Saw photographer Douglas Kirkland (76) at the Canon Expo today. “Yes, I’m so old I worked on The Sound of Music (…) but I’m still kicking ass and knocking ‘em dead!” The pictures of his upcoming book on the making of Michael Jackson’s Thriller
Above is one of my favorites… it’s not him in the picture, but Peter Sellers as a paparazzi going after Britt Ekland.
Rules of the underground: (1) Knees may be no more than six inches apart. (2) If you can’t control your offspring, watch as a stranger does it for you. (3) What did we say about checking out the girls? (4) The Post is only 25 cents—buy your own. (5) Holding the subway door makes everyone on the train love you. (6) As does loud music. (7) Lie down on subway only if dead.
Read more: The Urban Etiquette Handbook — New York Magazine.
Shot high above the streets of New York City, Up There reveals the dying craft of large-scale hand painted advertising and the untold story of the painters struggling to keep it alive.
Do-it-yourself NYPD bench as seen in Spanish Harlem.
I want one.
Yesterday, as I was heading to a restaurant in Hell’s Kitchen and passed by the NBC studios, I ran into Luke Wilson. Luke Who? Luke “AT&T commercial” Wilson, or Luke “Charlie’s Angels” Wilson, or Luke “Brother of Owen” Wilson.
The actor looked at me kinda stressed, as if I was going to shout “LOOK HERE! IT’S DAVID ARQUETTE” to the nearest bus of tourists… because that’s who I first thought he was.
Anyway, seems like he was on Jimmy Fallon last night (taped at the NBC studios) to promote his new movie “Middle Men” about Internet porn in the 90s.
http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/blogs/2010/07/luke-wilson-tommy-davidson
So our bank got robbed this week.
This 20-something guy walks into the Chase branch on 116th & 3rd on Monday morning around 8:30am, slips the teller a demand note and walks away with $2,150. No guns, panty masks or “Everybody be cool”-speeches involved. Very un-New York, dude.
Civilization is a video installation created by artist/director Marco Brambilla for the elevators at the Standard Hotel in NYC. It’s comprised of over 400 video clips and it takes passengers on a trip from hell to heaven as they go up… or from heaven to hell as they go down.
Spanish Harlem is still kicking it old school!
I would’ve loved attending Jef Neve’s sold-out U.S. debut with José James, but… you see some, you skip some. Thanks to the Brian Pace for this report.
Pieter Dom > Spanish Harlem > Manhattan > New York City.
