I met the man who bought this carousel today. I was taking an afternoon walk outside my office in DUMBO, and spent a few minutes admiring Jane’s Carousel, which sits on the water in the Brooklyn Bridge Park and has amazing views of the bridge. It was the first thing I checked on after Hurricane Sandy (stunning photo here). I was reading the plaque explaining the carousel’s history and how it came to be when the man standing next to me piped up, “What do you think?” “It’s stunning,” I said. He said, “That’s me!” As in the David Walentas mentioned on the plaque who, with his wife Jane, bought the 1922-constructed historic beauty at auction in 1984 and spent the next 20+ years restoring it to its original majesty before gifting it to Brooklyn and the neighborhood of DUMBO. David also happens to be the founder and principal of Two Trees Management. His development company essentially built DUMBO and designed it to be the mix of cultural, digital and architectural diversity it is today (with a little help from the 500 digital agencies and companies now located here and a little company - my company - called Digital DUMBO).  It was very cool to chat with him about his wife’s process to restore the carousel. I was admiring it because my grandmother loves carousels and I wanted to take a picture of it for her. My grandfather made her carousels by hand for several years, but he never brought her one this big. :)
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I met the man who bought this carousel today. I was taking an afternoon walk outside my office in DUMBO, and spent a few minutes admiring Jane’s Carousel, which sits on the water in the Brooklyn Bridge Park and has amazing views of the bridge. It was the first thing I checked on after Hurricane Sandy (stunning photo here).

I was reading the plaque explaining the carousel’s history and how it came to be when the man standing next to me piped up, “What do you think?” “It’s stunning,” I said. He said, “That’s me!” As in the David Walentas mentioned on the plaque who, with his wife Jane, bought the 1922-constructed historic beauty at auction in 1984 and spent the next 20+ years restoring it to its original majesty before gifting it to Brooklyn and the neighborhood of DUMBO.

David also happens to be the founder and principal of Two Trees Management. His development company essentially built DUMBO and designed it to be the mix of cultural, digital and architectural diversity it is today (with a little help from the 500 digital agencies and companies now located here and a little company - my company - called Digital DUMBO). 

It was very cool to chat with him about his wife’s process to restore the carousel. I was admiring it because my grandmother loves carousels and I wanted to take a picture of it for her. My grandfather made her carousels by hand for several years, but he never brought her one this big. :)

noraleah:

Marina Abramovic meets Ulay

“Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again. at her 2010 MoMa retrospective Marina performed ‘The Artist Is Present’ as part of the show, a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing it and this is what happened.”

(via carlosbaila)

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humansofnewyork: I am a street photographer in New York City. Several months ago, I was approached by a representative of DKNY who asked to purchase 300 of my photos to hang in their store windows “around the world.” They offered me $15,000. A friend in the industry told me that $50 per photo was not nearly enough to receive from a company with hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue. So I asked for more money. They said “no.”Today, a fan sent me a photo from a DKNY store in Bangkok. The window is full of my photos. These photos were used without my knowledge, and without compensation.I don’t want any money. But please REBLOG this post if you think that DKNY should donate $100,000 on my behalf to the YMCA in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. That donation would sure help a lot of deserving kids go to summer camp. I’ll let you guys know if it happens.
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humansofnewyork:

I am a street photographer in New York City. Several months ago, I was approached by a representative of DKNY who asked to purchase 300 of my photos to hang in their store windows “around the world.” They offered me $15,000. A friend in the industry told me that $50 per photo was not nearly enough to receive from a company with hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue. So I asked for more money. They said “no.”

Today, a fan sent me a photo from a DKNY store in Bangkok. The window is full of my photos. These photos were used without my knowledge, and without compensation.

I don’t want any money. But please REBLOG this post if you think that DKNY should donate $100,000 on my behalf to the YMCA in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. That donation would sure help a lot of deserving kids go to summer camp. I’ll let you guys know if it happens.

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Source: humansofnewyork