Tales from Hyperreality: Macy's Thanksgiving Parade

It is again the time of the year...

When over 40 million of American travel over 50 miles or more from their homes. In the same day $282 million worth of food will be wasted, according to the NRDC (National Resource Defense Council). The day after is "black Friday" which is not the title of a horror movie but the day when several hundred million of shoppers (226 millions in 2011) floods shopping malls, retail outlets, or cybershops.

In this surreal apotheosis of consumerism I try to relax and, as always, enjoy recording the most grandiose spectacle extravaganza of consumerism: the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade. Over 100 feet high cartoon characters float in the Manhattan skyline, cheered by hundred thousand spectators: it is only three weeks after hurricane winds roared over Manhattan and in this unseasonably warm day (what's new?) and New York city seems to be fully back to its relentless rhythms.

Camminando & Vernissages | New York November 9

 

Resuming my walks to Chelsea after the hurricane: a view from Tenth Avenue

Matta, Rammellzee, Futura and Phase 2, curated by Nemo Librizzi and Joseph Nahmad

Trenton Doyle Hancock "…And Then It All Came Back to Me" at James Cohan Gallery

Charles Ray at Matthew Marks

 

A view of Chelsea after the hurricane: workers restoring power 22 Street

NYC: It's Snowtime!

Vernissages | Alan Shields: Maze

Mapping VICTORY!

Barack Obama (D)
303
Electoral Votes
60,377,662 Popular Votes


Mitt Romney (R)
206
Electoral Votes
57,583,720 Popular Votes

Democrat Wins
    California Electoral Votes: 55
    Colorado Electoral Votes: 9
    Connecticut Electoral Votes: 7
    Delaware Electoral Votes: 3
    District of Columbia Electoral Votes: 3
    Hawaii Electoral Votes: 4
    Illinois Electoral Votes: 20
    Iowa Electoral Votes: 6
    Maine Electoral Votes: 4
    Maryland Electoral Votes: 10
    Massachusetts Electoral Votes: 11
    Michigan Electoral Votes: 16
    Minnesota Electoral Votes: 10
    Nevada Electoral Votes: 6
    New Hampshire Electoral Votes: 4
    New Jersey Electoral Votes: 14
    New Mexico Electoral Votes: 5
    New York Electoral Votes: 29
    Ohio Electoral Votes: 18
    Oregon Electoral Votes: 7
    Pennsylvania Electoral Votes: 20
    Rhode Island Electoral Votes: 4
    Vermont Electoral Votes: 3
    Virginia Electoral Votes: 13
    Washington Electoral Votes: 12
    Wisconsin Electoral Votes: 10

Republican Wins
    Wyoming Electoral Votes: 3
    West Virginia Electoral Votes: 5
    Utah Electoral Votes: 6
    Texas Electoral Votes: 38
    Tennessee Electoral Votes: 11
    South Dakota Electoral Votes: 3
    South Carolina Electoral Votes: 9
    Oklahoma Electoral Votes: 7
    North Dakota Electoral Votes: 3
    North Carolina Electoral Votes: 15
    Nebraska Electoral Votes: 5
    Montana Electoral Votes: 3
    Missouri Electoral Votes: 10
    Mississippi Electoral Votes: 6
    Louisiana Electoral Votes: 8
    Kentucky Electoral Votes: 8
    Kansas Electoral Votes: 6
    Indiana Electoral Votes: 11
    Idaho Electoral Votes: 4
    Georgia Electoral Votes: 16
    Arkansas Electoral Votes: 6
    Arizona Electoral Votes: 11
    Alaska Electoral Votes: 3
    Alabama Electoral Votes: 9

Un Dimanche Après-midi à Central Park | NYC Pretend Marathon?

A few images from my first walk in Central Park after Sandy, in a sunny Sunday afternoon. It is quite astonishing the thought the city officials in the amidst of the major crisis brought by the hurricane, with many thousands of people without home or electricity or heating, gas, or even food, were still preparing the park for the marathon! Barricades, scaffolding and bleachers are still a testimonial of this sad lack of common sense and priorities. Many runners ran a "pretend" marathon, de gustibus... However the littering was quite unrespectful of the park, already so scarred in the last days events.

 

Why littering for a "pretend" marathon?

Un Dimanche Après-midi à Central Park : Fallen Trees and a Graveyard

Vernissages | NYC Uptown, November 1

Seventh Avenue closed at 57th Street for the infamous dangling crane of 157 W 57 residential tower

The majority, perhaps all, of the art galleries in Chelsea are closed, due to lack of power and recovering from flooding for many street level exhibition spaces. But for the uptown galleries business as usual, with very crowded openings.

Ana Tzarev "Exposed" at Ana Tzarev

Cy Twombly at Gagosian