Category Archives: Distractions

Floaties are okay…

I have a confession to make…  I am not, and probably never will be, a techie.  It never bothered me before I began working at New City.  I have a Blackberry, an iPod.  When I came on board here they got me a swank, new MacBook with a separate, large-donkey flat panel monitor (bigger than […]

Design Inspiration Comes From Many Sources

I’m always on the look out for new and interesting things as you never know what might spark your imagination. Things that might stretch my mind to ideas or concepts that I may not have thought of before. Good or bad usually makes no difference if the end result is that it got […]

And they’re all obsessed with coffee, too!

I haven’t read Lee Siegel’s anti-Internet book Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob yet, but the New York Times has reviewed it and the opening, at least, sounds like the kind of argument I’ve heard against computers and technology ever since I was calling electronic bulletin board systems […]

Hilarious commercial blast from the past

What do you get when you mix in two wanna-be NBA stars and a blue screen? (that’s the thing that makes the weatherman look like he is in front of a map) You get Alan and Jerome and their fantasies of out-dribbling and out-shooting basketball pros nearly twice their size. These ads from Fox Sports […]

Laser guns rock!

Weta Digital Ltd is an Academy Award® winning visual effects facility based in Wellington, New Zealand. The company is best known for its visual effects work on The Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong. Well they also make lazer beeems! Take a look at some of the detail shots - pricey, […]

Amazing addition to Google Maps

Google has just launched a new feature called “Street View” and the pic above is what it looks like. Yep, that’s Times Square. The little orange person in the center marks your position and point of view. You can pick it up to move it to a different location or you can click the arrows […]

Winged Cats

Over the years there have been many reports of winged cats. These have been treated as cryptozoological phenomena. Many people would like to believe in flying cats, but the real explanation is medical, not mystical. The answers lie in poor grooming, a developmental defect or an uncommon hereditary skin condition.

The house that NCM built. (…well kinda.)

New City Media employees took a day off to work on a project house with Habitat for Humanity. We unshackled ourselves from our desk jobs and decided to do some heavy lifting for charity. We divided into teams to handle such tasks as shingling a roof, cleaning up a job site, installing windows, […]

Line Rider

Prepare to kiss a few hours of your day away with this.

Cake

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