Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong — and in life, and in love, and in business, and in friendship, and in health, and in all the other ways in which life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I’m serious. Husband runs off with a politician? Make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. IRS on your trail? Make good art. Cat exploded? Make good art. Someone on the internet thinks what you’re doing is stupid, or evil, or it’s all been done before? Make good art.
Photo from The Observer, “Romney on the Bowery” (Matt Chaban)
New York, New York, what a wonderful town…
“Mitt Romney ‘Bombs’ the Bowery: Governor and His Dog Latest Street Art Craze” - article in the Observer
Bruce Springstreen sings “The Weight” in Newark NJ on 5/2/2012, tribute to Levon Helms.
Via DNAInfo.com, here’s more on the transplanted Brooklyn Nets of the NBA:
The Nets officially moved to New York City Monday, and began selling merchandise emblazoned with a new black and white logo designed by the Brooklyn rapper. The logo features a shield shape that includes “Nets” in thin lettering above a basketball with a “B” in it.
“The Brooklyn Nets logos are another step we’ve made to usher the organization into a new era,” Jay-Z said in a statement. “The boldness of the designs demonstrate the confidence we have in our new direction.”
… The team’s website also went black and white, and incorporated the iconic shape of the Brooklyn Bridge and the phrase “Hello Brooklyn,” which comes from the Beastie Boys’ “B-Boys Bouillabaisse” off the Paul’s Boutique album.
One World Trade Center becomes New York City’s tallest skyscraper today.
Formerly called the “Freedom Tower,” the building rising to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks will lay claim to the title of New York City’s tallest skyscraper today. Workers will erect steel columns that will make its unfinished skeleton a little over 1,250 feet high, just enough to peak over the roof of the observation deck on the Empire State Building.
The Empire State Building, measured from the sidewalk to the tip of its needle-like antenna, actually stands at 1,454 feet. But purists say antennas shouldn’t count when determining building height.
