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Posted by Alexa Fornoff to Events and Fashion + Style and NYC on
19 November 2009, with no comments so far.
At Saturday’s pop-up swap from 1-7 pm, Score! attendees will bring their once-cherished items to a donation table—music, apparel and accessories, art supplies, housewares, books and media, and (my personal favorite) random gems and miscellany—and find new prized possessions of their own. Pay an entry fee of $3 and you can take whatever you like! If your eyes are bigger than your arms, think about purchasing a $5 custom tote bag. Not only will it help you out, all the proceeds from the event benefit City Harvest so you’re helping others at the same time. 3rd Ward provides the space, local DJs provide the music, fashion bloggers provide the documentation, and don’t worry, there will be a bar. What’s stopping you? Maybe it’s all of the “random gems and miscellany” in your way…
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Posted by Andrew Wagner to Architecture and Design and Home + Garden and Materials and Places and Small Spaces on
10 November 2009, with 4 comments so far.
In early October I was in San Francisco. The Sunday before heading back east I ended up going to the Axis cafe with my family, which includes a three year old niece, a seven year old nephew, and a soon-to-be two year old nephew (Happy birthday tomorrow Samir!). Needless to say, this particular brunch was a bit hectic. It was a beautiful day and the kids were dying to get outside and everyone seemed restless. After a long wait for our food and strained conversation (everyone was really hungry) amongst eleven across a huge table we made our way outside. The kids ran as fast as they could out into what would normally be the street but in this instance was a remarkable little park.
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Posted by Andrew Wagner to Art and Craft and Materials and Places on
6 November 2009, with 7 comments so far.
On Wednesday evening the New York Yankees beat the Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series (boo!). On Thursday I went to the City of Brotherly Love to visit with stained glass artist Judith Schaechter (below, Monument).
The city was quiet and morose in a way that I’ve only experienced one other time in San Francisco—the night the Giants fell to the Angels in the 2002 World Series. But Judith Schaechter is not one to let a baseball game bring her down and she greeted me at her door with all the good humor and joyful snark anyone who knows her might expect. (more…)
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Posted by Andrew Wagner to Craft and Design and Events and Holidays and Places on
26 October 2009, with no comments so far.
While I am a big fan of Etsy, Supermarket, BuyOlympia, and many of the other online retail outlets available for independent makers to sell their wares they always leave me wondering what all these things feel like; how much they weigh; how they are made and how they are put together. There are of course plenty of weekend fairs and marketplaces to see the actual work and a few shops and galleries here and there dedicated to selling the work of individual makers but they are few and far between, inevitably leaving certain parts of the country underexposed to this type of work.
So I was excited to recently learn about The Foundrie, an upcoming holiday pop-up shop being created in St. Louis by Shelah McClymont.
From their site: “Introducing the first annual holiday market place known as The Foundrie. This carefully curated brick and mortar shop will feature the work of local artists, crafters, and independent designers. A small selection of vintage wares and revamped treasures will add to the eclectic mix and overall aesthetic to create a remarkable shopping experience for our well deserving customers.
“We are looking to fill the shop with hand picked items from the following categories: housewares, jewelry, clothing, accessories, stationery, and fine art. In order to create a unified and beautifully merchandised space we are focusing our search on items with a specific style and design in mind.”
Applications for space on the Foundrie’s shelves will be accepted until Halloween so if you’re interested, get on it!
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Posted by Andrew Wagner to Design and Environment and Food + Entertaining and NYC and Places and Uncategorized on
19 October 2009, with no comments so far.
Pop-up shop season officially begins tomorrow in New York City’s SOHO with the opening of one of the most unique shops we’ve heard of. Our intrepid contributor, Jen Turner, gives the low-down and gets you prepped for the week’s festivities.
For those mornings after one-too-many, there’s almost nothing more restorative than a classic egg ‘n’ cheese on a roll. And yet it’s been years since I’ve had one. What’s stopping me? Well, for one thing, the quantity of “morning afters” has decreased, but truthfully, since I became interested in (O.K., obsessed with) the origins of my food and joined the ecovore, locavore, raw-dairy-vore bandwagon, my appetite for deli-sold products has fallen off dramatically. And I hadn’t actually realized it until I heard about BoHo Bodega.
BoHo Bodega, the pop-up-shop brainchild of Mia Sakai and Julia Falkenstein, opens its doors tomorrow, Tuesday October 20th at 8:00 p.m. and will remain open until Sunday, October 25th. The shop’s goal is to spread the word that there are some great eco-friendly alternatives to the usual items found at most local convenience stores. Besides stocking the shelves with feel good products, the organizers have heavily discounted the prices and will send all the proceeds to charity—a retail trifecta. (more…)
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Posted by Katherine Sharpe to Food + Entertaining and Places on
19 October 2009, with no comments so far.
I love encountering an idea that seems to really actualize the power of the web, and for good at that. Neighborhood Fruit is a website, currently in beta, that allows fruit growers (people who happen to have fruiting trees on their property) to connect with fruit seekers (people in their area with a use for fruit) for an exchange of wares. At the site, fruit growers can register their trees, and fruit seekers search for the type of fruit they desire—Neighborhood Fruit brokers a direct e-mail connection between the two parties, and then bows out, but not before letting the grower and seeker designate “who picks.”
Making a fruit connection is free during the beta phase; it looks as though there will be a charge thereafter (though the site also has a listing of “public trees”). Even with a fee, this seems like a delicious solution to the ‘too much fruit’ problem that plagues people with fruit trees. Let the canning and the pie-making begin.
via Shoestring Mag
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Posted by Katherine Sharpe to Design and Events and NYC on
16 October 2009, with no comments so far.
National Design Week is upon us. From October 18 to 24, New Yorkers can enjoy a bevy of design-related events including free admission to the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.
Perhaps the highlight of the week is the National Design Awards themselves, to be held on Thursday, October 22. The awards, which recognize outstanding achievement in design categories including architecture, landscape design, product design, communication design, interaction design and fashion, turn 10 this year. In celebration, the Cooper-Hewitt has mounted a show called “Design USA: Contemporary Innovation,” to look back at a decade of winners.
I got to go to a press review of the show yesterday afternoon. Thoughts and pictures after the jump.
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Posted by Alexa Fornoff to Art and Craft and NYC on
14 October 2009, with 1 comment so far.
A collage class at a New York City senior center decided to try their hand at a custom “T” in honor of the New York Times style magazine. They’re pretty awesome, and in case you were wondering we would love to see your artistic interpretations of ReadyMade’s logo…so feel free to send them here!
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Posted by Katherine Sharpe to Art and Events and NYC on
13 October 2009, with no comments so far.
Fall is my favorite season for walking, and walking around New York City in the fall often gets me thinking about how something as complicated as a city comes together out of millions of tiny movements and routines.
“Air and Blood,” a solo exhibition by Heather L. Johsnon at New York City’s Glowlab gallery, gets at the same thing: the artist’s
new body of work fixates on the circulatory nature of urban movement. Air and Blood references the connection that urban inhabitants, either transient or permanent, have with overarching public transportation systems. Using the Holland Tunnel as a point of departure, the artist investigates the way in which anatomical processes are mimicked in the transfer of people, objects and ideas in the urban environment.
Johnson’s work is inspired partly, the press release explains, by the experience of being an avid motorcyclist who frequently passes through the Holland Tunnel from New Jersey into Manhattan–a trip that puts her in closer contact than most with the physical traces of transportation.
The show also expands outside the gallery, to include a text-based installation done in chalk on walls in the neighborhood. Taking it in could be a fine agenda for your next fall-time walk around the city.
Glowlab is located at 30 Grand Street between Thompson St. and 6th Ave. ‘Air and Blood’ runs through November 1. Read ReadyMade’s interview of Glowlab director and Conflux Festival founder Christina Ray, here.
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Posted by Alexa Fornoff to Art and NYC on
1 October 2009, with no comments so far.
3rd Ward in Brooklyn wants brave, new art for their Fall Solo Show, and they are ready for you to submit your greatest. Work of any medium and from anywhere will be considered as long as you follow the guidelines. Plenty of fanfare is at stake, and you have until October 22 to make a name for yourself. Go get ‘em.
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