Make You Wanna Jump
Our winters can be long and harsh. Thanks to the No Mercy Step Team for quenching our thirst for innovation and sophistication in the realm of kinesiology during The “Saturday Night Live” Showcase at Syracuse University.
Balancing Act
Flip Mode
Capturing the moment, Poetry Slam
This Stops Today: Downtown Protest
Will Gorman
Artist and his snow sculpture (crow)
Christmas Carols, Franklin Street
Street artist making a crow sculpture out of available snow at CENTRO stop (Washington Street).
When life gives you lemons, they say make lemonade; when life gives us snow, maybe we should just make a snowman (or ice sculpture).
We saw this gentleman waiting for the Centro Bus on Saturday. In the 10 minutes before his bus came he took inspiration from the nearby gargoyles and architecture on Washington Street, along with the invasion of crows he notices in the city and came up with a pretty powerful piece of pedestrian art.
Writer/Editor Russ Tarby (left) and Music Executive/Drummer Larry Luttinger have made some great contributions to Central New York arts scene. We first met Russ when he was the go-to-guy for music at the New Times about two decades ago; we met Larry when he was first putting together the Jazz Arts Foundation. They are pictured here at Tuesday’s Jazz Central Holiday Reception.
Urban Video Project (Everson Museum Plaza)
Urban Cinematheque is a collaboration between Light Work, Syracuse University, the Connective Corridor and the Everson Museum. This year’s film was “The Grand Budapest Hotel.”
Artistic collaboration at Urban Cinematheque 2014
DC artist Mike Tanoory shows off his skills for the Street Painting Festival (circa 2007).
Frackenstein: Taking comedy/drama to the streets (and to new heights)
First, we’d like to thank Anna Phillips for reminding us about the Fringe Festival here in town this weekend. We attended the 2013 festival and saw Anna act out her show ‘Spatial Profiling.’
Fringe seems to be great place catch some innovative art presentations.
Last night we experienced ‘Frackenstein, which was presented along the Connective Corridor, at the Syracuse Stage patio. The one act show envisions a totally fracked future mixing elements of Cirque du Soleil and Mad Max’s Road Warrior, with a small pinch of Laurel and Hardy slapstick.
Frackenstein features Mr. Sticks (played by Steve, who must have been a gymnast in a past life) and Splendito (played by the uber flexible Freddy). The duo provides just enough shock value to keep the audience, and those strolling along East Genesee Street, guessing.
We would have loved to see this type of event take place during SU Homecoming or an ACC Game Day Weekend when it would have just freaked out visitors (in a good way).
Frackenstein will play for the next two nights. If you are in the neighborhood stop by and check it out. You just may become part of the show.
Theater of the Here and Now: Splendito (played by Freddy) and Mr. Sticks (played by Steve) occupied an open air stage on Syracuse Stage’s patio for about an hour on Thursday as part of the 2014 Syracuse Fringe Festival.
Ellen Blalock, Photographer