A crane fell over in Madison Square Park
What is this toppled crane at Madison Square Park?
Well, not quite.
This giant toppled crane, titled Fixed Crane, at Madison Square Park is the artwork of Nicole Eisenman. It is currently on view until March 9, 2025 and features a vintage crane with a 90-foot arm leaned over on its side. The art piece takes over the entire Oval Lawn in the center of Madison Square Park and invites viewers to walk right up to it to get a closer look. While you can’t climb the crane, you are welcome to touch it and interact with it as this massive metal structure sits idle.
Check it out before it gets disassembled and move elsewhere!
Toyota Crown NYC yellow cab
A look at the rare (for now) Toyota Crown yellow cab.
I know you all care about this as much as I do, so here’s a look at the new-ish Toyota Crown NYC yellow cab. There are only a handful of these in the NYC yellow taxi fleet and this one in particular is even more special because the front face covers and bumpers are painted yellow (note: it looks weird).
This one here is marked #6E84 which I haven’t seen until I took these photos. Pretty cool, huh!
WPL D12 RC Car Kei Truck is now over $100
This popular RC car is now nearly double the price.
Those tariffs on China sure are working! Maybe a little too well! The very popular WPL D12 RC Car Kei Truck, which normally sells for about $60, is now over $100 on Amazon.
Omnium Mini Max at the Denny Farrell Greenway Bridge
I love this bike.
I love this pedestrian bridge. I travel across it often and its just a great peaceful place to look down at passing cars, people, and trains. If you ever see me and this bike, yell out and say hi! I might have stickers on me!
Graffiti artist VAYNE in Atlanta
VAYNE in his hometown of Atlanta.
A follow-up video to that insanely large VAYNE piece in Atlanta, GA. This video follows VAYNE as he travels around Atlanta painting new pieces. A great way to explore the city! :)
An AI journey to create a glass hotdog
I made some glass hotdogs.
A glass hotdog
First off, hotdog is one word. I need to remember that because every time I type the word, I 2nd guess myself about whether it should be “hot dog” (as in, a dog that is hot?) or “hotdog” (as in, the thing you eat).
Secondly, have you ever seen a glass hotdog? I haven’t. I’ve seen glass window decorations with a drawn hotdog over them, but I’m talking about a full-on glass object shaped like a transparent hotdog. I needed one recently and so I asked AI to make one. I won’t give away where these are from, but I was thinking that it’s possible I’ve been the only person in the world to ever as a computer for this type of abomination.
An early glass hotdog that wasn’t quite glass or hotdog.
None of these are perfect, and some of them are downright weird, but the path to understanding how a machine thinks of both a hotdog and glass object is truly the transformative journey. I felt like I learned a new type of language syntax or something.
Enjoy this collection of glass and glass-like objects shaped like hotdogs.
Silver Moon Bakery & Cafe in a fight to stay open on the UWS
Silver Moon Bakery & Cafe is in a legal dispute about their UWS location.
If you’ve been in the vicinity of 105th St and Broadway, you may have smelled the sweet and fresh aroma of the bakery lovingly known as Silver Moon Bakery & Cafe. The bakery is a destination for fresh bread and pastries and has been serving the community at that location since 2015.
Recent reporting at The New York Times however has mentioned a dispute with the landlord which accuses Silver Moon of not vacating the space after their lease was up and owing rent to the tune of over $194,000. The bakery’s monthly rent is reported to be over $33,000.
For now, Silver Moon Bakery & Cafe is still open and operating (I took these photos yesterday) but disputes like this could potentially shutter the business at any moment. One particularly interesting tidbit from the NYT article is that it seems like the business partner of Silver Moon Bakery & Cafe, Georgia Stamoulis, may actually be related to or part owner of the landlord company (Broadside) that is suing Silver Moon Bakery & Cafe! Very odd!
How to loosen a stuck ball joint on an articulating arm
Quick tip for stuck articulating arms with metal ball joints.
I use an articulating arm like this Smallrig one to mount some random accessories to my laptop station when I’m out in the field at work. But lately both of the ball joints have gotten a bit “sticky” due to the ocean breeze and water occasionally coming into contact with the joints. Short of buying a new arm which isn’t that expensive, I wanted to see if lock lube or metal lubricant would work to loosen the ball joint without losing the ability to later have the ball joint lock precisely in place.
Well, good news. The lock lube works! I picked up a small spray bottle of lock lube metal lubricant and sprayed the tiniest amount into the metal ball joints of my articulating arm and it instantly loosened it up when unlocked. It was like new! And more importantly, when I lock the articulating arm, the lube does not make the ball joint slip at all.