Thursday, December 30, 2010
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Adrienne the Egg, part 2
Monday, December 27, 2010
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Adrienne the Egg, Part 1
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Details
This is how apartment buildings in New York used to look...not all metal and glass. Some of the new buildings are wonderful as well, but they tend to not have the attention to detail that used to exist. Life is in the details after all, isn't it?
The building I grew up in had a beautiful wooden interior like this in the elevator as well, until the late 90s, when the rippped it out and replaced with plastic. This elevator is graceful and warm. You get in and already feel at home.Imagine having paintings like this in your lobby?detail of dog from that wall piece...I am this woof.
The building I grew up in had a beautiful wooden interior like this in the elevator as well, until the late 90s, when the rippped it out and replaced with plastic. This elevator is graceful and warm. You get in and already feel at home.Imagine having paintings like this in your lobby?detail of dog from that wall piece...I am this woof.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Christmas in every crevice
Monday, December 20, 2010
Winter In America
2 things: If you have time this week and you live in New York City, go to the main Post Office (James A Farley) at 34th Street and pick up an Operation Santa letter to fulfill. What an amazing operation they have going over there. Makes me so happy, even with all the nonsense going on today and our stumbling economy.
Also, I was listening to H2O-Gate Blues by Gil Scott Heron again today. Crazy good! Half of it sounds so current. yikes!
Also, I was listening to H2O-Gate Blues by Gil Scott Heron again today. Crazy good! Half of it sounds so current. yikes!
Friday, December 17, 2010
Tenement Museum
Today I visited the Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side. I had never been there before. We went through "The Moores" tour, which highlights how a family of Irish immigrants that really lived there might have lived in 1869. I was impressed with the place. The building was built in 1867 but has not been lived in since 1935, so it is really crazy in there, you can really see how people lived, and how New York has continually reinvented itself. Our guide talked about how back in the 1860s there was a strong anti-immigrant sentiment and even a news organization and politicans that spread the ill will to the masses. Imagine that.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
I love to drive
Monday, December 13, 2010
Sunday, December 12, 2010
scavenger hunt
ancient lovers. I love how they are walking together but each looking out in their own direction. kinda says a lot. did they even have language? does it do us any good? today I saw a big dog on the street wearing a beautiful cable knit sweater. this was in the West Village, which gets fancier by the moment. I was thinking, he has fur, he doesn't need a coat. we don't have fur which is why we need coats...therefor a dog with a nice sweater is just... well, he looked embarrassed. sometimes I wish I was a woof. just for a day. do you know where this picture was taken?
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Angela
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Damnwell
I've known Alex Dezen (The Damnwells) for a really long time. We met in the meadow in Central Park in high school. I was the best man at his wedding to Angela (they called it the breast-man). I have always been a big fan of his music in the many incarnations it has taken over the years, but this is different. Some of the songs are the same, but he shows them from a different place, a place of quiet confidence and strength. It was a beautiful set the other night at Rockwood and although I am slightly biased, I feel like the music was reverberating out past the doors of the club, into the unconscious, bigger than just the person singing.
Monday, December 6, 2010
manifest
The Manifestation
Many arrivals make us live: the tree becoming
Green, a bird tipping the topmost bough,
A seed pushing itself beyond itself,
The mole making its way through darkest ground,
The worm, intrepid scholar of the soil—
Do these analogies perplex? A sky with clouds,
The motion of the moon, and waves at play,
A sea-wind pausing in a summer tree.
What does what it should do needs nothing more.
The body moves, though slowly, toward desire.
We come to something without knowing why.
- Theodore Roethke
Many arrivals make us live: the tree becoming
Green, a bird tipping the topmost bough,
A seed pushing itself beyond itself,
The mole making its way through darkest ground,
The worm, intrepid scholar of the soil—
Do these analogies perplex? A sky with clouds,
The motion of the moon, and waves at play,
A sea-wind pausing in a summer tree.
What does what it should do needs nothing more.
The body moves, though slowly, toward desire.
We come to something without knowing why.
- Theodore Roethke
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)