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standard video art

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

civilization by Marco Brambilla on vimeo from boing boing.

Civilization is a video installation we created with artist/director Marco Brambilla for the elevators Standard Hotel in NYC. It’s comprised of over 400 video clips and it takes elevator passengers on a trip from hell to heaven as they go up or from heaven to hell as they go down.

anyone been here? i went to the standard in l.a. a long time ago, but haven’t been to the new york one yet. this installation looks awesome.

i wonder if you can see it without renting a room.

aka

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

i’m laying on a king-sized bed in aka, a hotel near central park where my friend amanda’s company is putting her up. we’re watching top chef on a sony flatscreen across the room. there’s some drama on tv with a team of chefs that’s trying to execute an asian food menu. shit’s going down.

earlier tonight we had some good sushi at omido. the desserts rocked. i ate this awesome mango parfait with marscapone cheese and amanda had this choccy cake. our friend ashley had some crazy truffle thingies that you dip in tea sauce and eat with a vanilla flan. weird. but yum.

this place is sweet. the bathtub looks awesome. amanda said she took a bath but didn’t notice the awesome, designer bath salts so she has to try again.

once we got back to her hotel we watched a show on the CW called “farmer wants a wife.” it was ridic.

omg. i’ve been here for over an hour and amanda just told me that she has beer. i guess it’s ok. i still owe her 20 bones. i want a nice hotel to escape to in other cities. rock.