City of Love vs The Big Apple

Illustrator Vahram Muratyan presents this “friendly visual match between the two cities, as seen by a Parisian based in New York with all the details, cliches and contradictions"...

Having been to both Paris and New York, my vote leans towards the Big Apple. What about you, what city do you prefer?

DRN

Who Dat? Jim Datz!

I love these screen prints from illustrator, and if you couldn't guess New York native, Jim Datz. They were inspired by his love for the NY boroughs.

DRN

Shake N' Bake

So for the past 3 months I have been getting the Victoria Line tube from Brixton Station to Oxford Circus everyday. And it is so boring. It's called the Shake n Bake for a reason. Thats all you do on the Tube, sweat and get thrown around the place. Its not nearly as fun as it sounds...

Anyways I came across this collection of New York's Subway, back in the eighties, and I have to say while the Victoria Line is probably safer, these images show so much reality, Id almost prefer to be taking one of these trains home every night. Almost.

DRN

Via 2 4 Flinching

Full Tilt Boogie.

The Sandpit from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo.

The Sandpit by Sam O'Hare. Tilt shift photography at its best. New York City even looks amazing in miniature form...

DRN

Daphne Guinness' Showcase. Are you dying yet?

via The Cut

Daphne Guinness will exhibit 80 to 100 pieces from her clothing collection at F.I.T.'s museum from September 2011 through January 2012. The exhibit will include pieces by Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Comme des Garçons, Dolce & Gabbana, and Azzedine Alaïa. Better yet, the exhibit will be immortalized in a book by the awfully scholarly sounding Yale University Press, which for now is the closest we'll come to our dream of Daphne Guinness penning her own version of Eat, Pray, Love (by the way, who's excited for THAT movie?). F.I.T.'s chief museum curator will work with Guinness on the exhibit, and plans to highlight Guinness's particular fashion interests, ranging from sleeves and neck ruffles to accessories including hats, veils, and ribbons. Sounds like the Met's Costume Institute has some serious competition. Let's hope F.I.T.'s won't include the same long lines and feelings of claustrophobia

Oh my God I love this woman so much, this is all adding to my move to New York and live the dream dream of mine! I'm there.

DRN

I Love Sex!

Sex & The City that is! Im really diggin the look of the new one sheet for Sex & The City 2, very futuristic indeed, gold aviators baby. I was in NY during the summer and its now even more fun watching repeats of the series and getting to say "oh ya, I was there..." We went by Carrie's apartment in The Village, its the coolest place ive been in my life, so trendy in a non-try hard trndy kinda way...

DRN

High Line

God I wish Ireland had more cool stuff in it? I always wonder what the tourists do when they come here? like theres only so many castles you can look at! Anyways above is a new park that opened in New York last month, called High Line.

Its pretty amazing, the park is an old abandoned railway line that stopped running 30 years ago. All the plantation and design of the park are based on the naturally occurring plant life that sprung up when trains stopped running.

Here's the before picture


pretty cool huh?

DRN