One of the nicest things in New York during the heat is the Summer Streets initiative where for three consecutive Saturdays some major roads are closed to cars and get used by runners, walkers and cyclists. One great addition this year was the conversion of three unused dumpsters into pools on Park Avenue. Never thought [...]
Archive for August, 2010
Pools on Park Avenue
Posted in My photos, tagged Grand Central, My photos, New York, Summer Streets on August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Things to ponder: 27 August 2010
Posted in Things to ponder, tagged Things to ponder on August 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Some of my favourite things this week – have a good weekend. – Daniel Akst wonders why Americans have become more lonely despite spending more time on social networks (and why I will never join Facebook) : “Science-fiction writers make the best seers. In the late 1950s far-sighted Isaac Asimov imagined a sunny planet called [...]
Storm King: the roof is the sky
Posted in My photos, What I'm looking at, tagged My photos, New York, sculpture, Storm King Art Center on August 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Storm King Art Center is an unusual museum. Its collection is not constrained by the walls of the museum building. The floor of its main exhibition area is grass and fields. Walls are formed by trees and hills. The roof is sky.” – H Peter Stern, lecture given at the Chautauqua Institution, July 1, [...]
Things to ponder: 20 August 2010
Posted in Things to ponder, tagged Ariel Dorfman, Nelson Mandela lecture, Things to ponder, US Constitution on August 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman delivered a wonderful speech for the 8th annual Nelson Mandela lecture – Whose memory ? Whose justice ? A meditation on how and when and if to reconcile : “This is how we managed to become human, by creating the conditions for a social network where the suffering of others is [...]
The imagery of words
Posted in What I'm watching, tagged Daniel Mercandante, NPR, Radiolab, video, Will Hoffman on August 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
NPR’s Radiolab had a program on words and commissioned this magical video from Will Hoffman and Daniel Mercadante which manages to capture their power, despite not using many.
Things to ponder: 13 August 2010
Posted in Things to ponder, tagged happiness, Things to ponder on August 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If you want just one piece to help put life in perspective, the article by Christopher Hitchens is it. Have a good weekend. – Hitchens manages to remain sarcastic and funny while writing about his cancer diagnosis: “Of course my book hit the best-seller list on the day that I received the grimmest of news [...]
New Orleans in New York
Posted in My photos, What I'm listening to, tagged Hurricane Katrina, Lincoln Center, music, My photos, New Orleans, New York on August 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Lincoln Center is not normally a place I associate with a dance party but last Sunday the place went wild at an outdoor concert commemorating the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. I don’t think there was a single person who stayed sitting down instead of getting up on their feet to dance. A friend [...]
Dior’s huge handbag
Posted in My photos, tagged Christian Dior, My photos, New York on August 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Christian Dior on 57th St has come up with a stylish way of telling us the store is being renovated :
Things to ponder: 6 August 2010
Posted in Things to ponder, tagged Mayor Bloomberg, New York on August 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One of the most inspiring things this week was New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg showing that modern politicians can still have moments of greatness. Have a good weekend. – fantastic speech by Mayor Bloomberg on the planned Muslim community centre near ground zero. He highlights both what is so great about New York and [...]
