Category Archives: Quick Picks

Google Street View is the perfect tool for the nostalgic voyeur. Want to see your old apartment? How about your college dorm, or an ex’s front door? Arcade Fire and the director Chris Milk—whose past collaborators include Kanye West, U2, and Green Day—have partnered to make these virtual flashbacks as emotionally fraught as possible with […]

Of all the art-driven iPhone apps—and there are many, including Brushes, the medium for newyorker.com’s Finger Painting series by Jorge Colombo—few are as engrossing as the new one from MoMA. Read more on newyorker.com… Tweet

In 2007, Paul McWhorter, a West Texas-based collector of vintage photographs, launched the Web site Old Picture of the Day. The images he posts tend to have weekly themes (coal mining, trains, women’s hats) with contests on Saturdays, when McWhorter challenges his readers to identify portraits of historical figures. Read more at newyorker.com… Tweet

When the Los Angeles-based cartoonist Jordan Crane launched the site What Things Do, his goal was to create a home for work that combined the spirit of cartooning’s past with the accessibility afforded by the Internet. Read more at newyorker.com… Tweet

In a 2008 issue of The New Yorker, D. T. Max profiled the Chicago chef Grant Achatz, a disciple of molecular gastronomy and the man behind Alinea, widely considered one of the top restaurants in the United States. Now the travel blog Gridskipper gives a peek into Achatz’s five favorite Chicago boites, as part of […]

If your hometown had a font, what would it look like? CitID, an ambitious project from the design firm Norwegian Ink, is trying to answer the question by inviting artists and designers to submit a logo or typeface for “every city worldwide; big or small, rich or poor, famous or infamous, well-known or unheard-of.” Read […]

Jarvis Cocker, the former frontman of the Britpop band Pulp and a successful solo artist, is the host of “Sunday Service” on BBC 6 Music. The weekly program features selections from Cocker’s record collection—ranging from Bob Dylan to Liberace’s performance of “Moonlight Sonata”—as well as fiction readings and pop-culture discussion. Read more at newyorker.com… Tweet