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Entries Tagged as 'Special Places'

Dumbo Beat: Yesterday, on Jay Street

November 6th, 2007 · by Holly · No Comments

Movie of the week: Ghost Town.

Catering truck spotted here at Jay and John Street. The next day a suspiciously similar film crew blocked my B61 ride down Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint.
Is it just me, or is Jay Street reaching its saturation point? Since I’ve been in Dumbo (intermittently, for one month), I’ve seen 3-4 [...]

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Tags: DUMBO Beat · Special Places

DUMBO Beat: Evening edition

October 15th, 2007 · by Holly · 1 Comment

Making websites into the night in DUMBO? Want dinner delivery options that don’t include Rice or mexican food? Try Curry Leaf in neighboring Brooklyn Heights. For $12.95, I got four courses, so much food that I can keep my leftovers in the fridge for lunch tomorrow! Yummy Chicken Tikka Masala, medicore samosas, some kind of [...]

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Tags: DUMBO Beat · Special Places · Today's lunch order

AIGA Conference Report: Wrap Up

October 14th, 2007 · by Andrew · 2 Comments

The whole weekend was a plesant surprise. You can read about the proceedings elsewhere, but overall the speakers were great, the reality show Command-X was genuinely hilarious and ultimately deeply moving (the winning project made me cry, no joke) and I met a ton of really cool designers and design hangers-on. Khoi Vinh and I [...]

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Tags: Andrew · RSS feed · Special Places · The past

AIGA Conference Report Number One

October 12th, 2007 · by Andrew · 1 Comment

Greetings from Denver. So far, this feels like a cross between a college interview and a regional sales convention. My video went over big (after they presented it wrong once… the left third was missing, so they showed it again. As embarassing as it was, the double exposure and crowd sympathy went miles toward the [...]

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Tags: Andrew · Celebrities · Special Places

October 12th, 2007 · by Renda · 2 Comments

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Tags: Administration · Social Networking Sites · Special Places

Ooh heaven is a place on earth

October 1st, 2007 · by Pressman · 1 Comment

In this photograph, Andrew Sloat is seen posing with brownies. In his other hand, he holds a photograph in which he’s seen posing with life-size recycling bins. He is happy, so happy. This is his special place.

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Tags: Life-size Anthropomorphic Creatures · Special Places