KIOSK HELLO

It think this girl is really funny. Read­ing her blog, I came across this:

Look famil­iar? That’s right- KIOSK making a sweet back­drop for her paparazzi inspired photo shoot!
And what’s more, she’s a designer as well. Check out her jewish rosaries ,they’re pretty,  even if you’re not jewish!

Looks like Jason’s Plas­tic Bag Hap­pen­ing 2 has been quite a suc­cess! They really have beau­ti­ful bags over there. Look at that Rambo bag!!!

Comb­ing through pages and pages of “support USA made products” on the inter­net in prepa­ra­tion for the next Amer­i­can install­ment here at KIOSK is at once exhil­a­rat­ing – seeing how many people think and care about this sort of thing – and sad as many of the links lead to “this site no longer exists” or “site not found” on the screen. Amer­i­can com­pa­nies are obvi­ously suf­fer­ing, many choos­ing to close before its too late. On a brighter note, I did find this!

I have always found hum­ming­birds to be fas­ci­nat­ing crea­tures (their wings flut­ter at a rate of 50 strokes per second!) This beau­ti­ful feeder can help draw them to your garden. The feeder is made in Massachusetts… go America!

just kid­ding, it’s still raining

Found this fan­tas­tic chocloate cal­cu­la­tor on my good friend Betty Roytburd’s blog where it was won­der­fully com­ple­mented by other objects which made me equally nos­tal­gic. Remem­ber the jewel cal­cu­la­tors they used to have as well? makes me miss math… a little.

“This exhi­bi­tion seeks to com­mem­o­rate the many places that have come and gone, all of which have con­tributed to a col­or­ful New York City upbring­ing. This mul­ti­me­dia instal­la­tion will include works on paper, film, lit­er­a­ture and assorted ephemera, pro­vid­ing a unique per­spec­tive which will com­ple­ment the already vast col­lec­tion cur­rently housed in the Reli­quary. By rec­og­niz­ing places which have played a for­ma­tive role, through image and memory, Indige­nous – A Group Show hopes to inspire vis­i­tors to remem­ber those things which have made their New York expe­ri­ence worth­while. Vis­i­tors are invited to record their sto­ries and add to a grow­ing archive of memories.”

This air­plane kazoo was made by the same people down in Florida who made the Trum­pet Kazoo. Isn’t it beau­ti­ful? Too bad we couldn’t have them all!

Kit­ties at tea time use the Finnish metal water kettle from KIOSK!

Ken Brown says:

“one of my favorite areas of dis­cov­ery and explo­ration is found in the bor­der­lands of the city, where art and nature meet and merge in a post indus­trial land­scape …”
I think his photos are beau­ti­fully haunting

Jason has been invited to do a Plas­tic Bag Hap­pen­ing in Fin­land! Stop by if you happen to be in the neigh­bor­hood

Jason Rosen­berg
Plas­tic Bag Hap­pen­ing
June 22, 2009
B-Butik, B-Galleria
Turku, Finland