It’s been a while since friends have made the trip out to NYC. Typically when I get around to kick it with Ben it’s about beers, tities wings… and this weekend didn’t disappoint. Over the weekend we checked out some drum n base at BED with a small fashion show of easy breezy see-through dresses, some Redrock West shots with the white trash, taxi madness, sleeping through boring comics, parties in LES and roof tops in SOHO, and live BODIES in New York. Check the photo footage.
If you’re in New York and you haven’t seen the BODIES exhibit, you’re truly missing out on some real serious education.
This is an exhibit of real cadavers, skinned and preserved in a unique polymer coating so that you can see all the details inside the human body, bones, muscles, veins, organs, tendons and full systems.
There was once a time where I thought I wanted to be an architect or designer of creative, abstract structures for the public. I had a very supportive graphics design teacher in high school, who taught be the basics of hand drafting including perspective, shading, and dimension. After 4 months I was able to scale and sketch a replica of my interior and exterior designed dream house, which I entered into the state fair and won a first prize for.
Click on the links for the museum to read more on the exhibit. He should be important to New Yorkers because he’s the one that designed the new World Trade Center Hub (pictured above) – should it ever get completed. Not only that, everyone should experience the sight or even a walk through of some of his work. He’s a universal artist and engineer that combines science, art, technology and engineering into workable and beautifully livable structures. Inspired by nature, his work embodies a sense of potential movement or fluidity erupting from white concrete, glass, cables and steel struts.
I especially enjoyed the sketching, modeling and final photographic results of the Alamillo Bridge in Seville, Spain and the