i love america and america loves me

Brooklyn artist, Stephen Floyd, is having his first show at the Heist Gallery in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.  It’s entitled “I Love America and America Loves Me” and will end on December 18th.  Here’s a little description of Floyd’s style.

Floyd’s drawings explore the mundane, the socio-political and the sexually charged through disarming humor that borders on juvenile but never sinks into vulgarity. In fact, while first glances might suggest an artist just out for laughs, spending a little time with Floyd’s drawings reveals an incisive wit that gets to the heart of our modern pathologies, like homophobia, sexual prowess and American imperialism. Floyd spares nothing with his satirical perspective.

hmph, cause all ma fwendz are in nyc w/o me

Got some friends in the city this weekend so I thought I’d have a NYC-themed mini-post of random eclecticism.  Hope they’re having gay ole’ chilly time, heartsies fartsies.

1. Williamsburg design firm, DresserJohnson, have started a service/project called Brooklyn Bunny.  It’s a rabbit-sitting service that puts your fuzzy pet on webcam so you can see what the floppy-eared chomper is up to even when you’re away.

2. Earlier this year, sections of Broadway were closed off to traffic and essentially turned into a pedestrian mall for Memorial Day, resulting in a temporary better quality of life.  Now there is a new proposition taking that idea a step even further — completely and permanently shutting down 42nd street to traffic and building a light rail system that would span the width of Manhattan.  Estimated as a $500 million project, it would triple the amount of people transported at roughly the same cost and be much more eco-friendly.

3. Here’s some NYC-specific marketing for bottled water…subway iconography & Lady America.

4.  Perhaps the worst billboard idea for NYC evar? Amer Air plane directed into a building. Ahh, indeed.