How amazing is it when a strict order from an institution gets cracked, and from that wound may a root come out and last for centuries not only as a fact but as a still unproven collection of stories. A secret seems to be many times stronger than reality, and it generates so much fantasy…you… Read More
If you loved Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut and you were wishing you could experience something with that kind of “another-time-anonimity”, you better check this ball out!… The Illuminati Ball—New York City is a surreal immersive theater experience inspired by leaked photos from the Baron and Baroness de Rothschilds’ legendary 1972 fete, which drew elaborately masked guests such as Salvador Dali and Audrey Hepburn to… Read More
Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the land north of the East River was occupied by the Siwanoys, one of many groups of Algonquin-speaking Lenapes in the area. Those of the Lenapes who lived in the northern part of Manhattan Island in a campsite known as Konaande Kongh used a landing at around the current location… Read More
It maybe digital today, but it started way back in the past in other forms: paths, roads, trains…bridges. There have been so many stories in the world about people who come from somewhere and go to nowhere, and viceversa; and especially of course in a city like our unique New York. Now here’s a bit… Read More
In 1607, the Muscovy Company of England hired Hudson to find a northerly route to the Pacific coast of Asia. At the time, the English were engaged in an economic battle with the Dutch for control of northwest routes. It was thought that, because the sun shone for three months in the northern latitudes in… Read More
In 1638, the Dutch West India Company first purchased the area’s land from the local Native Americans. In 1661, the company chartered the Town of Boswijck, including land that would later become Williamsburg. After the English takeover of New Netherland in 1664, the town’s name was anglicized to Bushwick. During colonial times, villagers called the… Read More
A console is more specifically an “S”-shaped scroll bracket in the classical tradition, with the upper or inner part larger than the lower or outer. Keystones are also often in the form of consoles. Whereas “corbel” is rarely used outside architecture, “console” is widely used for furniture, as in console table, and other decorative arts… Read More
Another beautiful fact in the story of Mr. Seymour is that even though he kept on increasing his fortune as years passed and had reached a very high social position, he never changed his original spirit and remained that lovely character everybody respected. To the poorest and to the richest, Weylin Seymour was an untouchable… Read More
Neoclassicism is a revival of the styles and spirit of classic antiquity inspired directly from the classical period, which coincided and reflected the developments in philosophy and other areas of the Age of Enlightenment, and was initially a reaction against the excesses of the preceding Rococo style. While the movement is often described as the… Read More
This was the episode that led Weylin to a next match: he introduced another barber’s client to a woman he knew, and surprisingly it was another total success. Very soon after, and like out of the blue, little Weylin became famous in town, a little match maker. His talent seemed magical and became a tradition; even a… Read More