Absorb the cycling know-how of an entire city with this crowdsourced map from the New York Times, which allows anyone to add ten words of wisdom to any location in the five boroughs. A few choice cuts –Maris from Park Slope says Clinton St. is a better route to the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges than Smith, Erich from Jackson Heights says Shore Road in that neighborhood will leave you feeling like you’re not in NYC, and almost no one would ever bike on Flatbush. Take a look at the whole thing here.
For yet another artistic example of why Vine is the most exciting social media platform going, take a look at the music video for Masters in France's "Flexin," which automatically populates itself with clips based tagged with words from the song's lyrics. If a verse includes the word "high," for…
Everyone knows YouTube is home to some of the most wonderfully amateurish stuff on the internet, but there's just so much of it. Trudging through the muck to find the best muck is hard, so here's Boootube, a site that compiles only the most downvoted clips on the video sharing service for…
To create the homespun map you see above, NYC-based artist Nobutaka Aozaki pretended to be a tourist. Clad in a cheesy baseball cap and toting a Century 21 bag, he walked around Manhattan, asking strangers to draw him directions. After talking to dozens, he assembled their bits of amateur cartography…
