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My name is Dan Nguyen and I'm a journalist, programmer and photographer.
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Category Archives: visuals
Best subway music ever: Super Mario Bros. theme
Musician Gypsy Joe Trane played the classics, including the theme to Nintendo Classic Super Mario Brothers on the R-train heading uptown Manhattan the other night. I can’t believe that no one else was (or at least looked) as amused as… Continue reading
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A Million Pageviews, Thousands of Dollars Poorer, and Still Countlessly Richer.
Update: This post rambled longer than I intended it to and I forgot that I had meant to include some observations on what I’ve noticed about Flickr’s traffic pattern. I’ve added some grafs to the bottom of this post. My… Continue reading
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New York in 2011, the photo version
A little late on this but I posted a few photos I took in NYC this year over at my Tumblr, Eye Heart New York. This year seemed like my most sheltered, uncreative year yet…even so, according to Flickr’s count,… Continue reading
Pilots marching on Wall Street
I had a brief moment of Internet popularity when this photo of United and Continental pilots protesting near the Stock Exchange pulled in nearly 150,000 views in a day, thanks to Reddit users’ upvotes: Of all the protest photos I… Continue reading
The Sarah Palin Store in Skagway, Alaska
Just got back from an Alaskan cruise through the Inside Passage; the weather was beautiful, there were glaciers, etc, but one of the highlights was the tourist trap of Skagway, a town of about 800 that had enough shops to… Continue reading
New York Fireworks, Fourth of July, from the Top of the Rockefeller Center (with video, too)
I didn’t feel like grilling on the 4th since I leave on a long vacation the next morning, so I thought I’d stop by the Rockefeller Center to see if it was at all crowded for fireworks (I paid for… Continue reading
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Tags fireworks, Fourth of July, Macy's, manhattan, new york city
The Fifth Ave. Apple Store Gets Boxed
Apple Store gets boxed, (Fifth Avenue, Manhattan), originally uploaded by Dan Nguyen @ New York City. Walked by the midtown Apple Store last night (July 1, 2011) and it was undergoing renovations. Even the stores get the white box treatment,… Continue reading
photos.danwin.com: My new portfolio site in HTML5, with responsive CSS
After trying too hard to rewrite my really old Flash gallery as a jQuery plugin, I thought “to hell with it” and decided to join the one-pager trend: http://photos.danwin.com. I have to say, this was one of the more pleasant… Continue reading
Photos from Ground Zero: “Osama is dead” and “Celebration at Ground Zero”; two phrases I thought I’d never hear before leaving New York
Some photos, from around 1:30am on May 2. Most of the celebration was facing the corner just north of where Ground Zero actually is.