More Balenciaga Please
Again, I hate reposting, but if you haven’t seen this, a look from the show by Olivier Zahm. Photo Olivier Zahm
Art is Popular
We’ve seen the new popularity of Pop Up stores happening, but later that night, I saw a Pop Up gallery from San Francisco. Photo James Perkins
Art continues to gain popularity and more relevance in the American scene as I predicted in my TOP TEN TRENDS for 2010. I could not believe the number of people at The Armory Show. Photo James Perkins
NEW YORK | Youth Symphony | Commitment & Love
Yesterday I attended The McCrindle Concert of the 47th Season of the New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall. The symphony is run by the kids and young adults in the program that range from 12 years old to 22 years old, including my new friend, 13 year old concert cellist, Jake Taylor. The symphony’s rendition of Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 (1909) moved Mimi who was sitting next to me to tears. 22 year old pianist Adam Golka is a true master, not a young master or a budding master, but simply a master at his art. When talking to Jake’s father at intermission (who himself performed in Cats on Broadway and is now a computer programming stud), I said, “It is so inspiring to see this level of commitment and love from such a young group.” To which he replied, ” They are one in the same.”
Maison Martin Margiela | Home Style | a re-design of my apt
Re-designing my entire apt today in the style of the MMM home collection. -TJP
The Nose | The Met | The Opera
The Nose at the Met. Photo James Perkins
Author, Christina Taylor and her 12 year old son, Jake a concert cellist and the lead boy soprano at the Met. Photo James Perkins
The fountain at Lincoln Center. Photo James Perkins
A look at William Kentridge’s visual art. Photo James Perkins
Met architecture. Photo James Perkins
Something is Different | NYC | JP
Trump International globe, Columbus Circle. Photo James Perkins
I remember someone once saying that New York can make you feel like you are on top of the world, but it can also make you feel like the worst in the world. I haven’t heard anything more true about New York. And today, as I found myself in a place that use to be the center of my world, midtown Manhattan, it was a bleak homecoming. Everything seemed different, some how muted, somehow sadder, somehow less prosperous, less fun, less fashionable, less carefree, less stimulating, less people. Streets that were normally packed with business men and women making their way back to the office after a quick stop at Thomas Pink and Pump for an energy drink, were non existent. My only guess, laid off. The streets were more gray. The people less inspired. Overall, a shell of its former self midtown was. In Thomas Pink’s place was a discount shirt-only store that sold 4 shirts for $99. Everyone keeps asking me when will I launch a new fund, or line (I am planning a magazine) but the mood in the market place is that of fear, paralysis, and a lack of imagination on the part of would be investors. It makes me sad. But it also makes me mad and want to fight; to start a new movement of thinkers and do-ers who are committed to bring back inspiration and smiles.
300 CPW
In the Elevator on my way to see my favorite New Yorker. Photo James Perkins
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