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Thursday, December 16, 2010
Christmas in the city
Some people may call me a grinch but honestly I despise christmas time in New York City. Christmas trees line the street and block parking spots, street cleaners take sudden holidays, tipping my super for not fixing anything in my building, stores jacking up prices for holiday shopping. Not my cup of tea. I think the worst part is the tourists, all over midtown when Im trying to get somewhere, literally taking pictures of everything. They invade museums, stores and trains. They create pedestrian traffic. They ask random questions like "do you know where the empire state building is" when they could literally just look up. If the city taxed tourists extra fees for parking, trains and tolls to walk around the city durring christmas time we would make back our entire economic deficit. The most annoying part of christmas is how christmas day everything is closed and the day after everyone dumps their christmas trees outside for me to trip over. Can we just skip christmas this year and go straight to new years festivities?
time lapse art
As I was uploading videos to youtube I found this amazing stop motion/time lapse video of alex young creating one of his masterpieces. He is probably the most talented pen and ink artists I have ever seen and his art is very stylized and unique. check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7JHawlXKl4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7JHawlXKl4
how can new york city arrest artists
Illegal graffiti is probably the most difficult urban art form the hours, dollars and time that artists spend on their peices just for them to be viewed for a few days if not hours before the city spends more tax dollars to get it erased.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U-n0tVjdoc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U-n0tVjdoc
demise of the upper west
Ive lived and grown up in one of the best neighborhoods in New York City filled with culture and class. However in recent years everything that defined the neighborhood- the sketchy bodegas and random weird mom and pop stores have been replaced by large conglomerate stores, duane reades, starbucks and banks. I swear in a five block radius from my house there are 4 drugstores, 5 banks and 3 starbucks. What used to be frame stores, clothing shops, lamp stores, grocery stores and bodegas are victorias secrets and gamestops. RIPhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyjRhMLD4zg
5 fast 5 furious
The new trailer for the Fast 5 (the next installment of the Fast and the Furious series) just got released tuesday. As a big Vin Diesel fan I am very excited. I even watched the Trailer when it premired on Vin Diesels Facebook Page tuesday at 4. However I already am dissapointed. I have actually went to go see all the fast and the furious movies on opening day and really like all of them (besides 2 fast 2 furious becuase it was irrelevent to the plot of the series) anyhow I am very dissapointed after watching the trailer because of how there seems to be no plot. The entire trailer is just snippets of explosions and Vin Diesel and The Rock's one liners.
Trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PspF_GA-9U
Trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PspF_GA-9U
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