The Village Voice reports that HBO will be bringing Prohibition-era style to the 2/3 subway line every weekend this month. As part of a promotion for the return of Boardwalk Empire, the network is dusting off and gussying up an old car that originally began service in 1917. If you’ve ever hopped on one of the vintage trains the MTA likes to re-boot over the holidays, you’ll know that this kind of thing is just plain old fun, and we can trust HBO to go all out in terms of period-authenticity and etc., which means the real question is this: I can smoke on these cars, right?
I Want You To Want Me by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar
[People] talk about themselves in 200 words and say the most important things about themselves, so it is very fertile ground for building a mosaic of humanity.
Jonathan Harris is another one of my personal heros. This installation is titled “I Want you to Want Me” and was commissioned by the MOMA for Valentines Day, 2008. The project was presented on a 56″ touch screen and the little balloons are profiles pulled from the various dating sites on the web. Read the project’s mission statement here.
I Want You To Want Me explores the search for love
and self in the world of online dating.
It’s not valentines day but I’m getting post-summer blues. New York City feel serene after the hurricane; we’re all still here, looking for someone.
Happy birthday to the King of Pop — here’s a video from a couple years ago for Jackson’s posthumously-released single, directed by the man recently tapped to helm the Oldboy remake. This particular Spike Lee joint shows a softer side, however, held together with old footage and warm memories.
In New York, it’s all about the HIPsters. That’s because they are everywhere. We do believe that AC Gears, as a retail store caters to both Hipsters AND Geeks. Now, we are honored to be the only boutique retail store that was invited by Engadget to attend their Reader Meetup this Thursday, August 25th, 2011. There will be many big names at the show/exhibit – Sharp, RIM, AT&T, HTC, Samsung. While new phones and big TV’s are what we all care about, they do get a little tired to see them at a show besides CES. So we will step it up with our very own indie gadgets. That’s right, we will go underground and hip at a geek tech show – giving away Voltaic Converter Backpack, the world’s first speaker headphones, Nooka watches and apparel, as well as tossing in a couple AC Gears Gift Cards in the raffle giveaway. Thanks to our vendors and sponsors, we will represent and rock the show! Come visit us at NYC’s Guastavino at 6pm (come early, they are expecting 1K visitors and the line will be long!).
Jim Meehan is one of the most prominent faces to rise out of the modern cocktail renaissance and we’ve been enjoying the magic for years at his bar, PDT (short for Please Don’t Tell, hidden behind a phonebooth inside a deep-fried hot dog joint – but, of course, you knew that already; like any good secret, it’s far too delightful not to share). So a cocktail book coming from Mr. Meehan himself is like receiving a holy scroll. Of course, with Meehan’s penchant for seeing things in a slightly off-center way, you wouldn’t expect a typical offering, would you? Billed as a ‘new kind of book,’ “Speakeasy Cocktails: Learn from the Modern Mixologists” is also offered as a non-traditional iPad book, available now from the iPad App Store. This version of the book supplements the printed recipes and techniques with beautiful video and ability to purchase the mixology equipment by clicking within the app. I love print, but this is worth shelling out for – watch one clip from the book/app here, where Meehan runs through the drink of the summer, the Negroni.
If you stopped by our party a couple weekends back, thanks for coming! We had a great time, as you can see from the gallery we’ve uploaded to Facebook. Have a look.
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