winter beach, nyc
a few snaps from my field trip with the lovely leah, the talented justin james king, and my handsome mister to find nature in nyc.
photos & brooklyn
victory cabbage? saurkraut!
on saturday i headed over the the kitchen of the talented caroline paquita & learned how to make saurkraut! actually, it's not just any saurkraut, but the best saurkraut in the world -- full of cabbage, and radishes, and garlic, and carrots, and beets... and a shitload of other awesome vegetables.
there was a lot of chopping and mashing, but i now have a jar of fermenting veggies sitting atop my fridge. waiting for deliciousness to happen.(cross your fingers for the kraut -- i hope it takes ...and i hope i like it. i've historically hated the stuff. but then again, it wasnt a purple-y red-y rainbow of gorgeous vegetables.)Comments [0]
tacoshed: do you know where your taco comes from?
"...By thoroughly learning the process of formation and lifecycle what it takes to make a taco, we would be better able to propose and design a speculative model of a holistic and sustainable urban future. What resulted was a richly complex network of systems, flows and ecologies that we call the global Tacoshed..." read more
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how we eat today
megan in greenpoint, brooklyn, keeps some gorgeous backyard chickens & eats fresh eggs on the daily. sustainable, local, nonbarcoded. she was kind enough to have me over to make pictures of her & her girls.
so inspiring. anyone want to go back to the land with me?
(ps, read megan at the huffington post.)
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The Miscreants of Taliwood
last night i attended a screening of george gittoes' Soundtrack to War held at sva. my professor arranged the screening and george was in attendance. i had seen sections of Soundtrack in michael moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 but never the entirety of Soundtrack to War itself. i found the film kind of amazing in that gittoes give a nuanced view of the beginning of america's war in iraq by using music, and the idea of soundtrack, as both a metaphor and backdrop.
in his post movie discussion, george talked about the importance of art-making and creative culture in the face of war. i found it refreshing and inspiring. he talked about the value of cultural pursuits as a unifying and healing force within a community in crisis. being in new york i have begun to feel a bit jaded about art. hearing george talk about the essence of art in culture brought me back to my belief in the power of art within society a little bit.
he also talked about being in rwanda during the 1994 genocide & collecting babies after the daily massacres. i'm trying to imagine what his veiw of humanity is like.
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on thursday and friday the museum of modern art here in nyc will be premiering gittoes' new film Miscreants of Taliwood, which george explained as an exploration of the taliban's destruction of creative culture within the tribal belt of pakistan. i'm looking forward to the screening on friday.
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an unexpected holiday
today the city of new york has slowed a bit -- at least in my neck of the woods. due to the blizzardish conditions, school was closed and i have an impromptu holiday. the image posted is the complete antithesis of my day -- soft, warm, cozy.
what i love most about new york, so far, is the snow. the drifts and piles transform the city into a wild place, softening new york's ugly edges. the blanketed city feels new to me. it's quiet in the snow and beautiful. . . .one of my school's alums is featured in vice magazine this month. see Johanna Heldebro's project To Come Within Reach of You.Comments [0]
tonight!!!
Kris Graves and Eric Hairabedain's A Queens Affair photobook launches at the Farmani Gallery in DUMBO tonight.
the opening reception starts at the usual time around 6 and goes until 8pm -- details here.
long live the photobook!
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