On a sunny Saturday early afternoon I spotted this (apparently new) street art outside of the C, E subway stop on 24th Street.
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More photos later, but here's a quick peek into how some of my friends and I rang in the first seriously warm weekend of the year. This is the official "jump off" photo for the summer of 2009.
Last Saturday I attended a surprise belated birthday party for Pooja at a karaoke joint.
While waiting for Pooja's arrival, her brother Chirag got the singing off on the right note. Mariya, with the SLR camera, looks very excited. Too excited.
Pooja and Chirag! It was also Chirag's birthday that week: Happy birthday guys!
Okay, back to singing!
Duet!
Ayo is all up in the food.
Ayo on the mike for a solo.
Pooja singing along with Namik. The lack of a microphone isn't stopping Pooja so long as no one takes that wine bottle away from her. Classy, Pooja!
Thumbs up for the food!
As we neared the end of our reservation at the karaoke bar, we all become more frenzied in trying to finish the alcohol. Here's Ayo doing his part as I enable the pitcher.
Singing loudly!
The wine bottle that never left Pooja's hand.
Haha.
Melissa takes a turn on the pole.
Ayo protecting the birthday girl...from herself.
Pooja dodging a flip.
Tri-party hat.
The End.
I had a low key weekend. I dropped into a few art galleries and viewed Sophie Calle's "Take Care of Yourself" exhibition at Paul Cooper Gallery and Adel Abdessemed's "Rio" at David Zwirner.
I survived the rain and met Pooja at her apartment where I found her drinking an enormous glass of milk. I thought people stopped doing this after elementary school.
Namik and I in front of Abdessemed's remarkable sculpture "Telle mere tel fils." This entwined and braided piece constructed from three planes extends over 65 feet long.
Namik and Pooja caught in the knot.
How do we lighten the mood? Jump of course.
Take two. Haha.
Then we explored the rest of the artist's works, like this regulation sized soccer ball made from razor wire.
Ouch.
I was struck by this photograph, "Saturday" of the artist's wife and children walking down a street near their home in New York. Look closely and the urban idyllic setting breaks down.
Stunningly sculpture of a blackened car body evoking violent imagery of riots, bombings, and war. "Practice zero tolerance" is a clay replica formed from the remains of a vandalized car during the 2005 riots in Perpignan, France.
Then we hopped into another gallery nearby.
Cardboard furniture.
Quite comfy!
Wall E as an old man.
Violent!
What mystery does this suitcase hold?
The banal wood suitcase is actually a portable party to go!
Dangerous!
Lastly, we went to Sophie Calle's exhibition. Previously where she asked various women to analyze a break-up email she received from her boyfriend. This was a wild exhibit that I highly recommend. And we were privileged to see the artist in person that day, although we were all too chicken to talk to her.
The email shot by a female sharpshooter at a shooting range.
Update: And finally the official (amusing) music video with the accompanying visual references for "Ode to Murray Hill!" [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eylKBJiDNeM&fmt=18]
Manhattan neighborhood Murray Hill, or as the New York Observer called it "Murray Hell," conveniently located generally between East 29th and 38th streets, has a particular reputation among locals for its homogeneous uniformity.
The stereotype runs something like this: Arriving in the City for jobs in the predictable areas of finance and PR, recently graduated affluent coeds--hair blown brunettes in skinny jeans and frat boys in seersucker shorts--from Syracuse and Penn swarm into dorm like luxe apartments (Windsor Court, Apt. 11F) and spend their nights at local bars such as Joshua Tree.
I'm surprised it took this long, but there's finally a song that pays homage to this neighborhood and its denizens, titled "Ode to Murray Hill" by DJ Lubel.
My world is wide open and I'm free as a bird But I've got to live on 34th from Park to Third. U Mich, Emory, Cornell--If you didn't go to one of these, Go away because you're poor!
Listen to the song here.
Confession: Although my residency there was a short New York minute, my first apartment in this city out of college was in Murray Hill, the Habitat to be exact. My roommate was a Bear Stearns banker from Penn.
[Thanks Sarah!]
The Unemployment Olympics will take place tomorrow, March 31 at 1:30 pm in Tompkins Square Park. Competitive events will include the fax machine toss, which is something I'd like to see. You must be unemployed (proof of unemployment required) to enter. The Microsoft Paint website is hilarious.
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Two friends of mine from my high school days in Alaska came to New York City earlier this week for a visit. Clay has been here a bunch of time so it's all old news to him, but Will was a New York City virgin. Unfortunately I didn't take too many photos during their fun visit. Good seeing you guys!
Will doing the required jump (with the jazz finger combo) at Madison Square Garden where we saw the Knicks, no surprise here, lose.
The three amigos Alaskans.
Clay asking Will to check his breath (or not) after eating lunch in Chinatown.
I have no idea what's going on here. Haha. But I like how Will is giving it his best unimpressed Williamsburg hipster expression.
Speaking of hipsters, he told us this joke which I found hilarious.
Q: How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: You don't know??
LOL.
We visited our other high school friend Mark, an artist who lives in New York City now, and his studio space in Brooklyn.
Clay, Will, and Mark!
Mark's ill-aimed dart embedded into the brick wall.
That's serious!
I like this bar coaster.
The End.(with
New York Magazine's listing of 7 bars at which with some bar hopping among them, you will be able to solidly drink $1 beers from 11 am to 11 pm.
11 a.m.–5 p.m.: Singas Famous Pizza 176 Second Ave., at 11th St.; 212-253-7300 Good morning! In addition to dollar beers, this East Village pizza chain offers up individual square pizzas instead of the usual slices, meaning you can adequately prime your stomach for what's to come. Bud Light, Bud Heavy, and Coors are all $1; for high rollers, pitchers are $5.
Yayyyy beer.
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After saving a man who fell onto the subway tracks at New York's Penn Station on Monday, the hero Chad Lindsay, 33--an aspiring actor currently appearing "in an Off Broadway show called “Kasper Hauser,” in a role that requires him to repeatedly lift a character who cannot walk"--reluctantly stepped forward.
Mr. Lindsey said he sensed a train was approaching, because the platform was crowded. “I dropped my bag and jumped down there. I tried to wake him up,” he said. “He probably had a massive concussion at that point. I jumped down there and he just wouldn’t wake up, and he was bleeding all over the place.”
He looked back up at the people on the platform. “I yelled, ‘Contact the station agent and call the police!’ which I think is hilarious because I don’t think I ever said ‘station agent’ before in my life. What am I, on ‘24’?”
One observation that Lindsay told the reporter was that the platform is "higher than you think it is." I've read this in the past. I've always wanted to jump down there to see for myself. Maybe climbing out of the tracks can be part of a NYC residency requirement, kind of like the swim test at some schools.
Last Saturday, I went to the Knicks game then Namik's birthday party.
Watching the pregame shoot around.
Andy and I noticed the worst media buy ever. Who ever looks up UNDER the scoreboard? Advertising FAIL.
We arrived to the party and found an exciting game of left center right in progress. I had never played this game before and well by the end of the night, I fell in love with it.
Silly string punishment for the winner!
KG goes in big with...his beer.
Who's the big winner? Mary is the big winner.
Mun taking the house cut.
Hahaha.
Stairway dancing!
Afterwards we decided to swing by the Heights, a familiar bar for anyone who attended Columbia or Barnard. Note the drunk girl in the back who wanted to get in on the picture.
Drunk girl's man trying to manage her. Haha
Note Pooja's empty plastic drink cup. "Hey Pooja, lets have a drinking contest." "OKAY!"
The End.
Hey art and book loving New Yorkers, Taschen is having a sale this weekend with books discounted 50-75% off at their Soho location.
Friday, January 23rd and Saturday, January 24th: 11am - 8pm, and Sunday, January 25th: 12pm - 8pm.
Cheers and maybe I'll see you there on Saturday.
- Star Trek gloves...or Lobster gloves?
- Hitler is really mad about his real estate investment gone bad.
- Thai temple made out of Heinken and local beer bottles. Stunning.
- Cool creative reel from Laundry!
- If you have yellow fever you'll like this site from Uniqlo.
- Cool music video.
- Another cool PSP billboard. Although mine is gathering dust at the moment. Bring out Lumines 3!!!
- Lincoln and the myth of the "Team of Rivals."
- INSANITY on a modified drum set for Guitar Hero.
- Great opening sentences from Science Fiction.
- X-ray view of a macbook.
- Mitt Romney says let Detroit go bankrupt.
- How Detroit drove into a ditch. Fascinating read about how the Detroit auto companies got to where they are today with their hands out alms in DC.
RSS reader dump.
- Escape alarm clock. WANT.
- Bike Hero.
- Rooms for rent for the Obama inauguration.
- Indian navy beats up on pirates!
- Mom pants horror.
- HAHAHA!
- I love you.
- Sonics basketball fan files for free agency.
- Insane drift racing! It makes Fast and Furious look like the documentary of the Model T.
- I really WANT this mini digital camera.
- The death spiral of Internet surfing.
- Mormons Seeking Forgiveness.
- Bacon floss. I usually support bacon but this is terrible.
- Neat background story to the Dove campaign.
- How A-bomb testing changed people's brains.
- I want everything from this store.
- Comparison of headwear worn by gnomes by %.
- Flaming truck.
- Best lunch bags ever by a mom who is setting the bar REALLY high for other moms at that school.
- Periodic table wine. I WANT.
- How many players are still active from video games RBI Baseball and Tecmo Super Bowl?
- You are beautiful.
More RSS dumping.
- Airport security theater.
- Japan's fastest video game controller masher.
- Who put this dick on my back???
- Terrorists are like the rest of us. They hate commuting.
- Strunk and White and software programming.
- Apple grenade launcher.
- Jussipussi.
- What personnel is essential during a zombie attack?
- Heartbeat of a street. Tres cool.
- The 9 phases of dating.
- Tranformers BBQ logo. Transformers, PIG OUT!
- Awesome alarm clock.
- Wonderbra pillow.
- New York Times Bill Cunningham shooting in the rain.
- 10 most fascinating savants in the world.
- How to get rid of that body in your freezer.
- Skateboard stairs.
Emptying the contents of my RSS reblog recycle can.
- Conde Nast's problem with the Internet. Mr. Newhouse, I am available to bring your flagship magazines into the 21st century AND monitize the transition as well!
- Prop 8 protest sign. Fabulous is now furious!
- Rock Band creators receive $300 million bonus.
- A lot of Starbucks cups in the trash.
- iPod speakers made with just four paper cups and toothpicks.
- Elite New York City restaurants in bidding war for 2.15 lb white truffle. Approximately 140 over priced dishes can be produced with this one truffle.
- Timelapse London. I told you I'm a sucker for this overplayed technique.
- My new favorite derivative of the "jump" photo meme: Kiss the ceiling photos.
- Funny billboard. Not so funny for 4th graders.
- One of my all time favorite TV sitcoms might make it to the big screen. Yaaaayyyyy!
- Sauron's eye discovered to be located on Saturn. [Insert joke about Uranus.]
- Superman does weed, dude.
- Teddy bear suicide.
- Moye's (as usual) brilliant analysis of the live puppy cam.
- Aliens Lego. I WANT.
- The difference between "friend" and "best friend."
- Vogue nesting dolls. I WANT.
- Hand made fonts. Oh, to have disposable income otherwise known as "silly money"...
- What the (horrifying) face of cosmetic surgery addiction looks like, especially when cooking oil is injected in the face. Ya'll Koreans need to take it easy with all this plastic surgery stuff. This is where I conveniently downplay my Koreanness in favor of my Mexicanness.
- Armless man steals TV. HAHAHAHA.
- Another freakish Chinese citizen. This time with 8 toes on each foot, and no thumb. WTF.
- Cool tattoo. But to echo Nada Mas, giraffe? Really?
- Personal flip books.
- Creative hand painting.
- 5 real life missions for 007.
- Coolest flip flops EVER. I WANT.
- The next "Michael Jordans."
- Passive aggressive notes. It's fine if you don't want to click on that link. I mean you've only read this far but I understand if you don't want to read this one.
- Make a muppet. I WANT.
- Lomo sidekick camera bag. Slick.
- Funny choking ad. Not funny IRL.
Phew.
Empire State Building, Saturday evening.
