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Tag: “New York”

Map with locations from Girls

American TV show Girls, which ended its second season on March 17, 2013, takes place in New York, mostly on Manhattan and in Williamsburg. New York based public radio WNYC’s Culture Web site once did a map of all locations from AMC’s TV show Mad Men and now they have done it again: this time [...]

Yogurt Towne – a great T-shirt from Girls

The sixth episode of Girls season two was full of great outfits: e.g. Marnie’s gold dress, Hannah’s polka-dot dress, but for me the most memorable was Ray’s T-shirt with »Yogurt Towne« sign. Girls’ costume designer Jenn Rogien told NYMag.com that they found this T-shirt at Atlantis Attic in Brooklyn. According to Rogien the store has [...]

Ann Taylor mentioned in Girls

Fans of Lena Dunham’s TV series Girls will remember that Marnie used to work as an assistant in a New York art gallery. Unfortunately she was fired from the gallery in the opening episode of the Season Two. Well, not fired, she was downsized, as explained by her former boss. In the second episode she [...]

Interview: Christopher Moloney of FILMography

Have you seen Woody Allen’s movie Manhattan? Yes? No? But you’re certainly familiar with one of the most iconic shots from Allen’s opus and one of the most memorable shots of New York. Here’s the famous bridge shot: A few months ago Christopher Moloney took a similar photo, but with a twist. The location of [...]

Map with locations from Mad Men

New York based public radio WNYC’s Culture Web site has recently created a very interesting project. They wanted to do a map of all locations from AMC’s TV show Mad Men. The map was created by Culture Web Site’s editor Abbie Fentress Swanson with the help of crowdsourcing: WNYC asked its listeners to help build the [...]