tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18722358852048358052024-02-19T02:20:46.297-05:00the COSMAS blogPhotos, Art, and FoodUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger149125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872235885204835805.post-79327976367838634382015-10-03T20:27:00.001-04:002015-10-03T20:27:12.133-04:00New Web Address for TheCosmas blog!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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From now on, please visit <a href="http://damijan.saccio.com/blog/">http://damijan.saccio.com/blog/</a> for all previous and further postings. I will be turning that domain into my main site for both the blog and my more professional and art photography work. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872235885204835805.post-4599557035856877032014-10-19T12:27:00.003-04:002014-10-19T12:27:17.104-04:00Open House New York 2014: TWA Flight Center<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For this year's Open House New York, I took a trip to see Eero Saarinen's TWA Flight Center. I was lucky enough to grow up near one of his buildings, so I've always admired his work. Since there were tons of others taking photos as well, I focused mostly on some of the details that interested me in particular. You can see selects from the shots I took, <a href="http://www.inch.com/~dcon2/2014/TWAterminal2014/" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872235885204835805.post-63445078757129542922014-09-12T23:21:00.000-04:002014-09-12T23:21:41.237-04:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We were just in the LA area for a wedding and had a chance to visit with a few friends. They treated us to some amazing food. Any LA friends should make sure to check out <a href="http://goodgirldinette.com/" target="_blank">Good Girl Dinette</a> in Highland Park. I made two photo collections: one for street art and architecture and the other for food and friends. Check them out <a href="http://www.inch.com/~dcon2/2014/LAtrip2014/AandA/" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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Yesterday I went to the old Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn to see the new Kara Walker exhibit, entitled "A Subtlety". It's being put on by Creative Time. You can get info <a href="http://creativetime.org/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
I took a series of photos and you can view an edited version <a href="http://www.inch.com/~dcon2/2014/KaraWalkerDominoSelects2014/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872235885204835805.post-48501242108668539022014-04-20T13:24:00.001-04:002014-04-20T13:57:30.144-04:00A great Spring day in Brooklyn, 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We walked through Prospect Park yesterday and went to the Botanical Garden and Brooklyn Museum to see the Swoon and Ai Weiwei exhibit. The weather was absolutely perfect- not too hot and not too cold. <a href="http://www.inch.com/~dcon2/2014/BrooklynSpring2014/Blossoms/" target="_blank">Here's a link</a> to four short photo-sets: cherry blossoms in the Botanical Garden, the Swoon exhibit, the Ai Weiwei exhibit, and some fun shots. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872235885204835805.post-65227797899914135662014-03-17T00:07:00.004-04:002015-02-23T21:48:04.712-05:00Martha Burgess' Cake Sit, Brooklyn, NY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I had a chance to photograph a Cake Sit, recently. I had never been to one before, but know the artist and one of the participants was a good friend of ours, so we were happy to check it out. </div>
For more on Martha Burgess and her work, please click <a href="http://marthaburgess.com/" target="_New">here</a>.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872235885204835805.post-80250871004686019212013-12-30T19:34:00.000-05:002017-07-26T18:00:33.919-04:00James Turrell - "Twilight Epiphany" Skyspace, at Rice University in Houston, TX<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Wow, what a pleasure to get a chance to photograph another Turrell piece. I had such a great time checking out the sunset sequence at 'Twilight Epiphany' by James Turrell, on the Rice University campus, the other day. Check out the photoset <a href="https://photo.saccio.com/2013/TurrellAtRice2013/Faves/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
More info about the site is <a href="https://skyspace.rice.edu/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br>
More info about James Turrell is <a href="https://www.artsy.net/artist/james-turrell" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872235885204835805.post-32544886258217940752013-12-30T19:25:00.001-05:002013-12-30T19:26:59.622-05:00Yucatan, Mexico!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I was very lucky this year to be invited to visit Mexico for my first time, during the winter holidays, so <a href="http://www.inch.com/~dcon2/2013/Mexico2013/Faves/" target="_blank">here</a> are some photos I took while in Merida, Uxmal, and Telchac (beach), in the Yucatan region of Mexico.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872235885204835805.post-9546657901548575072013-11-17T12:16:00.001-05:002013-11-17T12:16:43.699-05:00Harriman State Park hike, New York<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We went up to Harriman State Park yesterday and did a quick hike around <i>Almost Perpendicular</i>, <i>Elbow Brush</i>, and the <i>Claudius Smith thieves den/rock</i>
It was a great day and I took a few <a href="http://www.inch.com/~dcon2/2013/HarrimanStatePark2013/" target="_New">photos</a> as usual.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872235885204835805.post-27901456890377593492013-10-08T00:42:00.002-04:002013-10-08T23:23:56.419-04:00Umbria, Italy - September 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I'm very happy to post several photo sets from my recent trip to the Umbria region of Italy. I stayed for a few days at the <a href="http://www.civitella.org/" target="_blank">Civitella Ranieri</a> and in Gubbio. We visited Umbertide, Arezzo, Gubbio, Branca, Perugia, Todi, and Orvieto, among others. Take a look <a href="http://www.inch.com/~dcon2/2013/Umbria2013/Faves/" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872235885204835805.post-32356677965438805632013-09-22T06:10:00.000-04:002013-09-22T06:11:41.214-04:00Photos from 5 Pointz, Long Island City, September 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I biked up to 5 Pointz and PS 1 the other weekend to get some photos of the latest graffiti/street art put up there. There were about 5 people in the process of putting up new work and plenty of other new pieces for the viewing, so take a look <a href="http://www.inch.com/~dcon2/5Pointz/index.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872235885204835805.post-3594249293446768622013-09-07T23:26:00.001-04:002013-09-07T23:27:45.267-04:00My evening view<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm happy to be able to live in New York, but also able to look up at night and see so much vegetation. Here's thanks to wonderful weather this weekend.<br />
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We had a chance to stop by at <a href="http://www.themorgan.org/home.asp" target="_New">The Morgan Library and Museum</a> yesterday and I had my camera with me, so I finally got a chance to capture some of Renzo Piano's excellent renovation job from 2006 and discovered some unexpected things like the spectacular ceiling done by <a href="http://www.samuelyellin.com" target="_New">Samuel Yellin</a> in the annex. Take a look <a href="http://www.inch.com/~dcon2/2013/TheMorgan/" target="_New">here</a>. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872235885204835805.post-57869099789642263032013-03-18T22:28:00.000-04:002013-03-31T17:34:29.188-04:00Vietnam and Hong Kong phtos<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We just got back from a two-week trip to Vietnam and Hong Kong. Thanks to Cuong Pham for inviting us to travel with him on a chef's tour of Vietnam. We were traveling, amongst others, with chefs Stuart Brioza, Brian Caswell, Edward Lee, and Paul Qui, so there was a lot of cooking and a lot of eating involved. We pretty much continued the eating trend on our own in Hong Kong, where my wife was one of the three judges for the Man Asian Literary Prize. Congrats to Tan Twan Eng, who took home the prize.<br />
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I have an extensive photo set from both Vietnam and Hong Kong legs of the trip. <br />
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The Vietnam photo set, <a href="http://www.inch.com/~dcon2/2013/Vietnam2013/Selects/" target="_blank">here</a>, consists of 5 sections: Selects (my faves), Chefs, Food (the raw and the cooked), People (other non-chefs we were with for portions), and Architecture and Nature. We traveled to Phu Quoc, Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) and Da Nang.<br />
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The Hong Kong set, <a href="http://www.inch.com/~dcon2/2013/HongKong2013/Art/" target="_blank">here</a>, consists of 6 sections: Art Shots (shots of a personal nature that I am fond of and a set of abstract architectural shots of Hong Kong buildings that fascinated me), People that I found interesting, General shots, Street Art, a few photos from the Man Asian Literary awards dinner and reception, and lastly some lighthearted shots of Monique and me.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872235885204835805.post-67570571423447383112012-12-06T00:30:00.000-05:002012-12-06T00:34:51.521-05:00One more to go...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I'm very happy to report that I recently finally got the limited Factory boxed cassette of Happy Mondays' first album, Squirrel & G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carn't Smile (White Out)</div>
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Back in the late '80s, Factory Records started producing a number of special boxed cassettes of their bands' albums. Since I was a big 'walkman' listener, I bought a number of them. They were really cheap ($7.50), because I bought most of them directly from 'of Factory New York'. They had a small collection of them there, in their Spring St headquarters, in Manhattan. There were a few that I didn't have interest in because either I didn't like the band or already had the album on Vinyl. I started making exceptions though for New Order and Joy Division albums because the cassette versions were so cool, and before I knew it I had 20 of these so-called 'boxed cassettes'. Then, after New Order's Substance album came out, Factory pretty much stopped making them. I found out a number of years later that they had only made 22 and it turned out that I was only missing two to make a full set: Happy Monday's first album and a random classical album by Wim Mertins, called 'Educes Me'. Well, I never got the Happy Monday's first album because I already had it on first vinyl pressing with the cool plastic slip cover and the original track list intact. The Wim Mertins album, I didn't get because it was a harp player and I was more into Post Punk and New Wave.<br />
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Well, long story short, a pristine copy of the first Happy Mondays album (a masterpiece, by the way - produced by John Cale of the Velvet Underground) made itself available to me recently, so I bought it.<br />
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So, only one to go to make a complete set. Please, if you have, or know where to get that Wim Mertins album 'Educes Me', please contact me. My other 21 boxed cassettes are lonely!</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872235885204835805.post-34917263883076874802012-11-11T13:46:00.000-05:002012-11-11T13:47:47.593-05:00A few new pics added to the Street Art album<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I just added a <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/110959827837464176657/StreetArt#5809626874356760850" target="_blank">few new images</a> of recent street art in the city. I still haven't had a chance to photograph the new HowNosm wall on Houston. Hopefully I'll get to that soon.<br />
Oh, P.S., note Ron English's nod to Little Italy in the tatters at the bottom of baby Hulk's pants!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872235885204835805.post-37032206727695182232012-10-28T13:40:00.002-04:002012-10-28T13:40:15.067-04:00Joseph Saccio - Memory and Transformation 2012 sculpture show<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I've posted a photo set I took recently of Joseph Saccio's current sculpture show at the <a href="http://www.kehlerliddell.com/" target="_blank">Kehler Liddell Gallery</a> in New Haven, CT. You can view the photos <a href="http://www.inch.com/~dcon2/MemoryTransformation2012/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872235885204835805.post-9823038186449229892012-09-16T19:15:00.000-04:002012-09-16T19:35:30.177-04:00A Brooklyn Day, September 2012<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I had to work for a bunch of this weekend, but it's amazing what you can do and see in a few hours on a Sunday in Brooklyn. I harvested some figs from my tree, went downtown to see PowderKeg (my wife's new writing space) and was fortunate enough to get a chance to <i>finally</i> see <a href="http://www.firstandfifteenth.net/" target="_New">Stephen Powers</a>' amazing artwork next to the Brooklyn Macy's. I have to say that Powers' piece is the best combination of street art and poetry I've seen. Then, when we got home we had the most amazing fig, bacon, and caramelized onion pizza. Check out the three photosets <a href="http://www.inch.com/~dcon2/BrooklynDaySept2012/Powers/" target="_blank">here</a> (click on the titles in the bottom left of the photosets to choose which one to see).</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872235885204835805.post-68701297173401455172012-06-29T16:31:00.004-04:002012-06-29T16:42:50.857-04:00Finland Photos - Second Trip<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I just posted a whole bunch of photos I've taken on my second visit to Finland. I have had a great time and hope that I get a chance to come back at some point in the future. I'm so glad to have had this experience, and I've got to hand it to the Finns, they really know how to celebrate a Midsummer's eve! (Special thanks to our Sotkamo hosts)
Here's a <a href="http://www.inch.com/~dcon2/Finland_June_2012/Selects" target="_New">link</a> to the whole collection, but feel free to just look at the 'selects' if you're short of time.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872235885204835805.post-6028354000932003912012-05-28T17:58:00.000-04:002012-05-28T18:06:37.523-04:00Finally Finland Fotos (sic)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Don't know why it took so long. <a href="http://www.inch.com/~dcon2/Finland2012/April/Architecture/" target="_New">These</a> are mostly just tourist photos from my brief April visit to Helsinki and only a few art-shots thrown in there, but several people have been asking to see, so here you go. Sorry, the architecture section is pretty long, but I think there are some interesting buildings there. Oh, the Art Museum is 'Chiasma' by Stephen Holl</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872235885204835805.post-81111428535234402452012-05-28T13:36:00.000-04:002012-05-31T07:08:31.298-04:00Anton Vill<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Here's another very talented individual (says she's female on Facebook, but isn't Anton a guys name?) This person lives in Estonia and has just done some amazing work at the new Maritime Museum in case you're in Tallinn any time soon. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/antonvill/" target="_blank">A must see!</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872235885204835805.post-3060296398634342812012-05-28T13:23:00.000-04:002012-05-28T13:26:54.055-04:00Escif<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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While we wait for me to get my act together to post recent photos I've taken, here's a really great graffiti artist I heard about recently. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/escif/7220274330/in/photostream/" target="_blank">Check his work out</a>.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872235885204835805.post-56862436607610695602012-03-11T23:03:00.003-04:002012-03-11T23:07:58.032-04:00Fountain Art Fair<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We had a pretty interesting time checking out the Fountain Art Fair at the Armory on Lexington and 25th St this weekend.
Here are a few of the shots I took, along with a couple from out and about in the city (Know Hope and Retna's new wall on Houston). I tagged a few of the artists whom I particularly liked, in this post. Check out the photo set <a href="http://www.inch.com/~dcon2/Fountain" target="_New">here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872235885204835805.post-1554527622423930752012-01-31T23:08:00.001-05:002012-01-31T23:09:53.594-05:00More Street Art shotsJust updated the Street Art album with some new shots from the Jonathan Levine Gallery and surrounds.
Check it out here (the last 6 images in the set):
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