Outdoor movie in Brooklyn Bridge Park - The Big Lebowski!
Washington Square Park in the summer
After sampling pizzas from lands far and wide- from deep dish delights at Gino’s East in Chicago to super-sized slices from the streets of New York, I can say with authority that the nation’s best pizza comes from Shakespeare’s Pizza in Columbia, Mo. During my three years at Mizzou’s J-School- right across the street- I spent (too) many 12:00 after-class lunch hours making memories with friends by the brick ovens- and their wheat-crust veggie pizza became a 11:00 Communications Law daydream. Apparently, they ship frozen pies… a potential solution for the insatiable craving that has infiltrated my tastebuds.
In other words, their pizza is really, really good. If you’re ever in Missouri, you need to check it out.
Seriously. Best pizza out there. I had the same in-class day dreams, but mine were in the Professional Building and Middlebush while listening to the various lessons to be learned in microeconomics and political statistics courses.
We’d been kicking around the idea of ordering some frozen pies for a football game this year. Perhaps sooner rather than later.
Opening of a polo match in Bridgehampton.
Artists on Park Avenue sketching the facade of Grand Central
Inside of David and Jeanie’s barn in East Hampton- this is where we stay when we visit the Hamptons during the summer. It is a gorgeous and quiet escape from the city which they built themselves. See some of their other projects at: http://stilesdesigns.com/
View inside the bamboo art installation atop the Met. They put a new installation up each summer that people can walk in and around.
A recent art installation in the city placed a number of pianos around public places for people to play. This guy was actually filming a music video on this one.
Read more here: http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/06/21/pianos.installation/index.html
The piano you see in the video still on that page is actually the same one in this picture.
Have you ever walked around in Lower Manhattan and noticed a trail of paint on the sidewalk?
About 3 years ago, one of my friends in school decided to follow the trail around and noticed that the trail produced the image that you see above; a strange-looking rendering of what appeared to be the word “momo.” MOMO, we found out, was the name of an artist that used to be based in NYC, and sure enough, the one responsible for tagging his name across the width of Manhattan.
After requesting a meetup, MOMO told my friend that he accomplished this task by fixing 5 gallon paint buckets to the back of his bike, poking a hole in the bottom of the containers, and riding though the West Village, SoHo, Greenwich Village, East Village, and Alphabet City. Momo made the tag in 2006. Some parts of the line have been covered up by roadwork and redone sidewalks but most of the line is still visible.
To me, the interesting thing about the line is how both similar and different it is to regular graffiti. Essentially, most graffiti writers enjoy seeing their name on thing. The bigger they can paint it and the more visible their tag is, the more people will notice their conquering of the city. MOMO created the largest tag in New York, yet the scale of his work here, so massive that it can’t all be viewed at once, means that thousands of people will walk on it each day and never even notice it. It’s simultaneously the biggest and smallest artistic statement I have seen in my time here.
MOMO made a video about the line which you can see here.
If you ever walk over it, now you’ll know what you’re looking at.
Westward view of 53rd St from the Gannett Media offices- you an spot the Peninsula Hotel in the right with the red umbrellas
