I spotted this one near my office, on Astor Place. They seemed to be doing some testing.
New York city continues to show off its greatness. Last night at Celebrate Brooklyn at Pier 1, DJ Rekha and Red Baraat wowed the mob with amazing bhangra music outdoors as the sun set. Enjoy some average photos and videos shot on my phone. The crowd absolutely went wild to the stunning music (even though the sound aint great on my phone). And yes, that is a guy with a sousaphone (not a tuba) rapping on stage.
I was having dinner and I noticed the lightning. I raced outside and managed to grab one photo before the rain hit. The lightning continued as I had dinner and then I heard a terrible noise. I looked outside and it was hailing like crazy, so I hid away from the windows. I finally peeked out and saw the streets flooding like crazy! All of the white stuff in the street is hail that fell over a matter of a few minutes. What is going on?!
The lightning is still quite bad, and seems to be getting closer. I can only imagine what that flooding is doing to the neighborhood. And this is all after the tornado we had a few weeks ago.
update1 : photos/videos got picked up by Gothamist and Tweeted out by NYDailyNews.
update 2: The Daily News also used it and a screen grab of my video on their article which was picked up and promoted to Yahoo's front page.
update 3: The Wall Street Journal Metropolis blog used the photo.
via flickr.com
Looked outside and just above the Statue of Liberty there were fireworks going off. Grabbed my camera, tried to remember how to shoot fireworks, and just went at it. Got a few good ones in there.
I, along with some of my distinguished peers, will be speaking on a panel at the Creative Commons Salon NYC on March 3, 2010. The theme is "Opening Education" and there will be folks from Flat World Knowledge, Peer 2 Peer University, and finally the educators panel (including me!). It will be in lower Manhattan, from 7-10pm. RSVP info is here.
Hope you can join!