Photo/Video: Seatbelts Required for Lively Jackie Chan Q&A at Asia Society
In a rollicking 30-minute Q&A which saw an animated Chan spend just as much time out of his seat as in it, the superstar said China should use Hollywood to tell its story.
Read full story here.
Happy Friday! Thinking about heading over to Cure this weekend :)
Alice in Wonderland Inspired! Available at Cure Thrift Shop now!
Cure Thrift Shop is a philanthropic thrift destination in Manhattan’s East Village that benefits the Diabetes Research Institute, the best hope for a cure.
Untiltled, detail, Omar Velazquez 2008
CONCRETE ILLUSIONS: Public and Private Spaces in Puerto Rico
Opening Friday, March 1, 2013
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center
(107 Suffolk Street, between Delancey and Rivington Streets)“Exploring the urban dimensions of the Caribbean.”
The Abrazo Interno Gallery at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center cordially invites the public to view works of contemporary art from the Jose Hernandez Castrodad Collection. This is the first time that Hernandez Castrodad (collector and Puerto Rican art advocate) will exhibit part of his collection in NYC.
Artists exhibited include: Aby Ruiz, Carlos Marcial, Edgardo Larregui, EXOR Diego Romero, and Garvin Sierra
Wall Dogs: The Midair Muralists Who Paint New York
It’s 8am in Soho, the thermometer reads just above freezing, and the sky is bleak. Taxis splash down the streets; New Yorkers stride with their heads down, leaping over puddles, carelessly bumping into each other. Everyone wants to get out of the cold, out of the rain, into the warmth.
Ten stories above — on a long, skinny platform hanging from the facade of a building at Canal and Mercer in downtown Manhattan — it’s a different story. Climbers’ ropes secured around their torsos, Jason Coatney and Armando Balmaceda stand in a melange of open paint cans and brushes. These two muralists of Colossal Media, the largest hand-painted advertising company in America, are heavily layered in sweatshirts and raincoats. But in this industry, c’est la vie. Paintbrushes in their fingerless-gloved hands, earbuds in their ears — “I like to start out with Miles Davis in the morning,” Coatney smiles, his breath visible in the frigid air — they begin yet another workday in the sky.
I see these guys all the time and I’ve always wondered how you become a “Wall Dog.” This is really cool!
“It is not until the end of the performance that the structure of Obskene reveals its political nature. Trying to interpret this experimental performance will yield different results for different viewers, but it is certain that the gruesome tales of ancient gore and violent political strife should not be taken lightly, for the future may offer similar atrocities. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and the 2012 Presidential Election in New York, OBSKENE is extraordinarily timely and powerfully stirring.” Review by Erica Cheung of Exeunt Magazine
(via Review of Obskene at HERE Arts Centre | Exeunt Magazine)
Witnessed this happening (I live on Avenue B and 5th Street).
Hungry New York Families Dig Food Out Of Dumpsters After Sandy. Downtown residents broke a locked trash container open outside of an East Village grocery store Thursday afternoon. And no, they’re not all “freegans.”
Perez said she’s never eaten out of a Dumpster before, but she often struggles to feed her five children with the help of her boyfriend, who works in a meat factory. “Honestly this food is just sitting here,” she says, referencing the huge pile that other East Village residents are rummaging through, handing salvageable food over the side of the bin to their families. “And it’s getting dark outside, I don’t know how to get food like this without going all over the place and waiting in lines, and I don’t want us to go to bed hungry tonight.”
Finally electricity has returned to parts of Lower Manhattan (from 14th to Canal and east of Broadway to the river) and I am so relieved to have heat again in this slowly declining temperature. Although this week was to an extent harrowing, I can’t help but put aside the difficulties that I personally faced without electricity when I think about the destruction in Staten Island and Queens and the work that amazing people have done for the elderly and hospital patients in and out of Manhattan.
I am happy that things are slowly going back to normal, but my heart goes out to those who have lost more than their ability to use their iPhones and the Internet. This hurricane has more than anything put into perspective how much life is worth as opposed to our otherwise bought comforts.
Sandy Made A Giant Willow Topple Over: Ave. B
I live on 5th St. between avenues A & B in the Lower East Side. Sitting at my kitchen table I have a beautiful view to the garden behind my house (6th & B) where there is a giant, shady willow tree. Well, I just heard a large BOOM and looked outside to find that Sandy has made the huge tree just topple right over, actually blocking the entrance to the garden.
This is going to be a doozy to fix.
View from under the willow.
Willow is down.
Going to the MET’s college party tonight, theme: The Factory!
Hosiery advertisement, 1958
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