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Posts Tagged ‘urban’
It’s Officially a Recession
Thursday, April 10th, 2008Foreclosures Heat Maps
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Hotpads has some impressive heat maps of the foreclosure crisis throughout main cities and regions in the U.S. So far Manhattan is in the clear, but check out how the red is starting to creep up. Scary.
View the interactive map for NYC here.
via [techcrunch]
Do It For The Ladies
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008[flv:http://www.erratica.us/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/doitfortheladies01.flv doitfortheladies01.jpg 500 375]
Last night we got treated to this awesome display of talent in the 4 train (at 1:30 am…) from Bleecker to 86th Street – non stop. I’m still singing: chicken noodle soup, shake shake chicken noodle soup… do it for the ladies…
View the full ride after the jump below.
Freeze Up
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008Time froze in Grand Central Station last Saturday. Over 200 Improv Everywhere’s agents froze on the run in what has to be one of the most uncanny and interesting moments in the station’s history. Absolutely fantastic.
via [core77>Improv Everywhere]
Olafur Eliasson’s waterfalls
Sunday, January 20th, 2008
Four giant waterfalls will be erected in New York for three months this summer in a public art project (…) The waterfalls, including one that will fall from the famed Brooklyn Bridge, are the brainchild of Danish artist Olafur Eliasson.
That should be interesting.
Read the Reuters article here.
via [archinect]
The Decapitator
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
I had been meaning to write about this a few days ago, but just kept forgetting about it. I came across The Decapitator’s work through a recent Wired article and the beauty, cleverness and simplicity of the strategy is astounding. This is a refreshing look at graffiti and image tagging. Not even the poor bees are safe!
Check out his great flickr set here
Read the Wired article here.
40 Bond Street
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Better late than never… I finally made it down to the Herzog & deMeuron 40 Bond street project to see the building in person-from the outside- and here is what I have to say: it is an awesome building, BUT it just goes way over the top (and this is intended as a pseudo-negative comment).
It has fantastic moments and techniques, yet it is a bit overdone in certain instances. More specifically, the patterning in the lower level just becomes too much: the gate, behind it the bumped metal panels, with the patterned film and at the lobby entrance the perforated ceiling… they would all work fantastically each on their own.
Other than that nit-picking comment above, the building is just beautiful. The curved glass over the structure and the gate itself, which looks as if made out of bone are just remarkable.
See more hi-res images after the jump below.
Banksy in NYC
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
We made it today into the Banksy show here in NYC. I don’t know exactly what it was (well I actually know) but it was just un-interesting at several levels:
First, the fact that his work is shown in a gallery is already off. I know he is already mainstream, but perhaps the type of venue has to change. Maybe cordon off the areas where his graffitis are? Or through webcams just stream footage of the actual graffitis… I guess that this would be the issue with any type of exhibition of this kind of work.
Second, the gallery was deliberately full of trash, either stuff people had left over time (which I doubt) or just made to look ‘urban’ or whatever you want to call it, some of the prints ‘half unpacked’, etc. It must be precisely because of the fact that it is inside a gallery and the fact that it so deliberate that was the biggest bore. One of the interesting things though, was seeing the price list for some of the prints.
The Living
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
The opening for our good friends David and Soo-In Yang -aka The Living – at the Van Alen Institute is tonight. Their project ‘Living City’ will be on display from December 11th to January 18th.
Living City is about the future…when building’s systems react in real-time to dynamic stimuli and the buildings communicate with each other, creating a large network of ‘living’ organisms.
Living City is a full-scale prototype building skin designed to open and close its gills in response to air quality.
SOFTlab collaborated with The Living on the creation of two videos featured in the installation.
More info on the project here and at the Van Alen site here.
We’ll be there at the opening tonight so I’ll post some images later on.
Guess who’s coming to town?
Thursday, November 29th, 2007As seen in Chinatown posters…
It is Banksy. Those in NYC -or anywhere in the states for that matter – there is NO excuse to not walk/drive/fly to the Vanina Holasek Gallery in Chelsea.
Gotta support the most non-mainstream-mainstream urban artist.