sorry my fun room has been sorely neglected of much much mucho late. I mean: how could you possibly not have fun in New York? (..apropos nothing at all..I knew all those dead people ...sorry: RESTING PEOPLE capable of giving birth to even more money. G bless them.)
I am very very glad and humbled that Maestro Stephen Colbert will be conducting the New Muppet Symphony when he gets fired from ABC:) ! And I will be taking over his job. Who wrote that crock of 'doolally'? Kermit often gets above his 'toads'. I might get sued for that comment....Well: let's start talking fish!
Who invented English anyway- such boring hieroglyphs! There's a stalker in your room S.C. ! Thought I'd ramp up the anti after all thise cheese! :) D.L. was great wasn't she- that's Dolph Lundgren right? Hey: you got something against being Swedish Kermit? Wanna take it outside into you 'pond' !
Not so easy being green, now Kermit. Is it?! IS IT !
Hey...frog! You don't fancy a boat-ride to the melting glaciers...pal...
Ummmm....I hear you do cordon bleu like no-human...what- like you jump inside swim around and somehow know when to jump back out before 'humanizing' ? How cccc bbbbb can a frog be? !!
I hate going to the gym. BTW how could you let that fffing freak Galvani get away with his war crimes, frog?
Guess it wasn't a war to remember....
Hey...fancy some Vodka. Frog.
008-Nachtigal....
I realize this is a bizarre request Mr Jim Henson: but would you allow\encourage Kermit to sing THIS SONG at my funeral. The only person of color who truly ever would understand. To be a kid, to be an old kid. To be, once more.
Green.
Last few days of Ruth Marshall’s Closely Knit: A Textile Analysis of Animals at the Central Park Zoo Arsenal bringing attention to the illegal trafficking of animal pelts. An Australian, Ruth applied to an ad on the school board (after graduating in NYC) for a job creating animal habitats at the Bronz Zoo (none of the aspirant abstract artists was interested in the job so it was hers!). Her favorite was the Snow Leopard- also one of the textiles she has knitted.
YOGA FOSTER fund-raiser raffle tonight on the perfectly formed rooftop of the Lower East Side’s Hotel Chantelle. Two years ago Yoga Foster founder Nicole Cardoza didn’t quite know how much support she would eventually garner for her idea of bringing free Yoga to kids 6-9. Now they have 1,600 kids in New York and are expanding to a further 200 kids in each city-Washington DC and Pittsburgh. Sponsorship costs $10 a year for each child to do free yoga. Sounds like one of the best deals in America! Go forth and multiply with the ‘downward dog tinkle'.
What was all the secrecy about the Met Museum's mystery guest Monday morning (the evening of the coveted annual Met Costume Institute Gala benefit)? Nobody would say but all in the know knew it was The First Lady Michelle Obama ‘having fun’ by cutting the opening ribbon of the new Anna Wintour Costume Center AND being allowed a preview (along with Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Michael Kors, Donna Karan to name just a few) before press and fashionistas of the new Charles James: Beyond Fashion show. The First Lady certainly chose another winner! “Charles James was a wildly idiosyncratic, emotionally fraught fashion genius who was also committed to teaching,” said Harold Koda, Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute.
The Met now has the most definitive body of James’s work in the world, and the most comprehensive collection of a fashion designer’s work of any museum thanks to the transfer of the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection to the Metropolitan Museum in 2009.
Most people outside the fashion industry will never have heard of Charles James. And the Met have pulled out all the stops in presenting a show that is infinitely more than just a bunch of old frocks presented in twilight darkness. Diller Scofidio + Renfro (a New York-based interdisciplinary design studio) have created an ingenious camera set up for each dress that infra-reds the textile and patterns that are then viewed on a screen below along with photos and other information about each of James’ creations. Video of the preview HERE.
thousands of fresh flowers pirouette upwards in the Met Museum atrium for the 2014 Costume Institute Gala
Russian revolutionaries may have succeeded in deposing the Tsar but the Fabergé Egg has lived on! Over the next three-and-a-half weeks from April 1 The Fabergé Big Egg Hunt has more than 275 egg sculptures by prominent artists, designers and architects hatching throughout the five boroughs of New York and culminating in an auction at Sotheby’s (April 22) benefiting Studio in a School and Elephant Family. Students in Studio programs will design 24 additional eggs. There’s a free smartphone app (using beacon technology) to locate the designer eggs and users are eligible to win one of three bejeweled miniature eggs donated by Fabergé. All of the eggs will be on display in Rockefeller Center from April 18 through 26.
Architect Zaha Hadid's egg in the window of Fabergé's New York store. (Click image for more photos)
Spring is almost here (with a little squinting) and so all femmes fatales will require some drop dead gorgeous shoes (a pair every Spring shouldn’t rock the bank;) Last night Saks Fifth Avenue hosted a benefit soiree for the New York Foundation for the Arts highlighting British designer Sophia Webster who's been on New York’s radar for the last year or so. And there really is something sophisticated for everyone from the ‘girlie’ to the striking sedate to the leather lace-up sandal ‘kinky boots’.
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Ever wanted to be a photographer like Cartier-Bresson? Well he only had a tiny Leica camera. And at Soho Photo Gallery's annual Krappy Kamera Competition most of the images are taken with only a cheap plastic camera or no camera at all, just photographic paper.
People's choice winner Mindaugas Gabrenas's Yin & Yin
First Place: JE Piper's cyanotype
Stumbled upon New York's MTA events website
Opera America's conversation with opera star Susan Graham is on their YouTube site. Some very wry, funny anecdotes. Photos HERE.
Are inlaws' jokes and the weight of Thanksgiving and Hunukkah at the same time all a little much? Then let Jackie Mason relieve the stress. (on Arrow DVD in the U.K.)
Dressing up occasionally, or all the time, from Savile Row tailoring and NYC haute couture to thrift shops ,I am Dandy embraces them all. Trailer video HERE and photos HERE of the National Arts Club book launch.
Refusing the riches that merchandising can reward for popular syndicated comic strips, cartoonist Bill Watterson firmly believed Calvin & Hobbes should remain in the hearts and minds of its readers rather than spread all over the world like a margarine. Long-time fan Joel Allen Schroeder has directed a fascinating heartfelt documentary Dear Mr. Watterson out on limited NYC cinema release Nov 15 and thence Video on Demand.
Painting on a Steinway piano sounds fun! Alexander Lynx at work here. He’s just designed a piano lid for Harry Connick Jr’s new tour. And Lady Gag, he says, is on the way.