Having an amazing time in NY. Stories soon!
Posts Tagged ‘video’
Subway!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged muppets, subway, video on August 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The mean reds
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Breakfast at Tiffany's, fillum, Holly Golightly, the mean reds, video on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Holly Golightly: You know those days when you get the mean reds?
Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues?
Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you’re getting fat, and maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re just sad, that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid, and you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?
Such a lady
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Colorado, Danielle Ate The Sandwich, dogs, Louis Armstrong, music, Tina Turner, ukulele, video on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
More video: a song by my favourite new musician of the week Danielle Ate The Sandwich (normally of Colorado) about a dog she met in NYC.
Other favourite videos: What’s Love Got To Do With It?, Ode to Optophobia & most of all, I Get Ideas (When We Are Dancing)
A miracle city
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged architecture, history, the five boroughs, video, Wall Street on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Breathe it out & let it in
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged I Was A Teenage Moira Clunie, Kim Gordon, music, Sonic Youth, video, Washing Machine on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t think Sonic Youth has featured on this blog yet, which seems a bit of an oversight on my part. Not that, now I’m mentioning them, I can think of anything intelligent to say.
When I was 17, I thought New York City sounded like Washing Machine & women in New York City were like Kim Gordon. “& she said honey, here’s a quarter. Go put it in a washing machine.“, “Yeah, I take my baby down to the street & I buy him a soda pop.” etc. So that’s another part of my mental image of the city, gruff & swirly guitars & short dresses & biceps.
Those were the reasons and that was New York
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Chelsea Hotel, Corin Haines, Leonard Cohen, music, video on June 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Chelsea Hotel, written Leonard Cohen, performed Corin Haines (of the teev fame).
The Beauty Supply District
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged architecture, Ben Katchor, comics, poetry, TED, video on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ben Katchor makes poetic, architectural comics about a New York that is a slightly mysterious, but familiar kind of strange.
I borrowed Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District books from the library a few months ago, but just found this TED presentation, and am enjoying the comics on his website.
Streets talking
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged amazing, diversity, streets, video on April 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Urban anthropologists Andy & Carolyn London interview some of New York City’s more overlooked citizens.”
House guest
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Busta Rhymes, dancing, falafel, fun times, hiphop, Kerry Ann Lee, music, video, Wellington on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Danced to this with Kerry, late one night / early one morning in Wellington, a couple of months ago – one of the highlights of a slightly patchy appearance by DJ Vadim. Danced some more, then went for 4am falafels and back to K’s for sleep.
This weekend she was in my town, making plans for a trip to (where else) NY. We won’t overlap, she gets home just before I leave, but I’m sure our stories will intersect somehow.
… that and World Peace!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged jazz, video, world peace on December 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
People in London heart NYC too – photo by heynathan.
My blogging ability seems impaired this morning, I can’t work out how to embed a Vimeo video into this entry. Check it out here: Fifty People, One Question: New York from Crush & Lovely on Vimeo. It’s fifty beautiful people in New York talking about their wishes for the day.
We asked the same question and it took us somewhere new. Gone were the lazy days of summer. A cool breeze swept the streets with leaves under foot and the familiar hustle of the city. Welcome to autumn in New York.
Fifty People, One Question has asked questions of fifty people in locations other than Manhattan (Brooklyn, for example! But also New Orleans and London).
