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Humans of New York
- chaz 13y agoBig fan of HONY. Here's a short news segment on HoNY on ABC News that's worth watching: http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/humans-york-photog-viral-20550669 http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/humans-york-photog-vir...
- thomasfl 13y agoBest read today.
- Schwolop 13y agoIs there an "about" page? It's awesome, but I couldn't work out if this was crowd-sourced, one person's art project, or something else. <edit> I'm an idiot. It's right there in front of me... never mind!
- magic5227 13y agoThis is pretty amazing. If only Facebook were this instead.
- HeyImAlex 13y agoIt can be if you want it to; sometimes I like to explore everyone with a particular name. There are Alex Guerras all over the world...
- justinmk 13y agoDripping with that ol' pretentious pseudointellectual manhattan vibe. Granite, concrete, or Central Park. Take your pick.
- knes 13y agoWhy are you so angry at the world?
- pessimizer 13y agoWhy do you confuse being angry at something you like as being angry at everything?
- Mustafabei 13y agoThis is just lovely
- aneeskA 13y agoEvery story associated with the pic is simply human :)
- hmsimha 13y agoHere's a portland take on HONY if anyone is interested: http://humansofpdx.com/ http://humansofpdx.com/
- henrik_w 13y agoThe book (http://www.amazon.com/Humans-New-York-Brandon-Stanton/dp/1250038820/ http://www.amazon.com/Humans-New-York-Brandon-Stanton/dp/125...) is currently in spot 28 on Amazon's best seller list.
- dmnd 13y agoAs an engineer at Khan Academy it feels pretty awesome to find this: http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/64412654576/i-struck-up-a-conversation-with-him-and-he http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/64412654576/i-struck-up-...
- loceng 13y agoPretty awe-some. Inspiring, motivating.
- seivan 13y agoIncredibly inspiring!
- yurylifshits 13y agoBefore opening comments I bet myself the word "awesome" will be used )
- officemonkey 13y agoAs a supporter of the Red Cross movement, I also feel proud.
- k-mcgrady 13y agoI've seen this concept done for a few cities now. They all use the 'Humans of x' name but I'm not sure they're related.
- fmax30 13y agoI think HONY was the one that started this all.
- officemonkey 13y agoThe Sartorialist predates HoNY, but he specialized in people on the street with great fashion sense. So if we're going in that direction (documenting people on the street,) Bill Cunningham probably predates them all.
- sueders101 13y agoEugène Atget is probably worth reading about if you're into the history of street photography. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Atget http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Atget
- 001sky 13y agohttp://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/32016876047/the-boxer http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/32016876047/the-boxer
- loceng 13y agoGreat story. Greatly written too.
- nirnira 13y agoJesus. I should appreciate my good fortune in life more.
- chaz 13y agoGreat story, but also shows how terrific Brandon is at drawing people's stories out.
- pgrote 13y agoDo you know the name the subject boxed as? I was able to find the myspace with his real name, but cannot find anything on his boxing record.
- Nicholas_C 13y agoDoes he record his conversations? That's a lot to remember.
- huherto 13y agoI remember reading this particular story 30 something years ago. Probably in Reader's Digest. I guess he also read it and made it his own. I hope it wasn't a thing back then. http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/65933750954/my-first-memory-was-when-i-was-three-years-old http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/65933750954/my-first-mem...
- teddyh 13y agoProbably a false memory.
- huherto 13y agoI am pretty sure....Here there is a similar story. http://susanpiver.com/2007/11/06/stories-ive-been-told/ http://susanpiver.com/2007/11/06/stories-ive-been-told/ , and there is anotherone here...http://www.topquartile.org/?page=BOK_Trust_Integrity http://www.topquartile.org/?page=BOK_Trust_Integrity or this one...http://forums.comicbookresources.com/archive/index.php/t-108475.html http://forums.comicbookresources.com/archive/index.php/t-108...
- verygoodyear 13y agohttp://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/65691473318/like-many-people-i-was-first-introduced-to http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/65691473318/like-many-pe...
- lazerwalker 13y agoI love HoNY, but it's been around for ages — the Facebook page has almost 2 million likes. I'm curious why it's hitting HN now. That's not an angry "BOO! REPOST!" complaint, I'm actually curious. All of my friends have been familiar with it for years, but maybe it's just a New York thing?
- AnonJ 13y agoTo be honest I hardly find HONY anywhere near "inspiring" or "warm". IMO 80% of the stories are sad or filled with confusion and pessimism. The people he meets is one thing, but the tone of the story is set by the writer himself. I feel he is somehow intentionally making them melodramatic and sad. This I really dislike.
- AnonJ 13y agoTo be honest I hardly find HONY anywhere near "inspiring" or "warm". IMO 80% of the stories are sad or filled with confusion and pessimism. The people he meets is one thing, but the tone of the story is set by the writer himself. I feel he is somehow intentionally making them melodramatic and sad. This I really dislike. And there exist so many "love of the life" stories which on the first sight might seem sad but upon further inspection feel totally dubious. I always think the so-called "love of your life" stuff is just an invented escapism. When some people meet difficulties in their lives they immediately imagine something "perfect but out of reach" as a consolation of sorts. If they really got together with their so-called "love of life" then probably their lives will turn out to be as problematic. Not to mention how much both would have changed and out of sync when they meet each other again. This is totally irrational thinking. Better dispose of it.
- nakedrobot2 13y agoIt was interesting for a few seconds, but then my eyes skipped to the bottom of the page. Is the "Pinterest layout" being copied because there is something inherently good about it? It does not seem good to me. My eyes don't fix on anything. Nothing lines up.
- potatolicious 13y agoI like it in this context. It's scattershot, it doesn't imply any rank of importance, nor any order you should be looking in. They're just people in a crowd, you don't have to read their stories in order. You don't have to read all of them. Just look at whatever your eyes are drawn to and read those. Oddly enough, I feel like the Pinterest/masonry layout is perfect for something like this.
- astrange 13y agoPeople who live in New York are already smug enough without needing their own blog. It'd be better to have done it in a more underprivileged city.