New York Fashion Week - Marc Jacobs 2009 Ready-to-wear

这周的重头戏之一, 比起以前, 多了很多LAYER, 配饰也很繁复.

比较有代表性的几个LOOK











细节

Underground New York

MSG做了一个关于纽约地铁音乐的专辑, 平时路过只觉得好听, 透过这个专辑到是可以把表演者的来龙去脉了解清楚. 现在正在投票中, 选BEST SOUNDS FROM UNDERGROUND. SO FAR我最喜欢的是一个叫DAGMAR的组合, 这是他们在地铁的表演片段

无印良品 时代广场店

30号开张, 这么近, 终于有机会去逛逛.SOHO那家店我一次都没去过. >< 就在NY TIMES BUILDING, 上次去的时候还在奇怪里边做得象展厅.

This is New York

昨晚的秀

NYC 2007 Village Halloween Parade.

在家养病, 只有看电视直播了. 去年到是一群人去村里挤了一晚上.看了无数后脑勺. 不过去现场最好的是有参与感,下次要做了COSTUME去. 赫赫. 最难得的是电视里演到的所有本地人, 都是自己做COSTUME, 自己的原创.

网上很多照片, 随便放几张过来.

剪刀手爱德华



Paris in Jail


Thriller



两个亚洲MM


我好喜欢这个










更多图片见这里

http://www.pbase.com/calvinboy24/nyc_halloween_parade_2007

Rent-stabilized Park Ave Apartment

本城大8G。 听说过吗？Rent-stabilized Park Ave Apartment？

看新闻吧。

Poor Bianca Jagger. She's losing the lease on the Park Avenue apartment she's had for twenty years. After lawyers for her landlord, Katz Park Ave. Corp., pointed out to a judge that Jagger was only staying in the United States on a temporary visa, it was impossible for her to claim that the rent-stabilized apartment was her permanent residence. Jagger paid $4,600 a month in rent for the home at the tony 530 Park building. According to reports, the market rent of her apartment would be upwards of $8,000. Not that it really matters, since she stopped paying in 2003, claiming that "toxic mildew" in the walls made it impossible for her to live there. She and Katz are still embroiled in a $20 million lawsuit over the mold. It's so confusing; is Bianca a victim? We can't tell. Really, the whole thing just brings us back to the age-old New York conundrum: Why the hell does someone like Bianca Jagger get to have a rent-stabilized apartment, anyway?

Bianca Jagger Loses NYC Apartment

In case　你对纽约情况不熟悉，这里有点背景知识：
Bianca Jagger是纽约一小名人，　社会和人权活动家，　有欧洲亲善大使之类的各式头衔。
Park Ave 属于纽约市所谓精英人士居住区， 有个Part Ave的地址被很多人看做成功标志。　
Rent-stabilized apartment情况比较复杂， 一般是给低收入外加在若干年前就以低租金入住的人提供的帮助。

Go Shirtless

记得Abercrombie and Fitch 的广告形象吗？从来就是光光的白人肌肉小男人。

想象下111个各色各型肌肉突然集体到五大道A&F旗舰店买T会是什么效果。。。。。


111 Shirtless Men in Abercombie and Fitch









背后报告看这里。。。 哈哈哈哈哈

http://www.improveverywhere.com/2007/10/17/no-shirts/

闲话

APPLE在五大道的24小时店居然要收费入场了. 门票5刀, 寒死. 不过买了东西还是可以退钱的.

MOMA

某些人在NYC混了两年多了都没去过现代艺术博物馆, 而且公司还就在MOMA边上, 前段时间在忍无可忍的我的逼迫下去了一次. 是去看一个雕塑展览. 随手掐了点照片.






MOMA外边一个卖老电影剧本的地摊

教训！需要帮助请开口

刚在NY DAILY NEWS看到的。 这个Guyanese 移民第一次来美国看他哥哥。五天前走出他哥哥家，就再也找不到回家的路，他随身没有带证件，不敢问路，不敢要吃的, 就在皇后区整整迷路了５天,最后快冻死掉的时候被人救了 具体看这里.

The Guyanese immigrant who was lost in Queens for five days told yesterday how he sank into despair and fear as he wandered the streets, worried he would be arrested if he asked for help.

"I was scared the whole time," Damon Mootoo, 32, told the Daily News yesterday from Staten Island University Hospital, where he's being treated for frostbite on his feet.

"I was asking God to just give me strength."

On the face of it, Mootoo's tale sounds so comical - the misadventures of a man who refuses to ask for directions - that it strains credulity.

But as he described the ordeal for the first time, it became clear just how confused he was and how close he came to dying of cold.

Mootoo arrived in New York for the first time a week ago today. He left his brother's house in South Jamaica last Wednesday for a walk and got lost without money or identification on him.

"I was walking from home to home to see if I'd recognize the house," said Mootoo, who is hard of hearing and speaks with a heavy accent.

As darkness fell, it began to snow, and panic set in.

"I started praying," he said. "I said, 'I can't believe I'm lost.'

"I thought the best person to get help from was a police officer," he said. "But I was scared because I didn't have ID with me and no money. I thought they would hold me."

When he could walk no more, he slept in a yard on a piece of plywood with a board on top of him to block the falling snow.

"I was saying to myself, 'Don't give up. I'll get up in the morning and keep walking,'" he said.

By the following night, his feet were cold and swollen. He slept next to a garage, using a discarded Christmas tree as a blanket. The next two nights he bunked in an abandoned green car.

Mootoo, who recently received his permanent resident card, was afraid to approach people who seemed too busy to help and was ashamed to ask for food.

But when he awoke Sunday, he felt inspired and told himself, "I will find it today."

As he roamed the streets for the fifth day, he spotted a water hose outside Michael Bharath's home on 142nd Place. He was trying to turn it on when Bharath came home from church and gave him food and coffee.

When Mootoo found his stepmother's address written on a piece of paper in his pocket, Bharath took him there. It was a five-minute drive.

"I felt so thankful to him and to the Lord," he said.

SleepWalkers - Doug Aitken

SleepWalkers是Doug Aitken在MOMA做一个非常有意思的展览.

8个巨大的移动影像投在MOMA四周, 播放的是5个不同背景职业的人在傍晚醒来一路走到城市, 从五双不同的眼睛里看到的夜晚的城市. 展览在博物馆外, 投影到不同建筑物的墙上. 最好的观看方式是在MOMA的建筑边上慢慢绕圈, 你会发现自己也变成了其中的一部分.

展览从1/16到2/12.每晚5-10PM, 跟影片里边的时间一致.

可惜的是, 这个展览为什么是在冬天...:(

Foreigners don’t tip

纽约的游客很多, 但不是每个国家的人都有习惯在餐馆给小费. 今天看到一则新闻， 一家叫Aquagrill 的餐馆决定给所有有四个以上非美国人的账单直接划上18％的小费...

Slashfood reported:
In this instance, the party that was taxed consisted of four diners who all reside in the US, ordered in English and conversed amongst themselves in French during their meal. Their "foreignness" was apparently identified because they all spoke French, so the tax was applied. Adding a tax to a bill without informing the diners in advance is illegal, at least in New York City, where the Department of Consumer Affairs allows a 15% gratuity to be added to parties of 8 or more, as long as notification is conspicuously printed on the menu. The group confronted the manager and eventually paid the bill, noting that they would not return to the restaurant.

说什么好呢， 不过这家餐馆的服务生该偷着乐了

下雪了

今年冬天纽约第一场雪，本来以为全球变暖就这么着要热下去了呢。

我喜欢四季分明的气候，夏天要有雷雨，秋天有红叶，冬天有雪，大部时候要阳光灿烂。在成都长大，就没见过几场雪，阴雨天还特多。 但是见过的每场雪，都有记忆，都有故事。

刚到美国，在一个极小的北方城市，第一次看到铺天盖地的大雪. 没有铲雪机是出不了门的，因为门都被雪给压住了。 不小心走到压满雪的草地上， 小半个人就没了。这样的时候，屋里显得特别的温暖。

那时候住学校DORM， 正好是XMAS，学校放假学生餐厅不开门. 我和同屋，在雪里走了半小时到最近的一个超市觅食，居然发现了方便面和波兰肠，赶紧买了回去。用微波炉热开了水来泡，加了我大箱里带来的老干妈，生平美味，不过如此啊。



补充,今天的雪居然只在midtown & downtown下了, uptown没影响. 真牛

纽约地铁延误的TOP CAUSES

根据WNBC的报道， MTA终于找到了纽约地铁延误的TOP REASONS
减肥过度的人经常晕倒在车上是导致２００６年度纽约地铁延误的最大原因之一。。。。
哦， 原来还可以这样的

http://www.wnbc.com/news/10651834/detail.html?treets=ny&tid=2658096397813&tml=ny_7am&tmi=ny_7am_1_06000201032007&ts=H
MTA: Fainting Dieters Delay Subways
NEW YORK -- Sick straphangers, including passengers who faint because they're dieting too strenuously, are among the top causes of subway delays, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
After track work and signal problems, ill passengers rated among the main reasons for subway disruptions between October 2005 and October 2006, according to an analysis of MTA statistics, AM New York reported Tuesday.
Asim Nelson, a transit emergency medical technician, told the paper that fainting dieters topped the "sick customer" list.
"Not eating for three or four days, you are going to go down," Nelson said. "If you don't eat for 12 hours, you are going to get weak."
Although the agency doesn't keep an official record of the nature of each rider's illness, the paper said that an average 395 delays each month are caused by sick customers.
Fainting spells caused by missed meals topped other "sick customer" causes, including flu symptoms, anxiety attacks, hangovers and heat exhaustion, according to Nelson.
Nelson is part of the MTA's "sick Customer Response Program," which consists of EMTs and registered nurses. When a rider becomes sick, the train conductor must stay with the passenger until emergency responders arrive.