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I heard the news today, oh boy…
Image courtesy of eggman. Coney Island’s Astroland has officially closed this past Sunday, September 7th, 2008, after 46 years of operation. Seems it has been bought up by a developer for $30 million,...
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New York City during the 1970s as captured on film is possibly by favorite aesthetic of all time, outside of the black and white ads in Filmfax. There’s just something so beautiful about the filth, the...
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Nighthawks (1981)
I love movies that feature New York City during the late 70s and early 80s, they capture a space on celluloid that I want to constantly remind myself existed once upon a time. And after watching The...
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Of Punks, Pimps and C.H.U.D.s: Gentrification in NYC as told by 1980s film
Disclaimer: This is a “media-enhanced” version of a paper I wrote in graduate school for an American Studies course back in 2002. And while I recognize it is both rough and theoretically meager at...
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NY, NY: A Day in NY (1957)
From the UBUWEB feed of plenty I just happened upon this short film by Francis Thompson, which might be what The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) would have looked like if it was filmed in Manhattan in...
View ArticleDoes life imitate the movies?
Absolutely, this random clip from Death Wish (1974) I stumbled upon on YouTube is entirely interchangeable with my memory of the infamous NYC subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz. The momentum to clean-up...
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Citizen Groom
Why do I like returning to NYC for events like CUNY WordcampEd? Well, for one I get treated like the Citizen Kane of Educational Technology which ain’t no small thing. CUNY is currently constructing...
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I Bleed CUNY Blood
Well, this past Friday was a real blast for me on many levels. First, I returned CUNY which was my old stomping ground for over 10 years, a place where I met some amazing people (many of whom are still...
View ArticleThe Crazies Come Out at Night
Every time I head into Manhattan—whether via train, tunnel, or glider—I can’t help but think that I am entering the the Manhattan Island penitentiary imagined so famously in John Carpenter’s...
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LIRR from Jamaica to Penn Station
I grew up in Baldwin, Long Island which is a 30-minute train ride to Manhattan. I’ve ridden the LIRR to and from NYC’s Penn Stations innumerable times. And still to this day I remain mesmerized by the...
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Course Mangement Systems as the Gentrification of EdTech
Image thanks to Lulu Vision Here at UMW we have been going through a CMS Review. It has been a pretty interesting project, and while I only tangentially involved, I have been following the basic...
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Back in the USSA
I’m sitting in Frankfurt’s airport after a pretty intense two-week trip back to the good ole USA. My post title references the fact that as I was entering the country around Halloween the Mueller...
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