Tuesday, December 9, 2008
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition (for the evening)
Get ready for $2.50 subway rides (City Room)
Why more women are boozing it up (New York)
Concern about the fate of the Tile Bar? (Eater)
Jeremiah talks with Karen, the Love Saves the Day sidewalk vendor (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)
Defending Wes Anderson (Hammer to Nail)
Don't Mess With the Zohan doesn't make David Denby's top-10 list (The New Yorker)
Encountering a brass band after happy hour (Hunter-Gatherer)
This seems like a nice spot for an ad
View from Houston of a new apartment building going up on Second Street between Avenue B and Avenue C.
"After watching all three films, New York just looks like the craziest place on Earth"
We've talked before about the work of photographer/filmmaker Richard Sandler. He has made several documentaries, including Brave New York, which chronicles the East Village from 1988-2003. Then there's Sway, which is 14 years of camcorder-recorded subway rides that have been edited together. These two films -- along with Subway to the Former East Village -- are being released on Brink DVD today.
Mike Everleth reviews the package in Bad Lit:
After watching all three films, New York just looks like the craziest place on Earth, which, for some including myself and obviously for Sandler, makes it just about the most beautiful place on Earth. There’s one touching scene in Sway when Sandler talks with an elderly gentleman about how great NYC is. The old man can’t find anything to love about it while Sandler gushes about the amazing parade of life that passes by everyday. And thank God Sandler was there with a camera to catch it all.
So do you think they bought the 1-Day Fun Pass from the MTA?
Just a quick mid-morning musical interlude.
Dog gone (groan)
I like to amuse myself in little ways. Like!: Walking by the condo construction site on 13th Street near Third Avenue, the place that had the "attack dog" on duty.
I was never convinced that a dog was on the premises...until the fall. Even then, I thought, perhaps this was all an elaborate (and expensive!) audio system.
Anyway, no more dog. [Sighs. Weeps.]
How will I pass the time now?
And look what those teases did.
I was never convinced that a dog was on the premises...until the fall. Even then, I thought, perhaps this was all an elaborate (and expensive!) audio system.
Anyway, no more dog. [Sighs. Weeps.]
How will I pass the time now?
And look what those teases did.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Fixed Rate Mortgages are available
Noted Manhattan cakemaker April Reed created a gingerbread version of the Farnsworth House. Can be yours for only ... $4,320. (New York Times)
Looking at the photography of Nathan Kensinger
I first got turned on to the adventurous photography of Nathan Kensinger over at Curbed. From exploring the nooks and crannies of the Brooklyn Army Terminal to an abandoned train tunnel that runs underneath East New York, Kensinger has a knack for finding the most provocative and haunting images of the area's (remaining) industrial wastelands.
Most recently, he went underneath Shoot the Freak at Coney Island. As he wrote:
The freak's frontyard conceals an entrance to the strange world under the boardwalk, with long forgotten hamburger signs, picnic tables and strange lairs. Hidden in the freak's backyard is a concrete porch looking out on a vast empty plain that was once Coney Island's Go-Kart track, batting cage and mini-golf course. Beyond this empty lot lies the Wonder Wheel, which is now surrounded by the demolition of Astroland. The home of the freak, like the gritty spirit of modern Coney Island, may be gone by next summer, replaced by the promise of luxury condominiums.
My (arguably) favorite of his essays: The Victim Services center of Bayley-Seton Hospital on Staten Island. Check it out for yourself here.
The Times did a short profile of him here.
Here's his Flickr page.
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