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Prolific blooms at the New York Botanic Garden’s annual orchid show. Patrick Blanc’s orchid green walls were very impressive - pulling together orchids of wildly different colors, shapes and sizes . The textures and forms of some blossoms were incredible!
Obits with Fists and Rattle @ Cake Shop on 17.03.2012
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Found a new favorite place while visiting Ata in his new neighborhood last weekend. Its in a deep exposed brick space with a long counter in the front with just the right amount of found pieces. The food menu is built almost entirely around Balthazar bread, with various grilled sandwiches and sweet or savory bread pudding to great success. The Queens kickshaw in Astoria also has awesome coffee and beer served from the bars original antique taps. They also make some kind of vinegar soda drink I never hear of before… That’s for when we go back.
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The tradition of Lower East Side pickle makers is still alive on Essex street. Though not a historic company the all kosher pickles at the pickle guys are made from mostly old world recipes. If you love pickles it’s a great place to stop by for those who can’t be convinced try one of their new twists - pickled pineapple!
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A couple of shots from Swedish artist, Klara Liden’s installation on closing weekend at Reena Spaulings. Through the blue wall lies an installation of discarded Christmas trees collected from the streets of New York. At the center of the room you can reflect on the dying forest, still refreshingly piny, on a sofa which, I unfortunately suspect, was also collected from the streets of NY.
The Arm Letterpress Studio in Williamsburg
Owned and run by a third generation printmaker, Dan, has put together a great space to make letterpress a more accessible art form. His family still owns a type foundry in Pennsylvania if I remember correctly. Last fall Ata and I took a class together and put together some great holiday cards. I will try to dig up some photos from our printmaking session last December.
It was nice even briefly to get back into the shop yesterday and support our friends who are printing up their own wedding invitations here! The Arm houses a combination of Vandercook and Pilot presses that are rentable once you join the coop. It’s actually a beautiful process -mixing colors, testing papers, adjusting weights of impressions, setting type. Turning the crank for each print yourself may seem of another era but the end product is much more gratifying than simply hitting print.
Secret rooms are something I think every apartment dwelling New Yorker dreams of from time to time. There was a short time when we moved into our apartment that Adam and I dreamt that perhaps we had an amazing shared rooftop we didn’t know about (we had been in the apartment for a week and had not seen even one neighbor yet). I also had a recurring dream that there was a tremendous room accessed through a hatch in our closet.
For some New Yorkers the secret spaces do exist! The New York Times had a great article a few days ago about some of the secret spaces discovered in their homes and apartments. Many of the spaces are a legacy of prohibition or smuggling but others are created or lost through the years in renovations. It’s surprising that these spaces are still being uncovered when it seems that every ounce of space comes at such a premium.
When I brought this up at the office someone mentioned their experiences working on old colonial homes in Massachusetts. Some of the older colonial homes were built with a hiding place inside and surrounding the chimney for the family to hide in case of an attack by Native Americans! Later in history these spaces were commonly used for the underground railroad.
Anne Holtrop - Reverse Process of Mountain Digging (2011)
Simple and ever innovative takes on the cube. Check out his website for some cool interactive stuff as well.
“Untitled (Post No Bills)” by Aakash Nihalani
(via Kickstarter - Walk the Honey Road with Balyolu)
support our friend Deniz Duygu and her team to get their amazing project Balyolu off of the ground
We are organizing the first honey tasting walking journey of its kind. This journey is a seven-day trip in Northeastern Turkey that is led and inspired by local women who are training to become world class beekeepers and rural entrepreneurs.
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