Month: December 2009
NYC food porn: Telepan #1-#5
This was a group effort, eating-wise. Seven of us, the usual suspects plus Patrick who was visiting from Chicago, went to Telepan on 69th and Columbus. They offered a four- or five -course tasting menu. The five-course menu includes cheese. We opted for the four-course dinner which gives us six choices each of an appetizer,…
Louis Vuitton / Super Flat First Love
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqaXxSBZTZc&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0] While I was uploading my Louis Vuitton/Solari video on Youtube for an earlier post, I discovered a series of anime by Takashi Murakami that involves the LV trademark monogram. The anime are all breezy, magical, and cute. Last year, the Brooklyn Museum put on a retrosepctive show of Takashi Murakami’s work. The show…
Christmas Bash / Nor’easter
Last night we went to the annual christmas bash in Montclair. As always, we had a great time: conversations, live music, carol singing, food and drinks, karaoke, etc. Calebc and Shecrow are great hosts, thank you. Outside was a roaring Nor’easter tearing up the East Coast. The snow storm persisted much of the evening and…
Louis Vuitton / Solari di Udine
We went to see the christmas tree at Rockerfellar Center and the windows of Saks Fifth Avenue a few nights ago. As we passed Louis Vuitton’s New York flagship store on the corner of Fifth Ave and 57th Street, I noticed something flickering in the shop windows. What caught my eye was the flipping of rows…