Lisa Got High

Things that I always enjoy:
1.) Weekend visits from friends
2.) Showing friends around the city
3.) Getting friends high

Check out Lisa getting high on the High Line when she came to visit me.

I MOVED!

Saturday, I found my way to MOVE!, a MoMA PS1 presented event meant to showcase fashion and all things art through collaborations between clothing designers and artists.

At the suggestion of my friend, Frank, who was a Robert Geller clad dancer in one of the installations, I gladly took the train to Long Island City, paid the $10 admission fee, and slapped on the bright pink sticker the guards used to decipher who the paying customers were. Here are some photos from my afternoon.

The interesting stairwell really foreSHADOWed the truly entertaining afternoon I was about to have.

The Robert Geller/Ryan McNamara collaboration You Can Dance. See Robert pointing in the background admiring the students and teachers he'd outfitted.

The Terence Koh/Italo Zucchelli collaboration, Untitled (2010).

The Rob Pruitt/Marc Jacobs Collaboration, Looks. After being forced to down a blue-walled runway by two women wearing headsets and holding clip boards, they showed me into the next room where I was able to watch my sassy self strut down the virtual runway of my dreams... Finally, years of practice in the mirror paid off!

The Cheryl/American Apparel Collaboration, The Makeover You Never Knew You Wanted. I stood back and watched as ordinary citizens were transformed into their inner CHERYL with makeovers consisting glitter, hair extensions, shoulder pads, fake blood or any combination of the bunch.

But, sigh, I couldn't stay the whole afternoon. Yet, walking down the street back to the train stop I passed by a sign all marked up with graffiti, with old labels peeling off, and with the latest addition of those pink stickers everyone was forced to wear. The event had put me in one of those seeing-art-in-everything moments and I found myself taking a photo of what I had just seen, which looking back seems a little lame, but nonetheless, I realized that MOVE! had, in fact, reminded me stop, smell the roses and be "moved" by art that happens every day.

Installation "Met" with Admiration

It was a beautiful day for a field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and gorgeous weather like this is always the perfect backdrop to showcase this building's stately, neoclassical exterior.

As with most older buildings, as the Met grew larger and additions were added, the architecture changed with the times resulting in very modern moments among a structure built on traditional lines. I found this ceiling in one of the newer wings.

Yet, in addition to a mixture of old and new, I love when nature is a factor in a building's design as seen below in the Egyptian Wing of the museum. Not only does this room showcase the amazing Central Park view, but it lets in buckets of light on the reflecting pond it houses.

But what happens when architecture IMITATES nature? Well, I traveled to the rooftop of the Met and found out first hand.

 

With only bamboo, colorful strings (I love the color palette by the way), and a lot of elbow grease, Doug and Mike Starn and their team of rock climbers have worked since April on a project called, "Big Bambu". 

Yes, it's been going on for almost six months now AND it is going to be disassembled at the end of October, but I'm glad I was able to take a glimpse at this marvel. 

This was from the center of the structure. AMAZING!

So, if you can make it before "Big Bambu" goes back to being just a big PILE of bamboo, please, do so, but either way make it to the rooftop of the Met because with a view like this it'll all be worth it.

What's with Clothing Stores These Days?

The new Barney's CO-OP on Atlantic Ave in Brooklyn, NY opened October 14th and I took a trip there this weekend to check-in and see how things were going.


New shoppers were greeted by a denim shark in the window display. It was a very handsome shark... he must have good jeans.

I love how the mannequins were just "hanging out" like they were shopping, too.

Even the jewelry was laid out perfectly in its case. The only problem with the store was that there was NO SHOE SECTION...

...And then I found myself at an Urban Outfitters a few store fronts down the street and this is what THEIR shoes section looked like...
So, thank you, Barney's CO-OP for your new, immaculate store with beautiful displays and top-drawer atmosphere, but please, reevaluate your offerings and take a step toward a broader assortment. And to you, Urban Outfitters, you have a sole problem and I think I know which department you should look in.