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Hip Hop in the City 2: Hanoi B-boy Battle

Posted: May 20th, 2009 | Author: Alex Alsup | Filed under: Photos, Thoughts, Video | Tags: , , , | 2 Comments »

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The hip hop scene in Hanoi, Vietnam puts NYC’s contemporary contributions to shame. Read on »


The Rails of Hanoi/Un Rail d’Hanoi

Posted: May 20th, 2009 | Author: Alex Alsup | Filed under: Photos | Tags: , , | 3 Comments »

Kids Along the RailsIn Hanoi, the train tracks meander through the city. Read on »


Digital Kalahari Bushmen

Posted: May 20th, 2009 | Author: Alex Alsup | Filed under: Essays | Tags: , , , | 1 Comment »

New York City insists the world ends at the limits of the five boroughs. From my overpriced, underground, Brooklyn studio apartment, Hanoi, Vietnam wasn’t on the other side of the globe, it was a chunk of ice in the Oort Cloud, it was A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… But, last year, wandering the internet from an office in the humdrum heart of Wall Street’s melodramatic collapse, I found a website called The New Hanoian. Read on »