New York – Page 2 – Membranophonist’s Ramblings

Nation of Immigrants

Thursday Night Music at Niagara

Coincidentally, two friends performed back-to-back at Niagara yesterday evening.

Brittany Anjou Trio

Brittany Anjou — Keyboard and vocals
Mali Obomsawin — Acoustic bass
Shirazette Tannin — Drums

Soundchecking before her trio performs at Niagara in New York’s East Village.

Karlie Bruce & Chris Parrello

Karlie Bruce — Vocals and keyboards
Chris Parrello — Guitars

Dreary April Day

A Sunday at MoMA

Louise Bourgeois, 1997.

Givenchy, 1968.

Miyake Design Studio, 1997.

Richard Nicoll and Studio XO, 2015.

Daniel “Dapper Dan” Day, circa 1985–1991.

Vasily Kandinsky, 1909.

The disks are to be placed on a record player. Marcel Duchamp, 1935.

The story goes that the artist used a telephone to convey instructions to the enamel manufacturer, having no physical role in creating the work. László Moholy-Nagy, 1923.

Louise Bourgeois, date unknown.

Gego (Gertrude Goldschmidt), 1959.

David Hammons, 1989.

Joan Jonas, 2010/2012/2013 with singing by André Somby and piano and sounds by Jason Moran.

Joan Jonas, 2010/2012/2013 with singing by André Somby and piano and sounds by Jason Moran.

Thinking Machines, 1987.

Waldemar Cordeiro, 1972.

The image comes from a protest in São Paulo against the military dictatorship.

Post No Bills

Thinking Machines at MoMA

Designed by Mario Bellini, 1966.

Sonakinatography is Channa Horwitz’s “form of conceptual drawing she developed to code and annotate movement, centered around the number eight.”

Susan Kare, 1982.

First Snow

East Harlem and the Museum of the City of New York

By SEGO, on the Madison Avenue side of PS 171 in East Harlem.

Designed by the Cooper Joseph Studio in collaboration with Studio 1Thousand.

“Long intrigued by data interpreted in visual form, artist Courtney Starrett has created a teapot with bulges and curves that are an approximation of her current state of debt (concave curves) and savings (convex curves). Call a ‘dowry’ teapot to recall the family wealth that brides historically brough into their marriages, Starrett’s teapot refers to modern couples who often bring college debt and other outstanding bills into their unions today.”

Night on the East River

From Bushwick Inlet Park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Located at 5 Madison Ave, right across from Madison Square Park.

Captured using the HighRes mode on the E-M1mk2.

Connecting the Lower East Side of Manhattan and Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

The Williamsburg in the foreground, the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges in the distance.

Subway Status

Once you’ve lived in New York for a while, you don’t necessarily need a specific route to get between two points. You know roughly which subway lines will you get from point A to point B. The important thing becomes knowing which trains are operating normally and which are delayed or rerouted (which seems pretty common these days). To that end, the MTA site provides a status widget providing an overview, but I’d like it to be a single click (or two-finger swipe) away in the Today view of the Notifications Center. A similar display would also be useful on phones.

Interactive subway widget prototype (requires a browser that supports CSS Grid)

The brief SVG morph from the 7 local circle to express diamond is done using anime.js.