Friday, April 10, 2009
Whalin in NYC. Big fishin outchere
A humpback whale was spotted for several hours Thursday in New York Harbor near the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, the Coast Guard said.
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Post a Comment on City RoomThe whale, which was first reported to the authorities by a resident’s phone call around 8 a.m., did not appear to be injured or entangled.
“It’s going out toward the ocean,” said Petty Officer David Schulein, a Coast Guard spokesman. “We just established a security safety zone.”
Petty Officer Annie Berlin, a spokeswoman for the Coast Guard, said: “It is fairly close to the shipping zone. We want to make sure that not only the animal is not in danger, but that the vessels traveling in and out of New York Harbor are also safe.”
She said that the whale, at 11 a.m., was about one mile from the Verrazano Bridge.
Petty Officer Schulein said the whale was not too far from Brooklyn. “It’s right near Bay Ridge,” he added. “It’s right off of Belt Parkway.” By 1:15 p.m., it had moved near Coney Island, the Coast Guard reported.
The last known sighting of the whale was at 2:24 p.m. in Ambrose Channel south of the Verrazano Bridge by a Coast Guard crew and representatives from the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation. The Coast Guard suspended its security zone around the whale at 4 p.m. as it continued to move south.
Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman, said that two Police Department harbor launches were dispatched and gliding in the waters near the whale around noon. “The whale does not seem to be in distress,” said Mr. Browne.
On Wednesday night, the Coast Guard had also been called to Rockaway Beach to establish a safety zone around a whale that had been reportedly trying to beach itself around 8 p.m. But once the Coast Guard arrived, the whale could not be found.
“I don’t know officially that they are linked. I don’t see why it wouldn’t be the same whale,” Petty Officer Berlin said.
Humpback whales occasionally wander into New York Harbor, and some have been adventurous enough to go up the Hudson River.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, several species of large whales are found off the mid-Atlantic coast and close to shore this time of year, including humpbacks, fin whales, right whales and minke whales.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
BRETT WALKER
Just came across the photographer BRETT WALKER on Flickr
The most insanely disembowelingly beautiful portraits Ive ever seen.
The most insanely disembowelingly beautiful portraits Ive ever seen.
this is inspiration if such a thing exists
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Rodeo Lives!
amidst current drama everyone's having, we have risen through the brimstone. Rodeo will live on under the wings of a new family, with new purpose. even though there's a punkass pictured here... still shinin, dig
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
the pulse
went to the hunter mfa/bfa/whatev show which in my own humble opinion has its finger on the pulse of whats going on in the bigger picture of fine art nyc style (albeit unintentionally perhaps?!)
there is a movement in the works that is in regression from video and 3-d installation art- and im proud of those part of this- also moving away from hyper concept and photoshop as well- and back towards pure painting. though pure painting just might not got it anymore, i am glad to have affirmed my own predictions, and happy that young people are responding to the terribly contrived and misunderstood state of fine art that had been happening until this point now.
it is exciting to see students embrace just that again. the admission of lack of mastery brings a sense of refreshment that this scene needs, a starting over. and all the members of this period (or age bracket) who wish to climb on - will hopefully climb together. in a funny way, a community has unintentionally been formed in the wane of conceptual art. haahaaa !
as for pure painting however, a hope exists within it that im not sure will flower into anything else. At the show tonight, for example, the 2d works were unable to transcend that flatness which they are embodied within, unable to make themselves any more important than anything else weve seen in the last 3 generations. ...and the 3d work lost its sense of self-importance (against its will- its just a hard thing to understand at a young age!). Young and important art is in limbo and is waiting for the next train to come rumbling by, undoubtedly hoping to get a good seat.
there is no 4d- its just that a decision has to made, or at least the decision not to decide!
how exciting it is to be in the train car at all.
Andrew Birk
April 3rd, 2009
there is a movement in the works that is in regression from video and 3-d installation art- and im proud of those part of this- also moving away from hyper concept and photoshop as well- and back towards pure painting. though pure painting just might not got it anymore, i am glad to have affirmed my own predictions, and happy that young people are responding to the terribly contrived and misunderstood state of fine art that had been happening until this point now.
it is exciting to see students embrace just that again. the admission of lack of mastery brings a sense of refreshment that this scene needs, a starting over. and all the members of this period (or age bracket) who wish to climb on - will hopefully climb together. in a funny way, a community has unintentionally been formed in the wane of conceptual art. haahaaa !
as for pure painting however, a hope exists within it that im not sure will flower into anything else. At the show tonight, for example, the 2d works were unable to transcend that flatness which they are embodied within, unable to make themselves any more important than anything else weve seen in the last 3 generations. ...and the 3d work lost its sense of self-importance (against its will- its just a hard thing to understand at a young age!). Young and important art is in limbo and is waiting for the next train to come rumbling by, undoubtedly hoping to get a good seat.
there is no 4d- its just that a decision has to made, or at least the decision not to decide!
how exciting it is to be in the train car at all.
Andrew Birk
April 3rd, 2009
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