Results tagged “citylights”

MOVIE: One Ring Zero is a lit-rock fans dream come true. The band features Paul Auster, Jonathan Lethem, Dave Eggers and Margaret Atwood’s lyrics set to the music of trumpets, theremins, claviolas, and metallophones. Director Joe Pacheco captured the band on film and presents it now as a documentary, As Smart As They Are: The Author Project. Here's a song/video with lyrics by Michael Chabon:

While you’re touring New York’s Beat Generation landmarks, drop by the Grey Art Gallery to find out what the “community of disaffiliates” were doing out in San Francisco. You’ll discover through Semina Culture that they were hanging out with Wallace Berman.

The Department of Transportation has announced the winning design for its City Lights competition, which was meant to "seek out and identify new ideas for public street lighting" and "obtain the flexibility to apply an integrated streetlight design on a block-by-block, street-by-street, or district-by-district basis within the city's five boroughs." The winning design is from Thomas Phifer and Partners. The visualization of the design, above, shows a simple design with thin wires arms supporting the arch of the light. It's attractive, but Gothamist also really likes the designs from second place Skidmore Owings & Merrill: An elegant curve over streets or more lantern like lamps in rendering of the promenade in Central Park.

Gothamist on the city's cell phone reception problems study. And the above image from Forgotten NY's street lamps page.

Forgotten NY's NYC streetlamp page and a New Yorker Talk of the Town piece with Forgotten NY's Kevin Walsh about street lamps and the competition: "A proper familiarity with the street lamps of New York requires a sustained interest beginning at an early, pre-self-conscious age�long before the native disdain for tourists kicks in and, with it, the automatic, jaded lowering of the eyes, the tunnel vision."

How's that for hot? Judges in the competition include architect Peter Eisenman, lighting designer Paul Marantz (who helped design the Tribute in Light), and structural designer Guy Nordenson (who helped figured out the engineering of the redesigned Freedom Tower).