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According to the EscapeFromNewYork blog, “Developers have been buying up land to build hotels, shopping malls and new amusement rides ala Vegas style. The plans, which keep changing, are wrought with controversy and drama that will likely drag on for years. For the tangled low down check out Kinetic Carnival.
But for now it is still urban Americana personified—Nathan’s Hot Dogs, The Cyclone and Sideshows By the Seashore—to name a few. It’s a great place to spend a day photographing.
Coney Island’s lifecycle so far has seen it go from the glory resort days of early last century, the urban decay and gangs depicted in the cult classic The Warriors and a revitalization that started in the 1990s. Whatever transition comes next, I hope that its unique personality isn’t completely wiped out.”
Photo from my Coney Island Flickr set.
Flickr user, Jimmy Crow, has posted the following 01-18-08 stills for dissection.
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According to engadget, the following video is for Nokia’s latest phone. Now either Nokia has licensed Apple’s touch technology, blatantly ripped off the Apple iPhone, or this is a hoax. My initial inclination is that this is legit as Anssi Vanjoki — Nokia’s Executive VP & General Manager of Multimedia is reported as saying, “If there is something good in the world then we copy with pride.” I guess when you can’t innovate (well, the flickr integration is nice–albeit helio did it first), you just rip-off in desperation. With Nokia in the convergent device mix, expect the Playstation Phone and Google Phone to continue to garner more attention, as is still the case with the iPod, everyone starts playing catch up with Steve Jobs & Co.
