The Brooklyn Botanic Garden has released another timelapse video; back in April the cherry blossoms took center stage, and now the roses are under the sped-up spotlight. The setting is the Cranford Rose Garden, and this month is Rose Month at the BBG -- the perfect time to stop and, you know, smell the blossoming petals.......

In time for this weekend's Sakura Matsuri (cherry blossom) Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, the BBG's web manager Dave Allen created this video using photographs taken every 3 minutes between April 18 and April 26, 2008 (there were over 3,000!). And, per the BBG, the original music is by Jon Solo, a Brooklyn-based musician and producer.......

Today Lego celebrates the big 5-0, even getting some Google-love for hitting the half century mark. New York has long been recreated in Lego-form, our favorite was at an exhibit housed in the Storefront for Art and Architecture late last year. Do you have a favorite Brick Apple? We love Sean Kenney's Greenwich Village (pictured) and Nathan Sawaya's Brooklyn Bridge. In a related story, this past Saturday was the city's first Lego League Citywide Championship,......

There's something to be said for pausing in the fast-paced environment of New York to truly capture the essence of our city. On the other hand, speeding things up can really give one some perspective on the dynamics of New York. Below is a time-lapse video taken between September 1, 2006 and August 31, 2007. It's of Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan looking east to west, and the video features 4,385 individual photographs taken from......

Some of you looking outside this morning might have had a double take, as fog has rolled in some parts of the city. Janelle sent us this photograph of fog seen over the East River from Dumbo (the Brooklyn Bridge is hidden on the left), but we hear that the view is clear and beautiful looking from Midtown East. As for what kind of fog it is, we're not sure, but it sure is......

This past Saturday anyone with a music playing device was invited to The World Financial Center Plaza by the North Cove Yacht Harbor. Potential participants were told to be there by 4pm, to wear a red, blue, yellow, or green t-shirt, to bring a watch with a second hand and a camera if possible, and to download an mp3 from their site. Sound familiar? It was the fourth Mp3 Experiment organized by Improv Everywhere. Ah,......

Darn - if only we had gone to Uniqlo a couple hours earlier yesterday. We would have seen Mayor Bloomberg join Uniqlo founder (and CEO of parent company Fast Retailing) CEO Tadashi Yanai and Uniqlo USA president Nobuo Domae (we think) in the ribbon cutting ceremony of the Soho store. Yanai said, "Not only is New York City the international fashion capital of the world, but it is also where the original idea for......

Huge Panoramas.dk 360 view of the scene Celebs in really long YouTube clip Eight of the computer winners-- those bastards! Quicktime Timelapse of First Day A Billion Pix in the Full Flickr feed Damn, Steve Jobs is Popular! Pix of Jobs, some celebs, and the packaging on the giveaway computers Did SNL's Bill Hader get some free gear? Johnny Paparazzi seems to have stalked every since celebrity that was reported to be there. Seriously,......

Well, the big day has come and gone, but not without leaving us with some impressive stats (feel free to help us out in the comments with better stats and info!): Number of people who attended: Tens of thousands (our guess) Number of people who won a new Macbook: 15 out of a possible 24 Number of people who didn't: Tens of thousands minus 15 Number of Auctions on eBay selling commemorative t-shirt: Four......

As the public readies to ooh and aah over products at its spacious Fifth Avenue Apple Store, praise is being given to Apple vice president Ron Johnson for his retailing and merchandising innovations. The NY Times looks at his background, which includes Mervyns then 16 years at Target (when Steve Jobs told him Apple "is one of the biggest brands in the world," Johnson told him then the stores should be big) Forrester says......

We love music videos that show pieces of the city. Lucky for us, with all of the bands in this city - many have produced NY-centric videos. Levy has a scandalous one filmed in the Hotel on Rivington. The Cloud Room has a cool one for their song Hey Now Now. And now +/- has some great time lapse videos for their songs, all shot in New York. Check this one out for their song......

We can't get enough of this short time lapse video of Grand Central-- check out the tiny woman standing still at the center of the frame. Good work, DiHard! [Related: did anyone else catch the National Geographic two-hour documentary about Grand Central? It's been playing all week, and trust us-- it's well worth checking out.]......

Gothamist works in a cave... the flourescent lights are off (or covered with black fabric) and the windows, which wallpaper the entire office are covered with blinds. This is all fine and good, if we were bears hibernating for the winter. And we know all too many people who are trapped in a window-less office, cubicle, or just have a crappy view of the restaurant vent with leaking congealed grease sputtering out of it.......