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Monthly Archives: June 2009

15 Jun 2009

Sunday: Hello High Line Park! or Rock on Diller Scofidio + Renfro and James Corner Field Operations!

Finally it stopped raining long enough for us to check out the newly opened High Line Park. I think this is the best urban park I have been to! It was amazinging! There are such amazing privileged views you get from up there. That alone makes it a must see. But the really great pleasant surprise is that the architectural and landscape design is actually most impressive and expertly done. I’m so glad to see how far Diller and Scofidio […]

15 Jun 2009

Saturday: Making a Music Video, or Rock on Magico and Masa!

Saturday was pretty interesting for me. I recorded several sequences for a new music video that friends Masa Nakamura and his wife Magico are directing on Saturday. The video is going to be very cool. It’s highly choreographed, so it was definitely tricky getting all the moves right, but fortunately things went very well and I can’t wait to show the final product. You’ll have to stay tuned for a couple weeks though. In the meantime, here’s a still from […]

13 Jun 2009

Friday: Southern Foodways Alliance, Rock On! (or- I got to meet Jacques Pepin!!)

Wow, I had a really great time at the Southern Foodways Alliance’s event ‘Craig Claiborne: Mississippi Boy Makes Good, Defines and Deifies American Cookery.‘ This was a free event on Friday Evening at the Astor Center, but apparently you had to know about it way in advance in order to reserve a spot. Fortunately my wife has some connections with the Alliance and had our places reserved. I’m not very knowledgeable about US culinary history, so this was actually a […]

07 Jun 2009

Uninvited Guest

An uninvited guest for late night expresso