thespian & amateur juggler
thespian & amateur juggler
American Theatre of Actors presents Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Award-winning director James Jennings sets the controversial dramatic-comedy in the 1930’s. This outdoor production marks the beginning of ATA’s 34th Season. If it rains, the performance will be indoors in the Off-Broadway Chernuchin Theatre.
The world premier of the play Losing Sleep is a portrait of loss and recovery that takes place in a sleep lab, where people come for diagnosis and treatment. Over the course of a few nights, John and his slacker assistant (me) encounter unusual patients, such as a truck driver who suffers from sexual urges. They must face their fears and reconcile with their future, or they may never fall asleep again. Click here to read more.
My friend and I were having a conversation that begin with, If you're wearing a band's tee shirt, you better be able to name some songs. For me, Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures shirt takes the cake, worn by pseudo hipsters who never heard of the band until the film Control came out and subsequently "Love Will Tear Us Apart" became the anthem for a generation who for the most part doesn't know the first thing from postpunk.
Brandee Brown, seen recently sporting the classic LOLA Vogue tee on Refinery 29.com at the Nylon/Nike celebration, is one of our favorites!!! See after the jump to find out a little bit about what exactly Brandee does, what turns her on, and check out her photography. - Jon
In early June, it seemed the Montauk Monster caper had been solved: burnt raccoon sent on raft from Shelter Island. Now another one is back! What’s creepy is that the carcass is positioned in a similar pose. PJ Monte shot it, I asked him about it. - Jon
I had a deep interview with Tripoli last week at the office. He's curating an upcoming art opening at his gallery in Southampton www.tripoligallery.com. He's been grinding it out, working nonstop, and was kind enough to drop in after picking up some lights for a chat. Artists, take heed! - Jon
Email interviews are what's good these days. B-Roc of The Knocks sent me some telling answers to a few questions I posed about his label and band. Heavy Roc Music is a force to be reckoned with, so check out the new website premiering today! - Jon
In conjunction with the launch of her new website, saraglick.com
, we sat down with the makeup artist extraordinaire for some Q&As. Enjoy! - Jon
Spaceport America began construction in New Mexico last Friday. The first ever commercial spaceport will host private space travel companies such as Virgin Galactic, who spent over $300 million in developing a new space launch system.
Alex Young and I got a chance to talk at the office today about the LOLA Atlanta gallery/boutique. They are doing some really great work on it - it sounds like it's going to be taking over the south in a huge way. He also told me a little about his photography. Here's what's going down. - Jon
The Pullpo Advertising Agency in Santiago Chile, converted an abandoned salt factory into their state of the art workplace. Juxtaposing industrial aesthetics with the unique demands of an advertising agency, their inter-related flexible units host ample space for diverse productive processes.
This classy lady is making even saddle shoes look sexy in a 1940 kind of way and, of course, the bangs go without saying. The photo posted on Sartorialist is from a period dance collection shot on Governor’s Island.
Our view from the office looks directly at the side of New Museum (Hell, Yes!), which exemplifies the aesthetics of modern architecture in NYC. The Cooper Union’s new concave academic building has a stylish metal screen on the outside and a classical staircase inside. The Cooper Union Builds site has a “webcam” where you can watch them build, one picture every ten minutes or .0016666667 frames per second (hmm).
Along Hudson River Park are submerged wooden skeletons of the remains of vanished piers, myriad traces from the past. These ruins of Pier 42 will be temporarily transformed later this year. Figurative sculptor Joan Benefiel has constructed figures to fill these gaps, whose universal body language will speak to the disparately tongued masses.
The Guggenheim's Learning By Doing, an exhibition of shelter designs by Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture in Arizona and Wisconsin, in conjunction with Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward, has been extended with the launch of a competition.
Part tragedy, part romance. Banishment, a bet, a poisonous dram, a faked death, failed seduction, deceit, decapitation, cross-dressing, and uproarious entertainment only Shakespeare could conjure.
By no means a great revelation but pretty cool nonetheless, I came across this photo on purple DIARY of Mitra Farahmand in front of Hector's, the diner and cabbie hangout from Taxi Driver - arguably one of the best American films ever made.
You might know Vice from the DO’s and DON’T’s Book that may or may not have sat on your coffee table in college as well as its free magazines. Scattered throughout the latest Brazilian Issue’s pages in between articles such as Hand Jobs, which teaches you phrases like how to say “Go fuck your ass up” using a free hand, are sexy beach babes shot by Richard Kern. It's at least a way to break up the time when you're not reading Dostoyevsky.
Jonah Samson, Cool Hunting’s contributing writer, selected photos from his “Pleasantville” series to include in the “View Master” exhibition at Seattle's G. Gibson Gallery. The uncanny dioramas resemble landscaping models sabotaged by horny schoolboys, yet are crafted with meticulous artistry.
The Swiss company Arniko employs talented Nepalese woodcarvers to make these slalom decks resembling '70s surfboards. With their socially responsible production, the brand improves working conditions while promoting craftsmanship.
The SMITHUMENTA show, organized by the Bruce High Quality Foundation, includes some great work by more than 60 artists -- and the space, Ray Smith's studio (261 Bong Street, Brooklyn) near the Gowanus Projects in Carroll Gardens, is incredible. The show will be available to view BY APPOINTMENT ONLY until June 14th.
Browsing through Tim's visually stimulating new tv blog, I came across a photo from Variations, new works by Jessica Eaton. The exhibition of her beautiful prints is sadly in Vancouver. But her vibrant polychromatic images encompass a fascination with geometry-especially orbs-and play with symmetry in exciting and colorful ways.
Smell-O-Vision was a cool idea in the sixties but now with 3D IMAX films and the like, it seems a bit archaic. At the NYC Food Film Festival (June 13-19) enjoy multi-sensory films like Know Your Mushrooms by sampling the food portrayed in them.
Julia (Frances, The Americans) is stepping out on her own with HeavyRoc Music with her newly-dropped remix of Cocaine, featured on Andrew W.K. and DJ B-Roc Presents. If you’re looking to ditch said expensive habit this song might not necessarily cure your addiction, but it’s definitely sexy on the ears. Julia will be performing it tonight at Santos Party House in New York City.
Sam Potts, graphic designer, is pioneering "a new old-fashioned" form of (sigh) tweeting. He sends longhand versions of his own posts from Twitter upon request, written on 4X6 cards or scrap paper. To avoid infringement he only recreates his own posts, but he will send Twitter on Paper to you for free via mail-mail or email.
Saturday May 30 is one of the biannual occasions when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan grid, making our cross-streets glow like a bitch in heat. On Sunday, instead of half the sun above the grid, you will see the entire fiery orb set on the horizon.
MAD architects designed this office headquarters in Dubai. The building is elevated by tubelike structures so as to not obstruct the view of the water at ground level. What's cool is the tubes are meant to circulate people throughout. It looks like an iMac perched on a desktop of trees.
Join us this Memorial Day weekend at the Harbor Club’s grand opening! Bring in the summer with style and comfort at this authentic, outdoor Hamptons nightclub adorned with fire pits, pebbles, bamboo, and attractive people. With dope beats and amazing bar and table service, you can be sure the party will be sick! Here’s the lineup:
The Cold War Kids have an ill page on MTV.com, featuring the I've Seen Enough interactive experience. You can click on a band member to mute him and do the same on a color bar above the video to change the track.
Stop whatever you're doing and go to the Aurora Lopez-Talavera Studio (145 Avenue of the Americas, #2A) and buy (or just admire) some of Nicholas Vreeland's Photos for Rato, but don't hesitate because the exhibition is today from 3-9, cocktails at 6:30.
Taylor De Cordoba presents Sleep Sleep an installation by Los Angeles-based artist Jeana Sohn. Drawing upon mythologies and the vastness of nature, Sohn depicts interactions between humans and the natural world. In these scenes, painted on panel, peacefulness meets anxiety.
On Monday, May 18th, MTV will be broadcasting The Cure's 2008 Rome performance online on their World Stage show. I saw them at MSG on my birthday last year and they're still really dope. Fans should also check out their most recent remix EP.
The International Center of Photography opens its Richard Avedon retrospective today, and it's the largest survey of his fashion work since '78 at the Met. Avedon, famous for his melding of high art, fashion, and pop culture, photographed for Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, and The New Yorker. Over 200 vintage prints, magazine layouts, and archival material spanning his career will be featured in the exhibition.
Since 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has astounded Earthlings with images of the formation of galaxies deep in the primordial mist, and beyond. Its pictures have lead to the discovery of the dark energy responsible for accelerating the expansion of the universe, the single most mind-blowing, disturbing phenomenon that keeps me up at night.
LOLA New York is named in honor and loving memory after an abandoned, overgrown plot of land known as Lola Prentice Memorial Park. Using stolen wood from construction sites of nearby houses, a home-made skate-park rose out of nowhere within a month. It was organized, run and enforced by dozens of twelve and thirteen year olds. The park became a legendary refuge and playground for unsupervised youths. Around 1998 it became too popular and boisterous and the police decided shut it down unannounced; destroyed the ramps, dumping gravel over the park and building a police station on the grounds.
Through the designs, music, artwork, events & clothing the values of Lola Prentice Memorial Park: loyalty, freedom, creativity and camaraderie are able to live on and blossom.
