Evan Hecox - Dark Island
(May 24 to June 23, 201)
Dark Island—a suite of acrylic and gouache works on vintage newspaper—is inspired by Hecox’s recent hikes across lower Manhattan and west Brooklyn in New York City. As in earlier series inspired by specific locales, the artist focuses here on telling urban fragments: a building façade, rooftop, isolated alleyway, waterfront, or elevated train trellis. Working precisely from photographs, he uses a highly refined process to subtract certain elements, laying down a skeletal vestige of a remembered setting that is then reimagined (or “amplified”) with painterly techniques. Though photography is an early stage in his artmaking practice and employed only as a reference, Hecox relishes the use of his near-obsolete cameras and film, noting, “I like to have a high level of materials and artistry run through the whole process.”
Opening: Thursday May 24 from 6-9pm
@ Joshua Liner: 548 West 28th Street , 3rd Floor
i want to hate on the mta sometimes but i like these little ‘fast track’ recaps
Hundreds of MTA New York City Transit workers wrapped up their tasks prior to Friday morning’s rush, completing yet another successful round of FASTRACK, this time along the Sixth Ave Line, which carries B, D, F and M service.
The ambitious schedule of work was completed over five nights this week in an area that stretched from 59 Street-Columbus Circle to West Fourth Street. Workers scraped the roadbed, inspected and replaced track ties and rails, inspected signals and switches and performed station cleaning and appearance work.
During the four-night series of shutdowns, hundreds of maintenance workers teamed to perform maintenance tasks that included:
- 8,075 bags of rubbish removed;
- Removed 80,550 pounds of scrap material and debris;
- Muck and mud scraped from 6,870 feet of concrete roadbed;
- Replaced 592 tunnel lights;
- Replaced 260 station lights;
- Repaired 645 feet of rubbing board;
- Corrected 1,046 third rail defects;
- Cleared, scraped and bagged 2,695 feet of debris under and around third rail;
- Installed 24 running rails, 940 tie plates, 2,100 friction pads and 45 tie blocks;
- Scraped 1,950, primed 12,250 and painted 31,050 sq. feet in stations;
- Conducted preventive maintenance on elevators and escalators;
- Service and inspected smoke detectors and alarms;
- Serviced 36 track switches and 63 signals;
- Replaced ADA tiles and platform edges;
- Surveyed manholes and;
- Cleaned adjusted and optimized CCTV cameras and monitor
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columns & curlicues
Chung Te Buddhist Association door
bicycle wheel mandala
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above head above bed
score! stem for the iffy tied up with a ribbon “I wish I was a little bit taller” (thx adrianna)
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Come join us for the 4th annual Spring Brooklyn Bike Jumble at the Old Stone House in Washington Park - Park Slope, Brooklyn.
The park will be filled with vendors selling used bikes, new and used bike accessories as well as events to be announced.
This year we will also be celebrating the newly renovated park, as well as the continuing ascendancy of bikes in New York City Traffic.
Saturday, May 19th from 10AM to 4PM
@ Old Stone House: 336 3rd Street, Brooklyn
vintage tattoo flash by sailor jerry, bert grimm in minneapolis antiques roadshow. guess how much? (Taken with instagram)
event is all over & was a success! I can now breathe.
“In the United States, for example, when they hear the word Korea, they think of Kim Jong-il, not caviar,” he said. “Selling caviar from Korea has been like an American chef trying to persuade Korean housewives to buy his kimchi.” — Han Sang-hu, Catering to Caviar Tastes From an Unexpected Place
