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Olivia's skirt is Children's Place; Maud's top Justice for Girls
If you Google "Should I tape my windows for a hurricane?," the internet will tell you "No." Here's FEMA, for example: "Tape does not prevent windows from breaking." Still, New Yorkers have seen everyone else do it in countless Gulf hurricanes, so we weren't going to pass up our rare opportunity.
Diane von Furstenburg chose a simple but classic blue X for every window in her buidling at Washington & 14th.
Just down the block, the folks at the Apple store apparently Googled. No tape, just tarps over the doors and sandbags at the base.
Apple's bags are a handsome gray-green, hand-filled and -tied.
Across the street, L'Occitane opted for a tape-and-sandbag combo.
But their bags are off-the-rack, and, as of 3 pm Saturday, already breaking open.
Just up the street, Pop Burger went for a more expressive approach.
As did Sea Thai on Washington.
And the nearby Limo Land.
And this store. Maybe masking tape was the wrong choice.
A more tradtional look at Wallse.
Entwine combined tape, tarp and sand bags.
Next door, Tortilla Flats had nothing on its windows except a raspberry for Mayor Bloomberg.
Automatic Slims was one of the rare spots in the nabe that went full plyboard.
A nearby townhouse deployed sandbags.
But the sandbag champ is a couple of blocks away -- a wall seven bags deep, all around the newly rebuilt building at the corner of Washington and Horatio. This is where photogrpaher Albert Watson used to live.
On Greewich, El Faro's solution had a more DIY feel: flattenned cardboard boxes and duct tape.
The same solution in the building next door.
Next door, the staff at the Monocole Shop was issued explicit instructions from chief Monocler Tyler Brulee: "No Xs! Just tape the edges!" Well done, gents.
via youtube.com
Ok, it was Sunday, July 3rd, and I was one of many putting on the annual show at Peter Schjeldahl and Brooke Alderson's house in Bovina, NY.
This video shows roughly the first third of the show, the part that's lit by hand. The show opens with a handful of sky lanterns ascending to the national anthem. Then, boom.
After this part, the show goes electric (and looks something like this, from two years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFXFs1BclQg)
The video was shot by a friend of Peter's, Littlewinnies on YouTube. It's beautifully out of focus throughout, but the best part is on the soundtrack, the woman sitting next to camera who's laughing giddily hysterically. Fireworks!
Leaving KC for Topeka in 30 minutes, speaking about the Freedom Riders at the Brown v Board museum/national park at 3pm.
Googled but couldn't find anything on the dozen so posters bearing tales of Wall Street suicides. Mark Madoff is the only recent one I remember. I googled the other names in the other four pictured here until I got one hit. The NY Times ran a report (not this one) on Ignacio Martinez's suicide in its November 13, 1894, paper. The Times had the better head: "The Stock Exchange Broker Kills Himself with Illuminating Gas."
Illumination can be so deadly.
The posters are part of a crowdsourced wheat-past wall that wraps around the southeast corner of 10th Street and 4th Ave.
I didn't check when I was there to see if they were all Wall Street suicides or not.
