Cruising on Christopher Street: Sunil Gupta’s nostalgic images of New York’s gay scene in 1976
While studying at the New School, New York, under the legendary Lisette Model, Sunil Gupta would spend his weekends cruising on Christopher Street with his camera. It was the heady days after Stonewall and before AIDS when Sunil and his peers were young and busy creating a gay public space that hadn’t been seen before. "I came to photography in the early 1970s. What was initially just a hobby quickly found a purpose in the [...]
Dotto’s Tiny Guides: Beautifully designed little peeks at lovely places
Created by Manchester-based design studio Dotto, these teeny-weeny city guides are a seriously cute way to get some travel tips. Each limited edition guide features a typographic design inspired by the shapes and colours found in each city – Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen and Zurich – letterpressed onto a circular, beermat-style card. The reverse recommends four places to visit – places of interest, restaurants and cafes in some of the most up-and-coming, vibrant parts of each [...]
Joan LeMay’s gouache illustrations that capture home comforts and the things that make us better
Joan LeMay has always been magnetically drawn to portraiture. "One of the things I most love about creating it, is bringing something into existence that brings comfort and joy to the owner," explains the American artist and illustrator. "I love that paintings can act as a salve. I love that they can illuminate spaces. I love that they can remind us of people, creatures, places or things we are thankful for that bring us joy. [...]
How evolving user patterns drive new ad experiences on YouTube
At YouTube, we’re on a constant quest to give people the perfect viewing experience. But over the years, what that looks like has changed significantly. The way we watch video is always changing. And we want to keep advertisers abreast of these trends, with new [...]
Attend Recode Decode LIVE in Washington, D.C., with Kara Swisher and NBC News journalists Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell and Hallie Jackson
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Recent East Coast hurricanes have gotten more media coverage than California wildfires
It’s not your imagination: Fires get written about less. In the past few weeks, a series of historically destructive wildfires have ravaged California — burning entire towns to the ground, leaving 84 dead, nearly a thousand missing and more than 10,000 homes destroyed — and [...]
Recode Daily: Black Friday is the busiest time of year for professional line sitters
Plus: Snap is planning a pricier version of its Spectacles glasses; Amazon is bidding for the 22 regional sports networks Disney acquired from Fox; secrets of Butterball’s turkey-talk-line counselors. Recode Daily will take a publishing holiday on Thanksgiving Day and on Friday, Nov. 23. We’ll [...]