Tag: Brooklyn

  • Winter Chucks

  • Some Thoughts On BRIC, Brooklyn’s Beloved Arts Organization

    Jordana and I were recently interviewed by Brooklyn Independent Media about BRIC, Brooklyn’s beloved non-profit arts organization. For 35 years, BRIC’s been driving and reflecting the cultural diversity and creativity of our favorite borough, led by its brilliant visionary, Leslie Schultz. From live music and performing arts (the Celebrate Brooklyn! Performing Arts Festival and BRIClab),…

  • A Simpler Way

    And then there’s the magic of our own neighborhood.  Where one day you can spend the day seeing Ai Weiwei at The Brooklyn Museum through the eyes of a five year old… And playing in the trees of Swoon… Only to wake up the next morning to a note, on a branch, on a tree,…

  • 150 People Knitting Boobs

    It was 9am on a beautiful Friday morning in Brooklyn, four years ago, the first ever Viacommunity Day, a day of service for all employees of our company.  I was walking up to my wife’s art studio with several bags of bagels.  She was expecting about 50 people that morning. Neither of us expected our CEO to…

  • Figurative Sidewalk Stain

    (Artist unknown, Brooklyn, 2013)

  • Inter vs Intra? You Decide, Brooklyn

    To me, this J Crew shirt looks spelt rong.

  • Wall Poem, Brooklyn

     

  • Brooklyn’s Jose Parla

    Loving Jose Parla.  The enigmatic Brooklyn painter has been called a “raconteur,” a conceptual documentarian, a “transcriber.”  Parla’s work, which I wish we had on our walls and hopefully, one day, will, uses markings and layers of distress to chronicle the passing of time and neglect across their surfaces.  The work is beautiful, cerebral, emotional.  Like, say, Cy Twombly, it feels…

  • Crowdsourced Ice Cream Flavors At Brooklyn’s Ample Hills Creamery

    I too lived—Brooklyn, of ample hills, was mine; I too walk’d the streets of Manhattan Island, and bathed in the waters around it; I too felt the curious abrupt questionings stir within me, In the day, among crowds of people, sometimes they came upon me, In my walks home late at night, or as I lay…

  • A Message From My Neighbors About Technology

    My Fatherinlaw bought us a printer today, unsolicited.  Now when he comes to stay, he can print things and not have to look at us like we’re nuts for not having a printer.  Instead, he will look at us like we’re assholes for not having any ink in the printer he bought us. Same day,…