::: All Hallow's Eve :::
in Hell's Kitchen

: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes :
+ 7th Street Entry
= Yes

check out the suspenders! I'm such a fan . . .

aw, a great pair. very nice.
(dear guy, let me know if you find this)

: soap factory // artery 24 :

beautiful show at the soap factory right now . . . inspiring, amazing. check it out.

: twin pops :

: save the humans :

spotted this young man at The Hexagon. My accomplice first thought it said "Save the Whale Tails." Either way, it's pretty clever.

: bar art :

I'm still not sure whether this snowy screening was intentional and meant as art or whether the staff of Meet the Johnsons (Rivington @ Essex) actually thought the customers would watch Wayne's World on a static-bound television rather than, say, engage in conversation. Or maybe the TV simply traveled through time to appear at the bar just as it would have looked twenty years earlier. And showing all the signs of its age. The world may never know . . .

: art // fashion :

Some friends and I were at an opening at Jack the Pelican on Friday night and came upon these horse-hoof boots. We all stopped and looked at each other, then back at the boots. I couldn't help but imagine myself prancing around in them like a centaur -- c'mon, I know you're doing it too. And then (mid-prance) you see wild-eyed PETA folk chasing after you. You gallop away, but you must admit that these boots are not politically correct. In fact, they so resemble the (dead) horse that they suddenly seem as tragic as they are beautiful.

Perhaps the boots are artist Iris Scheiferstein's comment on vanity and the use of animal skins and fur in fashion. Or maybe she's pointing out the under-appreciated beauty of the horse's hoof, not simply in a PETA kind of way. The boots stir up desire and fantasy -- whether it's for high fashion or mythical worlds, I'm not sure. Either way, they take us to a place where the distinctions between "animal" and "human" are not completely clear. At the same time, the sometimes cruel relationship between humans and animals in contemporary society is strikingly apparent.

This piece is exquisite and surprising. The boots make us look twice because they are both familiar and strange. By jarring our naturalized perspectives, they make us think again about the things we consider normal in our everyday lives -- even if they don't change our outlook, they will likely challenge it for a moment.

: up on the roof :

: Grand Street, Brooklyn :