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peter sis, for john lennon's 75th
oh to be in new york
Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts
16.1.15
29.6.12
for halcyon skies
happy fourth of july
poem: emily dickinson. spoon & fork: design, victoria thorne; photography, rick martin.
28.1.12
balance and order and rhythm and harmony
chairs: axel paironsampler: needleprintlake: here
for we cannot make the best of what we are, if our hearts are always divided between what we are and what we are not. we cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony. let us, therefore, learn to pass from one imperfect activity to another without worrying too much about what we are missing.
21.1.12
5.1.10
miss new york
i know it is cold there, and it is sunny here
but i miss new york and would happily put
on warm boots & dash over to the met now
28.9.09
17.8.09
on the compensation of autumn
Given the fact that I've never actually lived in the city, I cannot figure out what makes me miss New York so much. Perhaps it is something I caught on the Hudson, a cool breeze that crept in through a window slightly ajar one happy winter in West Point. Perhaps it's more deeply rooted, genetic strands woven into a sharp young man who saved, near the turn of another century, his school lunch money for a far more delicious meal from the hot dog vendor (and kept a few important pennies in the doing). Anyhow. The longing is there.
Looking at these pictures, I realize it can be oddly gray. But that just makes the missing it, somehow, more intense. The city is beautiful even in grayness.
Winter there may not be easy.
But doesn't Autumn compensate?
11.8.09
10.8.09
16.5.09
27.4.09
time warp
you know what makes kate and leopold the perfect movie?
watching it with your amazing daughter who is
getting on a plane to go back to that city tonight
[i love the time warp near the brooklyn bridge:
"a beautiful 4D pretzel of kismetic possibility"]
17.12.08
A Window on Elizabeth Street
There's original art and brand new words from Peter Sis on art.books.children. Just thought you might want to know. And, here, interesting info from the always exceptional Book By It's Cover on the those new fishwrappers at Starbucks. I hadn't been picking them up, but I will now. What was I thinking? Scarcely goes there a day that I'm not trolling for additional news content, and it's always nice when it's delivered on newsprint: especially, these days, well-edited, well-designed, well-written inked-up newsprint.
A brilliant friend recently sent word that she'd just stopped by Starbucks, on the way to the bookstore. Wonder if she grabbed one of these? Wonder if she liked it? She has exceedingly good taste. I should ask her.
15.12.08
Tidings of Great Joy
With love and a hat tip to the great Mr. Steig.
There's so much more where this came from,
but the days are just packed right now.
Extra love to those in
New York and Germany and Virginia.
1.11.08
Tree Huts: Madison Square Garden
From:
"Tree huts in particular are an emerging focus of Kawamata’s work; a crystallization of Kawamata’s interest in the architecture of shelter and of the insertion of private objects into public spaces as a method of renegotiating the meaning of both."
See:
Thanks to the ever-inspiring Shedworking
for the heads-up...
it's been fun to watch this become a reality.
Tree houses of dreams, yes?
15.9.08
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