NYC

New York City from a $800 drone by Richard

To make this incredible 720p at 120 fps video over NYC, you needed a load of creativity and knowledge, together with 3 gadgets:

  1. DJI PHANTOM QUADCOPTER - $ 800
  2. Zenmuse H3-2D 2-axis GoPro Gimbal Cam Mount - $ 700
  3. HERO3: Black Edition - $ 400

Which means that for under $ 2000, you can shoot new angles and anywhere, without a boom. This with a good accuracy and mobility, and this is just the beginning... 

Annie Leibovitz’s house by Richard

If you like to get a nice house on Manhattan with some cultural feelings and are willing to spend $ 30 million, well purchase Annie’s house. Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz is one of the best American portrait photographer ever. 

Sadly, she is selling her highly personalized West Village compound she created for herself, her family, and her photography. 

The 10,000-square-foot home, which was originally listed in December, is comprised of three townhouses at the corner of New York's West 11th and Greenwich streets and surrounded by a private garden. Leibovitz bought the first two homes in 2002 and the third a year later. Since then, she's renovated and connected all three homes, which have seven bedrooms and 13 wood-burning fireplaces among them. Two of them now serve as living quarters; the third hosts a photo studio with its own kitchen and reception area.

When I lived and works as a photographer in NY, I lived at the next intersection on Bank St., 100 m away.

who needs a payphone by Richard

Reinventing the payphone is not only about a sleeker design or a digital display, it is about radically re-imagining a public service.

Recently in the U.S. there were numerous interesting designs at the New York City's Reinvent Payphones competition, and NYFi was selected in the NYC's Payphones challenge.

NYFi is an interactive portal to public information, goods, and services, a hub for free wireless internet access, and an open infrastructure for future applications. Even if each NYFi hub would dish out free WiFi and off load off of the cellular network, display ads in a convenient way and works as bus ticket machines, Muni Meters, MetroCard distributors…

Who needs a payphone in NYC today, when the global cellular penetration reached 91% and mobile subscriptions is around 6.4 billion?