After visiting the 24 hour Apple store, I made my way down to Times Square and shot a bunch of night photos in the sub-freezing weather. The streets were practially empty and at times it felt like I had the place all to myself. Over the years the lights of Times Square seems to be…
Adium 1.0
Adium, in my opinion the best instant messenger application for Mac OS X, just got better with the long awaited release of version 1.0. It’s wonderful tabbed window interface has been updated, including improved account management. Adium supports 13 instant different messaging (IM) protocols and is open source, so it is free to download, but…
24 Hour Apple Store in New York
Sunday night I braved the extreme cold in New York and made my way over to the Apple store that never closes, located on 5th Avenue (between 57th and 58th street). That’s right it is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. In general is pretty strange to go to an Apple store…
Hal Robins’ Art Show at Fuse Gallery
Of course while I was in New York, I had to stop by Hal Robins’ wonderful New York art show “Ornaments of Evolution” which is currently on display at Fuse Gallery in the East Village. His show will be up through Saturday, February 24th, so if you are in New York, I highly recommend stopping…
Burp Castle, New York’s Temple of Beer Worship
Last Friday a bunch of us were hanging out at Burp Castle, a “Temple of Beer Worship” in New York’s East Village. It’s one of Mike Hudack’s favorite bars and a blip.tv hangout and now its one my favorite New York bars as well, but it’s not just any ordinary bar. The overall theme is…
Boynton Beach Pelicans
Lori was in Boynton Beach, Florida last week visiting her dad and while there she shot some beautiful photos of pelicans on the Intracoastal Waterway with her new Canon PowerShot S3 IS. photo credit: Lori Dorn
Cafe Grumpy
Whenever I travel, I’m constantly on a quest for great coffee. New York City has always been a challenge. How could the capitol of the world not have a wide variety of really good coffee places? These days there’s a Starbucks every 1/2 block. In fact when I was there last week, I even stumbled…
blip.tv
blip.tv is a really great, independent and community-based video sharing service located in New York City. Their focus is on video bloggers, especially those who post episodes in a series. There’s some excellent shows featured on blip.tv, including Weird America, Geek Entertainment TV, Make Magazine, JETSET, GALACTICAST, Alive In Baghdad, Minnesota Stories and Staring Amanda…