Photo by Eric Wolman
Vito serves it up for seniors [BklynPapers]
ExxonMobil to speed oil spill cleanup [CNN]
Archives for November 2010
Combo Plate of Consciousness and Activism
By Lisette Johnson
Of the 250 million tons of trash generated by Americans in 2008, only 83 million of it was recycled or composted. Yard trimmings and food scraps—stuff farmers have used to enrich their fields for generations—constituted over 25 percent of municipal solid waste nationwide in the same year. The idea of recycling has become ubiquitous to most New Yorkers; fines are issued for failure to comply and public recycling bins are starting to pop up around the City. And though New Yorkers can count themselves as some of the most Earth-conscious urbanites on the planet (New Yorkers statistically have some of the tiniest carbon footprints in America), most of us do not compost.
The Daily Photo + Links, Nov 22, 2010
Photo by Eric Wolman
Elizabeth Streb’s gravity-defining dance troupe is back [BklynPaper]
As a Neighborhood Shifts, the Chain Stores Arrive [NYT]
Psychedelic Resonance—The Art of Fred Tomaselli
“Echo, Wow and Flutter,” 2000.Leaves, pills, photocollage, acrylic, resin on wood panel 84 × 120 inches. Copyright the artist Courtesy James Cohan Gallery, New York/Shanghai
I first met Fred Tomaselli in the early 1990s, after he moved to Brooklyn from the West Coast and established a studio in Williamsburg. Word was out about his densely crafted paintings with psychotropic drugs embedded in resin. Flash forward to a hot summer evening in 2010, when Tomaselli took time to discuss his work, its influences, and his mid-career survey at the Brooklyn Museum.
I met Tomaselli in his second-floor studio, where the walls were hung with paintings ranging from finished ones completed in the early 1990s to a piece still in-progress. On a work table nearby sat a scale model of the Brooklyn Museum exhibition space, with postage stamp sized repro ductions of his paintings.
The G-Road, Photo Show at WG Gallery
We are three New York City photographers working primarily in the documentary and street photography traditions. Simultaneously we acquired the “G” series Canon point-and-shoot camera. We found ourselves inspired by the playful and creative qualities of this unobtrusive tool. Our personal journeys as photographers are mostly solitary, so we joined to create The G Road as a platform for free-form collective visual expression.
http://the-g-road.blogspot.com/
WG Gallery
50-52 Dobbin St, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
(behind Automotive HS and btwn North 14th and Guernsey/Norman and Nassau)