After winning a Broadcast Designer’s Association Award for art directing Lifetime Television’s “The Place,” Joanne Borek moves over to iVillage to be the new art director for Parent Soup. Joanne is also currently a Professor of Digital Photography at the School of Visual Arts in NYC.
(Appeared originally in @The Scene in the @NY newsletter)
LIVE TV IN THE ALLEY was the theme on Friday evening, July 25. I was an honored guest of kHyAl’s (http://www.khyal.com/) kUriOsiTiEs show on Richard Siegel’s OnlineTV (http://www.onlinetv.com). This inaugural show featured a huge rubber spider prop, Miles Rose of Regional Delights, and myself. The show was loosely organized, impromptu, and fun. Thanks to Miles…
SO WHAT HAVE we found so far? The cyber scene is alive and well beyond our bookshelf coasts. It is in gas station marine supply shops, car dealerships, and new home complexes. While there aren’t computer terminals available to logon at these spots, there is genuine interest and curiousity. AOL may be large, but the…
THE FINAL EVENT of the evening was a benefit at Pseudo for Bytes of Bryant Park, an online showcase of poetry, sound, and movement patterns being developed for a six-hour event in September. There was a silent auction including an impressive list of items from the theaters, restaurants, riding instructors, beauty salons, and other luxury…
Speaking of beasts, E-Pub launched their new game Up-Roar at their offices up the street from the Soho Grand on Oct. 30th. Tarot card readers tamed the wild curious party-goers desiring to know their future. Nestled between smooth light oak Ikea (?) desks with an assortment of colored votive candles and Peacock feathers around the…
Congratulations to Carl Goodman and Jennifer Weiner on their blissful engagement! If you missed it, they had a party for close friends on 6/25 in the fab Brooklyn Anchorage.
WELL, THIS week has been a highly digital week for me in a completely different way. I’m taking a break from the NYC Cyber Scene–but not from digital madness entirely. Thus far the Alley to Valley Rally (http://www.avr.org) for me has been a digital drag-race. We rev up our computers and digital cameras and sprint,…