The Dobbin Project Space (50-52 Dobbin St.) Opening Reception 6-9pm, FREE, Electric colors, sweeping lines, personal and political symbols, and a variety of media from sculpture to performance.
Archives for April 2013
How to Read a Poem in April—A Primer
Is there a poem in your heart? There’s always one in mine, but I never quite know how to get it out. Sometimes you’ll find me, standing on the street, staring out into the distance, trying to put some amalgamation of light and sound and air I’m feeling into words, but, alas. Someone always comes along and interrupts my reverie with a ridiculous question that they’re convinced passes for conversation.
“Hey, you look like you’re in a daze,” they’ll say, adding: “What are you thinking about right now?”
4 Films to See Before We All Drown—Gut Renovation; The Domino Effect; Chasing Ice; Gringo Trails
Massive icebergs photographed in Greenland. PHOTO BY JAMES BALOG / EXTREME ICE SURVEY
What does the overdevelopment of Williamsburg/Greenpoint have in common with melting glaciers? Fossil fuel, that’s what; one’s using it, the other’s choking on it. Well, we’re all choking on it.
CHASING ICE
Jeff Orlowski
Submarine Deluxe Presents An Exposure
Production in Association with Diamond Docs
Bindlestiff Family Circus: Clown and Sculptor Unicyclists Cross the Williamsburg Bridge
Photo by Max Dworkin. Keith Nelson, co-founder of the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus (at left), and Robert Hickman, sculptor, and intrepid unicyclists, make riding their unicycles across all of NYC bridges a goal.
Unicyclists Robert Hickman, a sculptor, and Keith Nelson, co-founder of the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, embarked on a journey starting in 2009, to cross all 2,078 bridges that exist in New York City. They’ve crossed 272 bridges to date, and should complete their impressively long-term goal in about ten years.
This past winter they made history when they unicycled across the Florida Keys as part of Sculpture Key West—over 130 miles, and 55 bridges. Their trip log is online at unibridgetour.info
Who knew low-income wage earners are subsidizing the developers?
The New New Domino:Déjà vu All Over Again
As I predicted, CPC Resources, the original developer for the Domino Sugar Refinery, flipped the property to a new developer, Two Trees Management, for a huge $120 million profit. So there’s a new plan afoot for the refinery, one the new developer has made even larger than CPC Resources’ massive plan, and one that is much larger than what is currently on the Williamsburg waterfront.
