for better or for worse, I'm Melanie Flood...

Joanna Stein. Schlitz. Legion.
Joanna Stein. Schlitz. Legion.
Whole Rainbow Trout for Dinner, yum!
Whole Rainbow Trout for Dinner, yum!
Paris Bar.
Paris Bar.
Ryan Foerster at Swiss Institute.
Ryan Foerster at Swiss Institute.
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Skinny Love-Bon Iver
Walking home. My father would kill me!
Walking home. My father would kill me!
Julia Allison has a favorite side of her face. Almost every photograph of her is from the right… She has a little bit of that wonky-tonky eye on the left, but no one is perfect.

Click the photo for a link to see a screen grab of her Facebook album.

Photo: Noah Kalina

Julia Allison has a favorite side of her face. Almost every photograph of her is from the right… She has a little bit of that wonky-tonky eye on the left, but no one is perfect.

Click the photo for a link to see a screen grab of her Facebook album.

Photo: Noah Kalina

A new interactive sculpture by Brooklyn artist James Yamada will debut Monday in Central Park’s Doris C. Freedman Plaza at Fifth Avenue and 60th Street in New York, reports the New York Times.

Our Starry Night, a 12-foot-tall sculpture constructed from powder-coated aluminum and 1,900 L.E.D. lights, will serve as an entrance to the park; the lights will be activated when visitors pass through a metal detector hidden inside the structure. Yamada is known for creating works that promote awareness of surrounding environments. Rochelle Steiner, the director of the Public Art Fund, the nonprofit group behind the project, says the sculpture “touches on issues of surveillance and almost paranoia.”

A new interactive sculpture by Brooklyn artist James Yamada will debut Monday in Central Park’s Doris C. Freedman Plaza at Fifth Avenue and 60th Street in New York, reports the New York Times.

Our Starry Night, a 12-foot-tall sculpture constructed from powder-coated aluminum and 1,900 L.E.D. lights, will serve as an entrance to the park; the lights will be activated when visitors pass through a metal detector hidden inside the structure. Yamada is known for creating works that promote awareness of surrounding environments. Rochelle Steiner, the director of the Public Art Fund, the nonprofit group behind the project, says the sculpture “touches on issues of surveillance and almost paranoia.”

I kind of should be able to do all these things with no problems. Unfortunately I get distracted very easily, and everyday tasks to some are like really intense for me to deal with. Now how would I do if I had a full time job? Not very well.
Facial, make appointment for facial, mani and pedi, order flowers for my mom, mother in law, and grandmother, meet anna and mary at swiss institute for zine swap, thursday beats at paris bar, find place for dinner pre music, buy tickets for woody allens last performance of the season at carlyle, make dental appt, go to obgyn on monday, burn cds and write artist statement to send to gallery, find a studio space on craigslist, set price parameters on photo shelter, pick up box from post office, remind janey to have carol ship the painting, hang saris painting, hang two gold & blue lithographs, meet with brokers to look at brownstones next week, plan 29th birthday dinner for myself, clean closet out before guests come, weed out wardrobe bring to buffalo exchange, search again for tiffanys necklace lost in my house, stop looking at old friends and lovers on google, patrick mcmullan, facebook, nysd, and park ave peerage, (I have canceled myspace), set up trip to calcutta in the fall, sign up for juice cleanse?
I can’t sleep. I’m thinking about therapy, changing my health insurance plan, sending my already late taxes in, mailing thank you notes, mailing cocktail party invitations, ordering food, ordering a case of champage, picking up another punch bowl, need pimms cup, indian tonic water, mint, vermouth, bitters, pellegrino in plastic bottles, spanx, norma kavali swimsuit, exchange modern vintage wedges for another size, go to the gym, go to jackson heights to try out the sweets, make a trip to bouchon and payard, order platters from balducci, caviar from dean & deluca, go to flower district to get lanterns for the garden, make appointment to have make up application, haircut is needed, pick up noahs photo from mascot framing, take mister g to be groomed, get $200 back from delta, remind bank of america to refund me $70, get the $1000 worth of transit checks that were paid for but never picked up, plane tickets for atlanta in june, book hotel for two nights, need to plan three week honeymoon for july…it goes on!