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O.Pad opening @40 Walker Street – of Design Week NYC
I’m at an Art/Design opening tonight at 40 Walker Street in Tribecca as part of Design Week NYC – I stumbled upon this opening almost by accident, but am quite enjoying the choices of lighting and posters chosen.
O.Pad is at Opad.com and you can email Chris@opad.com or call 212-485-6190 if you want you want to see more.
Meanwhile – here’s some photos I took tonight at O.Pad’s opening.
When movement becomes dance
11 min, 16 mm film, B/W, no sound
Camera: Bill Rowley
Edit: Elaine Summers
Dir: Elaine Summers
Prod: Hans Breder, Iowa University
There are two things about this short fragment I love.
The first is the choreography of joy. The slow-motion allows us to better appreciate the flow of the common movement, the combining of the bodies, the contrast between them and everything that happens around them.
But there is something else. The dance becomes obvious at the end, when the movement continues beyond what we expected. Yet there is one earlier moment, one step of the girl coming from “our” side, which makes that clear. At a very precise point, she deviates from the way she has been running, her body bends like a bow and then moves sideways. That is when the simple vectors of meeting become something else – something more complex, less obvious. The bodies, now, create a space for our meeting to go beyond the embrace.
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One Not To Miss: Martha Cooper “Name Tagging” Book Launch In NYC
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Tomorrow evening, Saturday, Martha Cooper launches her latest book “Name Tagging” at the Obey pop up store in New York. Name Tagging is the follow up to Going Postal and documents street art and tags on the “Hello My Name Is” small sized stickers. It includes interviews with Twist, Cost, Faust, Claw and others along with photos of hundreds of hand drawn/tagged stickers (no commercially printed ones).
Date: Saturday, May 15, 2010
Time: 5:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Obey Pop Up Store NYC
Street: 151 Orchard Street
City/Town: New York, NY
