Trevor Filter's Blog

Trevor Filter writes about the internet, design, and life in New York, NY.

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at San Francisco, CA

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at The Mission District

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at Pier 34

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“Electronic Superhighway,” by Nam June Paik (at National Portrait Gallery)

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New York City Coffee Map

Featuring the best coffee at every subway station in Manhattan, from Butterfruit Labs.

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With our machines, we are augmented humans and prosthetic gods, though we’re remarkably blasé about that fact, like anything we’re used to. Take away our tools, the argument goes, and we’re likely stupider than our friend from the early twentieth century, who has a longer attention span, may read and write Latin, and does arithmetic faster.

“If a Time Traveller Saw a Smartphone” at The New Yorker

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Shi Da Night Market—home to the best pork belly buns on Planet Earth (at 藍家割包)

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LGA via Brooklyn Bridge (at Brooklyn Bridge)

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at High Line

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at High Line

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at High Line

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Best yet #betteroutthanin

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A modern concerto. Ever the same, ever changing. Moving. Exciting. Always something new. Pleasurable. Memorable.

(via Bowery Boogie)

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Correction, July 23, 2013: An earlier version of the Carlos Danger Name Generator suggested incorrectly that the Carlos Danger Name for Anthony Weiner is Armando Catastrophe. The Carlos Danger Name for Anthony Weiner is Carlos Danger.

Correction notice on Slate’s Carlos Danger Name Generator.

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“Every Day,” by Apple

This is an amazing ad—not for production value, nor because of the mindblowing fact quoted at the end, but because it shows exactly what Apple’s customers are doing with their iPhones. Even though this ad may star actors, it’s a documentary.

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Google Street View Hyperlapse, by Teehan+Lax Labs

If someone ever thought that someday, humans would be able to drag a camera lens around the earth at any angle; be able to generate on-demand time lapse videos, bound only to roads and a pre-determined point in time; well, they would have been crazy.

But, here we are: Hyperlapse, a beautifully interesting video project by Teehan+Lax Labs.

This is internet produsage at its finest—users unlocking their own “stories” from a vast library of open content originally intended for a far more practical application. Jon Lax has a nice post on how the project came together.

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Filmography 2012

Gen Ip returns for the third year in a row with an edited collection of curated movie goodness—an elegant tribute to the stories told on film over the past twelve months. (For reference: the full list of this year’s movies, and the compilations from 2011 and 2010.)

Although it seems like Cloud Atlas’s Tom Hanks narrates most of the dramatic clips, the end result is uniquely sentimental... I'm starting to look forward to this every year.