I didn’t put width constrains on my image class in my Tumblr CSS sheet for a few reasons. This infographic of clubs an hotels on 44th Street in New York is one of them. Read the rest of the article here.
UPDATE: Turns out I did limit images to 1200px or something like that. Whatever just right click that sucker, it’s awesome.
This photo showed up in my Instagram feed around 7am. Hindenburgh-esque amazing-ment via tonykingnyc
Follow the rest of the movie at twitter.com/B_at_T
I can’t believe it’s been three years since I started trying to tweet the movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s in its entirety. Sometime around 2010 I got sidetracked on other projects and poor Holly Golightly got stuck on pause with Doc Golightly standing in her hallway amazed at the transformation his Lula Mae had undergone since being in New York, with Paul ‘Fred’ Varjak waiting in the wings ready to pick up the pieces.
Well, I am happy to say, that the movie, er, feed is coming off pause, and the happy ending in the rain is on its way! As I tweet my way into history at being the only person to ever broadcast an entire movie on the Twitter network. (at least to my knowledge anyway)
The movie comes off pause starting March 21st, 2012 at 6:15PST. Please follow the project at http://twitter.com/b_at_t
For followers in Vancouver, there will be some sort of wrap party.
STAY TUNED.
enginedigital: Probably one of the most in-depth photo studies of a work studio I’ve seen. (via the Tumblr Office Tour)
Ginger Island is an uninhabited island in the Caribbean, part of the British Virgin Islands, where George Maciunas wanted to start a Fluxus artist colony and build a unique city. His plan was to buy the island and give pieces of land to Fluxus artists for development. Maciunas produced an urban development sketch strangely reminiscent of the Manhattan grid with numbered plots of land.
Together with friends such as artists Milan Knizák, Yoshi Wada and actor Robert De Niro, Maciunas travelled to Ginger Island in 1969 to explore it before making the final decision about acquisition. This trip is surrounded by various legends and urban myths, involving encounters with the police and with poisonous trees growing on the island. The experience was rather traumatic; the visitors suffered from temporary blindness and swollen limbs. In the end, for a variety of reasons Maciunas never acquired the island and a Fluxus artist colony was never established there. The island is still uninhabited and the only visitors are fishermen and divers. (via Performa 11 · Amy Granat, Sissel Kardel, Milan Knizák, George Maciunas, Jonas Mekas, Lisa Oppenheim, Jeffrey Perkins and Michael David Quattlebaum Jr.)
The Turf War
1 part gin
1 part soda water
stir on rocks in a shaker and drop into a coupe, add two splashes of Fanta’s Cream Soda and garnish with a tooth pick staffed with as many capers as will fit.
The cream soda represents the sugary bubble gum of 1950’s American youth culture. The capers are the taste of the oceanic waters that surround Puerto Rico. A turf war in your glass between sweet and salty.
*Created specifically for the opening of Vancouver Opera’s production of West Side Story. Served at No. 11. on October 22nd, 2011.
In my opinion the absolute best part of the film production of West Side Story is the 5minute long opening sequence that transitions from an Overture of all the songs in the movie played over an abstract of Manhattan — with each song representing a different color and mood — to that abstract becoming a reality in the vision of Manhattan. The camera then pans over the vastness of the city, to the sound of a distant din of traffic, horns honking, planes landing, ships horning. Then a whistle, and in the vastness, in the expanse of cultures, religions and identities the view focuses on a playground. And the story unfolds.
It is simply one of the best cinematic introductions ever put on film.
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revelrysociety: The standing only bar at 21.
(Source: revelrysocietyarchive)
revelrysociety: The new Bar 21, that actually serves beer on tap, something that would be unthinkable just years ago. (via Gothamist)
(via revelrysocietyarchive)
