we went to dumbo {Down Under the Manhattan Brooklyn Overpass} yesterday for their arts bonanza extravaganza! and boy was it!
i thought it would be street fair{y} but it wasn't - so much better
there was a dance festival going on in the new brooklyn bridge park.
we stayed and watched 4 performances.
i couldn't choose between these 2 - mitch said to put them both in - so i did
one of the galleries was taken over by a maze made out of boxes - cardboard boxes - stacked on top of one another. we tried to do it... but we ended up exiting out of the entrance. woops.
we went into all sorts of galleries and warehouses and places that weren't galleries but were trasformed for the weekend.
the best was this boxing gym with a couple rings and punching bags hanging all over the place and it was filled with art. paintings of boxers and boxing events and photographs... so cool.
there was also this cool spot called Smack Mellon that provides studio spaces. there was one photographer that shot slide film with a manual advance and created these panarama images in slides... the artist was there and was talking about how he does it by manualy advancing the film while moving the camera in the other direction - his stuff is wild - you can see it at www.kwabenaslaughter.com if you're interested.
me and mitch can't wait to come back. there's a theater we want to go to that's in a warehouse called st. ann's warehouse theater that looks way cool.
this is a jazz club - we want to come back here too. we signed up on there e-mail list so they're going to send us 2 tickets to an upcoming show - cool cool
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