Sunday, November 16, 2008
The Northwest’s premiere budget boutique hotel - The Ace - will soon have new digs on the east coast. In line with Ace properties in Seattle and Portland, many of the NY rooms will feature shared hallway bathrooms – but at least you’ll have you’re very own in-room turntable. Not kidding.
Along for the ride [...]
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Always a fall highlight for me, the New York Art Book Fair opens tonight and runs through the weekend. Looks like both the fair and the conference will feature a solid roster of participants. Sad to miss this.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
I still remember discovering Arthur Russell a few years ago and wondering how I’d never heard of him before. A cellist, singer/songwriter, disco producer and avant garde composer, Russell’s musical output could hardly be categorized. Now his life has been immortalized in a new documentary by Matt Wolf.
Before his untimely death from AIDS in 1992, [...]
Mariah shared the same birthday as the Opening Ceremony! We love the flier.
Still from the Opening Ceremony air ballet. Thanks to Ken for finding this one!
So we made it official. A little gathering in Prospect Park. Some food, drink and dancing. A lovely day.
Only thing I would have liked to add was a song or two. Apparently the CD we brought wouldn’t play. So here is the track that was meant to be heard when that random cha cha [...]
A lot of posts on China this week. Must be our pre-Olympics fever. Beijing-based architect and writer Neville Mars just published a massive new book on urbanism in China titled THE CHINESE DREAM: a society under construction. The book attempts to tackle some tricky questions relating to the country’s rapid expansion and speedy growth:
WHAT [...]
I was checking out some renderings of the Field Operations / Diller Scofidio + Renfro Highline renovation project that’s underway on New York’s west side, and was reminded of some photos I shot up on its formerly-abandoned tracks in the winter of 2001 I believe:
Chris Burden’s 65 foot tall model skyscraper composed of one million enlarged Erector Set pieces was unveiled in Rockefeller Center in June and will be removed a week from today. The piece, titled What My Dad Gave Me, is in line with Burden’s more recent acts of boyish engineering fantasy turned material, but seems quite [...]
I’ve long been fascinated by Roosevelt Island and Louis Kahn’s 1973 FDR Memorial proposal. The project was never realized due to New York’s financial crisis through the 70s and Kahn’s unexpected heart attack in a Penn Station bathroom in 1974. The south tip of the island, where Kahn’s memorial was to be situated, has become [...]
Although I’ve already missed much of the Buckminster Fuller-related activity taking over New York this summer, I’m still hoping to catch the Whitney’s show, Starting With the Universe. His utopian dreams may not have been realized, but I don’t think his goal of building bridges for the future can be called a failure.