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“Danish artist group Superflex unveiled their latest intervention, part of Creative Time’s Living as Form exhibition. In the Olympic Restaurant on Delancey and Essex, the group created a near-exact replica of J.P. Morgan Chase’s executive washroom. This greek diner has been a cornerstone of the Lower East Side for over thirty-five years, and, by the looks of it, the new bathroom is the first major addition in that time. The Olympic Restaurant did not pay a dime for the bathroom – it is free and open to the public, not just customers. Most importantly, it is a permanent installation that we hope will stay in the neighborhood for another thirty-five years.”
“Before I die” is going national. And Brooklyn has now resorted to importing art projects. (Taken with instagram)
“Hurricane Irene preparation: LIRR employees fill an AquaDam with water to help prevent water from flowing into the LIRR’s tunnels to Penn Station.”
Apparently all that stands between civilization and water world is a giant tube of water.
“Hurricane Irene: MTA Police finished securing Grand Central Terminal after the last trains departed.”
“These maps contain 20,262 unique words, based on the analysis of online dating profiles from 19,095,414 single Americans. Each word appears in the place it’s used more frequently than anywhere else in the country.”
“French artist Armelle Caron takes maps of cities and reorganizes the individual blocks into ordered rows. The process transforms a chaotic city into a unrecognizable, but systematic assemblage of shapes. I’ll be honest, the sizes of the images below don’t do the designs justice.”
“The probability of finding a seat on the subway is inversely proportional to the number of people on the platform. Even worse, the utter absence of people is 100 percent proportional to just having missed the train.”
