Welcome to the first installment of the New York MOOKS Report restaurant review. This week we visit the once-favourite Williamsburg soul food restaurant Pies-N-Thighs, which recently reopened after a two year hiatus.
January 20, 2010
Another exhausting day and my colleague Federico has fallen asleep. He’s lying on the grass outside the World Food Program (WFP) logistics office, the only place where you can get Internet access. He managed to find an abandoned blanket and a small palm tree where he now calls home.
It’s late, almost 1 am and I’m still up trying to read what other journalists have written about the first days after the devastating earthquake. I’m also sorting through photos while writing a piece on the lack of aid in the region.
Without any exaggeration, it is safe to say that New Zealand-born, New York-based photographer Tom Gould, is one of the most offhandedly hilarious guys you will ever meet. His stories of rat baggism and rascalism as a youngster – told with wide eyes and raised brows – will have you laughing so hard you may actually snort in public.
By Jessica Hazel
There’s a new gang on the streets of East London. More terrifying than any gun-wielding estate mob and more wayward than the hobos found loitering outside the job centre. They call themselves, Gaggle, a choir of twenty-odd women led by classically trained choir master (and ex-586 member) Deborah Coughlin.
What is fashion? What can we do with fashion?
Fashion designer Yoshikazu Yamagata, works to emotionally expand the concept of fashion and tackling big questions like those above. He stirred controversy with his collections at Japan Fashion Week, including “The Everyone’s New Clothes” which questioned what fashion was about, ”Graduate Fashion Show 0′ Point”, which showcased the strength of starting from zero in fashion and “The Fashion Show of The Gods”, his Spring/Summer 2010 collection, which examined the origins of creation, presented in October 2009.
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- “The fashion show of the gods” Photo: Daniel Sannwald
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- “The fashion show of the gods” Photo: Daniel Sannwald
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- “The fashion show of the gods”
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- “The fashion show of the gods”
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- “The fashion show of the gods”
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- “The fashion show of the gods”
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- “The fashion show of the gods”
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- “A LONG STORY” Photo: Koomi Kim
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- “coconogacco collaboration project”
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- “coconogacco collaboration project”
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- “Graduate Fashion Show”
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- “Graduate Fashion Show”
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- “Graduate Fashion Show”
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- “Graduate Fashion Show”
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- “the everyone’s new clothes”
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- “the everyone’s new clothes”
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- “the everyone’s new clothes”
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- Yoshikazu Yamagata Portrait Photo: Haruko Uefuji
A record number of visitors attended the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival held in The National Art Center, Tokyo, in February. The 12 day festival was launched in 1997, to promote the creation and development of media arts. This years festival received more than 2,500 works from 54 countries, about 180 award-winning works and jury-recommended works. The festival highlights four art divisions including media based art, entertainment, animation and manga.
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- © 2009 Japan Media Arts Festival. All rights reserved.
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- Twitter Plaza / Photo: Kayo Tamura
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- Kosuke Kawase “Bearings Glocken II”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
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- Lawrence Malstaf “Nemo Observatorium”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
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- Ei Wada “Braun Tube Jazz Band”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
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- David Bowen “growth modeling device”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
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- Magico Nakamura, Masayoshi Nakamura, Masashi Kawamura, Hal Kirkland “Hibi no Neiro”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
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- Makoto Yukimura “VINLAND SAGA”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
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- © Yukimura Makoto/Kodansha / “VINLAND SAGA”
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- Takahiro Yamaguchi “Urbanized Typeface : Shibuya08-09″/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
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- Reading manga/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
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- © Alvaro CASSINELLI / Alvaro CASSINELL, MANABE Daito, KURIBARA Yusaku, Alexis ZERROUG “scoreLight”
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- © Junghwan Sung / Junghwan SUNG representing Mr. Lee Experiment creative team “Mr. Lee Experiment”
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- © 2009 Japan Media Arts Festival. All rights reserved.
