wedding

i realize i've been absent from the blog in recent months.  or years.  life is happening so fast it's hard to capture it here.  in december daren and i went to buenos aires, argentina and then jose ignacio, uruguay where we said private vows and became married.  we made it legal at the manhattan courthouse a few days after returning.  a few months before that we bought our first place in nyc.  work has been happening with intensity as always.  now we share our home with a sweet little creature and are planning our next steps.  we'll be taking a honeymoon later this year, and are deciding where to go.  life is good.  :)

huffingtonpost:

the20newyork:

New York City, By Heart. An autistic artist, Stephen Witshire, drawing an 18-foot portrait of New York City based only on what he remembered from a 20-minute helicopter ride over the city. His finished photo can be found here, along with more art from the London-based artist.

-KH

[Stephen Wiltshire, via capitalnewyork]

Wow!

Let’s assume autism has always existed. Let’s take an even greater leap and assume that Mr. Wiltshire’s type of autism—a natural ability to perfectly reproduce images from memory in three dimensions—has always been around. Rare, but there.

If we look at the earliest examples of art, we see a sort of melding of the symbolic and the representational: stick figures, an approximation of the shapes of people, of animals, of things. And suffice it to say, this is art; even to the modern eye, exquisite. To the people who made it and those who first laid eyes on it, some of that art must have captured imaginations and inspired awe.

So where would Stephen’s ability have fit in at that time? Is it possible we might not have even understood it until we had made the collective mental leap to 3D representation (centuries later)? Could it have even existed? If it did exist—as talent, or impulse—surely the person who carried it was more than a little frustrated; even if they did have the tools to make the images, they would quickly learn they had no audience.

This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

(Source: patrickharris, via wnyc)



via aberjona

Sang Lee Farms visit

We've been proud members of the Crown Heights CSA now for a little over a full year, purchasing shares in both the regular 2010 and 2011 seasons, as well as the winter 2010 season.  Back in May we got to visit the organic farm that produces all the food for our CSA, Sang Lee Farms, along with other members of our branch of the CSA, as well as a few people from the DUMBO branch.

a view of baby lettuces

another view of the field

inside a greenhouse

Farmer Fred, who runs Sang Lee, is a wealth of knowledge on agribusiness, and organic farming.  We could've happily listened to him all day long.

another greenhouse

little herbs and ground cover

the hard working bees of Sang Lee Farms

concerts, recently

the kills @ terminal five

css at webster hall

sleigh bells @ webster hall

gordon voidwell @ music hall of williamsburg

theophilus london @ music hall of williamsburg

smith westerns @ terminal five

yeasayer @ terminal 5

punch brothers @ prospect park

justin townes earl @ prospect park

pride

May 11: Sleigh Bells & CSS