Friday 3 July 2009

I Heart NY

Have I told you how New York is my new favourite city? This post from A Cup of Jo...


...reminded me of two things that have brought me immense joy lately.

1. My recent trip to visit Mousse in NYC:



Remind you of a character in the video? We also saw a personality in this pipe... who knows what creatures lurk in the dark sewers of the city.



(Do you see the alligator?)

A tiny bit more flavour of NYC:







(P.S. one of my favourite photo subjects is graffiti art... you'll have to bug me for the rest of our graf photos from NYC. You can also check out an archived collection from my time in Taiwan: graf from Taipei.)

2. The second thing Joanna's post reminds me of is an incredible music art piece I found via CBC radio one fine day, and B and I have been obsessed with playing since. Here is an interview introducing the work that includes some sound samples:
Charles Spearin - The Happiness Project


Listen to tracks from The Happiness Project album. The artist responsible is Charles Spearin from Do Make Say Think and Broken Social Scene. Spearin interviewed his neighbours on the subject of happiness, then digitally mapped their voices into music scores and asked professional musicians to record the pieces. Read more on his website.

2 comments:

  1. this is soooo adorable!!!! i'm finally back in nyc after a month of being away and summer is finally swinging. europe was cool, reykjavik was amazing and is probably my favourite city, but there is no where like new york....ah my bed. (hopefully there are no bugs in them)

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  2. Glad you liked it! And don't worry, bed bugs only like beds with people in them - leaving your bed for a month is the best thing you could have done to be bedbug free!

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