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This Summer, Elastic City (one of my recently launched projects), is giving walks throughout New York City. But these are not your typical tourist walks. These walks are led by artists. Todd Shalom, the founder of Elastic City, realized the idea while suffering from altitude sickness in Cusco, Peru.

The walks intend to make its audience active participants in an ongoing poetic exchange with the places we live in and visit. Artists are commissioned by Elastic City to create their own walks. These walks tend to focus less on providing factual information and more on heightening our awareness, exploring our senses and making new group rituals in dialogue with public space in the city.

The walks have been featured in TimeoutNY, WNYC, Wallstreet Journal, Gothamist, and other publications.

To listen Todd talk about the walks on WNYC, click here, or hit play on the player below

Browse the walks listing and rediscover New York.

People are lining up to meet Sarah Palin. Wondering why? Watch this video from Palin’s fans.
(thanks John Schimmel and Fleeta for the video and article link)

Even though these people think her policies are good, there are many others that don’t agree with Sarah Palin.

Read this great article for more on that…

Inspired by AJ Jacob’s experiment in outsourcing, I looked into outsourcing. But AJ Jacobs has actually done more than just outsource his life. He x-plains in the video below

Watch on TED.com

[via Gizmodo (via Neatorama, {via Make: Online}) ]

Austrian composer Peter Ablinger digitized a recording of a child speaking and then programmed a mechanical piano to replicate the sounds. The video above is in German, but Hack a Day has provided a translation:

I break down this phonography, meaning a recording of something the voice, in this case -, in individual pixels, one can say. And if I have the possibility of a rendering in a fairly high resolution (and that I only get with a mechanical piano), then I in fact restore some kind of continuity. Therefore, with a little practice, or help or subtitling, we actually can hear a human voice in a piano sound.

The content of the speech is taken from the Proclamation of the European Environmental Criminal Court at World Venice Forum 2009.

Composer’s Webpage

Small Head Sale

Originally uploaded by jakilevy.

head hunters, pay attention. small heads for sale

I just submitted a few of my cycling photos to this contest to support Transportation Alternatives

Submit your cycling photos if you’ve got ‘em!

[via StreetsBlog]

Bicycle and pedestrian advocates need high quality images of biking and walking to better communicate their work. The Alliance is building a Biking & Walking Advocacy Library that will provide free high quality images of biking and walking to Alliance organizations, and we need your help!

Support grassroots advocacy by submitting your best biking and walking photos for use in the Alliance’s photo library, and enter the People Powered Movement Photo Contest.

You could win an all-expense paid bike trip to Tuscany and a year’s supply of Clif Bars. Two runners-up will win great new commuter bikes – a brand new Breezer Uptown 8 or a Dahon folding commuter. There are also first, second, and third place prizes in each of seven categories: Biking, Walking, Biking and Walking, Complete Streets, Advocates in Action, Youth, Inspirational.

• All Photographers welcome!
• Submit up to 20 images in 7 categories
• Winning images will be published in the 2010 March/April issue of Momentum Magazine
• Just for entering, you can receive a trial subscription to Momentum Magazine and Bicycle Times Magazine
• Prizes totaling $10,000

Submit your photos here