It Snowed

Central Park is a different poem in the snow.

design moment

2009 Pritzker Prize recipient, Swiss Architect Peter Zumthor-

'I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building- it is already with the material. I believe architecture is about that- it's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.'

...Me too. Sometimes I wish I worked in an environment where I was able to work more like a sculptor, and less like a lawyer or policymaker. Maybe someday, here...

fleet foxes

Mykonos - fantastique.

Mykonos from Grandchildren on Vimeo.

up in my hood

banksy sighting



a few blocks from my place in soho (you can actually see my building, light grey at far right, midway up) is this great brasserie, Lucky Strike. Walk past it on Grand, and look back toward the firewall adjoining the parking lot, and wham! three stories of Banksy rat. He's wearing an iconic tee and making his own urban art.

Pulse Park, Madison Square

It was the last day for Pulse Park at Madison Square Park today. I'd been trying to go see the installation for a couple weeks and was glad we made it today.

It goes like this- two hundred stage-like lights are positioned around the outside of the lawn facing in on the lawn. They are attached to a heart rate monitor that you grip at one end, which mimics your heartbeat in the flashing of the lights. When you let go of the grips, the first light to your left maintains your heartbeat, while the heartbeats of the previous two hundred people before you register in the rhythms of other lights. I jumped in place for two minutes while waiting in line and got a really strong pulse going.

It's pretty cool- like a poetic visual disco-symphony. They let you on the grass to walk around in the strobing, somewhat magical atmosphere. Pretty darn cool.

Yay for good public art! Sadly it was the last day, but all good things must come to an end. ...or at least that's what they say? I do have to say that there's something magical about the ephemeral. You appreciate it more, live in the moment since you can't take returning to that experience for granted.

the abstract home improvement

in the NYTimes, quite the concept...



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