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On-​Line Now! Pouches that Jason Rosen­berg did during the Plas­tic Bag Hap­pen­ing. These bags are just great to stuff with stuff. After some use, if you end up get­ting a hole on it, they mend per­fectly with tape (and that looks really good).

Marché aux Pouches is HERE>>>

This is a link to a video of a cyclist being assaulted by a cop

From BoingBoing:

” Although a judge ruled in 2006 that the monthly Crit­i­cal Mass bicy­cle rides could pro­ceed with­out a permit, the NYPD’s stance remains some­what adver­sar­ial. Though the city has not been enforc­ing the con­tro­ver­sial parade permit law when it comes to Crit­i­cal Mass, police have been tick­et­ing cyclists during the ride for such infrac­tions as not having the required lights.
A rep­re­sen­ta­tive for TIMES UP! tells us that the cyclist in this video was arrested, held for 26 hours, and charged with attempted assault and resist­ing arrest.”

Will be look­ing into this one…
any com­ments from the Bloomberg crew?

On July 2 we went to the annual, week long Kutz­town Fes­ti­val in search of Amer­i­can things. Although it is billed as a PA Dutch fair there were many people call­ing them­selves PA German. What is the dif­fer­ence? I found out it is the same, check it out on the Wiki, a fas­ci­nat­ing story. We ate quite well and had a really fun time. In terms of KIOSK research it was not so great, the stan­dard of craft is not what it used to be (sorry) but in terms of a good, relax­ing and inter­est­ing day out in a totally for­eign cul­ture 3 hours from Man­hat­tan, it was incred­i­ble. At one point Yuki remarked on how every­one was really happy and having a fun time, wow! dif­fer­ent from New York! Here are some pic­tures of lol­lipops, local root beer, hand­made pret­zels, tra­di­tional straw­berry short­cake and kids hors­ing around in a sand­box filled with dried corn. With the price of corn going up like mad these days I hope they kept it for next year! Thank you Yuki for some of the images and Janna, our friend who very wisely moved to Kutz­town, for the visit.

How beau­ti­ful is this moving truck? Spot­ted all over Boston, Casey & Hayes. If KIOSK ever owns trucks I have our inspi­ra­tion, damn it is hyp­notic. Just when you are in the dumps about moving, around the corner comes the gold let­ter­ing. It sparkles, it shines, it cries out “Your goods are worth their weight in gold to us!” and “Don’t forget about the Circus!” in case you are ready to run away and leave all your crap behind with the movers. And I thought Boston was con­ser­v­a­tive! Lux! Shit, I can’t stop look­ing at it! Be sure to view it large.

Not your aver­age coffee shop, Zibetto! Founded by one of the owners of our favorite coffee bar in Stock­holm, Sosta, is it run in the tra­di­tion of an Ital­ian coffee bar, no tables, walk in, remain stand­ing, have a really good coffee and go. No Amer­i­can coffee is served here and def­i­nitely it is con­trary to the Amer­i­can style coffee hang-​out for hours sce­nario. Their coffee is one of the best, if not the best, in town. It’s a little out of the way but we traipsed up there on Sunday. Just near the MOMA which is a good thing…don’t let the semi-​posh look throw you.

Zibetto
1385 Sixth Avenue
New York, NY 10001
www.​zibet​toe​spres​so​bar.com

Does this look like your 4th of July week­end at the beach? We all suc­cumb to the fried jazz (not music) while at the seashore. How­ever, I was sur­prised we fell for it while in the hills of Mass­a­chu­setts. If you head up to Mass­Moca, as many do, stop by Pedrin’s, home of the fish fry! (See pic­ture, that is the fish fry on the right) I can say I have had better but why not! They are located just south of Adams, MA. Happy beach week­end if you are at the beach, if not, do not fear fried fish dishes can be found in the hills as well.

We spent the morn­ing recy­cling. Not all morning….

Lee, Mass­a­chu­setts, a beau­ti­ful town and to an out­sider, a patri­otic one of sorts at that. It’s mas­sive white Romanesque style church built in 1857, Main Street and Joe’s Diner gives it an All-​American touch, in a good way. Rock­well, the most Amer­i­can of Amer­i­can painters we all know and some pos­si­bly love, was buzzing around Lee and in 1958 he painted “The Runaway” at Joe’s for the cover of “The Sat­ur­day Evening Post”. (If you are in the area it’s inter­est­ing to spend an hour or so at the Rock­well Museum in Stock­bridge) Hungry around the same time we were in Lee we detoured into Joe’s and had that rel­a­tively unknown in my book but who the heck knows the real story dish called “Grapenut Pudding” ( a New Eng­land favorite accord­ing to “Yankee” mag­a­zine among others) and we shared a coffee milk­shake, it was a beau­ti­ful moment and reminded me of why I love this coun­try deep down under the MANY layers of our cur­rent quag­mire. Mass­a­chu­setts is chock full of Amer­i­can his­tory, we all need a little pride in our place of origin to make things happen, let’s hope the next elec­tion goes well. Happy July 4th from the heart of New York City!

More things hap­pen­ing, the space is really packed with bags and Jason is sewing away. Sit­ting among them yes­ter­day I thought it would be great to make a sub-​room in KIOSK with the walls made of plas­tic bags that can hold all of the prod­ucts com­mis­sioned for the Mini-​Exhibitions. Will have to talk to Jason about that idea! Don’t forget the party tonight from 6 - 10pm!

People are bring­ing in bags and bags and send­ing bags via the post and things are being sewn…It’s hot in our little space! Yes­ter­day Jason made me a rain hat since we had thun­der­storms in New York, at first he was making them with­out a brim but then he started adding one on, good deci­sion and great design. KIOSK com­mis­sioned prod­uct 2? I think so! Bravo to the day, I am hoping people come visit us on a Sunday even though we are nor­mally closed. I am excited as Jason made a new KIOSK logo and a screen to match it, we decided to screen all the plas­tic bags from the show at the end of the hap­pen­ing with the logo he cre­ated to recy­cle the bags one step fur­ther and keep his Mini-​Exhibition going on and on and on…nice! See some pic­tures of what is going on and of course my really lovely rain hat. Sorry for so many images here, could not choose! What the heck!