Have a lovely weekend, everyone.

“David Byrne plans to turn a landmark building in Manhattan into a giant musical instrument.

Byrne, 55, will create a temporary installation, “Playing the Building,” in the Great Hall of the Battery Maritime Building, next to the Whitehall Ferry Terminal.

The work will include devices attached to ceiling beams, plumbing, electrical conduits and other parts of the structure.

Sound will be produced through vibration, making the building function as an instrument, state officials said Monday.

Both the installation and a new waiting room for ferry passengers will open by the end of the month.” 

via the AP

The installation will be housed at: 10 South Street, New York, NY from May 31th – August 10th.   The swedish installation looked incredibly cool, so this might be even better, but just as conceptual!  Let’s all go and, hopefully, be wowed.

Have a lovely weekend, friends.

This is, by far, one of the best shops on Etsy. If you have not seen it, take look at it now.  

The pieces are rad, the descriptions are comically strange, and the photos aren’t bad either.

Hipsters can be funny…

Congratulations were in order… all around. 

More etsy love, from amber alexander !

My friend, Bryant Manning of Mysteries Abysmal, has tagged me.  And since this is the very first time I’ve been tagged, I will definitely play along.  It sort of makes me feel like I’m participating in one of those forwarded e-mail messages concerning lists about your middle names, your favorite ice cream flavor, and whenever it was you lost your virginity, but this one seems different and interesting, so, again… I’m playin along!  (By the way, I was never one to respond to those e-mails.)

Here are the rules of the diversion:

1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.

 There were two books that were closet to me on my bedside table.  The first one was Mark Prendergast’s The Ambient Century: From Mahler to Moby–The Evolution of Sound in the Electronic Age, and Amy Sedaris’ I Like You: Hospitality Under The Influence.  Both great books, but different subjects: one is obviously reference, and the other is, well, a wonderfully hilarious and twisted cookbook.  Sedaris’ book was closer, so away we go (and I’m posting slightly more than 3 sentences):

A Living Will:

Everyone should have a living will.  You can pick one up at the post office for peanuts and it’s good because all your belongings will go to someone specific instead of going to a holding area for a few years.  If you are grieving, have someone stay at your house while you are at the funeral parlor because crooks will comb through the obituaries to see who has died and break into your home to steal things.  The last thing I want to do is add to any more stress to someone who is grieving, but you should know you are a ripe target.  If there is something someone has given you and you don’t like it, get rid of it while they are still alive.  Otherwise, if you don’t, then you will only be hanging on to it out of guilt, and clutter piles up.  Also, it just encourages them to give you more of the same.

And here, my friends, you will now be tagged out of shear boredom. However, my preference is to simply PLUG your sites, so please do not feel the need to reciprocate, just take it as a compliment.

Claire, GentleGraffiti, Pizza is the Great Equalizer, A Cup of Jo, and lastly, if Aaron had a blog, I would pick him, but he doesn’t, so such is life.

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Yum yum yum on the front porch!   Mango salsa y hint of lime!  Muy delicioso…

For those of you who have not seen this film, make sure you put it on your list of things to view (and set aside a chunk of time).  Although the story is a bit underdeveloped, ‘Lust, Caution’ was, to put it mildly, breathtakingly beautiful.  (And the kink wasn’t too bad either.)  

Either way, I found it enthralling, but truth be told, I think Ang Lee needs to try harder to make things both epic AND engrossing; he just hasn’t been able to achieve that … yet.  Let’s just say I wasn’t as disappointed as many have been.

The rains have subsided for now, allowing the sky and sun to warm the earth today. The green in everything has intensified, and is making me so happy!  

Time to ride the bike and pick other people’s flowers (kidding about the latter).

Yay, Spring!

I spent all weekend on Polyvore, and it’s great fun (for those of us who are easily entertained by wardrobes).  Once you get the hang of it, it becomes incredibly addictive, so much so that you wouldn’t believe how quickly the time passes.  I almost sat all the way through from lunch to dinner without getting up today.  

It’s a virtual forum where users share, and compile fashionable ensembles to create little web tableaus.  A perk of the program is that it tags and shows you where you can purchase/find the items in the picture (whether or not you’ve got the dough$$$ in your wallet).  It can feel a bit limited, especially if you’re used to normal graphic design and freely swirling things about in Photoshop, but nonetheless, immensely entertaining!  

Here are some lovely, creative examples:

Try it out, and have fun, my dears!

Dreaming of this.  Better sooner than later, hopefully, if the weather keeps up.

Maybe it’s a wee bit early in the season, but with the temperature climbing over 80 degrees for the last couple of days, you’d think the Ice Cream Man would come round ringing his bells…

I’ve got a craving for a Choco Taco.

Voorhees the cat and Aaron have left me.  They’re gone.  

Big Cat and Joey left at 4:45 AM today to travel west to San Fran.  I know the little guy got used to being here… almost too much.  He also loved my bed to pieces, and I mean he actually ripped part of it to shreds, and also tried to escape at any chance he could get which made us all curse the day he was born, but I still love him…! 

And then Aaron left at 4:45 AM to travel east to London.  Well, at least I’ll get to see him again, thank goodness.  

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Have a lovely weekend, friends.

For the life of me, I cannot remember who created this, but I love the playful and conceptual nature of the design. 

yes, it’s sexy helvetica….

Does anyone know who the artist is?

Oh, and if you don’t understand, make sure you view this documentary.

Why doesn’t the NYPhil, or any other orchestral group for that matter, take a hint and make a beautifully animated promo for themselves like this one?  I bet it would increase attendance a bit.

Does classical music = rollercoaster ? hmmm.  

Go Zurich Chamber Orch!

yes, you know you love it, too.

Marimekko designs draw me in because of their lovely, confident patterns and flattering cuts. Although, have any of you viewed the H&M tribute collection? I’m not too thrilled by it, save for the tangerine-ish coloured one-piece swimsuit.  ohh la la. I find it incredibly dainty and sexy all at once, so I need to find/purchase soon. wowzahs.

Happy Printemps, dear readers.

I’ve been away for a bit, but for a wonderfully good reason…  
Apologies, dear readers!

Let’s get back to it.  

Madonna recently released her new single (4 Minutes), which, if you’ve had the chance to listen to it, you’ll agree is a bit odd.  JT and Timbaland essentially make her sound like everyone else in pop-land nowadays. Nelly Furtado and JT can handle it because they actually needed the boost, but Madonna…. ehh.  Reinventing herself again?  Maybe…I suppose she wouldn’t be herself if she didn’t try new things, which is truly the best way to live, in my opinion. So good for her, right?  Anyway, I’m really wondering what the new album will sound like.  The video for ‘4 Minutes’ is quite graphically cool, if you manage to take a look.

So in the vein of all things Madgey, and an idée from my good friends over at GentleGraffiti, here is one of my fav Madonna songs, and videos.  This should give you an idea of how things at The Wing have been for the past week.

Beach House at the Rock N Roll Hotel last night was superb.  

Have a lovely weekend all.

If you’re in NYC today, make sure you check the last day of the MATA Festival over at the Brooklyn Lyceum in Park Slope.  I would go, but I don’t live there right now…

Colin Jacobsen and Carla Kihlstedt via the NYTimes. 

“For the past ten years, MATA has been dedicated to commissioning and presenting works by young composers from around the world. MATA’s directors are motivated by a desire to create community among young musicians, especially those whose work defies definition and doesn’t fit into existing institutions. By providing young composers with a professional performance of their work, access to first-rate performers and valuable connections to colleagues, MATA nurtures their entry into American musical life.“ 

Love this shot, via streetwalker

It’s so ironic that it’s gone past bad and gone back to good again.  

Jarvis Cocker.