New York City
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In the past, I have had a few mishaps bicycling from work, and yesterday, as I was about to leave for home, I noticed that I had a flat tire. A small piece of glass had punctured through my expensive yet supposedly impenetrable Gatorskin tire and created a slow leak. As I do most days, I left my bike parked in the NYU bike lot behind the Stern School of Business. The lot has been there for as long as I’ve been here, and it’s been a great benefit since I moved to Queens and commute to Bobst every weekday.
In the past year, the NYU Bike program has installed a bike repair station at our bike lot. The repair station has a pump and tethered set of tools, including a 15mm track wheel wrench, bike levers, and common allen wrenches. At the station, I managed fill up my flat tire to about 80 PSI and ride to the nearest bike shop to get a new tube. I rode back to the bike lot, with only about 20 PSI left in the tube, and proceeded to replace the slowly leaking tube. After filling it to 110 PSI, I pedaled home.
In all fairness, I usually bring one of those tool bags that fits under my seat, but I hadn’t been bringing it because I was overly optimistic about the Gatorskin’s ability to resist punctures in New York City. When it comes to New York’s road conditions, which border on third-world in terms of quality, there is no such thing as true puncture resistance.
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Starting today, my Sony Blu-ray player, which was what we used to stream Hulu Plus on my HDTV, will join my DVD player and VHS recorder as electronic bricks because Hulu Plus arrives on Apple TV.
Since 2009, I have watched a total of three Blu-ray disks at home, and although they looked beautiful, there was never an easy supply of Blu-ray disks. At the time, there were not many Blu-ray titles available on Netflix, which also charged a $3 monthly surcharge for Blu-ray disks, and there were no remaining video stores in my neighborhood. Even today, the Blockbuster Express kiosks only carry a very small selection of Blu-ray titles.
Eventually, the Blu-ray deck became a streaming player for Hulu Plus, Netflix, and Amazon. Most of my Netflix viewing is with the Apple TV because of the better interface and much lower latency. The Blu-ray player will not start playing video for almost fifteen seconds, while the Apple TV (and Roku for that matter) are much faster.
Now, with Hulu available on the Apple TV, I can’t see myself using the Blu-ray player much after this. I mean, after all, why would I buy/rent video from Amazon if I can’t watch with my iPad?
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Here are the photos from the 2012 Staff Show at Philips de Pury in New York’s Meatpacking District.
While it was a more muted celebration than the 2011 Staff Show, there was still plenty of great art, a good crowd, and a great atmosphere. Again, congratulations to our friend Bill.
Tonight is the Phillips de Pury & Company’s annual New York Staff Show. If you’re wondering, “what is the Staff Show,” it’s a…
celebration of the incredible artistic talent under our own roof. The exhibition reflects the contemporary practices of arts professionals active in the international art market, represented by a variety of mediums including painting, sculpture, photography, and multimedia.
I was at last year’s event and took a few photos of the art and of my friend William Driscoll’s work. Below is a link to the album.
I will be there again snapping some photos of Bill’s work and of this amazing space.
Many months ago, Sarah competed in an episode of Ask Me Another, a show I have not been able to find on the radio despite being “on NPR.” However, like everything else good and holy, it’s also a podcast.
If you know about Weird Al Yankovich’s songs, listen to Sarah get really excited about the Amish and bologna. And who knew that Madonna played the drums? I sure didn’t.
Congrats to Kate, left, for seven great years at running the Soft Spot!
While we didn’t picnic at Riverside Park on Independence Day, we did have the pleasure of going to a party at the City Foundry in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The party was hosted by Industry City Distillery and was a benefit for the Trade School Everywhere. (I’m still trying to wrap my head around the scope of the entire event.)
The party boasted a potluck, a variety of beverages, live music, and pretty limited view of the Macy’s Fireworks. The highlight of the evening was a pig roast. Whoa! I had some loin, belly, and then some other random bits at the end of the night, and it was delicious. The sides consisted of some Beet Cole Slaw and Vegan lentil and farro salad with kasha. It was almost a well-balanced meal, and a great night.
I just wish we were off from work the next day.
Here’s another data point as to what the fireworks looked like from Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Brooklyn’s Light Industry screens Shirley Clarke’s The Cool World, a gritty look at New York’s street life and a rare, frank look at African-American life in the late 1950s. I screened the film many years ago at a NYU summer session class New York Independents.
If you’re in the neighborhood, see the film on Tuesday, July 17, at 7:30 PM.
Light Industry is at 155 Freeman Street, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
It seems like just yesterday that Silver Spoon, a take-out deli had opened at 53 East Eighth Street in Greenwich Village. This place opened in a spot long ago vacated by Rockwell’s Express. I can’t remember what was there before that. I never went to Silver Spoon, but I don’t know if I give the next much of a chance.
