folksongs for the five points
Been a bit behind on my Gothamist reading (but only by a few days, which is actually better than my usual average, as far as keeping up with the RSS feeds goes), so maybe some of you have seen this already:
This is so much cooler than your average maps mashup! The Tenement Museum has put together an amazing soundmap of the Lower East Side– you position the white circles over the various colored dots to create a mix of up to five sound streams. They’ve got ambient noise (fire hydrants, traffic, music from ice cream vans), folk music, and interviews with people on the streets. It’s compulsively fun to play with– probably best to tell your boss that you’ve got a doctor’s appointment and take your laptop to Starbucks– because you’ll be on this site for at least an hour.
That is the bomb.
Speaking of RSS feeds, if you’re a Gmail user, you can now get them in a clips bar at the top of your Inbox. Maybe I’ll keep up with Gothamist a little better now.
(If you’re not a Gmail user yet, let me know and I’ll send you one of the one frillion invites they’ve given me.)
