October 2010
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Radical Cartography →
Spend all morning on this site!
My favorite of the moment is the area code animation of the US. Hard to believe that in 1979 the country looked like one unified area and did not really start its amoeba-like self division until 1980. Remember when an area code meant a long distance call?
I had to borrow a phone in the Internet Garage the other day and had someone ask, “is it local?”...
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mini travel
Directly across from the fictional home of Tony Monero, we came across this painstaking recreation of the island of Crete in someone’s backyard.
Just some residents of Brooklyn, showing the land of their ancestors to lucky passers by. When I showed the picture to CHx he mentioned the Piazza Italia in New Orleans, a 1979 Las Vegafied recreation of an Italian-style public space.
Here it...
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or, some pics instead
This is the oldest milestone in New York, located in Milestone Park.
Built in 1914, this is the best example of arts and craft style architecture in the city. The picture does not give a true sense of scale, but the house is a three story mansion, more than the humble little hobbit hole it might look like here.
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WatchPlease enjoy these entertaining-but-highly amateur videos from our tour of Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst on Saturday. We hit up spots from the movie Saturday Night Fever, including the house where Tony Manero lives, the hardware store where he works, the Verezano Bridge, where as a kid I had to turn the movie off, and Lenny’s pizza, where he gets two slices in the film’s famous opening....
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A Critique of Woody Allen's Uneven Grammar via... →
I’m not saying this here Travelgoat tumblr is always perfectly punctuated, I’m just sayin’ lol.
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Alternative Histories Show at Exit Art Gallery
Yesterday in preparation for an upcoming tour we went to Hell’s Kitchen to see a show about art in alternative spaces. Lots of good information and tons of boxes of artifacts about unconventional notions of exhibition since the 1960s. While the spaces they chose to cover seemed completely arbitrary, it did give us some good inspiration.
We are featuring temporary art spaces that are not...
Joel Oppenheimer
The poet who is thought to have come up with the name Max’s Kansas City. I guess “Kansas City cut” is a style of steak, and he thought the club should sound “restauranty.” He also attended Black Mountain College, which I am excited to say will soon finally be featured on Travelgoat, thanks to our newest member of the team who will be developing a page for Asheville,...
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Max's Kansas City retrospective at Steven Kasher... →
Lou Reed’s nature photography looks very interesting. Steven Kasher is also the art dealer who is preserving the Uranian Phalanstery’s legacy.
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Solanin at Union Hall
Last night at Union Hall, my cousin Amy Klein played some of her dreamy and poetic music. You can listen to some of the surreal and mutli-lingual sounds of Solanin here.
Comparisons to Joanna Newsom and Tori Amos were made, but in the end, she really is like nothing you’ve heard before.
Union Hall is part of a nightlife trend is falling out of favor. Highly designed spaces that are...
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Dr. Burnshead: Yes, this weekend I felt like the... →
drburnshead:
Yes, this weekend I felt like the person in this photo. I went boating in central park and it was delightful. I went with Aubs and my dad before but this time I went with Tom. We boated all about the lake. We saw the obligatory turtle sunning itself. We saw about ten weddings since the date…
Cool pic, Dr. Burnshead!
Sisters, take note.
I really can’t bring myself to take a photo here in this maelstrom of peeping and judgmental hipsties, but I happen to be enjoying the best muesli of my life at a little place I have always avoided on Bedford Ave. I avoided it because it advertises on a blackboard outside, in place of a name, that it is full of “grit.” But seeing now that it is also a secret free wifi outlet and...
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Open House New York
The architecture festival, Open House: New York, was happening in pockets all over the city this weekend. The guided tours I planned on attending like the canoe tour (!) of the Gowanus Canal, proved too early for a nightlife expert like me and too risky for the germophobic companion I had planned to bring along. Instead, I downloaded the free podcasts they put out. Providing an illuminating tour...
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Garance Dore on NYC →
I have been dying to do a spa tour of NYC. Even Garance agrees that manicures are having a new moment. I hope it’s only a matter of time before men start feeling free to wear colored polish. I just bought a beautiful swimming pool blue color and I feel sorry for the men who feel they can’t join in the fun.
Whoa, and guess who else is on to the trend? Who else but Mr. Bieber
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I really want to like L Magazine but this arbitrary list of artists and authors in their youths they’re calling the definitive list of hipsters is unintentionally hilarious. Besides some faulty information, (Christopher Marlowe is “the edgier Shakespeare”—huh?), the hilarity is enhanced by well-meaning commenters who feel compelled to point out the overlooked, for example,...
Club Kids
To learn more about Michael Alig and the Club Kids check out this interview with him from prison in the most recent issue of Interview Magazine, and my post on Travelgoat about The Limelight.
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Grove Court
Grove Court is the “squatty three story brick” that O. Henry describes in his short story, “The Last Leaf.” You can read the story here, which I found to be surprisingly psychological for an allegory. It also has some great descriptions:
“In a little district west of Washington Square the streets have run crazy and broken themselves into small strips called...
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city map quilts →
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44 Barrow Street
Loving the L.A.-based “good news from nowhere” blog. Thanks for the video of the very charming John Cage. I loved it when the host asked him to tell him “quite seriously…no tongue in cheek now.” Visit John Cage’s music school, Greenwich House, at 44 Barrow Street.
