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Vans of New York

Interesting van, often parked a couple of blocks down from where I live:

I wonder about the reference to the bees – perhaps something to do with this?

Street Art Columbus Circle

On my way to Time Warner Center I noticed a newspaper article about NASA stuck to a hoarding. Closer inspection revealed more newspaper clippings, covered with very precise annotations, apparently referencing some kind of UFO conspiracy. They looked cool against the red wall. Click below for detailed pictures:

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Spirituality and cooling

Take care of your spiritual development, your A/C and refrigeration needs from just one source. (Take a close look at the door of the van.)

Blipfestival 2006

So it was late on a Sunday evening, working at the ITP lab as usual. It was the last night of the New York Blipfestival (a four day festival of video-game inspired music & video), which I was likely to miss. At this point, Rui said something like “Why the **** are we in New […]

Nik has arrived!

Nik, my charming & jetsetting girlfriend, has arrived in New York!

It’s so nice to see her here, after two months apart. Not much of a shock for her: my furniture, appliances, etc. are all the same ones I had in Tokyo, so it was easy for her to settle in. Even more important, I […]

Matmos & So Percussion at Symphony Space

I went to see this show with a bunch of other ITP students. Matmos is a very interesting duo (with occasional collaborators) that works with found sound and samples, using it produce music with a pointed political sentiment. So Percussion started out as an avantgarde percussion quartet, mostly playing the works of other composers, but […]

Visit to the Wired Nextfest

I went to see the Wired Nextfest in New York, a tradeshow/exhibition focused around technology and the future.

Frankly, I found it a bit disturbing. The vision of the future presented is very much technology for its own sake, dominated by large corporations, and with a strong militaristic streak. There is no real attempt to […]

Psychedelia from the AV Geeks

Went to see another Darmstadt event at the Spiegeltent. This time the emphasis was more on “found footage” than live performance, though there were a couple of exceptions.

A highlight for me was the AV Geeks presentation of some very odd psychedelic films for schoolchildren, produced by Encyclopedia Britannica, and… the US Government.

The following […]

Bright Lights, Big Chili

A battle is being fought on the streets of New York, not far from where I live and study. Two family-owned Indian restaurants, side-by-side in the same building, strive to out-do each other in the matter of illumination. The interiors are equally overwhelming. More info here.

Unity Gain at the Spiegel Tent

Went to see a Unity Gain performance at the Spiegeltent, the elaborate temporary structure now living at the South Street Seaport. Unity Gain is a sort of electronic jam session of audio & video artists, mostly using computers. Great layout of the space – big vertical screen on top of a round table, all the […]