Sadness.

No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn © Nina Buesing Corvallo

MCA. Adam Yauch. RIP.
My heart goes out to his family & friends.
Besides being the music of my youth, The Beastie Boys are just very special to anyone who grew up in New York City (in the 80/90s).
This sucks. And like much in life this is unfair and makes no sense.

Congrats, Rona!

The Prize Winner © Rona Chang

Rona placed 3rd in The Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition, Landscape Category. Very exciting and well deserved. This is a fantastic photograph, so representative of NYC and especially Queens. And it proves that you do not have to travel the world to take amazing pictures. Sometimes the best is right in front of you.

Another Image form the series, also taken in Queens. © Rona Chang

If You Are in DC

If you are interested in art and are in DC tomorrow May 3 @ 7PM, check out Jen Samet's Lecture "The Role of Empathy in Art" at the Washington Studio School.

May Day This & That

Happy May/Labour Day!

Karin & Camilla collaborated on another wonderful project. Find it at Manos: www.manos.bigcartel.com.

Sandra posted the best "kitten" story, find it at: www.sandrajuto.blogspot.com.

(via Kottke)  Amazing collection of NYC images was recently put online by the Municipal Archive at: www.mtprawvwdorlna1.nyc.gov/luna/servlet/allCollections
Be patient the server is a bit overwhelmed. Alan Taylor posted some amazing images fromthe collection over at The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com - take a look!

Under The Brooklyn Bridge

Red Hook Pool

Lower Manhattan 1938 -- all images courtesy NYC Municipal Archive