Summer - Exploration

An enhanced map of midtown Manhattan, focusing on the area surrounding the Hotel Pennsylvania where the HOPE conference was taking place.

Among the elements on the map were:

• A hovering 3D surveillance satellite casting a shadow over HOPE.
• A SpaceX logo in the starry sky.
• A portal.
• A big rat.
• A "No Olympics" logo where a stadium would have been had New York City won the bid for the 2012 Summer Games.
• A typewriter by the Associated Press building.
• A can of spray paint by a train yard.
• A snail by the USPS center.
• A bed bug.
• Security cameras by the housing projects.
• A pretzel by M&T Pretzel pushcart headquarters.
• A moon by the New Yorker Hotel (owned by the Unification Church, a.k.a. "Moonies")
• A pig by Esposito & Sons pork store
• A microphone by the old WBAI studios.
• A MPAA skull and crossbones by a movie theater.
• The logo for MSG by Madison Square Garden.
• A parade float by Macy's.
• An X Windows "X" marking the spot and the HOPE hacker at the site of the HOPE conference.
• A bomb by the Fuse studios.
• A camera by B&H photo.
• A Facebook "Not Like" logo.
• A beer by the Blarney Stone, a favorite hacker pub during HOPE.
• A fitness icon by FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology).
• A "Lost" and kosher dairy cow (a tip-off to the next issue's cover).