$ENTS FOR YOUR DOLLAR

With the ‘recession’ in swing, things which were once considered prestigious careers are not pitied.
In comes the poor people dating these previously employed Bankers/ Traders/ Fund Managers

DABA (Dating A Banker Anonymous) is the new Leveraged Sell Out

To be honest, I’m only with my BF because I just don’t have the heart to change my facebook status from “in a relationship” to “I ain’t saying I’m a gold digger, but I ain’t messin’ with no broke banker.

So I have been wanting to see Fuerza Bruta for a while now since I saw the ad for it at my 5th ave/ 53rd st stop. Couldn’t quite make out what exactly it was so I checked out the promo online and the one review, ” rave meets cirque”, got me interested. The reviews said it was possible to get drenched at the end, with it being winter and all I was a bit apprehensive.

I had some spare time on Friday so I just went for it. They have 20, $25 standby tickets 2 hours before the show but you should wait in like 2.5 hours beforehand . We got there at exactly 6 just to be shut out with the last 2 people getting standby right in front of us. Luckily they have $39 ticket sale coupon just in case ( normal price of tickets - $78).

You’re ushered into a circle in a large room which is set as the stage for the next hour. There are no seats so you’re standing the entire hour all the while, being ushered around while they move equipment in and out.

The next hour is what can only be described as a rave which takes place at a cirque show. There’s music playing throughout ( which is actually good trance beats) and intermittently there’s people walking on giant treadmills made to look like busy city streets, giant pools coming down from the ceilings filled with girls gliding across ( it’s filled with guys on Wednesdays) and a great deal of Styrofoam flinging.

The only thing missing was a sketchy guy in the corner asking if you wanted to buy some drugs…which is a good thing

The good -
Music is great (no soundtrack avail, I checked)
Energy of the performers is high, considering they do 2 shows a night
The random craziness that comes about - giant pools from the ceilings, people flying across the walls

The bad -
standing for the entire hour
that its only one hour long
being moved around every 10 min so they can move equipment around
hard to find a spot where you wont get wet.

Happy Chinese New Year!
As we welcome the new year of the ox? Cow? I prefer to hope that this will in fact be the year of the bull ( on wall st).

There are many places overseas in china where they take next month off. I guess to make up for the fact that they work on Saturdays? Still not a decent tradeoff if you ask me, but it gives them plenty of time to party in the new year

[thehundreds]

MTV has been running out of interesting houses lately. Most people expect to watch Cribs to see awesomely cool mansions of celebrities. Lately, they have been forced to show less than millionaire status celebs showing McMansions and townhouses of the famous, but clearly not so rich. They have neighbors for godsakes, and they werent even white.

So they started a different angle - Teen Cribs. Cause having neighbors as a teenager is less appalling. One of the people they did the show on was a not so famous teen with a tech famous dad - CEO of ChaCha and inventor of voicemail? So naturally, their house was extremely tech heavy but surprisingly kid-fun-awesome complete with a treehouse within the house, a slide to get downstairs (”were looking to put in a spedometer and something to take pictures as they get to the bottom like disney world….”).

The odd part is the dad has an 8 screen set-up in his home office complete with the stationary biking pedals but the reqs on his computer (information obtained through ChaCha) are less than stellar — 3.4 GHz P4 CPU, 2 GB RAM, 8x Dell 19 in. monitors, Colorgraphic Xentera GT display with ATI, Schwinn 205p recumb bike, Ergotron frame.

P4? I havent seen one of those since the late 90’s. That just totally brought him down a notch, but cool house nonetheless. I’m still waiting for the tour of Bill Gates’ house.

A short clip following Poster Boy on one of his visits into the subway stations looking for posters to alter. Pretty interesting seeing exactly what goes on and how he thinks of remixed posters to make. The thing that surprised me is how easy it seems like it is to tear off the layers, and how people standing around like typical New Yorkers and just watching as he rips apart the posters.

I like that its awesomely unpretentious. It looks great, but no one would give you a second glance in the city.

What is a better gift to a hipster than something to remind them of their iphone AND something for that new table they lugged over from that Brooklyn green furniture store —

Coasters with the iphone home icons on it. While an interesting idea, at $62 for the set, it might be more worthwhile to just spring for bricked iphones to use as coasters.

iphone coasters

This environent is pretty ideal for an opportunist who knows what to do. There are highly qualified professionals out there desperately seeking work, PHDs trolling streets wearing a billboard made of their resume. Labor has become cheaper, businesses need to generate income (sales sales sales).

2 years from now people will look back and kick themselves at the missed opportunities available.

I like money. I like art. I love money art. Though not a fan of those that disfigures the money, I’m amazed at the creativity people can come up with, namely the origami hats

So simple, yet this is something that I would pay to have. I guess it could double as some sort of anti-war sttement that they spend too much money on guns and……etc….whatever it just looks cool.

I have seen similar ones of these in the MoMa, but they were made out of McDonalds bags and were cut into trees which actually made the tree pattern pretty well. The Euro building below looks pretty good, but were they not aware that Euro’s are still a valuable commodity?

What is it about a wall of money that makes other people want to write on money and stick it on a wall? Reminds me of that place in chinatown that the greeks like to tag up / deface. Question is, what do the restaurants do with the cash when they run out of money? And yes they do take down the walls of cash.

[via WebUrbanist ]