MONKEY TRAILS
Lush landscaping provides a natural corridor for howler monkeys to travel from spot-to-spot, stopping for snacks along the way. Moving through the treetops, they avoid confrontations with dogs or traffic. Last month I visited the Harmony Hotel where we saw native animals almost every day. Howler monkeys, so named for their deep guttural calls that […]
NYFF 2013: Convergence
Today marks the opening of the 51st New York Film Festival, brought to us by the Film Society at Lincoln Center. Apart from the incredible and diverse talent throughout the next few weeks of screenings, this weekend also marks the opening of Convergence, a two day program devoted to the most exciting immersive storytelling projects being […]
Martin Klimas’ Flower Explosions and Daft Punk Paintings
German photographer Martin Klimas loves to play. I came across his remarkable photos of high speed flower explosions after reading about a former work of his featuring photographs of shattered ceramic figures. For the flower series, Klimas first soaked them in liquid nitrogen before blasting them with an airgun. The result is a burst of […]
Edward Hopper Diorama at Flatiron Building
Last weekend the Whitney unveiled a 3D installation diorama of Edward Hopper’s iconic “Nighthawk’s” painting outside New York’s Flatiron building. Though Gothamist was quick to point out that the actual diner never existed, Hopper himself said that the locale “was suggested by a restaurant on Greenwich Avenue where two streets meet.” Check out Whitney curator Carter Foster’s […]
Courtesy of Nature
Rather than commission an artist to design a piece for a given museum or gallery, architect Anouk Vogel and landscape artist Johan Selbing were commissioned by Jardins de Métis to design Courtesy of Nature, a contextual art installation surrounding living trees and ferns. The temporary gallery was featured as part of this year’s International Garden Festival, running through September 29. […]
Floating on the Bronx River
Throughout August you can find a gorgeous metal dome floating mysteriously on the Bronx River. Designed and made by husband and wife team Amanda Schachter and Alexander Levi of SLO Architecture, the structure was created entirely from recycled plastic bottles and discarded umbrellas collected from the streets of New York City. They describe their piece as “performance […]
Soundings: A Contemporary Score
MoMa’s newest exhibit Soundings: A Contemporary Score will open tomorrow, featuring a number of field recordings and site specific audio clips from around the world. Read more below from MoMA’s site: MoMA’s first major exhibition of sound art presents work by 16 of the most innovative contemporary artists working with sound. While these artists approach sound […]
Impossible Project 8×10 Portrait Day
Twice a month the during one of their 8×10 Portrait Weekends. Check out their blog to read about a previous event they held for Mother’s Day and the gorgeous photos that emerged. Next Portrait Weekend: August 9th and 10th, 12-4pm RVSP@THEIMPOSSIBLEPROJECT.COM $40 for one, $60 for two Impossible Project NYC Space 425 Broadway New York […]
Challenging the Sense of Reality; The Dalston House
If you won’t have a chance to catch the MoMA’s Rain Room exhibit before it closes this Sunday, rest assured, you can find a similarly disorienting experience at the Barbican Gallery in London where Dalston House will be available through August 4th. Indulging every super-hero dream, the piece invites audience members to scale its walls from […]
Wassaic Arts Festival, August 2-4
For a good many of us just itching to get out of the city on a hot weekend, once July 4th has passed we feel ready to get excited about the Wassaic Arts Festival. Each year the a nearby field. The Festival is accessible by taking the Metro North to Wassaic and walking to the […]
CreativeMornings Lecture Series
Looking for an inspiring and fresh take on the lecture series? Tina Roth Eisenberg, whose popular design blog Year in 2005. Past lecture titles include, Seeking out Criticism, Pleasure.Flow.Meaning, and Don’t Be The Best. The lectures are free by RSVP and tickets tend to sell out the mornings they become available. Follow your city’s CreativeMorning twitter […]
Seaside Then & Now
In honor of the renovations that are taking place at seaside destinations around the UK, residents of the towns have been posting photos taken of the resorts in their heyday as well as photos of what they look like today. The towns once attracted many tourists, but in recent years attendance has waned drastically. Gathering […]
THIS IS STORY; Lower Manhattan’s Everchanging Retail Space
New York City has long offered its inhabitants the opportunity to transform common spaces into something new. I’ve seen a shared apartment turned into a salon, read how a water-tower hosts a secret nightclub, and just last week a group of artists in Greenpoint showed their site-specific work within an old medical office for a […]
Michael Fordham on California’s Coast
Yesterday the some of the famous shops, beaches and individuals that make up the west coast surfing community, as well as a revealing portrait of Fordham himself and how easily he falls into step with his wave-bound peers. California road trip: surfing the perfect wave
Poor Air Quality on Northeast Coast
According to Boston’s Business Journal, The EPA has predicted unhealthy air quality for many coastal beaches in the Northeast region this weekend. Children and adults with respiratory conditions are especially advised to avoid strenuous activities as elevated ozone levels can lead to breathing problems. Though it’s going to be this year’s first hot weekend since […]
Urban Air
Los Angeles artist Stephen Glassman has plans for the steel frames that hoist billboards above his concrete city. He wants to transform them into suspended bamboo gardens, transforming the scenery of thousands of commuters every day. His project, that we can often lose sight of. To create the garden billboards, Glassman and his crew alter […]
Surf Culture in Japan
Given its geography, Japan seems a natural fit for surfing culture. But what’s interesting is the way in which it’s started to take hold again recently, which is to say they’ve put an emphasis on the culture as much as, if not more than the surfing. the beach, rather than inside the city. It’s as […]
Myoung Ho Lee’s Treescapes
It’s always a thrill when a photographer develops a fresh approach to the classic landscape. The New York Times Style Magazine featured work from South Korean artist Myoung Ho Lee, whose collection of trees against white canvas are as gorgeous as they are understated. According to the article, Lee wanted to rid the final shots […]
Unlocking Malibu’s Beaches
Malibu hosts some of the most beautiful beaches in this country, and apparently many of the residents in the area have been putting up fake signs for years, discouraging the public from accessing them. USA Today reports that despite recent legislation put into action to protect the rights of the public to use the beaches, […]
Solar Plane Flies over San Francisco
On Wednesday afternoon the Solar Impulse, a plane that relies entirely on energy from the sun, made its third and final test flight above San Francisco Bay. Soon it will fly across the length of the United States, ending its trip in New York come the end of June or July. According to the Guardian, […]
Sámi-Walking with Reindeer/ Photos by Erika Larsen
Erika Larsen knew she wanted to photograph the reindeer herders who live as nomads throughout northern Scandinavia and Russia, known as the Sámi. In order to truly immerse herself in their culture, Larsen initially worked as a housekeeper for a Sámi family. She cleaned bathrooms and learned to cook reindeer while earning the trust and […]
