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This weekend is Socrates Sculpture Park and the Noguchi Museum’s 6th annual kite making workshop. This year bring your old recycled grocery bags and turn them into high flying beauties. Kite designs are provided by Miwa Kiozumi and Marco Scoffier who will draw inspiration from the parks view of the Manhattan skyline. Participants will have the opportunity to build and decorate their kites, then fly them in the Park.
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This summer New York’s East River will undergo a fluvial transformation - four large waterfalls will be installed by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson.

The 60-70ft high falls will be located at various points up the river and are predicted to cost up to $15 million dollars, paid for by the non-profit organization Public Art Fund. They will be up between mid-July and mid-October this year.

With the exception of one nestled under the Brooklyn Bridge, the waterfalls are freestanding and resemble each other. I’m a bit wait and see on this one. For me, they seem a bit lackluster. I don’t quite connect with the idea the artist has when he explains: “A waterfall is not just an iconic phenomenon, it is also free-falling water - in the literal sense, but also in the sense that it is freely accessible.”  Waterfalls are iconic and they are phenomenons - I’m not sure these installations are either. I think it would make more sense to me if these were integrated into the fabric of the city somehow and not in the middle of the river where you can’t experience it.

source: NY Sun , Official Website

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Improv Everywhere strikes again. This time a Starbucks on 7th Avenue gets invaded by three “agents” who happily carry and set up their large desktop computers and CRT monitors - as if they were laptops. Enjoy:

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Design Within Reach Studio in Manhattan is on a mission to promote emerging designers in the New York area through competition M+D+F 2008. Think you have an idea for innovative, modern furniture? Find links to the complete rules and entry application here.

Deadline is Thursday, March 20. Good Luck!

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Stefan Sagmeister has stacked 7,200 bananas into a Manhattan gallery. The result is unbelievable, beautiful, and overwhelming (with smell). The exhibit is a part of Stefan’s works entitled Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far. I wonder just what it is that Stefan has learned from bananas. Is it that they rot, or that they look beautiful stacked together, or simply that each one is unique? Any thoughts?

More photos here. The exhibit will be up until February 23. By the looks of things, many of the bananas will be on their way to black mush by then!

Deitch Gallery
76 Grand Street
New York, NY

via: core77

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This just might be the best thing you watch today.

For those who love the song as much as me….

Song “Put you in you place” by artist The Sunshine Underground

…had a (another) major disaster.

This was the premise to a recent competition held by the New York Office of Emergency Management. The entries were asked to “temporarily house a displaced population in a hypothetical disaster scenario in a realistic but fictitious neighborhood”.

As a resident of New York, I’m not sure how to feel about this competition. On the one-hand, I’m glad to see that some thought is being given to temporarily house the many people that might be uprooted in the event of a disaster (which could include myself one day). On the other-hand, why have we waited so late to do this?

I will say that i think it’s a great idea to hold a competition for this purpose. You are certainly more likely to get the most creative solutions to a very hard problem. And it’s always good to get community involvement. However, competition entries can sometimes reside in the clouds, and I hope the jury paid good attention to see which entries are pratical for the purpose.

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It is getting down to the wire for seeing Socrates Sculpture Park’s Emerging Artists Exhibition. The event ends in early March so if you feel like getting out in the next few weekends I would suggest heading over to Long Island City. Unfortunately, I will not be able to see this one due to travel and other events. If you have seen this or go to it, please let us know what we’re missing.

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Improv Everywhere presents Grand Central Station frozen in time. Check it out:

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Last night, young New York architects from FXFowle and Konyk, dueled in the 4th Annual model-building competition.  This year, the participants were given two hours to sketch and construct a model of an eco-friendly wildlife center in Alaska.  Usually, the winner is announced at the end of the competition, but this year voting is open online for roughly one week.

Starting tomorrow you can cast your vote here: http://www.lvhrd.org/

Watch a short 3min video on the event here.

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