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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    04/07/09

    In reply to Midtown NYC Is The Home of 'Buzz!'
    My God, the Gawker office is right in the center of peak buzz intensity.


    How do you guys get any work done with all of that buzz going on all around you?


    Also, do you worry that all those invisible buzz waves coursing through the air might pose health risks ... or make you sterile or something?

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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    04/07/09

    In reply to Midtown NYC Is The Home of 'Buzz!'
    Now, can they map out where the "Jizz" is?
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    Image of overunderover overunderover
    04/07/09

    In reply to Midtown NYC Is The Home of 'Buzz!'
    The last remaining Ukrainians explain the lack of dots in the East Village - especially near Odessa.
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    Image of Mary Mouse Mary Mouse
    04/07/09

    In reply to Midtown NYC Is The Home of 'Buzz!'
    So what's that one dot on the Columbia campus? A bagel breakfast in the grad lounge of whatever department produced this amazing piece of research?
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    Image of Urbania Urbania
    04/07/09

    In reply to Midtown NYC Is The Home of 'Buzz!'
    After the awful The Warhol Economy I was expecting this to be the author's way of backing up her interesting (but totally conjectural) claims about the relationship of the city to art production.
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    Image of rudi_freude rudi_freude
    04/07/09

    In reply to Midtown NYC Is The Home of 'Buzz!'
    The only buzz I'm interested in is the one that comes after my sixth vodka tonic.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    04/07/09

    @rudi_freude:


    What is this "tonic" you speak of?

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    04/07/09

    @rudi_freude: I was gonna say, is that buzz the sound of the thousands of vibrators in the bedrooms of single women living in those atrocious "white whale" buildings all over midtown?
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    Image of sigh sigh
    04/07/09

    In reply to Midtown NYC Is The Home of 'Buzz!'
    I have to say this project is incredibly limited, I would call it a geographic representation of events with a lot of MONEY, NOT BUZZ. The dataset is very small, it only looks at Getty Images which you have to PAY to have at your events, and PAY you do - to be included in this research. No wonder Williamsburg, Silver Lake, Echo Park aren't on the radar, do you think anyone there is going to PAY a lot of money to have Getty Images take photos for them? In the end this reserach is just based on a small small dataset, which isn't representational of our cultural society as a whole, it IS representational of the BEVERLY HILLS and MEATPACKING crews, but NOT TRUE CULTURAL IMPACT.
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    Image of narnio narnio
    04/07/09

    @sigh: you spelled research wrong.
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    Image of momo momo
    04/07/09

    @sigh: MONEY NOT BUZZ PAY PAY IS BEVERLY HILLS MEATPACKING NOT TRUE CULTURAL IMPACT


    I tried to figure out the secret message. The first letter of each all-cap word provides MNBPPIBHMNTCT, which when sounded out is something like:


    "Man be peepee bum, not cute."


    I totally agree.

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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    04/07/09

    @sigh: I like your Gawker commenter name.
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    Image of momo momo
    04/07/09

    In reply to Midtown NYC Is The Home of 'Buzz!'
    They've confused "buzz" with "blather".
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    04/07/09

    In reply to Midtown NYC Is The Home of 'Buzz!'
    The geography tells me that the "buzz" they're talking about here is likely specifically the buzz one gets from popper use.
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    04/07/09

    In reply to Midtown NYC Is The Home of 'Buzz!'
    Roosevelt Island--nightlife's best kept secret.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    04/07/09

    In reply to Midtown NYC Is The Home of 'Buzz!'
    Central Park demands a recount.
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    Image of Ethan Hein Ethan Hein
    04/07/09

    In reply to Midtown NYC Is The Home of 'Buzz!'
    One of their buzz dots is on Roosevelt Island. I lived there for many years and I love it and everything, but nothing buzzworthy has ever, ever happened there.
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    Image of Cecil's Wielder Cecil's Wielder
    04/07/09

    @Ethan Hein: Didn't LCD Soundsystem open up for Arcade Fire out there and everyone got high?
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    04/07/09

    @Ethan Hein:

    Isn't that where the gondola thing got stuck? Very buzzy-worthy!
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    Image of momo momo
    04/07/09

    @Cecil's Wielder: That would be Randall's Island.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    04/07/09

    In reply to Midtown NYC Is The Home of 'Buzz!'
    To me, it looks like a person sitting Indian-style being happily propelled into the sky by the force of his own fart.


    And isn't what that all is, really? Something that seems magical but is really just a bunch of hot, stinky, gaseous waste?

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    04/07/09

    @Mount_Prion: Uh, excuse me, we do not say "Indian style" anymore. PC term is "cross-legged." Don't you have a preschooler to teach you these things?
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    Image of lurkystars lurkystars
    04/07/09

    In reply to Midtown NYC Is The Home of 'Buzz!'
    So if a party happens in Brooklyn and Getty Images didn't take a picture of it, it didn't happen?
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    04/07/09

    @lurkystars:


    Yes.
    In the sad parallel universe inhabited by the sort who show up for the opening of an envelope, only those who are photographed repeatedly can truly claim to exist.

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    Image of RonMwangaguhunga RonMwangaguhunga
    04/07/09

    @lurkystars: Yes, buzz = Getty. It almost makes me want to cry in my ironic Pabst Blue Ribbon. Also -- I just realized this -- Patrick McMullan is the final determinant of ultimate reality.
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    Image of Nic Fit Nic Fit
    04/07/09

    In reply to Midtown NYC Is The Home of 'Buzz!'
    Coincidentally, the cocaine usage map is exactly the same!
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    Nic Fit was starred Nic Fit was unstarred
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