Neckface: Closed Casket

I don't know if any of you are fans of street art/ contemporary graffiti like me, but if so you've probably heard of the notorious artist Neckface.
His newest exhibit recently opened at the Dactyl Gallery in Soho so you should take a look.
If you haven't heard of him before, Neckface makes gory, macabre, but fun cartoon-like paintings and sculptures of anthropomorphic figures.

More info, location, times here: http://nyglob.com/?p=292

Graduation Requirements

Here's a link to the site that outlines graduation requirements. You don't really need to worry about it right now, but it's probably a good idea to look them over:

http://www.newschool.edu/lang/academics.aspx?id=508

Jennifer Garner on Broadway

For those who haven't heard yet, Jenifer Garner has just come to Broadway, to star with actor Kevin Kline in the play "Cyrano d Bergerac" (she plays Roxanne, Cyrano's love interest). The play will be opening November 1 at Richard Rodger's Theater, 226 W. 46th STreet; (212) 239-6200.

Where, oh werewolf (as the Post so imaginatively called it)

Werewolf? There wolf-- at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater, which is hosting an all-night marathon of werewolf flicks for Halloween.
The frighfest kicks off at 9 Saturday night with Joe Dante's "The Howling" (1981) and shuts down with the 5:40 showing the next morning of an erotic number called "The Werewolf vs. the Vampire Woman" (1971), starring Spanish horror superstar Paul Naschy, who has appeared in a dozen or so werewolf films.
In between, fans will be treated to Neil Jordan's "The Company of Wolves" (1984); Terence Fisher's "The Curse of the Werewolf" (1961); Mike Nichol's "Wolf" (1994), with Jack Nicholson as a book ediotr turned creature; and Rod Daniel's "Teen Wolf" (1985), in which Michael J. Fox discovers that being a werewolf makes him popular on campus.
"It's a good chance to rediscover some classics, and to have a lot of fun," Pioneer programmer Ray Privett says of the marathon.
The Pioneer is on Third Street at AVenue A, in the East Village; (212) 591-0434.
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This was in the Post last week, and it sounds really cool, especially if you're one of those people who's into old-fashioned horror movies.

Travelling Party this Saturday

Within the Land of Ash

Saturday, October Twenty Seventh
From 8pm through 9am (13 hours)
Starting at 195 Morgan Ave., Brooklyn and continuing
throughout the night at another secret location...

Details: http://www.thedanger.com

The end of October breeds nights made for mischief. This
Saturday we offer an ambitious mixture of the beautiful
and the bizarre with two infamous Brooklyn art spaces
built out into 13 visions of the afterlife. There is a
land just beyond here where surreal shares the stage with
the sublime. This is how we live forever-after within the
land of ash.
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I've never been to one of these travelling parties, but I hear they're pretty legit. It's $15 if you wear an "inspired" costume (I guess this means dressing in all black with cat ears and painted whiskers doesn't count), $20 if you don't.

It starts @ 3rd Ward Brooklyn
195 Morgan Ave., in the East Williamsburg Industrial Zone
Take the L train to Morgan Ave. and walk four blocks north.

Showcase

For those who weren't there last week, the class decided that for the final showcase they want to do a photo essay of new experiences had since arriving at Lang. It seems like you all still need to work out the details, such as: how many photos per person; size and format of the final photos (I suggest higher quality than digital print outs. You could print your own, if you all know how to do that, or we can get money to have them printed at a photo place); how they'll be arranged and displayed; if you want to include a written accompaniment, etcetera. Some of these details will need to be decided in the next week or so that we can submit our budget to Bertha (remember, no more than $100). Let's talk about it in class, or post on here.

If there's anyone who's not happy with this decision and wants to do a different project, talk to me after class or email me. We can work something out whereby you can do something more independent, but you'll have to tie it into the larger group project.

Cheap copies

Photocopies at the New School cost $.10/page ($.20 for double-sided, I think).

Photocopies at Village Copier, on 13th between 5th ave and University Pl., cost $.07/page, even if it's double-sided.

I just learned that today, but I really wish I'd learned it sooner. With the amount of photocopying you'll be doing at Lang, it's worth walking the extra half block from the library.

(note: I'm talking only B&W copies.)

Plus, I found 5 bucks on the floor there, so it seems like a lucky place.