What inspires us: New York
The city that inspires us every day

We are digging this new blog! Great info about businesses committed to ethical and sustainable practices around our hood…

ethikus | Advance your values.

if you’re around this weekend, check out the show from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). Lots of bleeding edge ideas about, well…interactive technology.

Extra bonus: you can see Danny Rosen’s “Wooden Mirror” in the upstairs lobby, one of the coolest high/low tech interactive sculptures I’ve ever seen:

http://www.smoothware.com/danny/woodenmirror.html

Also, if you want to see some cool ideas about tech (and you should), check out the student projects pages: http://itp.nyu.edu/itp/gallery/

Launching November 21 at 11:59pm, the Gaga Workshop will include everything from digital unicorn window displays to sculptures that are either representative or inspired by her, designed by artist Eli Sudbrack, to 170 products, which include but are definitely not limited to chocolate “Poker Face” chips.

The best part? Barneys will be taking the opportunity to donate 25% of all proceeds from the workshop to Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation.

Aēsop has opened a new store in Nolita. Designed by local architect Jeremy Barbour, he adopted the same solution as when he created Aēsop’s Grand Central Station kiosk, constructing the wall displays and counter out of re-purposed editions of the New York Times. The material, layered to form what look like large paper bricks, gives the space unprecedented texture, creating a warm, welcoming atmosphere. Beyond the visual component, the soft, weathered feel of it compliments the product line nicely, as well as grounding it within the city and community. In a nod to Aēsop’s appreciation of the arts, the store will screen Criterion Films on the paper walls, so customers can enjoy world-class cinema projected over years of the written word.

This year is the 15^th anniversary of the A.G.A.S.T. Open Studio tour, and I’ve had the pleasure of helping to organize it and keep it going. I will be opening up my doors and showing some new work on Saturday and Sunday, October 15^th and 16^th from 12-6pm both days. My studio is located at 94 9^th Street in Brooklyn, between 2^nd avenue and Smith Street, 4^th floor, #22.

There’s 131 other artists in the neighborhood participating as well, and you can preview most of the artists and get all the information here. You can check my work out here.

Thursday, September 29th 2011 marks the opening of the second installation by BOFFO Building Fashion with the two week opening of Irene Neuwrith + Marc Fornes /THEVERYMANY.

http://www.boffo-ny.org/

Nicola Formichetti and Gage/Clemenceau architects have debuted this year’s Boffo Building Architecture in NYC.

Boffo

I am excited to see what comes out of this great idea!

The Renderings for the Delancey Underground Park on the Lower East Side — New York Magazine.

The Daphne Guinness collection now on display at The Museum at FIT. An Awe inspiring  glimpse into the wardrobe of what some consider clothes horse, others a première fashion icon.

Daphne Guinness Collection @ FIT

My friend Mac Premo’s exhibition, The Dumpster Project, is opening tonight. His work is amazing!

THE DUMPSTER PROJECT.