Found Around NYC...

Imagine: Found Around NYC...

As I wind up things in NYC, I thought I'd pay a tribute to my blog friend, Claude, who blogs from Paris.  She was the inspiration for this blog as she has enjoyed photography (she is a big Flickr user with over 17,000 photos posted on her Flickr site) and blogging from a big city.

I was too busy working on a graduate degree and adjusting the family to the move to really get out and explore when I first moved here.  I was inspired by Claude's daily walks in Paris where she would post on another blog a photo each day.  She no longer maintains her other blog but I set this one up to do the same thing.  I didn't do it at all on a daily basis like I did (and still do) on my other blog.  I was also encouraged when I started blogging by the Queen of the Elder Bloggers, Ronni Bennett, who was just preparing to leave NYC and still blogs at Time Goes By.  Ronni wrote a huge long email about what I should see and do in NYC.  So that is how and why this blog started.  I am a huge fan of her blog and also of Jill, at The Busines of Life, another smart woman who has been encouraging to a new (then) blogger.  Claude came to NYC not too long ago and met with blogger Naomi who I've yet to meet in person but thought if I could take on NYC like she does - man, just imagine.  So with this blog, I thought I'd eat up this city with the eye of my camera and the clicking of my fingertips.

So, when I came to NYC and studied new media, I learned how to blog as a class assignment.  Imagine, coming to NYC and learning to do something that I could do from anywhere.  Ironic, huh.

Peace, love and...blog.

Found: Blog Study

This wasn't found in NYC, but it was found while I was in NYC.  I did a study on bloggers as part of my Media Study graduate class in new media theory (I had to start a blog as part of a project in a new new media class, too).  It could have been a thesis and I'm working on the final form in Google docs to post and I'll put a link here when I do.  For now, you can wade through the smaller posts starting here as I'm posting it in ten parts on my other blog.

We are thinking of ourselves differently in the new mediascape.  MIT is starting a new media lab project to create an improved human being, Nick Carr notes, using the idea and logo of h2.0 which is pretty catchy.

What is happening to us on this bridge between real and virtual as we navigate both worlds will be interesting and exciting.  We will be changed by this environment that is moving at mach speed.  When I studied new media, media theory and what was happening in the blogs, especially female blogs, there was very little research out there.  I hope mine contributes something.

Who is This?

An interesting way to build recognition?  Billboard ads in an art area for emerging artists? Hmmmm.

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Clinton'$ Lead is Big New$...

Is it, or does it help when the powerful media in the nation's most powerful financial city report on the money-raising news?

It is all front page news here - left from the inside pages of today's AM New York with the cover, right.

The news made the cover lead story in the New York Sun.

Couric, The Real Thing...

Madame Tussaud's version of television anchor star Katie Couric, right, seems a little off.  Women do get better with time or maybe Couric is getting to sleep in and that is making all the difference.  I'd like to think women get better with age.  They do get wiser.

Media stars.  News media stars.  Female news new anchor star.  Which is real?  Which image has been manipulated?  Did an artist work on either, both, neither?

photo, above left, via Wikipedia, taken in May 06, originally posted http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickimoore/222630507/ on flickr.com by user Nicki Webber Moore under creative commons license attribution-share alike 2.0.

Winning Media...

New York Magazine has been named one of the top magazines.  Ad Age ranked it #4 on its list of top top magazines, with ad pages up 11.8% according to an article in the October 23 issue.  The magazine's online site is wonderful.

The New York Post surpassed the The Daily News and The Washington Post to become the 5th largest newspaper in America.  The paper was founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1801 and is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the United States.  These are for daily circulation figures.  Top place: USA Today followed by Wall Street Journal and New York Times and the L.A. Times.

Winning Media...

New York Magazine has been named by Ad Age of the #4 top magazines, with ad pages up 11.8% according to an article in the October 23 issue.  The magazine's online site is wonderful.

The New York Post surpassed the The Daily News and The Washington Post to become the 5th largest newspaper in America.  The paper was founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1801 and is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the United States.  These are for daily circulation figures.  Top place: USA Today followed by Wall Street Journal and New York Times and the L.A. Times.

Times of Excess?

In one week Marie Antoinette, the movie by Sofia Coppola, opens in wide release starring Kirsten Dunst.

This past week the Dow hit a record close at 11,900 and as this is posted, the Dow is at 11,955.

Somehow it was interesting to juxatpose these two facts and intertwine them together here, in this space.

The pouf of fashion, the fear of the pouf of the markets. 

photo: movie publicity shot

Harsh Hillary?

The November issue of Atlantic Monthly is out and New York Senator/candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is on the cover.

The photo is ultra close-up with no softened focus or airbrushing to smooth the age lines around the eyes and mouth.  It is a harsh photo.  Deconstructed, this image, taken from the perspective of below, positions her as in a leadership position and the black backdrop makes the photo even more riveting.

When have we seen such harsh portraiture of iconic women?  Aren't we used to seeing women on magazine covers dolled up and manipulated?

The headlined featured article, HILLARY'S CHOICE, has the word choice in blood red letters.  As a political issue, choice is between parties but it is also the word associated with the difficult and polarizing issue regarding abortion.  Interesting use of headlines.

Upclose and personal.  Isn't it always more personal with women? 

Interesting cover photo: by Matthew Cavanaugh.

Buzz Sells in NYC...

Buzz sells, momentum swells.  The Vanity Fair October issue was released the first week of September in NYC and LA, timed perfectly for Katie Couric to announce the big scoop (on her first night of national news tv anchoring, alone) of the pics of Suri Cruise, the famous baby of Tom Cruise and the Baby Mother Katie Holmes.

The Vanity Fair issue was released the next week, on September 12, to the rest of the nation (or the world -- it was billed by Vanity Fair as a "world exclusive").  The photo, left, is of a news stand in Manhatttan the second day the magazine hit the streets.  The buzz seemed to work as it was the hottest seller.The media attention to this important news is impacting us.  Our language is impacted by this attention to important news -- Suri Hair is now a new term.