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are you crazy

Found at the 34th St station on the NQRW platform.

obama for america and the world

big ups to ingrid michaelson (and greg laswell)

I ended up at the Ingrid Michaelson Holiday Hop last night at Town Hall. I wasn’t really sure what to expect, since the only song of hers I’d really listened to was that little Sarah Bareilles combo number I posted the video for the other day. Needless to say, due to the title of my post, she rocked it and now has +1 fan. A woman of my own heart with her comedic stylings between songs, I found her charming and easy to relate to. Her voice is really strong and pretty too; I wish I had one like that.

Greg Laswell, who I hadn’t heard of, opened for her singing a mostly somber/sad set, except for these two videos I happened to take. I think I’m in love.

Anyway, it was a really great show. The seated venue made for subpar pics and vids, but what can you do. At least the sound quality is okay.

christmastime is here

Tonight I ended up at the Bryant Park Christmas tree lighting. I heard the Barenaked Ladies were playing, so I had to check it out. They only played one song! At least while I was there. And I only got to see the back and side of Kevin Hearn’s head. Bummer. I wanted to see Steve. They had some figure skaters and a choir and stuff too though, so that was kind of neat. Even though I couldn’t see most of it.

Also… I’m excited for plans of plus-one-ing a shmancy holiday party. Guess it’s my turn to go dress shopping.

yesterday’s bikeride

for johanna

nyc things

I wish this last one hadn’t turned out blurry… It just would’ve been too perfect.

tokion’s creativity now conference

Today Kristen and I attended the first day of the Creativity Now conference at Cooper Union, put on by Tokion. It was a shame to spend such a lovely day indoors, but the discussions were really interesting.

The first presenter was David Shrigley. I found his presentation a particularly good start to this event, because of both his artwork and his way of addressing the audience. His artwork seems to manifest the simplicity of blunt honesty, mixed with a little sarcasm and dark humor, which appeals to me. His work reminds me a little bit of Toothpaste for Dinner mixed with some Daniel Johnston. They all have sort of similar styles, though Toothpaste is definitely more of a ‘cartoon’ than the others.

Another interesting panel was The Commodification of the Street: Downtown Gets Sold. Well, actually, the presenters of this one weren’t all that engaging, but they showed an interesting video… This has a lot of the same clips they showed today but it’s edited differently.

Too bad Clayton Patterson wasn’t there himself.

And then there was my favorite panel… David Cross, Maria Bamford, and Zach Galifianakis. They were supposed to be discussing the ’state of comedy’, however after they summed that up in about 45 seconds the rest of the discussion was all over the place. Here’s what they concluded…

I hope to upload my other videos but honestly, youtube is taking forever.

The other presentations were interesting, but not as notable. Aside from being subjected to the same three Zune ads on a loop during breaks, it was a very enjoyable experience.