Falling behind...

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Uh-oh. I set myself the goal to post every day (night) but I may cheat tonight, since we went out to an evening event at the Museum of Chinese in America, then late-night snack, so I'm very sleepy. Let's see if I can do it. The High Line park, which Mark told me about awhile ago, it's a park built on an old elevated railway line. The design is awesome, since they managed to combine industrial, railway, and naturalistic themes.

Really amazing art installation there, that plays off the theme of factory windows. Description from the website: "...by artist Spencer Finch, The River That Flows Both Ways. The title comes from the original Native American word for the Hudson River, Muhheakantuck. ..Finch transforms the site's existing casement windows with 700 individually crafted panes of glass representing the water conditions on the Hudson River over a single day. To create the project, Finch photographed the Hudson River 700 times from the deck of a boat and then carefully matched each unique image to a pane of glass." Such a cool idea. I'm going to reconstruct it from separate photos at some point, but here's an idea of it, with me doggedly shooting each window. Sigh. I guess I can't complain given what the artist went through to create it.



Went to a brasserie recommended by Joe, Pastis. Highlight: I got a crush on our waitress, who kind of reminded me of a cross between Ellen deGeneres and Portia de Rossi. Yay!
  
And, more cupcakes. Magnolia Bakery was recommended by everyone, but I liked Crumbs better. Which puts me in the group of people the writer in the Village Voice ranted about in "Death to Cupcakes: When Will We Finally be Rid of the Little Bastards?" Hah, hilarious article. We used to have a subscription to the Voice and devoured it weekly. It's so great to just pick it up free on the street.

We went to our first "planned" event, at the Museum of the Chinese in America. About the representation of the Hmong community in the Clint Eastwood film Gran Torino. Two of the actors, one of them an amateur when the film was made, spoke about their experience on the film. The moderator is an expert in Hmong in film at Hunter College, if you can imagine that. So much to say about this, but it'll have to be another time I guess.

    

Also, one of the great things about being in a big city is eating out late at night.


And, just being out late at night. Aw, damn, these were firemen sitting out in Little Italy, but you can't see 'em. Take my word for it, they were...well, you know. Firemen. 
   


By the way, I know these pics are kind of small; if you really want to see them, and more, you can go to our Flickr site. I have so many damn sites for this trip, it's getting ridiculous.

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[epiphany-maria.livejournal.com]

Glad you are enjoying your trip. Thanks for the comment on my LJ re: Reaper. I used to love that show. Glad you're having fun in NY. Speaking for myself, I love cupcakes. I'm eating one now, French Vanilla and Creme Brulee.