Dr Sketchy's "does The Factory" Art Event

If I didn't have plans tonight already, I'd be here! Maybe next week...

Sat, November 13, 2010 • 6:00pm - Dr. Sketchy’s does The Factory!

Dr. Sketchy’s is hosting another huge blow-out event at the Red Lotus Room.

This session will feature a tribute to Andy Warhol’s Factory, taking place in our beloved Brooklyn speakeasy, the Red Lotus Room!

Expect hordes of models in a Sketchy’s extravaganza, dressed up as your favourite 1960s icons. From Edie Sedgwick to Ultraviolet, this session will prove to be our most outrageous session yet.

with music by Kim Boekbinder
models including Dante Posh, Madame Rosebud, Miss Southern Comfort, and Miss Vivian
aerial by Lauren Goldberg
treats by Kate Black

Free, hardcover watercolour moleskines to the first twenty artists who show up.

Session runs from 6-10 pm. $15 in advance, $20 at the door in costume, $25 at the door in street clothes.
Bring your own art supplies.

The Red Lotus Room (unmarked door)
893 Bergen Street (google map here)
Brooklyn, NY

5171541

These Metro-Sci-Fi Times

Here goes my current list of sci-fi meets NYC's urban landscape:

5) The Freelance Whales, as seen yesterday, on Cinco de Mayo at Webster Hall

("The Freelance Whales is a series of unfinished thoughts, confused sensory experiences and convoluted yet composited emotions...the lighthearted sound is overshadowed by lyrics that make you smile to yourself and wonder if your dreams can be as fulfilling as the sound from The Freelance Whales." - Wes Soltis, HEAVEmedia) The surreal harmonies somehow make it sci-fi to me... beautifully so.

4) Mars 2112, the underground Martian-themed restaurant by Times Square. A surreal tourist trap, it is yet somehow deliciously quaint and somewhat of a throwback to old-school sci-fi concepts. Also, the 2112 is remarkably similar to my zipcode in Williamsburg: 11211. Coincidence...?

3) Dr. Sketchy's Anto-Art School. According to the website, "The Next Dr. Sketchy Is... May 8, 4-7 pm - Dr. Sketchy's is proud to present another fantastic Art Star series with the epic Kenny Scharf! Featuring the lovely Sequinette, this will prove to be Sketchy's most surreal session yet." We'll see about that...

2) "Manorexia," as described in NYMag.

So the article begins: "One of the side effects of metrosexuality seems to be the affliction of men with the same unrealistic body images that women have been dealing with for years."

Strange times we're in. Male mannequins are being reduced to a 27" waist -- that's just wrong.

1) Janelle Monae last month at the Highline Ballroom. Bizarrely exquisite. Ok, yes, yes, there's Lady Gaga, and the lady deserves some credit, but somehow Ms. Janelle Monae is a little more authentically sci-fi, or maybe also just more groovy/soul/funk sci-fi, while Gaga is a little more produced and glam...

And the point against NYC's inclination toward the sci-fi:

-1) Colossus: As described in NYMag, "Jean Nouvel’s Tower Verre was going to be the biggest thing to hit the midtown skyline since the Empire State Building. Then the city told him to chop off 200 feet. Scoffs the French architect: Why is Manhattan, of all places, afraid of heights?"

According to Justin Davidson in another NYMag article, "The Point of the Skyline," "Manhattan’s skyline was wrought by the single-minded pursuit of profit and boosted by a spiritual lust for height. To erect a tall building is to proclaim one’s faith in the future," which is why the height reduction of Nouvel's Tower Verre is so disappointing.