Mr.
Matt
Spangler

“Night Light” - New York City 2001

iPhone photo taking with Tiltshift app from my roof. 6th Avenue looking down towards 14th Street.

There are some solid ideas in this, especially around infrastructure initiatives for charging etc…but why the FUCK is New York not on this list. Mr. Bloomberg, I hope you have a good answer for this.

via electricpower:

In Copenhagen, 14 of World’s Biggest Cities Commit to EVs

Fourteen of the world’s largest cities agreed to take steps over the coming year to make their cities more electric vehicle-friendly. The announcement was made at the ‘Climate Summit for Mayors’, which is being held alongside the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

Half the world’s population lives in cities that account for more than two-thirds of carbon emissions. And as California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger made the case in Copenhagen on Tuesday at the Climate Summit for Mayors during the UN COP15 climate summit cities and other sub-national units of government will play a critical role in implementing the kind of innovative solutions necessary to clean up our transportation infrastructure in a carbon-constrained world. In that vein, a group of fourteen of the world’s largest cities took a step in that direction in Copenhagen on Wednesday.

• Bogota
• Buenos Aires
• Chicago
• Copenhagen
• Delhi
• Hong Kong
• Houston
• London
• Los Angeles
• Mexico City
• Toronto
• Sao Paulo
• Seoul
• Sydney

Gas 2.0

via nevver:

Barbara Kruger at Lever House

27 years ago.  Amazing to think Battery Park was just an open wheat field.

via katiebakes:

askjerves:

battery park wheatfield, 1982

Billy Joel’s “Last Play at Shea”

I’ll admit I’m a fan of Billy Joel.  Something about his music defines the city for a certain period of time and a certain kind of person.  The working class appeal of his music always connected with me.

The tickets were a gift from my ex-girlfriend Danielle and it was a concert that I’ll never forget in all of its cheesy glory.  I told my friend Anthony after it was like a middle age woodstock for white people.  Everyone in the crowd was so happy.  Most of the people in our section hugged at least once.  He apologized to the crowd that it wasn’t actually the “Last Play” because he added a second show, but I preferred the guests he had this night.

Tony Bennett sang New York State of Mind

John Mayer played guitar on Times to Remember

John Cougar Mellancamp played Pink Houses

and my personal favorite…Don Henley played Boys of Summer