The authority also had to develop a design and software that was tailored to New York's subway. It requires installing transponders every 500 feet on the tracks, along with radios and zone controllers, and buying new trains or upgrading them with onboard computers, radios and speed sensors. 7, should have received new signals last year, but the project was delayed until the end of this year. The L line began using computerized signals in 2009 after about a decade of work. More than 25 years later, the authority has little to show for its effort to install modern signals. The train operator was speeding after he had been drinking. New York's quest to install the new system began in 1991, after a subway derailment at Union Square in Manhattan killed five people. is also safer because trains can be stopped automatically. Update: The NY Times has a look at the political and logistical challenges related to upgrading the NYC subway's antiquated infrastructure.Ī computerized signal system like C.B.T.C. Whoa, after watching that, I'm shocked that the trains ever get anywhere at all. Some of control systems are more than 80 years old. ly.) to safer and more reliable computerized systems. This video from the MTA shows some of the vintage technologies that are still in use to control many of the NYC's subway lines and how they are upgrading (ve. There's no nudity in the videos, but you might still find them NSFW. 'She spent half her time in thinking of beauty, bravery and mag-nan-nnn-im-im-ity.' The world was out and I was on.īy the time I'd read two pages, I was struggling mightily to keep my countenance. 'Rolling,' says Clayton, and everything instantly disappeared except the book in my hands and the words on the page. But soon enough such intellectualizing sexualizing was rendered naught. I couldn't help wondering if this adventure qualified as having a threesome with two strangers. It was not lost on me that a perfect triangulation between Clayton (auteur, cameraman), Katie (Hitachi artist), and me (the canvas) was in play, and it mirrored my internal mixture of curiosity, exhilaration, and stage fright. With Katie now in position under the table, takeoff is imminent and the stakes are high: the sessions are a one-shot deal, no retakes, and no editing of the footage after the fact. Her reading choice? The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.

Vanity Fair recently sent writer Tony Bentley to participate in an HL session. His first subject was adult film star Stoya her thoughts on the experience are here. In each of the project's resulting videos, a female participant is filmed from the waist up reading a story of her choosing while she is stimulated to orgasm with a vibrator by Cubitt's partner, Katie James. Photographer Clayton Cubitt started a project in 2012 called Hysterical Literature.

City of Secrets by Kelli Stanley