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NYC Archives * NY French Geek http://www.nyfrenchgeek.com/tag/nyc/ Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:55:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 12884297 MADAME LEGO http://www.nyfrenchgeek.com/2011/02/madame-lego/ Wed, 09 Feb 2011 02:32:50 +0000 http://www.nyfrenchgeek.com/2011/02/madame-lego/

As A true Geekette and street art lover, I could resist posting this NYC discovery : Lego and street art mixed together.

It all started yesterday when I went to the Social Media Week kickoff Party at the NY Public Library,  when i saw this on the wall:

and after a little research I found out that there was many like this spread all over the city:

Central Park:

It is actually a global project and featured in many cities such as Tel aviv, Berlin, Amsterdam, and much more.

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As A true Geekette and street art lover, I could resist posting this NYC discovery : Lego and street art mixed together.

It all started yesterday when I went to the Social Media Week kickoff Party at the NY Public Library,  when i saw this on the wall:

and after a little research I found out that there was many like this spread all over the city:

Central Park:

It is actually a global project and featured in many cities such as Tel aviv, Berlin, Amsterdam, and much more.

I have no idea who is behind it but I think it’s pretty cool

Visit their site http://www.dispatchwork.info/


Madame Lolo

Some young couples who are facing different health problem, these individuals can buy remedies from the Web without any problem. Unconditionally, one of the wonderful place where buyers can purchase medicines is Internet. One of the best treatment for inability to get or keep an hard-on is Viagra. Today sundry articles were published about viagra substitute. You may have heard about “where to buy viagra“. Various companies describe it as “how to get viagra“. Sure, for a lot of guys, bringing up the problem in the first place is the toughest step. The most common perhaps serious side effects of such medications like Viagra is headache. Contact your doc if you have any dangerous side effect that does not go away. The much significant point make sure that when you buy medicines like Viagra online, you get real preparation. Some of the web-sites offer really hazardous fakes.

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A New York, Quand il Neige, il Neige Vraiment ! http://www.nyfrenchgeek.com/2010/12/a-new-york-quand-il-neige-il-neige-vraiment/ Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:25:08 +0000 http://www.nyfrenchgeek.com/2010/12/a-new-york-quand-il-neige-il-neige-vraiment/

Si nous avons récemment connu en France des chutes de neige d’une rare intensité, New York et sa région ont été aussi durant les derniers 48h particulièrement bien doté de ce côté la. Trouvé sur YouTube, 80cm de poudreuse en moins de 24h.

Le photographe a shooté sa terrasse tous les 5′ pour faire ce petit film de 40 secondes, très impressionnant je trouve :

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Si nous avons récemment connu en France des chutes de neige d’une rare intensité, New York et sa région ont été aussi durant les derniers 48h particulièrement bien doté de ce côté la. Trouvé sur YouTube, 80cm de poudreuse en moins de 24h.

Le photographe a shooté sa terrasse tous les 5′ pour faire ce petit film de 40 secondes, très impressionnant je trouve :

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Some young couples who are facing various health problem, these individuals can buy remedies from the Web without any problem. Unconditionally, one of the wonderful place where buyers can purchase medicines is Internet. One of the best treatment for failure to get or keep an erection is Viagra. Today sundry articles were published about viagra substitute. You may have heard about “where to buy viagra“. Various companies describe it as “how to get viagra“. Sure, for a lot of guys, bringing up the problem in the first place is the toughest step. The most common potentially serious side effects of such medications like Viagra is headache. Contact your physician if you have any dangerous side effect that does not go away. The highly great point make sure that when you buy medicines like Viagra online, you get real remedy. Some of the web-sites offer really hazardous fakes.

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Prochain AperiGeek : Mercredi 1er Decembre http://www.nyfrenchgeek.com/2010/11/prochain-aperigeek-mercredi-1er-decembre/ Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:52:04 +0000 http://www.nyfrenchgeek.com/?p=582

See you all in December ! As usual RSVP on our facebook page or just tweet it  !

Implementing the Facebook deal for the first time at the Bubble Lounge: check-in at The Bubble Lounge NY and une Flûte de Champagne Couche Zero Dosage, importé par le Bubble Lounge vous sera offerte !!!

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See you all in December ! As usual RSVP on our facebook page or just tweet it  !

Implementing the Facebook deal for the first time at the Bubble Lounge: check-in at The Bubble Lounge NY and une Flûte de Champagne Couche Zero Dosage, importé par le Bubble Lounge vous sera offerte !!!

Some young couples who are facing varied health problem, these individuals can buy remedies from the Web without any problem. Unconditionally, one of the wonderful place where buyers can purchase medicines is Internet. One of the best treatment for failure to get or keep an hard-on is Viagra. Today sundry articles were published about viagra substitute. You may have heard about “where to buy viagra“. Various companies describe it as “how to get viagra“. Sure, for a lot of guys, bringing up the problem in the first place is the toughest step. The most common potentially serious side effects of such medications like Viagra is headache. Contact your doc if you have any dangerous side effect that does not go away. The so important point make sure that when you buy medicines like Viagra online, you get real drug. Some of the web-sites offer really hazardous fakes.

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Why New York has become a growing hub for startups ? http://www.nyfrenchgeek.com/2010/11/why-new-york-has-become-a-growing-hub-for-startups/ Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:43:19 +0000 http://www.nyfrenchgeek.com/?p=547

Very interesting article today in the Financial Times about why New York has become a growing hub for technology startup companies ? by Steven Johnson.

“Some of the most emulated web companies, such as the gossip site Gawker; location-based social media site Foursquare; the personal health network Everyday Health; and Etsy, a marketplace for handcrafted goods, have originated in Manhattan and Brooklyn over the past five years. For the first time in nearly a half century, since the heyday of Bell Labs (the research offshoot of AT&T), New York has become a world leader in high-tech

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Very interesting article today in the Financial Times about why New York has become a growing hub for technology startup companies ? by Steven Johnson.

“Some of the most emulated web companies, such as the gossip site Gawker; location-based social media site Foursquare; the personal health network Everyday Health; and Etsy, a marketplace for handcrafted goods, have originated in Manhattan and Brooklyn over the past five years. For the first time in nearly a half century, since the heyday of Bell Labs (the research offshoot of AT&T), New York has become a world leader in high-tech innovation.

Full article :

Lightning in a bottle

By Steven Johnson

Published: October 30 2010 00:12 | Last updated: October 30 2010 00:12

In late 2005, I was working on the closing chapters of a book about the 1854 cholera outbreak in London and the brilliant map generated by the physician John Snow that ultimately solved the mystery of cholera’s waterborne nature. I was writing about London from my home on the south side of Brooklyn’s Park Slope, part of what is often called “Brownstone Brooklyn”, a hub of rapidly gentrifying New York City neighbourhoods where many writers, professional and aspiring, had settled. Some of those writers had begun blogging about their communities, writing about local real-estate gossip and school-board elections and crime data, in blogs such as Brownstoner and Only The Blog Knows Brooklyn.

I was fascinated by the way those local bloggers were covering their communities: they were writing on a block-by-block scale that closely matched the experience of actually living in a city neighbourhood, with a “granularity” – that fine level of detail you get when you zoom in on a map – that a big city newspaper (with its rather wider map) could never hope to achieve. I grew so fascinated, in fact, that they became my primary procrastination device as I was writing my book. Each morning, before crafting some new sentences about the neighbourhoods of Victorian London, I would linger on the latest blog posts about my own.

Somehow, in the collision between these two different spaces, a new idea began to take shape in my mind, prodded along by the news that Google had recently opened up its mapping software to outside developers. Perhaps, I thought, someone could create a site that would take all these different local voices and literally put them on a map, and show you all the conversations that were happening about places on your block, or in your postcode. A few months after the idea first occurred to me, I mentioned it to two friends – a film producer and a screenwriter – and they liked it enough to offer some seed capital to build a prototype. I found a few talented collaborators who turned my hunch into something much more substantial, and, by the autumn of 2006, we had a start-up with employees and a beta version of our site online at www.outside.in. Four years later, more than 100 news organisations, including CNN, rely on our platform for neighbourhood-level news.

An image from an animation commissioned to accompany the publication of Steven Johnson’s book ‘Where Good Ideas Come From’. For the full animation seestevenberlinjohnson.com

My experience in starting outside.in was hardly unusual. It turned out that all around me in New York City, new web start-ups were flourishing. Just a month ago, a study by market research firm CB Insights declared that New York has overtaken the original East Coast technology hub, Boston, in the amount of venture capital and early-stage investment flowing into internet companies, leaving it second only to Silicon Valley in the US rankings.

Some of the most emulated web companies, such as the gossip site Gawker; location-based social media site Foursquare; the personal health network Everyday Health; and Etsy, a marketplace for handcrafted goods, have originated in Manhattan and Brooklyn over the past five years. For the first time in nearly a half century, since the heyday of Bell Labs (the research offshoot of AT&T), New York has become a world leader in high-tech innovation.

The musician and artist Brian Eno coined the odd but apt word “scenius” to describe the unusual pockets of group creativity and invention that emerge in certain intellectual or artistic scenes: philosophers in 18th-century Scotland; Parisian artists and intellectuals in the 1920s. In Eno’s words, scenius is “the communal form of the concept of the genius.” New York hasn’t yet reached those heights in terms of internet innovation, but clearly something powerful has happened. There is genuine digital-age scenius on its streets. This is good news for my city, of course, but it’s also an important case study for any city that wishes to encourage innovative business. How did New York pull it off?

There are no easy answers. Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired magazine and author of What Technology Wants (2010), writes in the book: “The serendipitous ingredients for scenius are hard to control. They depend on the presence of the right early pioneers. A place that is open, but not too open. A buffer that is tolerant of outlaws. And some flash of excitement to kick off the virtuous circle. You just can’t order this.”

And yet, even if scenius is lightning in a bottle, there are surely some practices that make you more likely to capture the lightning when it does strike. In an age of public sector austerity on both sides of the Atlantic the good news is that most of them don’t involve massive top-down government spending. (Although, in New York’s case, it does help to have a tech-geek entrepreneur as mayor, in the form of billionaireMichael Bloomberg.)

A vibrant start-up culture requires a healthy community of venture capital firms willing to back risky ideas. New York has a number of gifted venture and angel investors, led by Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham at Union Square Ventures, which supports a number of the city’s web start-ups including outside.in. But investors need ideas perhaps more than ideas need investors, particularly in an age when starting a web business is amazingly cheap. So the real question is: how did New York find itself generating so many interesting ideas?

Scenius may fuel commercial ventures, but its roots often lie outside the marketplace. One secret to New York’s technological success lies in the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), a two-year graduate course at New York University. In spite of its focus on technology, the ITP is nonetheless based in the Tisch School of the Arts, and its official description emphasises an “imaginative use of communications technologies.”

Founded by the visionary scholar Red Burns, who created the programme in the late 1970s, the faculty includes high-profile new media guru Clay Shirky. The author of Here Comes Everybody (2008) – a book that outlines how technology allows us to organise without the need for formal organisations – is also mentor to countless aspiring web entrepreneurs. ITP graduates have gone on to found or work for hundreds of startups in the area. Dennis Crowley, Foursquare’s founder, co-created the first draft of the location-based social network – a service called Dodgeball, eventually sold to Google – while he was still a student at ITP in 2000. My two early collaborators on outside.in, John Geraci and Cory Forsyth, had both been at ITP.

The physical density of the city also encourages innovation. Many start-ups, both now and during the first, late-1990s internet boom, share offices. This creates informal networks of influence, where ideas can pass from one company to the other over casual conversation at the espresso machine or water cooler. When we started outside.in, we shared a Brooklyn office with a documentary film company for its first year of existence. Today, our much larger office in Manhattan also houses three other smaller start-ups working on unrelated projects. By crowding together, we increase the likelihood of interesting ideas or talents crossing the companies’ borders. The proximity also helps to counter the natural volatility of start-ups: in outside.in’s early days, we “borrowed” a few talented employees from the documentary film company, which was temporarily downsizing. When the projects picked up again, some of those employees moved back. Others had found a new calling in the web world and stayed with us.

Economists have a telling phrase for the kind of sharing that happens in these densely populated environments: “information spillover.” When you share a civic culture with millions of people, good ideas have a tendency to flow from mind to mind, even when their creators try to keep them secret.

All of these spaces – the graduate schools, the co-working offices, the media environments – exhibit the final trait that has been key to New York’s technological success: its diversity. A number of studies have established an essential connection between diversity and innovation. One such study, by the Stanford Business School professor Martin Ruef, interviewed 766 graduates of the school who had gone on to have entrepreneurial careers. Ruef was interested in the diversity of professions and disciplines, not of race or sexual orientation. He created an elaborate system for scoring innovation based on a combination of factors: the introduction of new products, say, or the filing of trademarks and patents. Then he tracked each graduate’s social network – not just the number of acquaintances but the kind of acquaintances they had. Some graduates had large social networks that were clustered within their organisation; others had small insular groups dominated by friends and family. Some had wide-ranging connections outside their inner circle of friends and colleagues.

Ruef discovered that the most creative individuals consistently had broad social networks that extended outside their organisation and involved people from various fields of expertise. In groups united by shared values and long-term familiarity, conformity and convention tended to dampen any potential creative sparks. The limited reach of the network meant that concepts from the outside rarely entered the entrepreneur’s consciousness. But the entrepreneurs who built bridges outside their “islands,” as Ruef called them, were able to borrow or co-opt new ideas from these external environments.

As a diverse city that supports countless industries and maverick interests, New York excels at creating those eclectic networks. Subcultures and small businesses generate ideas and skills that inevitably diffuse through society, influencing other groups. As the sociologist Claude Fischer put it in an influential essay on subcultures published in 1975, “The larger the town, the more likely it is to contain, in meaningful numbers and unity, drug addicts, radicals, intellectuals, ‘swingers’, health-food faddists, or whatever; and the more likely they are to influence (as well as offend) the conventional center of the society.”

Those unusual influences leak out into the business world, and shape the ideas – and the personnel – of startups. The same pattern can be found in the last great flowering of high-tech scenius in Silicon Valley, which was shaped as much by the counterculture that thrived in the San Francisco Bay Area as it was by the engineering prowess of Stanford University.

That diversity shows in the kinds of technology companies New York has produced. They are not just tech-for-tech’s-sake projects. Instead, they use software to enhance other passions: parenting, crafts, gossip, gameplay, health, and so on. They use technology in clever ways, but they are fundamentally about something else. I think that quality derives from their metropolitan roots, from the scenius of a big city. It is no accident that the slogan of Meetup, the éminence grise of New York start-ups, which allows groups of people with shared interests to organise face-to-face meetings, is “using the Internet to get off the Internet”. You can’t stay at home, staring at a screen all night, when there’s so much happening on your doorstep.

We hear a great deal about the social virtues of diversity and multiculturalism; we’re reminded constantly that we’ll be better and more tolerant human beings if we open ourselves up to different perspectives. But approaching the virtues of diversity from this perspective of its impact on business innovation suggests that exposing yourself to a wide range of perspectives and fields of expertise, and creating environments where those different perspectives can clash and share resources, creates as much economic value as it does social or aesthetic value.

This is related to the essential argument that sociologist Richard Florida makes for the economic importance of cultural creatives, most notably in his 2002 book, The Rise Of The Creative Class. Vibrant music scenes or poetry salons doesn’t just make your city more colourful and quirky; they create economic capital as well as cultural capital, precisely because the diversity of views and expressions shapes the minds of entrepreneurs and investors. Good ideas need marketplaces and investors to support their growth into mature businesses, but they also need environments that help trigger those original ideas in the first place.

Living in a society where we encounter different backgrounds and professions in our daily routines makes for a more tolerant society; it also makes us smarter, more original in the ideas we have – and in the companies we create.

‘Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation’ (Allen Lane, £20), by Steven Johnson, was published earlier this month. Johnson will be giving a free public lecture at the LSE on Tuesday November 2 at 6.30pm. Details at www.lse.ac.uk.

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Flying Over Manhattan http://www.nyfrenchgeek.com/2010/10/flying-over-manhattan/ Tue, 26 Oct 2010 01:54:29 +0000 http://www.nyfrenchgeek.com/2010/10/flying-over-manhattan/


I was lucky to be seated on the perfect side of the plane with my point and shoot camera within reach. The image is a bit shaky, backlight disturbing for a couple of minutes but overall, a great view over NYC.

Few minutes of post-editing on iMovie (yes- I’m learning) and below the result.

Florian Seroussi’s Blog

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I was lucky to be seated on the perfect side of the plane with my point and shoot camera within reach. The image is a bit shaky, backlight disturbing for a couple of minutes but overall, a great view over NYC.

Few minutes of post-editing on iMovie (yes- I’m learning) and below the result.

Florian Seroussi’s Blog

Some young couples who are facing varied soundness problem, these individuals can buy remedies from the Web without any problem. Unconditionally, one of the wonderful place where buyers can purchase medicines is Internet. One of the best treatment for inability to get or keep an erection is Viagra. Today sundry articles were published about viagra substitute. You may have heard about “where to buy viagra“. Various companies describe it as “how to get viagra“. Sure, for a lot of guys, bringing up the problem in the first place is the toughest step. The most common potentially serious side effects of such medications like Viagra is headache. Contact your doc if you have any dangerous side effect that does not go away. The very great point make sure that when you buy medicines like Viagra online, you get real remedy. Some of the web-sites offer really hazardous fakes.

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Walk on the West Side http://www.nyfrenchgeek.com/2010/10/walk-on-the-west-side-2/ Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:35:46 +0000 http://www.nyfrenchgeek.com/2010/10/walk-on-the-west-side-2/

On a bright but chilly sunday afternoon, I decided to take a walk on the West side of the city , and here is my West Side Story in pictures with some amazing Street Art characters.

Mickey loves NY
WWest Side Ride
@grenadeboyjc2
One of those day
Elle
Che and Mussolini
Beautiful Brunette
Colors on the Corner
Love this
U just got BrainWashed
MBW invasion in meatpacking
BEAU
Wall Kicks
Gay Paris
IMG_1083
Monsieur Moustache
Through Tears the Pain
Art is Over indeed MBW
Doggy Style
Monsieur Alec
Madonna
Outie
Lapin aux Chiottes
She Ain't Nothing to Mess With
Bright Drips, Big City
Dr Spock
IMG_1094
DickChick
IMG_1097
Hakula / Kardashian
IMG_1099
IMG_1100
IMG_1101
Mussolini
Hello
No!
Even Cops stick on the Block
'Sup
Parking Sign
Blowing All Up
Red Lights District
chickenhead
Stop in the West Village
IMG_1136
IMG_1137
Village Paris in NYC
Sure & Faust
IMG_1144
IMG_1145
Matching Vespa with the House
Str8 From the Sewer
The Dogs are Watching
Freeze
Love Me in Blue
IMG_1157
Nobody Cares
IMG_1176


Madame Lolo

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On a bright but chilly sunday afternoon, I decided to take a walk on the West side of the city , and here is my West Side Story in pictures with some amazing Street Art characters.

Mickey loves NY
WWest Side Ride
@grenadeboyjc2
One of those day
Elle
Che and Mussolini
Beautiful Brunette
Colors on the Corner
Love this
U just got BrainWashed
MBW invasion in meatpacking
BEAU
Wall Kicks
Gay Paris
IMG_1083
Monsieur Moustache
Through Tears the Pain
Art is Over indeed MBW
Doggy Style
Monsieur Alec
Madonna
Outie
Lapin aux Chiottes
She Ain't Nothing to Mess With
Bright Drips, Big City
Dr Spock
IMG_1094
DickChick
IMG_1097
Hakula / Kardashian
IMG_1099
IMG_1100
IMG_1101
Mussolini
Hello
No!
Even Cops stick on the Block
'Sup
Parking Sign
Blowing All Up
Red Lights District
chickenhead
Stop in the West Village
IMG_1136
IMG_1137
Village Paris in NYC
Sure & Faust
IMG_1144
IMG_1145
Matching Vespa with the House
Str8 From the Sewer
The Dogs are Watching
Freeze
Love Me in Blue
IMG_1157
Nobody Cares
IMG_1176


Madame Lolo

Some young couples who are facing different heartiness problem, these individuals can buy remedies from the Web without any problem. Unconditionally, one of the wonderful place where buyers can purchase medicines is Internet. One of the best treatment for inability to get or keep an hard-on is Viagra. Today sundry articles were published about viagra substitute. You may have heard about “where to buy viagra“. Various companies describe it as “how to get viagra“. Sure, for a lot of guys, bringing up the problem in the first place is the toughest step. The most common potentially serious side effects of such medications like Viagra is headache. Contact your doc if you have any dangerous side effect that does not go away. The very important point make sure that when you buy medicines like Viagra online, you get real preparation. Some of the web-sites offer really hazardous fakes.

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I don’t go out often enough, beautiful blue sky over NYC http://www.nyfrenchgeek.com/2010/10/i-dont-go-out-often-enough-beautiful-blue-sky-over-nyc/ Thu, 14 Oct 2010 01:35:29 +0000 http://www.nyfrenchgeek.com/2010/10/i-dont-go-out-often-enough-beautiful-blue-sky-over-nyc/

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Stuff Tourists Like # 3 http://www.nyfrenchgeek.com/2010/10/stuff-tourists-like-3/ Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:28:26 +0000 http://www.nyfrenchgeek.com/2010/10/stuff-tourists-like-3/

This is the peak season for Tourists : dear Nouillorqueur, I am sure your couch is booked till Labor Day ( and trust me I feel your pain…), and  just in case you were wondering how they would spend their day in NYC, I can bet you that they will end up in 2 spots :

Tourists Like to Stop in the middle of a street : Move to the side

Using a Pedicab to get to the Apple Store

this is a no-no using a pedicab is a tourist thing, no New Yorker would ever do that.

Apple Store

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This is the peak season for Tourists : dear Nouillorqueur, I am sure your couch is booked till Labor Day ( and trust me I feel your pain…), and  just in case you were wondering how they would spend their day in NYC, I can bet you that they will end up in 2 spots :

Tourists Like to Stop in the middle of a street : Move to the side

Using a Pedicab to get to the Apple Store

this is a no-no using a pedicab is a tourist thing, no New Yorker would ever do that.

Apple Store : la tourneee des grands ducs

Oh lawwwd , where to start ??? I guess with the iPad crazyness, I can tell you  I have already  shipped several of those giant iPhones to the motherland, and thank you Steve for releasing the iPhone 4 in France at the same time as here …and even if we have 4 Apple stores in NYC, this not a reason to go to every single one and compare the price with the euro/dollar rate, cos at the end, it is gonna be hard to carry your 27 inches iMac in your luggage back to France.



Madame Lolo

Some young couples who are facing various health problem, these individuals can buy remedies from the Web without any problem. Unconditionally, one of the wonderful place where buyers can purchase medicines is Internet. One of the best treatment for inability to get or keep an erection is Viagra. Today sundry articles were published about viagra substitute. You may have heard about “where to buy viagra“. Various companies describe it as “how to get viagra“. Sure, for a lot of guys, bringing up the problem in the first place is the toughest step. The most common potentially serious side effects of such medications like Viagra is headache. Contact your physician if you have any dangerous side effect that does not go away. The very important point make sure that when you buy medicines like Viagra online, you get real preparation. Some of the web-sites offer really hazardous fakes.

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New York ‘Foutaises’ http://www.nyfrenchgeek.com/2010/10/new-york-%e2%80%98foutaises%e2%80%99/ Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:17:48 +0000 http://www.nyfrenchgeek.com/2010/10/new-york-%e2%80%98foutaises%e2%80%99/

New York est une ville incroyable, sale, déroutante, enivrante, surprenante, marrante, stressante. La liste n’en finie pas. Toujours est-il que je l’adore, souvent. La déteste, parfois. Le fait qu’elle ne soit pas complètement cernable en fait un challenge quotidien. Et sur place, Dieu sait qu’il y a des milliers de choses que j’aime et que je hais. Alors à mes heures perdues en attendant le ‘G train’, je prends des notes sur mon Blackberry, comme les rappeurs. Récemment j’ai regardé « Foutaises », ce court-métrage de Jean Pierre Jeunet qui me rappelle ma classe d’audiovisuel de Terminal L. Le personnage … Lire la suite

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New York est une ville incroyable, sale, déroutante, enivrante, surprenante, marrante, stressante. La liste n’en finie pas. Toujours est-il que je l’adore, souvent. La déteste, parfois. Le fait qu’elle ne soit pas complètement cernable en fait un challenge quotidien. Et sur place, Dieu sait qu’il y a des milliers de choses que j’aime et que je hais. Alors à mes heures perdues en attendant le ‘G train’, je prends des notes sur mon Blackberry, comme les rappeurs. Récemment j’ai regardé « Foutaises », ce court-métrage de Jean Pierre Jeunet qui me rappelle ma classe d’audiovisuel de Terminal L. Le personnage principal liste ce qu’il aime et ce qu’il n’aime pas. Alors en voyant ça, je me suis dit qu’il était temps de partager avec vous mes coups de cœur et mes coups de nerf. Pour vous mettre dans le mood, mettez en route ce p’tit son à la Amélie Poulain et allons y gaiement…

J’aime pas leur individualisme latent ni leur utilisation excessive de cannelle.
Mais j’aime que les mecs soient rasés de près, barbershop oblige. J’trouve ça sexy (Boris Kodjoe, I see you).

J’aime pas leur ‘jmenfoutisme’ côté bouffe. Ils pourraient manger des hamburgers injectés d’OGM et kifferaient du moment qu’il y a d’la sauce barbecue.
Mais j’aime que leurs marques de vêtements chères en Europe soit abordables ici (Ralph Lauren, Nike & Levi’s, I see you).

J’aime pas leur capacité à faire et défaire les relations humaines avec autant d’aisance.
Mais j’aime leur créativité et leur goût du risque. Ils visent haut. J’aime aussi le fait qu’ils valorisent le travail, et que le reste soit secondaire. Contrairement à la France ou le nom, l’école et la photo vont primer sur un CV. D’ailleurs, je pense que j’aime leur discrimination positive, parce qu’aujourd’hui, on en voit les fruits et leur pays et bien plus Benetton que le nôtre. Ou qu’un autre.

J’aime pas le date. C’est nul. Sans saveur. Sans spontanéité.
Mais j’aime les bagels, bien plus savoureux. Surtout avec de la cream cheese.

J’aime pas le système de métro express et local et les changements du week end. D’ailleurs, t’es obligé d’te planter au moins une fois et de te retrouver à Harlem alors que tu voulais aller dans l’Upper West. C’est la loi de la NYC jungle.
Par contre j’aime leurs rues et avenues. Parce que c’est SUPER FACILE DE S’Y REPÉRER !

J’aime pas leur aisance à travestir les bonnes choses. Leur café est imbuvable, leur pain plein de mie, leur croissant plein de cannelle et la version salé peut avoir du thon dedans. La liste et longue…
Mais j’aime cette impression d’être toute mince dans cette ville aux tailles faussées. Pour NYC j’suis une brindillette ! Et ça c’est bon pour le moral.

J’aime pas leur chauvinisme. Merde, le monde ne s’arrête pas à vos 50 états. Et oui, ça fait les gros titres chez vous, la France a voté l’interdiction de porter la burqa dans les lieux publics (WTF ?) mais vous condamnez encore des gens à mort alors ferme ta boîte à camembert l’Amérique !
Par contre j’aime leurs films afro-américains qui ne sortiront que 2 ans après en DVD prix verts Fnac à 5 euros.

J’aime pas leurs prénoms. D’ailleurs en voyant un prénom je ne sais jamais si c’est un gars ou une fille. Sherlen, LaQisha, Mashonda, C’mon son !
Mais j’aime l’accessibilité des gens. J’aime aussi le fait qu’ils ne jugent pas. Ton style, ta coupe, ton accent. En fait ils s’en foutent. Au pire tu t’prends un compliment.

Mais comme je suis Française, moi je juge, et j’aime pas trop leur style. Parce que New York  c’est vraiment pas un magazine de mode. Tu trouves quelques gens stylés éparpillés dans la ville, mais dès que tu sors de la hype manhattanienne, c’est pas mal insipide.
J’aime pas non plus (ou plutôt je ne comprends pas) leur notion d’hygiène, leurs bedbugs, leurs cafards taille XXL version Maroc, leurs portions gargantuesques, leur incapacité à produire avec de petits moyens, leur surconsommation à tous les niveaux, le prix des études, la normalisation de la vie à crédit, leurs pubs excessives…

Mais j’aime tellement leurs séries TV, leur soldes toute l’année, leur façon de draguer, plus douce, leurs artistes, leurs shows, et pleins de trucs que j’ai pas mis dans la liste parce que je les vis tous les jours et que je n’ai plus le recul pour les remarquer… Genre la skyline, ou les chanteurs du métro extraordinaires ! En lisant les vôtres j’suis sure que je me dirais « Merde, mais oui bien sûr, j’ai oublié de dire que moi aussi j’aimais… » Ahah !

Aller pour le kiffe, la version Jeunet

Ah oui et j’adore mon quartier, Fort Greene, Brooklyn. D’ailleurs je vous en parle bientôt…


The Travelin’ Girl

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New York Photo Booth http://www.nyfrenchgeek.com/2010/09/new-york-photo-booth-2/ Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:14:00 +0000 http://www.nyfrenchgeek.com/2010/10/new-york-photo-booth-2/

In the era of all digital images, it became more fun to play with analog pictures, and as I got my summer tan on, it means I am eligible for picture time without the ususally mandatory Photoshop retouching … Here is a quick round-up of the Photobooth (or Photomaton in French) in NYC:

1. Coney Island

Deno’s Wonder Wheel – 3059 W 12th St. Brooklyn, NY 11224– Color

2. 7B


7B — 108 Avenue B – New York, NY — B&W Only

3. Ace Hotel

Ace Hotel — 20 West 29th Street, New York, NY‎ — Black&White Only

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In the era of all digital images, it became more fun to play with analog pictures, and as I got my summer tan on, it means I am eligible for picture time without the ususally mandatory Photoshop retouching … Here is a quick round-up of the Photobooth (or Photomaton in French) in NYC:

1. Coney Island

Deno’s Wonder Wheel – 3059 W 12th St. Brooklyn, NY 11224– Color

2. 7B


7B — 108 Avenue B – New York, NY — B&W Only

3. Ace Hotel

Ace Hotel — 20 West 29th Street, New York, NY‎ — Black&White Only

And some others I haven’t tried yet:

Lakeside Lounge — 162 Avenue B New York, NY 10009– Black & White

Otto’s Shrunken Head — 538 E. 14th St.New York, NY 10009


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