Hurricane Sandy Time Lapse / Silas Maniatis
This Amazing Time Lapse Video Shows Sandy’s Assault On New York And The Moment The Lights Went Out A camera on top of 2 Northside Piers shows New York before Sandy rolled in, its destructive approach, and the sudden loss of power as the storm surge flooded lower Manhattan. This is the best angle and the longest exposure we’ve yet […]
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Empty America: New York City Time Lapse / Ross Ching x Thrash Lab
Thrash Lab‘s Empty America timelapse travel series takes you to New York City. All the bridge and tunnel people have been sent home and Manhattan has been wiped empty! Penn Station, Wall Street, Central Park, Times Square, The Met and Fifth Avenue have never looked so vacant. Previously, we featured the San Francisco edition of […]
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New York: Night and Day / Philip Stockton
Animator and Director Philip Stockton: New York: Night and Day is a combination of non-traditional video time-lapse and animation. I filmed day and night scenes from around New York City and combined them back into single sequences using rotoscoping techniques. The piece explores the relationships between night and day, by compositing together scenes shot in […]
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Empire State of Pen / Patrick Vale
Here’s a time lapse video of UK-based illustrator and artist Patrick Vale drawing the view of the Manhattan skyline from the Empire State Building. The song is Moanin’ by Charles Mingus. –@teemunny Patrick Vale is an internationally recognised artist represented by Début Art. He is best known for his work based on cities and architecture. […]
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Soundsystem: Super Rich Kids (Frank Ocean cover) / Lips
A talented keyboard player with a soft spot for vintage synths, Stephanie Brown aka Lips performed extensively in her native New Zealand before moving to New York and forming the soul blues act Fredericks Brown in 2007. In 2010, Brown decided to take the leap and make music in her own right. Characterized by a […]
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Brooklyn Nets’ Barclays Center Tour
It took nine years and some 35 court battles to build the billion-dollar stadium, which is wrapped in a sci-fi grid of tarnished metal plates that vary in size to give the entire building an oddly organic feel — as though it grew out of Brooklyn’s industrial past. The Nets won’t play their first home […]
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Luxury (Official Video) / Azealia Banks
Azealia Banks shows some NYC pride in her new video for Luxury, which was directed by Clarence Fuller. –@teemunny via Pitchfork
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New York Sliced – Timed Photos of NY Architecture / Richard Silver
These are a group of Photos taken over about 1.5 Hours at sundown in New York City. New York architecture has always fascinated me from a historical and architectural perspective. My goal of taking these photos have changed in some way over the course of me shooting them back in 2010. The goal was to be […]
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Intersection (NYC / Tokyo) / Navid Baraty
Watching the pace and flow of New York City from above is amazing. The constant stream of yellow taxis lining the avenues, the waves of pedestrians hurriedly crossing with the change of traffic signals, little figures disappearing into and emerging from the subway stations, the chorus of honking horns and sirens. It’s all so rhythmic […]
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Soundsystem: All I Know / Gotham Green (prod. by Quickie Mart) feat. Freddie Gibbs + T. Mills
NY rapper Gotham Green and New Orleans producer Quickie Mart present All I Know featuring CTE signee Freddie Gibbs and Columbia Records singer T. Mills. All I Know is from the forthcoming fourth installment of their Haze Diaries series. Haze Mixtape
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