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“It’s like architecture, but it’s smaller and I can touch it and it’s done in an hour – as opposed to a building which take seven years, and then it gets cancelled.”
By day, Joe Nocella works in a tall, 1950s building in midtown Manhattan for architecture giant HOK, creating virtual models of construction projects. By night, and on weekends, he repairs to his small, unheated shop, 718 Cyclery, on the edge of Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighbourhood, where he builds real bikes – involving equally demanding schedules, clients and just-in-time supply-chain co-ordination. Not to mention the occasional punter coming through the door with a dusty mountain bike that hasn’t seen the light of day in years.
Continue Reading: FT.com / Pursuits – Bike building … with the FT.
Future Journalism Project — Frank Pasquale ponders how the internet is….
Frank Pasquale ponders how the internet is increasingly converging through Facebook, Google and Apple, and wonders what values drive their decision making.
Photo: Monopoly — Social Media Edition via Emilie Ogez, Flickr/Creative Commons.
via Vimeo
In February 2011, the five times world champions Fred Fugen and Vince Reffett from Soul Flyers were invited to Melbourne to provide advanced 3D coaching to some of Australia’s leading Skydive athlete talent.
Shot on a GoPro
Produced: “Betty Wants In”
bettywantsin.com
Paul Mawhinney was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Over the years he has amassed what has become the world’s largest record collection. Due to health issues and a struggling record industry Paul is being forced to sell his collection.
This is the story of a man and his records. I hope you enjoy it.
The vast majority of the world’s books, music, films, television and art, you will never see. It’s just numbers.
The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We’re All Going To Miss Almost Everything : Monkey See : NPR.
