Open Studios and Food Market

I will be spending the next month grueling over the computer organizing two projects I’ve dreamed of putting together the last few months. Both takes places in Greenpoint, a neighborhood I am becoming more and more embedded in.
First is
Greenpoint Open Studios to happen Sept 18-20 in collaboration of Gnpt artists, galleries, local businesses and everyone [...]

I Believe You, Liar

My friend Lucas is launching a photo art book titled “I Believe You, Liar” in LA this weekend. The book is self-published and curated in such a way to completely trip you out. Above image is an example. I’ll hopefully get to write more about Lucas’ work in the future. Till then, here’s a description [...]

Free Bootcamp for Art

My dear friend Nicole teaches boot camp at Prospect Park a few days a week and Bootcamp Republic is starting an artist program where you get a free 3 week course in exchange for art influenced by or related to the experience. Here are more details:
Artists get a full 3-week cycle (or 6 sessions) free [...]

Food Party

So I was reading this article on artcat one day and discovered this woman named Thu Tran. She’s in my neighborhood and has successfully ingeniously merged art and food. She has a crazy show recently picked up by IFC called Food Party and it’s a trippy surrealistic encounter between food puppets and Thu herself. I [...]

Tadashi Moriyama

Today’s special at Beautiful/Decay: Tadashi Moriyama

I found Tadashi Moriyama’s work during Bushwick Open Studios this past June and fell in love with the intricacy and obsessive mark making process that is evident in each ink and gouache work. Each painting is rife with apocalyptic imagery rendered in countless repetitions of a few motifs including waffle-like [...]

Plates and Records

Friends and I have started a supperclub called Plates and Records. It got an article on Metro this morning. Radical.
Our first dinner was Indian, made in my house, served in my backyard. It was glorious.
Join us on Facebook. Email us at platesandrecords@gmail for upcoming dates, to be added to mailing list, and if you’d like [...]

Elsewhere

- A reflection on the newly opened Transmitter Park in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

- Today’s special at Beautiful Decay: India Street Mural Project artist Chris Soria.

Handsome Furs and Bowerbirds

I’ve been itching to make music lately and I’ve created a criteria of sorts on what it would sound like. First and foremost it would make you simultaneously dance and cry. Beats would be basic and bass heavy and would pump thump that heart for you. You would uncontrollably tap you feet, sway them hips, [...]

Zander Blom

Today’s Beautiful/Decay Special is:
Zander Blom

The potential lack of conceptual elements and an escapist mode of abstraction ignites the tension between physical space and non-functional form.
Read more here.

Passed Hor d’Oeuvres

I recently had the opportunity to cater a cocktail party. I initially turned down the offer out of fear and doubt and offered the gig to a private chef friend. Then I thought, why the hell not, it’s an opportunity and if I don’t take the chance now, then when? I was in for a [...]