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A family rides the subway from Union Square to Coney Island in New York in 1987
Enjoy the sights and the graffitti as Nelson, photographer Liz Lizard and her family, Michael Musto and Albert Crudo take the subway from Union Square to Con...
We sat down with writer/director @heyCasperKelly in a virtual chatroom—read the discussion in our latest post:
Overhead Compartment is a culture & design blog with shifting contents. We're dedicated to curating & showcasing the most refined phantasmagoria of contemporary art, aesthetics & society.
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we're talking with the creator of Too Many Cooks for the next 20 minutes, join in here: http://roomchat.co/6817149
What do you think about the Chinatown bus?
Overhead Compartment is a culture & design blog with shifting contents. We're dedicated to curating & showcasing the most refined phantasmagoria of contemporary art, aesthetics & society.
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Take some time during your corporate lunch break to catch up on the lastest banter from Alan Resnick
Overhead Compartment is a culture & design blog with shifting contents. We're dedicated to curating & showcasing the most refined phantasmagoria of contemporary art, aesthetics & society.
Overhead Compartment interviews Werner Twertzog
Overhead Compartment is a culture & design blog with shifting contents. We're dedicated to curating & showcasing the most refined phantasmagoria of contemporary art, aesthetics & society.
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Remember Dr. Katz? We do—and we want to remind you with GIFs.
Overhead Compartment is a culture & design blog with shifting contents. We're dedicated to curating & showcasing the most refined phantasmagoria of contemporary art, aesthetics & society.
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Overhead Compartment is a culture & design blog with shifting contents. We're dedicated to curating & showcasing the most refined phantasmagoria of contemporary art, aesthetics & society.
We've pulled together a small collection of Color Pornography for your Sunday afternoon perusal.
Overhead Compartment is a culture & design blog with shifting contents. We're dedicated to curating & showcasing the most refined phantasmagoria of contemporary art, aesthetics & society.
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Hiroshi Kawano's digital art from the 1960s
Overhead Compartment is a culture & design blog with shifting contents. We're dedicated to curating & showcasing the most refined phantasmagoria of contemporary art, aesthetics & society.
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Everything you need to know about Crime Blood Kingdom
Overhead Compartment is a culture & design blog with shifting contents. We're dedicated to curating & showcasing the most refined phantasmagoria of contemporary art, aesthetics & society.
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Life in New York without a Smartphone
Overhead Compartment is a culture & design blog with shifting contents. We're dedicated to curating & showcasing the most refined phantasmagoria of contemporary art, aesthetics & society.
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"An 11 year old writing BEAVIS & BUTTHEAD fan fiction into the SYSTEM.INI file was not one of the use cases accounted for by the team at Microsoft."
Overhead Compartment is a culture & design blog with shifting contents. We're dedicated to curating & showcasing the most refined phantasmagoria of contemporary art, aesthetics & society.
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The video your 6th grade science teacher didn't want you to see.
Overhead Compartment is a culture & design blog with shifting contents. We're dedicated to curating & showcasing the most refined phantasmagoria of contemporary art, aesthetics & society.
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Our latest alien op-ed piece just came out of the microwave.
Overhead Compartment is a culture & design blog with shifting contents. We're dedicated to curating & showcasing the most refined phantasmagoria of contemporary art, aesthetics & society.
Stretch out and wait with Mexico City-based illustrator/graffiti artist Smithe.
Overhead Compartment is a culture & design blog with shifting contents. We're dedicated to curating & showcasing the most refined phantasmagoria of contemporary art, aesthetics & society.
I Thought All Headlines Were The Same Until What I Did After I Read This Open Letter From Ernest Hemingway To Upworthy That You Need To See Changed Everything
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Get ready...
An interactive tourist guide to New Amsterdam
Some DIY lego models to get our needle back in the groove.
I love the challenge of building something fresh and unique with Lego. And when I come up with something I’m proud of, I’m happy to share the model files with fellow builders.
Even the G decided to show up.
For the pedantic rail enthusiasts, the definition of a subway used here is a "network containing high capacity grade-separated passenger rail transit lines which run frequently, serve an urban core, and are underground for at least part of their downtown route." For the rest of you, the definition i...
11-Minute Interview With Stanley Kubrick Discussing 'Barry Lyndon,' 'The Shining' & 'Full Metal Jacket'
You can see right up their fuselage.
moments before landing, the artist freezes the mechanical beasts in time just as they enter perpendicular to the camera’s frame.
Reference material for all your New York City transit scrapbooking.
"Distaste for the song...is what I feel."
it's gonna be a long day....
Channel 6 brings us a taste of air travel
A personalized channel of videos posted to Vine.
John Schabel’s voyeuristic portraits of people in airplanes
Portraits from the window seat: the pensive expressions of John Schabel’s Passengerswritten by Claudio RiveraThat wistful moment just before takeoff—the cabin is still with apprehension, hushed excitement, the quiet shuffle of handheld diversions, an occasional release from consciousness. John Schab...
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To warm you in your efficiency pod on this wintry day, while everyone else is reportedly transfixed by a child's ball game programme on their television sets:
Planning on spending a lot of lonely nights with just ramen and your phone to keep you company? Well Daisuke Nagatomo and Minnie Jan of MisoSoupDesign have just the thing.
Scroll through some sound via It's Nice That
A subterranean window to Europe.
This is an instructional video for the St. Petersburg Metro from the 70's or 80's.
Featuring: "The Bride and the Bachelors: Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Johns"
A Barbican season celebrating the works and influence of Marcel Duchamp. Click here for trailer...
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