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HAPPY BIRTHDAY: MARTHA COOPER
Got a Girl Crush On: Martha Cooper
Martha Cooper is an American photojournalist born in the 1940s in Baltimore, Maryland. She worked as a staff photographer for the New York Post during the 1970s and she is most importantly known for documenting the New York graffiti hip-hop scene in the 1970s and ’80s. Her most known work began while working at the New York Post. On a return home from work she began taking photos of children in her New York city neighborhood. As the story goes, One day she met a young kid who helped expose her to some of the graffiti around the neighborhood. He then helped to explain to Martha that Graffiti is an art form and that each artist was actually writing his/her nickname and then proceeded to tell her about a local “Graffiti King” and asked if she would like to meet him. pretty much after meeting DONDI the “graffiti king” everything else fell into motion, fast forward years later and Martha Cooper has become one the Graffiti cultures most important and respected Icons and Photographers
PHOTO CREDIT: MARTHA COOPER, HYPEBEAST
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Got A Girl Crush On: Ilana Glazer in Sugar Boy’s Kung Fu Mom
UCB alum, gamer, and 1/2 of the sketch comedy duo, Broad City — Budding comedy superstar, Ilana Glazer’s been killing it as of late.
Today I stumbled on to this amazing Sugar Boy video and I just keep re-watching Ilana rollerskating, karate chopping and high-fiving her way through my beloved borough in attempts to retrieve her favorite baseball card. If you make it through the entire video without the slightest bit of a Girl Crush yourself, I’d keep it to yourself. Ilana has some mad nipple-ripping skills.“Go kick a butt now right now, baby!”
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Got a Girl Crush On: Laurie Anderson’s “Fully Automated Nikon (Object/Objection/Objectivity)”
Anderson photographed men who called to her or whistled her on the street. In her artist statement she writes about one experience,
“As I walked along Houston Street with my fully automated Nikon. I felt armed, ready. I passed a man who muttered ‘Wanna fuck?’ This was standard technique: the female passes and the male strikes at the last possible moment forcing the woman to backtrack if she should dare to object. I wheeled around, furious. ‘Did you say that?’ He looked around surprised, then defiant ‘Yeah, so what the fuck if I did?’ I raised my Nikon, took aim began to focus. His eyes darted back and forth, an undercover cop? CLICK.”
Anderson takes the power from her male pursuers, allowing them nothing more than the momentary fear that their depravity has just been captured in a picture.
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Dispatch from Brooklyn: Hurricane Sandy edition
Hi there. Meg here.
A brief intermission from all the girl crushin’ to use this blog as a tool for help.I am happy to report that my apartment and neighborhood were pretty much unscathed by the hurricane (we never lost power or internet or water—maybe some downed tree limbs but that was the worst of it). I am extremely lucky.Most subway service has been restored, but since I bike everywhere, that hadn’t really affected me either.Lines for gasoline continue to run blocks and blocks long—people running out of gas to simply refill, people sleeping in their cars overnight to just get 10 gallons worth, people getting in fist-fights over folks cutting in line for gas—I even saw a delivery guy on a scooter siphon gas from an SUV! I think this speaks to a larger issue about our dependence on oil and global warming—but I digress to get into that in this at the moment…Tensions are running high on the roads (more than usual for New York) but conversely the amount of cyclists on the road has increased ten-fold (yay bikes!).But despite the price-gouging and transit nuttiness and gas ridiculousness…it’s amazing to see the community come together. Saturday I rode my bike to drop off winter coats and hats and gloves and socks after being turned away from 2 other drop-off sites (their were inundated with donations). NYC Marathon runners donated their hotel rooms to displaced families and evacuees and even pitched in helping clean-up. I have friends that are now fostering a sweet dog named that was abandoned during the storm. I also have friends that rode their bikes down to Breezy Point in Queens (where hundreds of homes were lost to a 6-alarm fire or else flooded completely) and knocked on doors until someone allowed them to help clean up:“We spent 3 hours in a retired teacher named Kate’s home cleaning out sea silt and removing everything below the water line in her home which was over 2 feet!”Both of some of my favorite summer spots Rockaway Beach and Coney Island, have lost their boardwalks completely. Those beach communities are also without electricity and heat (and last night it was in the 30s). Staten Island was hit the worst (being dubbed “the lower 9th ward” after Hurricane Katrina’s most blighted part of New Orleans). A lot of elderly residents are trapped in high rises without power. The devastation is unreal. Who knows how long the city will take to recover from this, but it’s a resilient city and undoubtedly we will move forward as everyone is doing what they can to help.
That said, in lieu of any holiday presents this year to family and friends, I have donated $ to the Brooklyn Recovery Fund (100% of every donation will be used to support storm recovery efforts in Brooklyn communities and organizations impacted by Hurricane Sandy) and encourage you to do the same to any of these other organizations:If you don’t live in the tristate area and you feel like donating just isn’t direct enough, help fulfill this Staten Island assemblyman’s wish list:I’m so very lucky that me and all of my NYC family are safe. Please feel free to reblog this on to anyone that might care to help out from a distance.I heart NY more than ever. -
Got a Girl Crush On: Illustrator Cristy Road
Cristy is an NYC-based artist, writer, published graphic novelist, teacher at the Willie Mae Rock Camp For Girls, and activist in the LGBT community. She is currently working on an illustrated tarot deck that is nothing short of stellar!
Check her out at www.croadcore.org
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Got A Girl Crush On: Ourit Ben-Haim’s Underground New York Public Library
As a strap-hangin’, photo-lovin’, Brooklyn-based librarian, naturally I’m going to love Ourit’s photo series, The Underground New York Public Library featuring the Reading-Riders of the NYC subways. Candid photos of New Yorkers and their literary preferences come together as a visual library of New York’s Underbelly.
(Thanks for the tip-off, Kel)
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Got A Girl Crush On: The Bad-Ass Emily and Maddy of The Indecent
As a proud grunge-child of the 90’s, I’m super excited to proclaim my latest Girl Crush on these young ladies of the NYC-based band, The Indecent.Upon arriving at Far Rockaway this weekend, I was drawn to some righteous thrashing and screeching wafting from the boardwalk. My jaw hit the ground when I approached the stage and saw the ages from which the sound came. I immediately sent out about six messages along the lines of “Get your ass over here, these kids can cussin’ wail!”
As much as I hate being out-cooled by kids nearly half my age, I love it when I’m completely knocked-on-my-ass impressed.
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Got a Girl Crush On: Feist, backed by a 16-piece orchestra and Mountain Man in a crypt in Harlem to promote her new album, Metals
Talk about goosebumps!
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