Last night, Wired celebrated the opening of its sixth annual pop-up retail space in Manhattan. It was stocked with gadgets, artworky products, a lonely Buick, and most importantly, FREE drinks! And that’s what the crowd seemed to be most interested in anyway, possibly to the dismay of at least one techie who expressed their opinion of the event with a computer, naturally. (Photo: Elise Glaser)
NYC’s Storefront Project Space gallery is screening 15.4 GB of downloaded films & docs courtesy of anon peer-to-peer file sharer pirateturk, starting with War Games and Hacker on October 14th as part of project Free Kevin. What better way to “stimulate dialogue around issues of intellectual property and open culture?” BYOB and a USB stick: they’ll be interesting things to download. Hack hack hack.
This Saturday, see 2D, 3D and motion graphics designers duke it out live onstage in the Cut&Paste 2010 Digital Design Tournament at Webster Hall. Eric Haze will judge 2D.
Good news Pulp Fiction fans (in NYC): The IFC Center cinema in the West Village is showing the movie on the big screen, Friday through Sunday at midnight only.
Returning for their annual pilgrimage to Stuyvesant Town’s Music on the Oval concert series, reggae band the Easy Star All-Stars will play a free show tonight at 7PM, go smoke your weed there.
If you got dough to blow on local arts, head to Brooklyn’s 99% Gallery this Friday for the silent auction Brooklyn Stand Up and score work from Brooklyn-based artists, ranging all the way down from dickchicken and up to Tod Seelie and on. Read more »
Tonight at the New Museum: “The Medium Was Tedium,” a panel discussion with editors of Triple Canopy and various artists on printed page of the magazine as art exhibition space. 7pm. Go get your culture update.
Nas is performing tonight at Hunter College, but it’s not open to the public so you better hope you know a student or can forge an ID. What’s up with some comp tickets for alma mater? |LastFM|
Looking like an ET decontamination chamber, the Spacebuster is an inflatable events space, German-engineered by Raumlabor, that the Storefront for Art and Architecture brought to New York for 10 consecutive nights of dinners, talks and film screenings. Already the translucent bubble has opened up at Gansevoort Plaza in the Meatpacking District, the Goethe Institute in the East Village and the American Can Factory in Red Hook. Tonight, Spacebuster inflates at the recently reopened Manhattan Bridge archway in Dumbo for an Iron Chef-style design competition, followed by a few more events through Sunday.
All photos by Alan Tansey
Tonight, LVHRD gathers a few hundred photographers for PHTHRD III, which aims to be the most photographed party in the world. If an open bar and 250 aspiring papparazo flicking the shit out of each other sounds like fun, grab a camera and buy a ticket. Save some money with the discount code: thehappycorp.
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