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NYC / Houston Street

TimeOutNY reveals in their What's up with that column:

Question: What's with Houston Street being pronounced "HOW-ston" instead of "HYU-ston" like the city in Texas?

Answer: When Houston Street was named in 1788, future Lone Star State governor Sam Houston was barely old enough to ask Pa if he could borrow the buggy. Now an eight-lane thoroughfare, the road was originally christened Houstoun Street, after Continental Congress delegate William Houstoun, by his son'in'law city planner (and major suck-up) Nicholas Bayard. The spelling was corrupter, but th eoriginal pronunciation remains - mainly because it's the easiest way to root out recent arrivals.

365 Days/365 Plays?!!

In November 2002, the Pulitzer prize-winning Parks sat down and committed to writing a play a day for the next 365 days and the result is 365 Days/365 Plays. For the 2006-2007 season, the Public will produce the New York premiere of these works by gathering together a cross-section of New York's theater companies to participate in this project. Over the course of one year, the selected theaters will perform these brief snapshots from the imagination of Parks. This will be part of a yearlong national festival of the play cycle that will take place in major cities around the country including Atlanta, Los Angeles and Denver. Tickets for this work will be offered free of charge.

What a cool if BIG idea!

Asians get lost in translation

Village Voice article I enjoyed: From 'Memoirs of a Geisha' to Gwen Stefani's Harujuku Girls, Asians get lost in translation

Mixy

Good piece discussing 'What is LOST anyways, and how does it keep engaging folks' with such a loose mythology, or world? ;-) * This sense of imbalance and potential non-payoff (on a big scale, at least) is mainly why I don’t bother with the show.

Appreciated the one year later (new) MoMa update. My summation of the article, and visit there: A stifled canon.

I’m dumbfounded by AOL/WB bringing ‘vintage TV’ online for free. What a great, grand expierment; I’m confident very good things will come from it.

Kanye works the Garden theater :-)

Mixy

Good piece discussing 'What is LOST anyways, and how does it keep engaging folks' with such a loose mythology, or world? ;-) * This sense of imbalance and potential non-payoff (on a big scale, at least) is mainly why I don’t bother with the show.

Appreciated the one year later (new) MoMa update. My summation of the article, and visit there: A stifled canon.

I’m dumbfounded by AOL/WB bringing ‘vintage TV’ online for free. What a great, grand expierment; I’m confident very good things will come from it.

Kanye works the Garden theater :-)

MultiClips 2

This guy/company is all about humanizing retirement communities - bravo :-)

ILM Animation head talks about escaping your pigeonholes at work. His four tips: 1) think skills, not experience; 2) fight corporate inerita [here here!]; 3) become a startup master; 4) seek the edge

Mississippi Power demonstrates how preparation sometimes doesn't apply, yet the being ready with something, like, oh say a Katrina, does!

Delta comes out with new int'l routes (almost all Europe, thank you very much) to get back in the black that much quicker...

To better understand other folks' agendas (esp. at work), I can ask myself: What are their goals?

Massive Change, Bruce Mao's wonderful design initiative, visits Chicago this time next year

How to Act Like a Designer - thanks Daniel Pink :-)

I love this example of reframing:
When he came to Ogilvy, he says, its security guards were dressed like zoo attendants: maroon jackets with piping, ill-fitting polyester pants. Collins commissioned outfits that looked like something a concierge might wear at a W Hotel: black jackets, gray crew-neck sweaters, tailored pants. Soon after, one of the guards stopped him in the lobby. "I can take my daughter out for a cup of coffee at Starbucks now and not look like a security guard," he said. "It looks like I work at Ogilvy & Mather." The next day, Collins says, you could even see the difference in the way they stood. Something had happened. "That's how design can change people."

Liz Sanders, a 2005 Fast Company Master of Design is now working to help design hospitals that make patients, not doctors and administrators, the top priority. HOORAY!! 5 times Band, hit me.

Wired interviews a few of the prominent blogger-soliders... reminds me to consider unshelving my outlined piece Homrades...

Catchup Blog 1

T-shirt line from Chad Allen (not sure if i'd wear or print this considering where i feel things are going soon(er))... Theater is life. Film is art. TV is furniture.

Out May '05 (yes, i'm not on my 60 day cycle for processing periodicals...) mentions X/O Chicago on Halsted (3411 N). I wondered what was there previously... looks like a cabaret/bar named Voltaire - which rings a bell - since 2000.

I guess Delta's JFK to Berlin non-stop dealio became a casualty of the bankruptcy - wait, no, i found one.
depart 5:55 pm/arrive 8:10 am (very cool, hehehe); leave berlin 12:10 pm/land JFK 2:50 pm
ok, so if leave thu pm, and return monday - would get a 3+ day weekend. for say $486

I'd wanted to google John Scognamiglio, and did... he's editorial director at kensington books.

I love this (quite astute) line from Moby:
"I say that I don't live in America, that I live in the Island State of Manhattan. [Laughs] Manhattan is to the United States as Hong Kong is to China."

Approx. 84% of USA's gays and lesbians have valid passports vs. 29% of the general (USA) population
-from Out Traveler
That's almost triple the percentage!!?!! Is that because of parenting, or a sense of not questing beyond the easily known?

Story idea/sci fi: gay marriage is allowed, yet each/all marriages must procreate at least once... population explosion*
*inspired by this bit from Scene Aug '05's from the publisher note: "...I think this [gay folkd] is God's way of birth control"

Oh how fun - Ex-'Idol' Constantine signs ABC sitcom deal with Kelsey Grammer

Yank!

Successful, if not quiet B'way or Off B'way material as is.

I think it relies too much on dancing for expressiveness where we need more story and character development; however, I would recommend taking a look at the songs to next level, and consider making a movie of this. I believe a lot of actions and montages with music, or even (additional?) songs better evidence this story, and more importantly that history and period.

Cast was stellar as was the direction. Lyrics were pretty good, music was great; story (book?) was quite quite strong, I felt. Great chance for a singer-actrees to play the small female roles. *I definitely need to write some thing(s) with men in uniforms - well, beyond photo shoots...;-)

Glad I went & got in; show was inspiring, touching and darling.

http://www.nymf.org/index.php?module=ShowManager&func=display&sid=9

Fast Lane to Broadway Begins in Hollywood
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/theater/newsandfeatures/11mcki.html?pagewanted=all

very good article, though i shudder at some of the titles optioned for beng even considered as viable ideas to pursue as stage musical adaptations including "Network," the 1976 Paddy Chayefsky satire about the television world, and "Blade Runner". Then again, this is showbiz and crack sniffing isn't separated among the different areas (clearly)...

wasn't all that jazzed about SEDUCTION. love the premise, want to read translation of original and see how that flows - anyone done a movie version - to view, I mean. actually had a number of ideas to remix the storyline for lesbians, international - ending in the city we began (still with character chain), maybe something queer, perhaps over several seasons.

i need to be writing a lot lot more. had some thoughts in transit home. i do believe i'm going to need to voicewrite ALOT more as well as jot things more...

Cool Thang: James Turrell’s Meeting

This long-term installation at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is back! The 1986 work is one of the highlights of P.S.1 and people travel for miles just to see this room. Open only at dusk, the artist intended for the public to witness the slow change in the color of the setting sun. The ceiling opens to reveal the sky, and as one sits in the room, one experience a visual that gradually changes from a luminous blue to a calming black. Every Saturday at nightfall, at 22-25 Jackson Ave. at 46th Ave. in Long Island City, a short subway ride from Manhattan. Take the No. 7 train to 45th St. Courthouse Square or E train to 23 St./Ely Ave. Call 718-784-2084 for more information.

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2,6 * moon Pis * Chariot * I love *

Puffy shifts into 2nd act of his career
http://nytimes.com/2005/07/24/business/yourmoney/24puff.html?pagewanted=all

TypeCon does New York
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/23/arts/design/23type.html?8hpib

Enjoyed reading about this striking ad campaign (in Instinct!)
http://www.maketradefair.org/en/index.php?file=dumpedphotos.htm&cat=1&subcat=7&select=3

Read Shane Allison's spiced, stick it to them poem "I'm A Black Homosexual" in Windy City Times. Alas, my Googling yields no link. Found this page of a bunch of his poems though, plus an email address.
http://www.unlikelystories.org/old/allison.html

BP & AJ

Below's well said, me thinketh. Couldn't they be just friends, y'all? Seriously!

"She's a 30-year-old woman with a son," said Hackett. "He's a 41-year-old man who's just left a four-year marriage and is in the midst of a divorce. You know, you don't jump into these things, check it out, then split. I think they're being grown-ups. They're trying to figure out what's next."

Muslim in the middle, indeed

Great show concept exploring histories of various religions of L.A. characters pushes OUT gay muslim issues for an actor
http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail.asp?id=17923

Wilbekin Leaves Vibe Ventures

Old news, I know; yeah for Google. Seems that [Emil] "Wilbekin Leaves Vibe Ventures for Clothing Line"

"Emil Wilbekin, the former editor of Vibe magazine who left last year to run Vibe Ventures, ditched the company altogether yesterday to join Marc Ecko as head of development for Ecko's clothing line," the New York Post reported Friday.

"Wilbekin will also serve on the editorial board of Complex magazine in addition to overseeing the development of television, books, entertainment and video development projects for Marc Ecko Enterprises. 'After 12 years, it is time for a change,' Wilbekin told us."

Awesome exhibit I saw before my b'day

http://www.troyphillipsphotography.com/asian_and_masculine/