Finally, a ‘best of’ guide based on where people actually go. Social network FourSquare has crunched over 3 billion check-ins and tens of millions of tips to bring you the most awesome places in cities across the U.S. Sadly, they haven’t used done anything for Europe, yet. Click the pic to check it out.
Photographer Dane Shitagi’s project, NYC Ballerina, capture the beauty and elegancy of ballet dancers in a landscape that by itself is already breathtaking, New York City. The New York City Ballerina Project grew from the idea of New York City as a magnet for creativity; each photograph is a collaborative work of dance, fashion design [...]
A fascinating article in The Verge looks at the history of casino cheating and talks to Ted Whiting, director of surveillance at the Aria casino in Vegas, who specced out a huge, showy CCTV room with feeds from more than 1,100 cameras. They use a lot of machine intelligence to raise potential cheating to the [...]
Whether in Detroit for the first time or for a lifetime, uncover and discover this great American city. The first comprehensive, printed guide to Detroit in a generation, Belle Isle to 8 Mile: An Insider’s Guide to Detroit features more than 1,000 Detroit attractions, sites, institutions, events, restaurants, bars, shops, and curiosities, from the essential [...]
Many people (especially families of the victims) consider death row as the final stop before taking the trip down to hell. Reserved exclusively for the most violent, cruel and evil inmates, death row is an area in prison designed to house criminals awaiting execution – whose crimes are so extreme, that death is the only [...]
For the past five years, photographer Amy Stein has been driving across America and capturing portraits random strangers who are stranded on the side of the road after having their cars break down. She often drives on freeways hours upon hours before coming upon a new subject for the series. Stein’s project is also intended [...]
Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama take a moment to address the nation in the wake of a school shooting. Clips are from addresses immediately following the Columbine, Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook shootings. The three speeches have been edited together here to illustrate the endless cycle of violence we are trapped [...]
The American high school prom has acquired a particular worldwide resonance thanks to its central role in a thousand teen-themed films and TV shows. But what do real prom-goers look like today? Photographer Mary Ellen Mark shot 13 high school proms at schools from across the US that reflect a wide variety of regional and [...]
The outdoor ads of the late-’60s through the early ’80s were as artistic as the album covers they were mostly based on. Photographer Robert Landau started shooting those rock and roll billboards on Kodachrome slide film when he was 16. “I was living a block above Sunset near Tower Records, so the Strip was like [...]
Dutch photographer Jan Banning was tasked by his editor to “take photographs and images to compliment a story on the decentralization of the administration of the Dutch development aid”. In his interview with The New Yorker Banning eloquently summed up his thoughts saying “To me, it seemed to be un-photographable.” which would more than likely [...]
