| ▲ | A Pickpocket's Guide to New York(newyorker.com) |
| 60 points by prismatic 7 hours ago | 7 comments |
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| ▲ | DicIfTEx 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Somewhat related: A Burglar's Guide to the City https://burglarsguide.com/ looking at urban architecture from the perspective of someone who doesn't use windows the way they're intended |
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| ▲ | cam_l 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Cool, made me think of Tschumi's manhattan transcripts, but I see he actually interviewed Tschumi in this book. And I also realise I used to read this guy's blog, crazy to see it is still active ~20 years later. | |
| ▲ | hmahncke 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | great book! |
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| ▲ | dgacmu 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Funny that it's in the new yorker - they had a great video of Apollo Robbins about 13 years ago demonstrating some pickpocketing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoUSO_Mj1TQ |
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| ▲ | pimlottc 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | This article links to their early piece on Apollo Robbins in the first paragraph | | |
| ▲ | dgacmu 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | It does, but the video is later than their original profile and not linked, and I thought it was interesting actually seeing him in action. It's one of the higher quality videos of him. |
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| ▲ | qaz_plm 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| https://archive.ph/3oXQX |
