Ken Brown: October 2012

Monday, October 22, 2012

HALLOWEEN-NYC

Halloween is definitely one of our favorite national holidays, and, judging by the acres of faux spider webs and plastic paraphernalia dangling from porches, it is also an important economic engine in these scary times.

scary claws in the East Village

stirring spaghetti sauce in Little Italy

the garden spiders are back...again.

speaking of spiders, Tribeca has a few

Gary Leib's Halloween window at Desert Island, Williamsburg

Patricia Field in Noho

hanging out at the "Java Maintenance Clinic", better known as

the 1st Ave Bean in the East Village

ghosts escape at "the Bean"

patrons seem unperturbed by rampaging skeletons as

they focus on more important matters...

This elaborate "heebie-jeebie hollow" fright set was constructed

in the front yard of a house in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn. It has some

animated figures and I'm told that on Halloween, they have live actors

on set. The grandfather told me there were thousands of visitors last

year and he had handed out some serious tonnage of candy.

Monday, October 15, 2012

"POSTER CITY" NYC

The city's visual backdrop of posters has been going on for a long time, and I admit, my hungry eyes take great delight in the surreal and often comical juxtapositions that occur through random placement or whatever drama might be taking place near by.