Day 3
Monday, February 3 - Today we started the day at The Paley Center For Media. The Paley Center is more an archive than a museum and is dedicated to the cultural, creative, and social
significance of broadcast media (television, radio, emerging platforms). We listened to an interesting lecture about the 1970s, the decade of relevancy, in which the topics race, gender, class and sexual orientation played a major role. We looked at and discussed old sitcoms from the 70s (All in the Family, Charlie's Angels and The Jeffersons) together. In these series you can find many clichés from this time. After this we were able to browse through the archive ourselves.
Afterwards a part of us did the VR bus tour The Downtown Experience by The Ride. The tour told the hictorical story of New York and took us mainly through the Financial District. At some stations we saw videos through VR glasses and at some there were performances on the streets. All in all I can say that it is a different kind of sightseeing tour, but I had imagined it differently and some videos with VR glasses were not really spectacular. It was nice to experience it once, but I would not do it again. I think I would prefer the normal tour of The Ride instead. The tour ended at Pier 17.
The historic Pier 17 is located in New York City's founding quarter, the Seaport District, not far from the Financial District and the World Trade Center. The location of the port made this area important for New York's economic growth in the first half of the 19th century. Today's Pier 17, which also houses the Seaport Museum, fosters community with a dynamic concert of food, drink, art, architecture, retail and entertainment, involving citizens all year round. Numerous events and concerts - especially in summer - are held there. A mixture of past and future! The rooftop also offers great views of Brooklyn Bridge, the harbor and the financial district.
In the evening we went to the live taping of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, a late-night talk and satirical news program on Comedy Central. It was a very special experience to be in a studio for the first time live at a show like that and to experience it very close. The guest of the day was Formula 1 driver Daniel Ricciado, who talked about the documentary series Formula 1: Drive to Survive. Further storys were: GOP senators reject impeachment trial witnesses & Jordan Klepper meets Iowa Trump supporters.
Monday, February 3 - Today we started the day at The Paley Center For Media. The Paley Center is more an archive than a museum and is dedicated to the cultural, creative, and social
significance of broadcast media (television, radio, emerging platforms). We listened to an interesting lecture about the 1970s, the decade of relevancy, in which the topics race, gender, class and sexual orientation played a major role. We looked at and discussed old sitcoms from the 70s (All in the Family, Charlie's Angels and The Jeffersons) together. In these series you can find many clichés from this time. After this we were able to browse through the archive ourselves.
The historic Pier 17 is located in New York City's founding quarter, the Seaport District, not far from the Financial District and the World Trade Center. The location of the port made this area important for New York's economic growth in the first half of the 19th century. Today's Pier 17, which also houses the Seaport Museum, fosters community with a dynamic concert of food, drink, art, architecture, retail and entertainment, involving citizens all year round. Numerous events and concerts - especially in summer - are held there. A mixture of past and future! The rooftop also offers great views of Brooklyn Bridge, the harbor and the financial district.
In the evening we went to the live taping of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, a late-night talk and satirical news program on Comedy Central. It was a very special experience to be in a studio for the first time live at a show like that and to experience it very close. The guest of the day was Formula 1 driver Daniel Ricciado, who talked about the documentary series Formula 1: Drive to Survive. Further storys were: GOP senators reject impeachment trial witnesses & Jordan Klepper meets Iowa Trump supporters.