Daily post 28 Jul 2013 07:35 am
Empire Tickets to Go
Talking about supernumeraries, tonight at 7PM, Jerry Beck hosts a program of Oscar winners from the 60′s. J.J.Sedelmaier, Emily Hubley and I will be guests to discuss the films which will include:
Munro dir. Gene Deitch (1960
Ersatz dir. Dusan Vuctic (1961)
The Hole dir. John Huble (1962)
The Pink Phink dir..Friz Freleng & Hawley Pratt (1964)
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Double Feature dir. John Hubley (1966)
The Box dir. Fred Wolf (1967)
This will be screened at the BAM Cinemateck in Brooklyn, The prints, I’m told, are beauties.
Here’s the latest sculpture to appear in the Flat Iron District in the area of 23rd Street and Fifth Ave. It’s part of the Met Life exhibit currently being held for free over the course of the Summer. A statue of the Met Life Bldg.
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on 28 Jul 2013 at 2:07 pm 1.slowtiger said …
That’s an interesting sculpture, in that I think it’s backwards … We’re used to build houses starting at the bottom, so if there’s a readymade house on the roll the basement should be on the outside. Having the top on the outside implicates that houses are built top-down, miraculously fixed to some hook in the sky.
Oh well, this is just an animator’s mind.
on 28 Jul 2013 at 7:46 pm 2.the Gee said …
That’s an interesting point and a great way of looking at it but I think it is just supposed to be a fire hose.
So, it wouldn’t be used to build a building (if it were “functionalâ€.). It is just symbolic of how Met Life is essential –and perhaps portable in the sense that it is there when needed–by representing security … and droopy buildings.
It is an odd symbol because a fire department is often putting out fires of other buildings and structures.
Suffice it to say, it is clever and seems to be a nice attraction. There’s worse art that people gawk at, of course (I’m looking at you (not your work) Richard Serra!)