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Tag Archives: cool stuff
Can-Fantastic!
Canstruction, which just finished its run at the World Financial Center, teamed students, mentored by professional architects and engineers, who created humongous and slightly disturbing can structures. Made entirely of unopened cans (with an occasional cereal box or peanut butter … Continue reading
The Other Guys
EVEN WITHOUT PHOTOSHOP, THIS WRECKING BALL, RENTED FOR THE MOVE THE OTHER GUYS, IS A DOUBLE-TAKER. The Other Guys stars two sure-to-be-hasbeens, Will Ferrell and Marky Mark, in what we used to call a caper/comedy. If the film is half … Continue reading
This is so friggin’ cool!
THE ORIGINAL CITY HALL SUBWAY STATION CLOSED IN 1945, and since then has remained hidden as we, unawares of the beauty below us, dragged our sorry asses from home to work and back again. Now we can glimpse what used … Continue reading
This is your brain on drugs
Our trip to the Brooklyn Museum–the second largest art museum in the United States–was wildly successful (see below), but the new facade, designed by the firm of Cresson, Cresson, Cresson & Asshole, still vexes us. We don’t know much about … Continue reading
Two more days to see The Amazing Station
Designed by “award-winning Broadway scenery and lighting designer Clarke Dunham and his artist/writer wife Barbara” (from the spine-tingling brochure), the Amazing Station is pretty cool. Four railroad scenes representing four vanished train-stations over the four seasons. For those of us … Continue reading