January 29, 2010
 msg:
Venmo + Simple Kitchen = Recipe for Awesomesauce
My buddy Kortina just informed me that his startup Venmo has partnered with the Simple Kitchen.
Simple Kitchen is using the Venmo trust relationship to enable anyone to create a house account with them. To get setup, just text “trust simplekitchen” to Venmo: 646.863.9557
Trusting Simple Kitchen on Venmo is like leaving your credit card with them so they can just charge you whenever you’re done eating. You don’t need to bring cash or wait for them to process your credit card anymore. Plus, they’re going to be sending special Venmo cash back deals to their trusting customers.
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I’ve already stopped using cash with friends and just transfer funds via my venmo account.They recently won an award and it will definitely be the first of many.
Keep up the awesome guys.
If you are reading this and want to give venmo a try let me know if you need an invite.
Simple Kitchen is a delicious all natural, all organic cafe located at 361 West 17th St nr. 9th Ave. They’ve got free wi-fi and now apparently this partnership with Venmo going on. It’s definitely worth checking out if you’re in the neighborhood.
January 26, 2010
gotagirlcrush:
Loft Tour: Curated Chelsea Home
Got a girl crush on: Anita Calero’s West Chelsea loft
Photographer Anita Calero’s 2,000 sqaure foot loft is all the things that dream homes are made of: spacious, bright, open, and wood. Lots of beautiful wood. Polished and salvaged; functional and decorative. My favorite details are the large bird cages, the single birch trunk tucked away in the corner, and collection of turtle shells hanging on a tall narrow white wall. And would you get a load of that awesome fridge?!
Heads up, Anita—I’m moving in!
(via The Blue Hour / Loft Life Mag)
January 19, 2010
brighteryellow:
Chelsea (Live from Across the Wire) - Counting Crows
I never go to New York City these days,
something about the buildings in Chelsea that kills me.
Maybe in a month or two, maybe when things are different for me,
maybe when things are different for you.
All of this shit, just sticks in my head.
Good God. Sometimes the Counting Crows just … catch me off guard. This song.
January 18, 2010
leilacohan:
Want to see more funny stuff like this? Then don’t miss High Treason at UCB Maude Night at 8pm TONIGHT! Monkeys, chemical pregnancies, and dick candy. Yeah, that’s right: dick candy. Make your reservations here!
Photo by the excellent Ben Stadler
January 6, 2010
NY Tech Meetup Attendees Pack Chelsea’s Black Door
paintthetownred:
The NY Tech Meetup held its first gathering of 2010 last night at SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology’s Haft Auditorium and its first afterparty of the year at the Black Door (pictured during the day because the photos which I took inside came out poorly even thought it was well lit); both are located in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. Since I went into the details of the meetup elsewhere, I’ll stick to talking about the afterparty here.
First, it was probably one of the more crowded ones which I have attended; apparently, the Black Door wasn’t expecting the meetup to finish until 9 PM and the early arrivals were stuck in the main part of the bar for the first twenty minutes or so. But, once they realized who all of the name-tag sporting people were, they got a bartender for the back room and let us in there. That eased the crowding a bit and of course, by 10 PM, many had called it a night.
While there, I spotted PressLift’s Soraya Darabi, MoMA’s Julia Kaganskiy, Brainewave Consulting’s Mike Caprio, The Upper WestSide Journal’s Tom Limongello, Martha Stewart Living’s Brenda Dargan, Phoebeworks’s Michael Stickle, Akiva Leeder, Magnify’s Billy Linker, Launchsquad’s Miko Mercer, First Round Capital’s Charlie O’Donnell, and Attention’s Kristin Maverick.
January 5, 2010
Two great comedy shows, both in Chelsea!
I’ve got to give some blog love and support to my friends Hilary and Josh and the all of the CH crew who are involved in two comedy shows that you must check out!
1. Julian McCullough
This Wednesday, January 6th, 7:30 p.m. at Comix (14th St. and 9th Ave.)
Topic of the night? Besties! Joining Julian on stage to talk about their ridiculous friendship will be the very funny Sean O’Connor
$15 - Reserve your ticket here
2. CollegeHumor Live
January 28th, 9:30 p.m. at the UCB (26th btw 9th and 8th Ave.)
I hear that Josh will be revisiting his Alan Rickman impression, which if you haven’t seen yet - do yourself a favor and watch.
$5 - Advanced reservations are sold out, but you should be able to get in at the door… get in early!
December 21, 2009
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
thebronzemedal:
Ryan Adams, Hotel Chelsea Nights
Not a Christmas song, strictly speaking, but it does have the lines:
Strung out like some Christmas lights /
Out there in the Chelsea night
 92y:
Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith at the Chelsea Hotel. Photo by Gerard Malanga
The New York Times on Patti Smith, “Godmother of Punk,” and Dream of Life, a documentary on her life filmed over 11 years by fashion photographer Steven Sebring:
“It begins with her goodbye to the house in Detroit where, in a retreat from fame into a new role as a mother, she lived for 16 years beginning in the early 1980s. From there the film documents Ms. Smith’s return to New York and to performing a decade ago, after a trio of unexpected deaths that affected her deeply — of her husband, the guitarist Fred Smith; of her brother, Todd; and of her longtime pianist, Richard Sohl.
“I had to leave Detroit,” Ms. Smith said in the interview, which took place in August, when PBS was promoting the film to television journalists. “I don’t drive, and I didn’t want to live in Detroit alone, and so I brought my children back to the East Coast.”
“But I had to get a job, to take care of them, and to send them to school,” she added. “You know it’s a lot more expensive to live in New York City than in Detroit. And so I went back to performing.”
On Jan 21, join Sam Shepard and Patti Smith, close friends since the early 1970s, when they read from their newly published books at the Unterberg Poetry Center for the first time. Purchase your tickets here.
December 19, 2009
moth:
First snow on the High Line, December 19.
dpstyles:
Someone left this busted-up iPhone in my apt last - any takers? (Bonus DESTINY: I’ve been trying to track down this “neon book” art installation for months! Whoever’s phone this is knows where to find it!):
I heart destiny!
(backstory - I saw this pic on Tumblr sometime this fall, forgot to re-blog / favorite it, and could never find it again after that (lame, right?) Asked around, Googled around and no one knew what I was talking about. I had all but forgotten about it until I found this phone in my apt!
…. fast forward 30 mins: Just learned the pic is of Airan King’s “109 Lighting Books” which was at the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in NYC thru October of this year (aka I missed it :(
www.rhizome.org/editorial/3044
www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2009/10/07/textual-landscapes/
www.brycewolkowitz.com/www/
(ps: phone belongs to Chet’s friend Harry)
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