Sunday, August 22nd, 2004
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| Artist indistinguishable from art. The annual artist invasion of Tompkins Square Park. The Howl Festival.
Update 11/25/04, via email:
“I intentionally weave myself into the art as a result my visage and the background form one” work of art” Lisa Renko” |
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| Artists are given segments of a canvas that extends around about a third of the perimeter of the Park. Many of this year’s paintings were anti-Bush, this one made me laugh.
Little George Washington was known for not being able to tell a lie, but little George (Pinocchio) Bush is known for not being able to tell the truth. I can only guess that he is chained in the doghouse out of some personal preference of the artist. |
Filed under: East Village, Photos, Street Art- , People, Performance, Street Performance, Tompkins Square Park - by gamma
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Sunday, August 22nd, 2004
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| The brick 9th precinct building on East Fifth Street has been replaced by a steel frame building. The old one was famous as the exterior of the fictional 15th precinct on NYPD Blue. They used it on Kojak as well. |
Filed under: Architecture, East Village, Photos- , Construction - by gamma
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Sunday, August 22nd, 2004
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Demonstration in Union Square Park by Falun Dafa, claiming that practicioners of Falun Gong are being tortured and murdered in mainland China. faluninfo.net
They put on an effective presentation. Could that be what an authentic Chinese guard uniform looks like. The makeup on this bound woman was realistic, and pretty nasty looking. Another demonstrator was confined in a cage, too small to stand in or stretch out.
The people in the background (some in yellow shirts) are doing the exercises. Falun Gong remind me of Tai Chi. Here’s some online instruction, including video if you want to try this out for yourself.
China maintains that they are a dangerous doomsday cult.
This article in the National Review gives some background and another take on the situation.
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Filed under: Photos, Politics- , Health, Terror - by gamma
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Sunday, August 22nd, 2004
