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Live From New York : A Decade In Portraits
Mary Ellen Matthews, photographer for the iconic Saturday Night Live images premiered her work this past Monday at the John Varvatos store in The Bowery, formerly CBGBs.
“NYC will follow London and Sydney’s lead and install a bunch of street pianos in public places where anyone can sit down and bang out some showtunes, Chopin, or Chopsticks.”
This is awesome, but how do you avoid them being vandalized? Or destroyed by weather? Will someone keep them in tune?
From a NYTimes article about similar pianos in London:
“The pianos, which are secured to the ground with metal cables and have plastic covers in case of rain, have proved a huge hit. All of them are still there — outside the Natural History Museum, on Portobello Road, in Leicester Square and in the churchyard of St. Paul’s Cathedral, among other spots. None has been vandalized. People have tended to relinquish their places courteously after a while to allow others to perform.”
LOST re-enacted by cats in one minute
This is amazing.
[via unlikelywords via Tremendous News]
