Una Coolhunter en Nueva York
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Location-aware Music Project - Central Park NY
Ryan Holladay and his brother Hays created the location-based musical experience “Listen to the Light” in Central Park, in which users pursued musical and physical routes during a walk through the park.
Location-aware music is Ryan and Hays Holladay’s exploration of music that is composed and mapped to a landscape and that can only be experienced within the designated coordinates of a physical space. Designed for Apple’s iPhone and iPad, location-aware music discards the passive listening experience and invites the user to explore a terrain musically as they move throughout a space. Musical passages and pockets of sound are spread across a terrain — geo-tagged to various landmarks, paths and spaces that blend seamlessly as the listener traverses the area.
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Paths to Pier 42 is a proposal for a series of temporary art/educational/design installations and public events along the East River Waterfront that will take place in the summer of 2013. The Lower East Side Waterfront Alliance is organizing this participatory process to increase access and create temporary public uses while areas of the waterfront from the Brooklyn Bridge to East River Park are awaiting capital improvements.
http://www.twobridges.org/programs-and-projects/public-programs-events/paths-to-pier-42
Below is the full timeline:
January
Release of closed RFP to artists and designers.March
Deadline for applications; juried selection processApril-June
Artists/designers meet with Lower East Side Waterfront Alliance members, advisory committee and community members.May
Community Day in conjunction with the New Museum, Ideas City 2013.June-July
Build installations.July
Public launch of Paths to Pier 42.July-November
Public programming.December
De-installation.A community day is scheduled to coincide with the second annual New Museum Ideas Festival in May. It had been postponed due to the wrath of Hurricane Sandy.
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I still love NY!! - See & Help NY
New York-based artist and designer Sebastian Errazuriz has created a riff on the iconic and ubiquitous “I Heart NY” design by Milton Glaser in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Submerging the logo in blue dip-dye on a T-shirt for Grey Area, Errazuriz, whose studio was paralyzed by city power outages in the violent storm, was inspired after noticing the devastatingly high flood line on the walls of the Chelsea art galleries. The artist created another shirt that depicts the NYC subway map dip-dyed in black at an angle to artistically and accurately show the city’s post-disaster power divide.
One hundred percent of the T-shirts’ profits will benefit relief efforts in the area, so get yours now. Despite the overwhelming response in the shirt’s short life to date, they’re still taking orders online at Grey Area for $40.
http://www.coolhunting.com/style/i-still-love-ny.php
Sandy consequences:
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SANDY HURRICANE URBAN CONSECUENCE
Despite the city announced a waterfront redevelopment plan called Vision 2020 last year. Increased public assess in the form of parks is a major goal in shoreline redevelopment. The Architectural League of New York posted a call to NYC officials to build it back smarter.
http://urbanomnibus.net/2012/11/from-the-editors-build-it-back-smarter/
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NYC UNPLUGGED
Photographer Randy Scott Slavin has taken some remarkable long exposure pictures of the luminescent trails left by passing cars. In his words:New York City is always bright. Street lights, business marquees, light from apartments and car headlights merge to light every corner of the city streets, even on the darkest nights. It is the night after NYC was decimated by Hurricane Sandy, downtown NYC is in the midst of a power outage that has plunged it into complete darkness. I felt the call to hit the eerily dark streets and show New York as it is rarely seen. Trekking around with my tripod I was able to get the long exposures necessary to see in the dark.
- Randy Scott Slavin
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Created by artist Jessica Feldman and meant to mimic the living conditions of inmates on Rikers Island jail (NYC), a 5 foot tall by 15 foot wide prison cell will be placed in Petrosino Square in the Manhattan neighborhood of SoHo. The replica will be equipped with a video displaying a film of prisoners, meant to simulate the living conditions of inmates.
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From Times square to Art Square, new art project by crowd. Public art Gallery in the heart of the city. Share and/or donate:)
Spearheaded by Justus Bruns, the project aims to turn all the advertising space in Times Square into space for works of art for one month out of the year, every year.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/justusbruns/times-square-art-square-2012-reclaiming-times-squa
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Video director Tony Miotto has created a short animation based on the popular ‘Paris vs. New York, a tally of two cities‘ book by Vahram Muraytan.
Love this blog, love this video, love this view!!!
AMAZING / C´EST MAGNIFIQUE;-)
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Tatzu Nishi (b. 1960, Nagoya, Japan) is known internationally for his temporary works of art that transform our experience of monuments, statues, and architectural details. His installations give the public intimate access to aspects of our urban environment and at the same time radically alter our perceptions. For his first public project in the United States, Nishi has chosen to focus on the historic statue of Christopher Columbus.
For ‘Discovering Columbus‘, unveiled by the Public Art Fund this week, Nishi has enclosed the 13-foot-tall statue in a fully furnished living room. It features tables, chairs, couch, rug, a flat-screen TV, and wallpaper inspired by the artist’s memories of American pop culture.
The monument is located in the center of Columbus Circle at the intersection of Eighth Avenue, Broadway, Central Park South (West 59 Street), and Central Park West. It is the point from which all official distances from New York City are measured. -
Bike like a New Yorker
In order to stay ahead of the debate on the upcoming bike
share program, BikeNYC, in partnership with Transportation
Alternatives, has launched a campaign calling attention
to cyclists in the city. Print ads and billboards will be
posted throughout publications and city streets
supporting the growing bike movement.
The ads will also encourage people to visit BikeNYC.org which
hopes to become an important destination for the city’s bikers,
providing information on events and hundreds of options for
social biking. Before long we'll reclaim the streets,
two wheels at a time.
http://www.mothernewyork.com/work/bike-like-a-new-yorker/
