HLH - Strike!

Saturday a strike was called in union square, signs were made for the two opposing sides. Jim Manning was the reporter on the scene.

Tension was in the air.

By law we were restricted to keep a certain distance away from each other and keep moving.

Even if we didn't agree on the issue, everyone is entitled to their own view...you know freedom of speech and all.

We yelled at each other and the public. They had a right to know.

We eventually came to a compromise...we would never be able to agree.

The signs were abandoned but the public took up the cause! This was an important issue!

Things got ugly. Jim was almost caught in the crossfire.

Can't we just all get along?

Photos by Rob Coshow

Free Money Continues on 14th Street

Recent money actions on 14th Street.

$1 where you can get your fortune told.

$1 in frint of a new condo.

$1 by an empty storefront.

$1 under a safety cone.

$1 where there are wildflowers.

$5 where no none will find it.

$1 thown over a fence.

$1 down a manhole cover.

$1 on the highway median.

$1 through an open window.

$1 on the seat of a fancy chair.

$1 rolled in a round hole.

$1 next to something I want to buy.

$10 in with the mail.

$5 on a standpipe.

$1 in a metrocard dispenser.

$5 in a stack of newspapers.

$20 to a musician.

$1 in an elevator.

$10 in a bargain bin.

$10 where you can see the water.

$10 outside the union hall.

$10 with the sweaters.

$1 where the writers hang out.

$1 in the cold remedy aisle.

$5 down a subway grating.

$5 on a farmer's market table.

$10 in a stranger's bag.

$1 with the long stemmed roses.

$10 slid under the "x in "unisex."

$5 at the end of the road.

$1 wedged into a security gate.

$5 where a lucky cat waves.

Art in Odd Places is winding down, but money actions will continue along 14th Street throughout October and beyond.

Follow on Twitter at twitter.com/moneyactions.

More information at moneyactions.org.

And some exciting news!  A Free Money book is coming, documenting the money actions on 14th Street that have been a part of Art in Odd Places.  The book will be released at the Editions/Artists Book Fair Nov 6-8 as part of Vendorbar.  There will also be a Free Money performance Saturday 11/7 at noon (NOTE: updated date/time).

>> More Info on Free Money at Vendorbar E/AB

Free Money & Money Actions are projects of Sal Randolph

>> More Free Money Actions on 14th Street

>> Earlier Free Money Actions on 14th Street

Bokyung Jun's performance2-Life is Not Easy for Any of Us

New Photos of Full Service Island at the Chelsea Carwash

HLH - What Would Lester Bangs Do?

Who thought of this one?
Since Lester used to live in the area, just off 14th on University, we figured he must have always been thinking about the top albums of all time, so we'd see if anyone would be willing to share their opinion. Luckily we ran into Ed Schexnayder, another AiOP artist, just to get at least one result before we failed miserably at polling the public.


It rained miserably, and we bought an umbrella.

Who doesn't love to be approached on the street with clipboards, asking for 'a minute of their time'?

Finally we actually talk to a member of the public who says Bill Hicks had the greatest album of all time...Success!

signs of our time

spawned 200+ moths during the weekend of 10/24-25. despite the rain on Sat, ppl stopped and looked and waited to take pictures, so that was cool. more pics on www.projectsilkworm.blogspot.com

*serving suggestion

Power Bike Parade's last ride happened Sat Oct 24...

Power Bike Parade by Semiotech powered through on Sat, despite the buckets of rain! Thanks to everyone that came out to see our last performance of Art in Odd Places!

Big thanks again to Erin, Ed & Radhika for their support, and Brooklyn Bike and Board for their super-generous contribution of bikes!

Check out the Semiotech website to see other work that we've done and upcoming performances that we have!

Photos from Sunday, October 25

Forest and Stream Sidewalk Labels-SUNDAY!!

With the gardern cart loaded with nearly 50lbs of various colored chalks, 150+ letter templates and a pair of dueling flour sifters, Heidi Neilson and Nicholas Fraser will present their collaboration project:

FOREST & STREAM SIDEWALK LABELS

Colored chalk texts installed on the south sidewalk of 14th street will indicate the location of natural features from 1609 as described on Heidi's Art in Odd Places map project Urban Forest on 14th Street map.

Printed maps will be available for self-guided tours (also available at Rags-A-Go-Go at 218 W 14th). Or download the map at HeidiNeilson.com

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT 14TH STREET

Rain Rain Go Away 14th Street NewsBoy wants to hawk newspapers.

POSTPONED:Today, Saturday, October 24 NewsBoy performance

RESCHEDULED: Tomorrow Sunday, October 25 from 10am-1pm.

Tomorrow, Sunday, Come and get the final fourth issue of "The 14th Street Tribune" from the NewsBoy at the corner of 14 Street and University Place. The fourth issue tells about Lillian Russell, her mother Cynthia Leonard, the first woman to run for mayor of New York in 1888, the famous restaurants of 14th Street, Sightings of people on 14th Street and crime topics in The Police Blotter.

brick at Norwood, 241 w 14th st

In retrospect, I should have left the sign installed, but unilluminated for this last week. That would have made a good reference to the lackluster housing recovery.

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EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT 14TH STREET

Get Issue 3 and Issue 4 from the 14^th Street NewsBoy Friday and Saturday, October 23 & 24

Today, Friday, October 23 from 3-6pm 14^th Street and University Place opposite Union Square Park Get Issue 3

Issue 3 is devoted to the demonstrations in Union Square and the famous departments stores of 14^th Street. Did you know Macy’s was located on 14^th Street?

Get issue 4 from the 14^th Street NewsBoy on Saturday, October 24 from 4-7pm at14^th Street and University Place opposite Union Square Park

Issue 4 tells about Lillian Russell and her mother Cynthia Leonard, the first woman to run for mayor in New York City, The restaurants: Delomonico’s and Luchow’s and other exciting news

If it rains on Saturday, NewsBoy will reschedule for Sunday—check blog for updates

Bokyung Jun's performance-Life is Not Easy for Any of Us

I started my performance at First Ave on 14th Street and ended at Tenth Ave on 14th Street. However the photos were taken from the Union square.

HLH - Harvey Macho Harvey

A lot of times we get questioning looks when mentioning our collaborative name 'Harvey Loves Harvey.' In order to set the record straight (no pun intended) we held a tailgate party Sunday afternoon. We purchased a variety of manly snack foods, energy drinks and drinking appliances.

What's a manly man tailgate party without wings and a few laughs?

It looks like we're accosting the public, but they were just as excited about listening to the game as we were. No open containers involved, going to jail is kind of manly, but inconvenient.

It's important when tailgating to have the proper safety equipment to designate the 'Party Zone'

Photos by Rob Coshow.

HLH - A Vote for McClellan is a Vote against the War!

HLH found the location where Tamminy hall once stood and reenacted a speech made by a McClellan supporter against Lincoln who seemed hell bent on civil war.

HLH made an impassioned plea to the passersby to vote for McClellan irregardless of the actual outcome of the election.
People were sympathetic to our cause, even if they didn't entirely understand why we were campaigning for a candidate who wasn't actually running anymore.
Spirits were high as the speech came to a close. Here's hoping the outcome won't mean civil war.

HLH - A Surprise Inspection

80 8th Ave lucked out Sunday afternoon and was the subject of a surprise inspection by HLH. Unsure of the buildings overall safety, hard hats were required, as well as walkie talkie communication at all times.
We separated and monitored the surrounding location, taking careful note of the building itself. Nothing was free from examination, even the phone booth on the corner.

We compared notes about the building construction, exits, and pedestrian traffic. We graded various elements strictly, according to city guidelines, but fairly.

Pigeons were a slight concern....they were irregularly gathering on the ledge above, as well as some funny looking vents. Further investigation is recommended.

An inspection certificate was obtained from our toolbox and eventually a passing grade was given. The certificate was posted for the building manager.

After our hard work, we had to take a mandatory lunch break according to union regulations. It was delicious.

Photos by Rob Coshow.

HLH - The Intersection of Art and Commerce

Sunday October 18th, HLH set out to sell a framed piece of art. It wasn't going to be easy. It was raining and cold, not the best weather for prospective buyers.

An appropriate site was chosen for our new gallery. Lots of foot traffic and the right neighborhood, this should be a piece of cake.

We set the piece (a photo of Manet's garden's...classy) on an easel, just to make it extra fancy. HLH was a little worried we might not be appropriately dressed for the opening, but we crossed our fingers.
There was obvious interest in the work, but I think people hesitated thinking it was too rich for their blood. Or we were going to rob them.
We even adjusted the price to really make it a deal...we realized in this economy you have to make sacrifices...even in the art world. But we couldn't just give it away.
We retreated across the street, thinking perhaps we were scaring buyers away with our hard sell. We got a little more interest but realized once we yelled to get their attention, they left. We have to revise our sell.
Erin from AiOP even stopped by to offer some advice, but it was too late, the opening was pretty much a failure. This gallery thing is harder than we thought.

Photos by Rob Coshow.

HLH - A Candlelight vigil for Henry Hudson

Henry Hudson has been under appreciated for many many years. HLH decided to hold a long overdue candlelight vigil to the great explorer on the corner of the Avenue named after him. Some candles were lit along with a flattering portrait of the man himself.

A short eulogy was prepared and read in Hudson's honor at dusk. It was an honorable speech commemorating his achievements and discovery of Manhattan island.

It was passionately delivered to the city, however unrehearsed. It was heartfelt tribute to an important part of history. It was windy and the candles blew out.
Another moment of silence was observed, it's the least we could do.

The candles and speech were left behind for future scholars.

Photos by Rob Coshow.

HLH - Reliving New Years Eve 1998

In 1998, the band Unwound played at the Cooler which once stood at 14th and 9th Ave. In an attempt to relive that magic night, we listened to a bootleg live show from that era and talked about what we remembered from the show.
In a further attempt at authenticity, a cassette tape was obtained and dubbed. We created a bootleg case for the cassette and placed it into in a 1998 era cassette walkman.

Once we remembered how to use it, the band started tuning up in preparation for the show. We immediately remembered not a lot of people being there and that I had purchased the tickets as a christmas present for HLH.


As the show dragged on, we had to sit down and rest our legs...this was not authentic, as we stood the entire show in 1998, but we are older and our bodies can't take the abuse anymore. Also alcohol was not served at this reliving of the show.
We couldn't remember who opened for Unwound, but we remember we couldn't wait to finally see the headliner. They went on after midnight and really never mentioned the fact that it became 1999. We never thought they would cover Prince or make everyone kiss, but it was a weird detail of the night.

After the show was over, it was decided we would leave the cassette along with our collective memory of the event in the past forever. It would be someone else's problem now.

A moment of silence for the tape, the band's breakup, and our youth.

Photos by Rob Coshow.

HLH - Monitor for Radiation

With the help of Boston Artist Tim Gregor, who developed a Hello Kitty Geiger counter, we started the monitoring process on the street at 10th Ave last Saturday afternoon. According to unclassified documents, uranium from the Manhattan project had been stored in the area so we set out to get a promising hit with the help of the cute scientific device.
First we needed to develop a plan...radiation could be anywhere, we discussed covering clockwise concentric circles from 10th and 14th, with attention to the recent highline park as early data was inconclusive.

We headed towards the Hudson, to develop a baseline reading and possibly work our way uptown towards suspect pier buildings on the water. If there was a place the project could have developed and contaminants stored it would definitely have been this area.


Jim Manning was recruited to document the process in order to have a chain of evidence in case an important discovery was in fact made.


More results, fairly low...reading less than one particle per million. Several spikes may have been due to normal variances in the device construction, or general anomalies.

Plant samples were taken to be analyzed offsite.

The high line was attempted to be monitored, but the park officials stationed there determined it wouldn't be necessary, and further permits would be needed to document the sample taking process. Eventually it was determined for public safety, however small the reading, the public should be warned of the possible contaminant in the area. Signs were posted and read by passersby.

Photos by Rob Coshow.

Unfixed/Unfixable Rain Make-Up Day: Friday 23rd

After being rained out last weekend (or more accurately having placed to much faith in Saturday's forecast), Unfixed/Unfixable, my series of ephemeral text drawings in front of the transitional spaces of 14th street, has a make-up day on Friday, October 23.

See below for specific location information.

And don't forget this Saturday, October 24th, Heidi Neilson and I will present our collaboration project:

FOREST & STREAM SIDEWALK LABELS

Colored chalk texts installed on the south sidewalk of 14th street will indicate the location of natural features from 1609 as described on Heidi's Art in Odd Places map project Urban Forest on 14th Street.

Printed maps will be available for self-guided tours (ask at Rags-A-Go-Go at 218 W 14th). Or download the map at HeidiNeilson.com
(RAIN DATE: OCT 25)


Friday, October 23rd (all sites between 8th and 10th Avenues):

320 W 14th
324 W 14th
343 W 14th
344 W 14th
345-349 W 14th
414 W 14th
446 W 14th

See you out there.

KTT takes to the street

This weekend Kill!The!Tower!! aka KTT took to 14th street with their quasi-political, semi-belligerent message of protest and activism. The rain made for an overcast afternoon and sullen pedestrians rushing to and fro; but we were still able to get a few to sign our petition, take a flyer or two and even stop for some anti-development anti-bloomberg/no 3rd term chitchat.


Catch us again this saturday afternoon [Oct.24] serving up more piping hot slices of public dissent. Get involved mate! [also stay tuned for the protest blog]

LPM14 Mobile

New Locative functionality will indicate how far you (and your mobile device) are from the Zeckendorf Towers when you log onto lpm14.org, or how far your PC is from the site when logging on from home. It would be greatly appreciated (given that we are operating remotely) if someone were willing to test this with their mobile device when either in Union Square Park, or in front of the building. Many thanks for considering!

signs of our time: weekend of 10/17/09

Many thanks, again, to David, the moths landed between 1st Ave and Broadway during the past weekend. more pics at: http://www.kodakgallery.com/gallery/creativeapps/slideShow/Main.jsp?token=622183834805%3A1359015734

photos: David H. Chan