The Mod Muse

February 3, 2010

Stroll to Greenpoint, Brooklyn

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It wasn’t as cold as it has been over the last few weeks so I took a walk over to Greenpoint today to mail a few letters and shop for soup ingredients. I am making a potato-cauliflower soup tonight and I needed to pick up the cauliflower and garlic but ended up also getting chives and an extra bag of potatoes.

It was a  good walk. On the way I passed: a house that looks like it could have been home to Norman Bates, some groovy street art and a little delivery truck with a mustache drawn on it’s back.

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Groovy street art aside I actually didn’t intend on going to Greenpoint today. I needed to mail a couple letters and it was the nearest post office to me.

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November 22, 2009

I Can’t Afford to Love NYC

More fun Williamsburg graffiti. Found this painted outside of the Drum Shop.

Ain’t that the truth!!!

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October 13, 2009

Dead Fly Art

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I think this Dead Fly Art is hilarious.

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Not sure who created these adventurous insects but the writing is Swedish.

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Hahahaha!

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August 19, 2009

Robot Surprise

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Walking in Murray Hill (NYC neighborhood) the other day, I stumbled along a happy surprise.

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In the middle of the crosswalk lay this little fella. I thought he was kind of cute so I took a photo. The little robot is permanently affixed to the cement some kind of tape or something. That’s why I love NYC, you never know, where you will find your next happy surprise.

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July 30, 2009

Coffee Cup Art

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Everyone has doodled on a napkin at one time or another, but what do you do when you have no napkin to draw on? Apparently anything!  Artist Cheeming Boey sells his miniature styrofoam cup masterpieces for up to $220 in art galleries. And to think I was just tossing my used cups out!

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July 29, 2009

NYC LOOKBOOK

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Hey Everyone! Wanted to let you know about the latest addition to the ‘Modern Urban’ family NYC LOOKBOOK! Ever wonder what the cool kids are wearing?  NYC LOOKBOOK hits the streets in search of the latest in NYC fashion. We wander the streets of NYC so you don’t have to. So check out NYC LOOKBOOK!

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July 23, 2009

Siren Festival 2009, Coney Island, New York

I’ve really been taking advantage of all the free summer events in NYC this summer. Saturday, I attended the Siren Festival at Coney Island with some friends visiting from Denmark. We watched the bands all day. Standouts: Spanx Rock from B’More, Monotonix and The Ravonettes. That night, to avoid the post festival subway crowds, we hung out on the beach amongst the disgusting piles of garbage, swapped stories about trips to foreign lands and got our feet wet in the dirty sea. Here are some photos for you to enjoy. :>

The Ravonettes at the Siren Festival, Coney Island, NYC.

We spent a majority of our time behind this wire fence which separated the beer garden from the audience. It was off stage right and we had a perfect view most of the time. Here you can see our friend Anders enjoying some tunes sans t-shirt.

Beautiful view of the Wonder Wheel at sunset. This was just about the time the Ravonettes wrapped up their set.

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June 30, 2009

Gay Pride Parade NYC 2009

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I have a friend visiting from Denmark right now and we have been doing a lot of walking around the city. Yesterday, we caught the Gay Pride parade down in the West Village. It was so much fun!!

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The energy was electric, so many happy people. I love watching the drag queens and many creative floats (a lot of gay marriage themed).  By the time we reached the parade it had been going for about 5 hours and still no end in sight.

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May 19, 2009

Inga from Sweden

GO Inga!

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April 28, 2009

I’m a Blogger, I am (not) Special.

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Cruising the Internet for new ways to incorporate vegetables into my diet, specifically beets, I came across a post on a small blog, we will call Power Trip Girls site. That’s not the name of the blog. The actual name is something cuter, meaning: not at all the type of thing I would be interested in reading anyway. But hey, I was looking for recipes! PTG’s blog post included a recipe for beet muffins and a photo of the muffin. Thinking my readers might find it interesting fat chance, I mentioned it briefly, posted a link to her blog and included her image of the muffin.

A couple days later we receive this snip little comment below:

I hope you will give beet a second chance thanks to this recipe, but please do not use my image without my permission. I work really hard on my photographs and to have my copyrighted photos republished without my permission is not fair to me as an artist. Please either take remove the photo or have it link directly to my Flickr image. Please talk to any artist before re-publishing their photographs, linking to recipes is ok.

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Seriously?  Artist? Come on people! Listen. First, a picture of a beet muffin is not art. I’m sorry to tell you this but it just isn’t. You will never, ever, in our lifetime see a show debuting at the Guggenheim entitled- “Beet Study: The Muffin Series”. If you read the post below, it really wasn’t about beet muffins. Rather, an ode to a childhood memory. F*ck beets! I wasn’t talking about beets here!

I understand people who do not want their printed content copied word for word on the Internet. And if it were my photo of, oh I don’t know, let’s say, something IMPORTANT,  I might take offense if it were being used by some d-bag with far right leaning thoughts and theories. Then and only then, I might ask them to take the photo down (but probably not since I know the controversy would drive more people to my site).

And no offense to PTG but it’s not my first spin around the blogosphere.

A recent article announcing,  there are now over 2 million pro bloggers in the United States, has made once humble people, hungry with power. For years jotting down their thoughts in private, they now splay them out on the Internet for any old bugger to read. And that thought, the thought of another person caring about what you have to say, is every shy nerds wet dream.

People want to be adored. Having spent the better part of the 90’s in Seattle playing rock so I could have some of that adoration, I understand completely. You just want someone to care about what you are doing. Even if it’s sitting in your small mid western kitchen making casseroles.

But it’s time for a reality check.

Brace yourself, I’ll do it band-aid quick.

Get over yourself! You’re not special.

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