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Apr 27

Soon…

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Apr 24

Trying on our new #UberShades - stay tuned on Twitter to find out how to snag a pair!

Trying on our new #UberShades - stay tuned on Twitter to find out how to snag a pair!

Apr 17

UberBoston: Uber Boston’s Message on the Marathon Tragedy -

Our thoughts are with the Uber Boston team.

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Dear Uberettos,

We share with all of you our concern, sadness, and outrage regarding Monday’s events at the Boston Marathon. The Uber team extends its deepest sympathy to the Boston community and everyone who was affected by this tragedy.

We will continue to mourn for those that lost…

Mar 28

Who’s checking out Nick Cave at Grand Central this weekend? blakegopnik: DAILY PIC: I saw this performance designed by Nick Cave, of Chicago, in Grand Central Station today. Cave’s “Heard NY” was brought to us by Creative Time and MTA Arts for Transit, as it will be for another week, twice a day. Thirty raffia-costumed dancers cavort around the space as “horses” while harps and drums egg them on. These kind of performances could easily be panned as pseudo-primitive spectacles, full of a romanticized, urbanized yearning for a simpler, more direct, more symbolic, more “authentic” culture. But watching Cave’s performance, and the enthusiastic reaction of the Grand Central audience, it occurred to me that what I was seeing was a fully “authentic” expression of the culture of modern times – not because we moderns want and seek some kind of deep, mystical, shamanistic communion with the animal world, such as our ancestors are supposed to have got through their dancing. But because, in an atomized age of TV and the Web, we simply want shared, live, impressive spectacles, of almost any kind, without expecting much more from them than an instant frisson and shared thrill. And it could be that, even in so-called “simpler” cultures,  “ritual” dance may have as much to do with its surface spectacle as with the deeper meanings that anthropologists insist on finding in it. That is, the rigorous anthropologists may be the romantics, in their search for symbolic depths they view as missing from their own lives, whereas the “primitive” dancers and spectators, in their sheer pleasure in the act of communal dance (and disregarding whatever they report to the PhDs) may actually be behaving rather like their commuting peers in New York. (Photo by Lucy Hogg) For a full visual survey of past Daily Pics visit blakegopnik.com/archive. The Daily Pic can also be found at the bottom of the home page of thedailybeast.com, and on that site’s Art Beast page.

Who’s checking out Nick Cave at Grand Central this weekend?

blakegopnik:

DAILY PIC: I saw this performance designed by Nick Cave, of Chicago, in Grand Central Station today. Cave’s “Heard NY” was brought to us by Creative Time and MTA Arts for Transit, as it will be for another week, twice a day. Thirty raffia-costumed dancers cavort around the space as “horses” while harps and drums egg them on.

These kind of performances could easily be panned as pseudo-primitive spectacles, full of a romanticized, urbanized yearning for a simpler, more direct, more symbolic, more “authentic” culture. But watching Cave’s performance, and the enthusiastic reaction of the Grand Central audience, it occurred to me that what I was seeing was a fully “authentic” expression of the culture of modern times – not because we moderns want and seek some kind of deep, mystical, shamanistic communion with the animal world, such as our ancestors are supposed to have got through their dancing. But because, in an atomized age of TV and the Web, we simply want shared, live, impressive spectacles, of almost any kind, without expecting much more from them than an instant frisson and shared thrill. And it could be that, even in so-called “simpler” cultures,  “ritual” dance may have as much to do with its surface spectacle as with the deeper meanings that anthropologists insist on finding in it. That is, the rigorous anthropologists may be the romantics, in their search for symbolic depths they view as missing from their own lives, whereas the “primitive” dancers and spectators, in their sheer pleasure in the act of communal dance (and disregarding whatever they report to the PhDs) may actually be behaving rather like their commuting peers in New York. (Photo by Lucy Hogg)

For a full visual survey of past Daily Pics visit blakegopnik.com/archive. The Daily Pic can also be found at the bottom of the home page of thedailybeast.com, and on that site’s Art Beast page.

Dec 13

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Dec 04

Winston, Uber NYC’s hardest working employee.

Winston, Uber NYC’s hardest working employee.

Oct 26

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Oct 23

Sup Uber-ers! We’re back on Tumblr!

Hi everyone!  I’m Cait, the newest Community Manager here at Uber NYC.  Nice to meet you!

I’ll be the face behind Uber’s Tumblr, so Follow us to stay posted on all things Uber and all kinds of other relevant (and irrelevant) NYC stuff.

And feel free to send your Uber Love stories for me to share with fellow lovers here: cait@uber.com

Happy Uber-ing!

Feb 22