MAKING
World AIDS Day, is December 1, 2011 and this year, it will be 20 years since the start of the red ribbon campaign. In the next two weeks at homes, cafes, subway cars, offices and institutions people will be coming together to MAKE the red ribbons with the updated version that includes a button. The […]
Something exciting!
Hello. I am very excited to share a story. I can’t let the details out until tonight but it is probably the most romantic thing I will ever be involved in and I am not even involved in the romance. I will try to take some decent pics of what I am now vaguely describing. […]
NYC Trash Talk
A few weeks ago there was an interesting article about the amount of trash we create in NYC and the ways in which our recycling program lags behind other cities. “Environmental advocates call recycling the weak link in the city’s green agenda, even after legislation was passed last year to overhaul the 1989 recycling law […]
Buenos Dias
Sometimes surf shops come with a certain cliqueish ‘tude that can feel unwelcoming for non-tribe members. When I visited Buenos Dias—a new surf, art and vintage clothing store—in Montauk this summer, I was ready for some Ditch Plains ‘tude but instead met the sweetest people. Yaan Pessino, the surfer, photographer and vintage clothing collector who […]
Waiting for Waves
EndlessBummerNyDotCom from Todd Stewart on Vimeo. I love this moody short by the NYC crew at Endless Bummer.
Design for The Other 90%
Of the world’s total population of 6.5 billion, 5.8 billion people, or 90%, have little or no access to most of the products and services many of us take for granted; in fact, nearly half do not have regular access to food, clean water, or shelter. Design for the Other 90% explores a growing movement […]
Let There Be Light
After a week of gray skies in this season where the days are getting shorter, the light lovers among us won’t want to miss this weekend’s festival, Bring to Light, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and other cities around the world on Saturday, October 1st. This free nighttime public festival of art in New York City takes […]
Mollusk Surf Shop
Here’s a cool profile on a nice little surf shop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn—a window into the work of artist/owner, Chris Gentile, as well as his perspective on the NYC surf scene.
DUMBO Arts Festival
Our very own Hope Dector, printmaker and designer of the Harmony Blog, has a project at this weekend’s Dumbo Arts Festival. Don’t miss her collaboration, “Coppercussion/Papercussion,” with sound artist Nick Yulman. For their project they use materials of printmaking, electronics and sound to create a network of automated musical devices.
“Goodbye to Summer”?
Big ups to my friend Eva who made it into The Sartorialist last week in a post titled “Goodbye to Summer.” Of course, Scott Schuman has no idea that the surf season has only just begun in New York. Eva and I caught a few good ones in Rockaway this morning! Welcome to the Endless Summer.
Tomorrows Tulips
Just saw a show by Tomorrows Tulips at Piano’s. The band’s lead singer turns out to be pro surfer Alex Knost.
Quiksilver Pro Hits Long Beach
Surfers from all over the world descend on Long Beach, LI for the Quiksilver Pro New York tournament starting today (September 1-15). The Big Apple’s surfing community has mixed feelings about the event. Check out one surfer’s opinion, Urban Aloha, that appeared in the NYT last month.
The Roar
“I have been graced with occasions when creation out of destruction has been palpably evoked before my astonished eyes.”—Isamu Noguchi
BirdScraper
Zhong Huang recently took third place in the Animal Architecture awards with plans for a BirdScraper in New York City. The massive structure designed to house birds should address the problems faced by our feathered friends. “Over 90,000 birds die every year by crashing into skyscrapers because lights inside the buildings attract birds flying right […]
Michael Miller
I make surf paintings. My pictures are inspired by the act of surfing. The feeling of the wave, the ride between solid ground and sea, Hawaiian wave rituals, surfers, surf magazines, explorers, flecks of history, personal writings, physical feats of endurance, and liquid cinematography. —Michael Miller, a Brooklyn-based painter who’s transforming five paintings into faceted […]
Come on Irene
While some of us on the East Coast are running from the storm, surfers from Miami to Montauk are heading for the beach this weekend for what’s promised to be an epic swell.
Drug Money Art
Argentinean-born Tin Ojeda, a Montauk-based painter and surfer who created the Drug Money Art clothing line started by spray painting boards. Now he designs and prints hand-crafted t-shirts, scarves, books and boards that are sold around the world.
Cyclone Lounger
You can almost hear the “click clacking” of Coney Island’s famous Cyclone roller coaster when you look at the white laser-cut metal base of this lounge chair. One of several items in Uhuru‘s Coney Island Line, this piece is crafted from reclaimed wood from the demolished iconic boardwalk. “The Ipe, first installed on the boardwalk in […]
Lawrence Weiner, Rocks Upon the Beach Sand Upon the Rocks
“Weiner’s medium is language. As a Conceptual artist his constructions of words and phrases seek to affect our perception of the spaces they are presented in. In appearance the language used by the artist is plain and neutral. In effect, however, this particular piece is quite evocative—the artist invites us to imagine ourselves surrounded by […]
Blanket Statement
Fort Makers was founded by good friends Naomi Clark, Nana Spears and Noah James Spencer. “Our name is about making forts, as kids do, and also as adults do. For instance, small colonial American forts are an inspiration as well,” says Spears of the creative collaboration. “Any small group of people (tribes, forts, etc.) are […]
Mary Heilmann, Surfing on Acid
“I came to New York expecting to align myself with the sculptors, like Smithson. . . . I thought I would be part of that gang. Of course, that doesn’t happen so easily. I wasn’t invited into the Smithson/Serra gang. So I switched my practice rather vocally to painting, because they all hated painting.†—Mary […]
The Reclaimed-Wood Bowls of Alex Downs
Brooklyn-based artist Alex Downs makes bowls out of rummaged scrap wood that he glues together then carves with a chainsaw on a giant spinning wheel. It’s a high-octane version of pottery “throwing.” When he works, bits of wood fly through the room and sometimes even lodge themselves into the walls. The end results are beautiful […]
Vija Celmins, Untitled (Big Sea #1)
“It is about the huge, lonely patience that is fundamental to art that is not based upon the parading of self. Miss Celmins does not wish to present herself as  ‘amusing’ or ‘brilliant’ or ‘inventive.’ ” She can do all those things, and she did them to great effect when she first came to notice […]
One-Third of the World’s Food Wasted
A study released on Wednesday by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, via The New York Times, finds that “fully one-third of all food produced globally—a staggering 1.3 billion tons—is lost or wasted every year.” In developed nations, the waste apparently occurs in the form of edible food being thrown away.
