CANstruction '10

The holiday season is always heralded by this event held at the World Financial Center. This year there were some clever entries (remember that all the sculptures are made out of cans).


Legos



Russian Nesting Dolls



Can you make out Super Mario?


All the cans were donated to a food bank the Monday before Thanksgiving.

Check out a CANstruction in your area.

http://canstruction.org/cities

Sukkah City

I'm a wee behind on posting, but wanted to give a shout out to the Sukkah City -- a design contest that occurred in October. Architects were asked to design modern sukkahs and the winners were displayed in Union Square.




Here are more images of the sukkahs (these pages don't seem to load if you hit the link so you'll need to cut and paste them into another browser window).

http://designnotes.info/?p=2836

and a story about the contest

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/42991/

Underground

Back in September PS 122 and the Alliance Francaise co-produced a reading of Daniel Pettow's The Sea Museum in an abandoned subway tunnel in Brooklyn. The environment made the reading quite unique.

To enter the space, everyone climbed through a manhole in the middle of the street.



and then walked through this "entry way"


The performance took place down the length of the tunnel. My Nokia's flash isn't too strong, but you can make out the rock wall at the end of the tunnel which marked the end of the playing space.

Sugar Plum Fairy...

...prancing at 42nd and 8th Ave

x-rated

Random yet strategically placed art at the entrance to the Time Square station.

High and Low Culture

These books were next to each other on a shelf titled "Popular Selections" at a book store in Columbus Circle.


Clearly New Yorkers like all types of literature.

Bag Lady

At Macy's in Herald Square

Secret Identity

Seen on the L train, a man in a full business suit with a pair of spaceman pajamas just peeking out from the bottom of the pant leg.