Train Robbers - I Can’t Get Your Sister To Fly
Caught these guys on my commute into work today. Best buskers I’ve seen.
Also check out CITY OF JAZZ
LOCALS ONLY at the Tender Trap this tuesday with @benrobey and @teamrobey @ haruka_salt999 and @mcfluffxoxo PHOTOS by @wables
and surprise celebrity @suckmyandycandy ! striaght out the westcoast !
we out here we in here WE EVERYWHERE! ya heard meh!
HOLY CHRIST I THINK I NEED TO GO TO THIS!
Tonight in Brooklyn, at Veronica Peoples Club: listen to trashy pop and party like you’re Ke$ha
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Action Philosophers!
Impetuous Theater Group
June 23 – July 1, 2011
Comic Book by Fred Van Lente & Ryan Dunlavey Adapted by Crystal SkillmanDirected by John Hurley
The award-winning, best-selling comics series Action Philosophers is adapted for the stage by award-winning playwright Crystal Skillman and directed by John Hurley as the lives and thoughts of history’s A-list brain trust leap to the stage in manic, hilarious fashion. Come meet PLATO—Wrestling Superstar of Ancient Greece! NIETZSCHE—The Original Übermensch! The premiere of the mini-musical “You’re a Good Man, JOHN STUART MILL!” The torrid love affairs of AYN RAND! And more! From Impetuous Theater Group who brought you Hack! an I.T. Spaghetti Western (a hit at both last year’s Too Soon festival and the Vampire Cowboys Saloon Series) Action Philosophers! is a must see, not to mention cheaper than a liberal arts degree—and a whole lot more fun, too!
“Indie Theatre needs more trail blazers like Skillman and Hurley . . . they are certainly ones to watch as they ride off into the sunset.”—Michael Roderick, Broadway World(Hack!)
“The achievement of the writer Fred Van Lente and the artist Ryan Dunlavey is visualizing [great philosophers] in intensely goofy but intellectually rigorous ways.”—The New York Times
“Totally irreverent and manically inventive.”—Publishers Weekly
60 minutes
Thu 6/23, 7pm
Tue 6/28, 7pm
Wed 6/29, 7pm
Fri 7/1, 7pm](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmwjod5tlI1qbhrino1_400.jpg)
Action Philosophers!
Impetuous Theater Group
June 23 – July 1, 2011
Comic Book by Fred Van Lente & Ryan Dunlavey
Adapted by Crystal Skillman
Directed by John HurleyThe award-winning, best-selling comics series Action Philosophers is adapted for the stage by award-winning playwright Crystal Skillman and directed by John Hurley as the lives and thoughts of history’s A-list brain trust leap to the stage in manic, hilarious fashion. Come meet PLATO—Wrestling Superstar of Ancient Greece! NIETZSCHE—The Original Übermensch! The premiere of the mini-musical “You’re a Good Man, JOHN STUART MILL!” The torrid love affairs of AYN RAND! And more! From Impetuous Theater Group who brought you Hack! an I.T. Spaghetti Western (a hit at both last year’s Too Soon festival and the Vampire Cowboys Saloon Series) Action Philosophers! is a must see, not to mention cheaper than a liberal arts degree—and a whole lot more fun, too!
“Indie Theatre needs more trail blazers like Skillman and Hurley . . . they are certainly ones to watch as they ride off into the sunset.”—Michael Roderick, Broadway World(Hack!)
“The achievement of the writer Fred Van Lente and the artist Ryan Dunlavey is visualizing [great philosophers] in intensely goofy but intellectually rigorous ways.”—The New York Times
“Totally irreverent and manically inventive.”—Publishers Weekly
60 minutes
Thu 6/23, 7pm
Tue 6/28, 7pm
Wed 6/29, 7pm
Fri 7/1, 7pm
For his latest concept & event series, Adam Aleksander teams up with DFA Records to create an unforgettable couture nightlife experience. On Friday, June 17th, 2011, an ordinary New York City laundromat located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, will be secretly transformed into one of the wildest and most visually stunning (underwear) parties the city has seen since the golden age of disco.
The Laundrette re-imagines an era in New York City when parties popped up in the most unexpected places with just a moment’s notice. (Yes even in laundromats)This event will be no different, except for an increased level of detail and professional quality.
Expect gorgeous lighting design, clandestine actors roaming through the crowd each with their own unique character and story; DFA Records dropping the dirtiest of disco beats with DJs Juan Maclean and Justin Miller. And, of course, detergent themed cocktails will be free all night long.
Our hot model staff will help you cool down by washing the clothes off your back and help you to dance in your underwear by offering a clothing check.
Ventikoland, eccentric photographer, will be designing a custom laundrette themed photobooth! Pose against a giant cutouts of a washer or poke your head out of a dryer. The digital gallery will be available afterwards online.
In addition, 2nd Skin body painters will be stripping guests down, airbrushing suds and bubbles on bare body parts.
Air your dirty laundry with us. We beg you!
Tickets- $76 -http://dirtydiscolaundrette.com/
—21+only—
DJs-The Juan Maclean,Justin Miller- http://DFARecords.com/
Event Design-Adam Aleksander- http://unprecedentedevents.com/
Artwork/Creative-Learned Evolution- http://Learnedevolution.com/
AV Partner-Kayne Live- http://www.kaynelive.com/
Model Bar Staffing-Restivo Events- http://restivoevents.com/
Photobooth-VentikoLand- http://ventiko.com/
Bodypainting-2nd Skin NYC - http://a2ndskin.wordpress.com/
PIETHOS IV:
THIS TIME IT’S PERCINNAMONAL
A READING AT WHICH THE SWEET TOOTH BEARS ITS FANGS
Brooklyn, NY –
And all that’s best of dark and bright/ meets in her aspect, and her pies.
On Tuesday, June 7th, Slice magazine, Argos Books, SmallWork, and the vengeful spirit of interns everywhere square off at Brooklyn Winery in
Williamsburg.
For this, the fourth iteration of Slice’s Piethos reading series, the previous competitors were all asked to challenge a colleague to fight for the next pie. These colleagues each represent their own unique publications and literary endeavors (or, in the case of the interns, hunger for publishing industry success and/or food) in the quest to win, not a piece of the pie, but the entire goddamn pastry.
The participants have issued each other literary challenges. On the night of the reading, each newly-written piece will be presented, and the audience will vote on which one best entertained and met the challenge. The winning story’s reader and organization will win a fresh-baked cinnamon-y pie courtesy the renegade bakers at Fat & Flour.
The current challenges will be revealed on the day of the event. Past challenges have included:
> Write about the Scoville scale without mentioning peppers.
> Write about love and rabies. No dogs.
> Drink a can of Four Loko & immediately write about a horrible holiday moment.
> Have a conversation with a friend using text message. Incorporate the texts and use them as the foundation for your piece.
The readers for Piethos IV: This Time It’s Percinnamonal are:
» From Smallwork, Andrew Eisenman
Andrew Eisenman’s work has not yet appeared. He teaches in the Undergraduate Creative Writing Department at Columbia University and is on the editorial staff of NOON. He is here tonight on behalf of Smallwork, at BenMarcus.com. Smallwork is now open for submissions of new fiction, nonfiction, reviews, and art. Please go to BenMarcus.com for more information.
» From Argos Books, Iris CushingIris Cushing is a poet and editor for Argos Books. She will be a National Park Service Artist-in-Residence on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon for the month of July this year.
» From Slice, Naomi Solomon
Naomi Solomon has worked at a circus camp, a dojo, and a taqueria, and is currently employed by an education-based nonprofit. She holds a B.A. in Literature, but often puts it down when she needs to use both hands for something. Naomi is from San Francisco and now lives in Brooklyn, where she spends a lot of time baking muffins and fighting crime.
» Representing the Vengeful Spirit of Interns Everywhere, Maggie Beauvais
Maggie Beauvais is pure vengeance, unencumbered by mercy or health insurance.
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Piethos is a seasonal reading series dedicated to celebrate independent publishing in Brooklyn. Committed to the concept of an antihierarchical publishing environment, Piethos seeks to cross-promote the many faces of literary arts throughout the borough, from journals to websites vendors to publishers to presses.
Fat & Flour will steal the hearts and minds of your children through delicious pie.
Please address questions and inquiries to C.A.B. Fredericks.
Click for Write Club’s own Tim Mucci reading at the third PIETHOS event, and the audio from the very first PIETHOS event.
Here’s another character from POWER PLAY, the upcoming creator-owned comic I’ve been working on with Agent Fenris, AKA Kurt Christenson http://agentfenris.tumblr.com/
This is Gowanus Pete, he fell into the Gowanus Canal and became horribly mutated. His new powers have lead him to become one of the rising stars of the Power Play games, and he’s now hosting his own tournament.You can check out some of our other characters here— http://reillybrown.tumblr.com/post/6098376444/power-play
Oh my god. This is just so cool. It’s like making up the most fun and silly and exciting comic and seeing it come to life like this is truly magical. Look how badass Gowanus Pete is. He was our first character, inspired by a huge stencil sign by the Smith & 9th Street stop on the F/G, the place where the first story arc takes place, the GOWANUS GAMES. But right away we knew he was the mysterious star of the show. Look how cool Reilly made him! Just wait til you see him in action!
