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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Overheard in New York

Um livro e um site.
Ou melhor: o livro que resultou de um site.
Ou talvez: um livro e site que se complementam?

De qualquer forma, a premissa é simples: tipos que escutam e apanham conversas nas ruas de Nova Iorque e decidem reproduzi-las num website. Do género "meter o bedelho" mas em abstracto - as pessoas são desconhecidas e simples transeuntes. O resultado é interessante. A ideia também.

Isto em Lisboa era catita. Se quiserem já sabem onde poderão reproduzir as conversas que escutarem no metro, nas ruas, lojas, cafés e restaurantes... Aqui! :-) Xikipedia at your service.

O site original está aqui: Overheard in New York.

Book Description:
The streets of New York are full of characters-eccentrics, tourists, and residents-who don't care who's around to hear them. This collection offers some of the most bizarre, hysterical, and mysterious conversations overheard on the sidewalk, in the subway, or from the next table.

The website overheardinnewyork.com has been featured in many publications, including The New York Times, Time Out New York, the Chicago Sun-Times, the San Francisco Examiner, and the New York Post. Now site creators S. Morgan Friedman and Michael Malice have compiled the greatest moments caught in passing, to create a hilarious panorama of the unique people who populate the city.

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