Yet another great picture from photographer Lauren Colchamiro. Check out her site to see the full size photo, along with other shots from the 2010 Japantown Festival.
If you have any City Shots you want to share, send them to me at sarah@thefunkyapple.com – and don’t worry, they don’t necessarily have to be as perfect and professional as this one 
We just want to see your view of the big (funky) apple!
I’m back TFA-ers and with a new assortment of Free Events this weekend!
Summer is here and we all need to be saving our pennies for 40′s and margarita’s in this 100 degree heatwave. This weekend holds a plethora of outdoor, as well as air-conditioned events to keep you occupied until the work week commences.
Free outdoor movie
Sunset– (The Goonies ) on the flight deck at Intrepid this Friday – Intrepid Museum Foundation (Midtown West)
| Target Passport Fridays: South Korea Fri, 6:30PM @ Queens Museum of Art |
Leave your baggage at home and bring a picnic blanket out to Flushing Meadows Corona Park for Target Passport Fridays, an outdoor festival of international music, dance and film.
| Shakespeare in the Pagoda Sat 7/24 , 1PM @ Music Pagoda East Drive Brooklyn , NY |
Romeo & Juliet beginning this weekend at the Music Pagoda. Don’t miss this free event!
Sand Sculpting Contest and Unity Day
Sat 11am–5pm Directions http://www.astelladevelopment.org
Get ready to break out your baddest, boldest sandcastle-building skills. Astella Development Corp, a nonprofit devoted to affordable housing and commercial revitalization in Coney Island, hosts its 20th annual sand-sculpting contest today. Past winners have included depictions of Moses receiving the Ten Commandments and a bald eagle holding a key.
Understanding Genetic Diversity
Sat 1pm–3pm American Museum of Natural History Subway: B, C to 81st St–Museum of Natural History; 1 to 79th St | Directions
In this DNA-focused discussion, anthropologists Monique Scott and Samara Rubinstein talk about humans’ susceptibility to disease, the state of genetic technologies (like ancestry testing) and how our species will continue to evolve.
Coney Island Sunset Dance Ride
Sun 5pm Map http://www.times-up.org
Hop on your bike at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza, then head to the south shore for an outdoor deejayed party thrown by the Coney Island Dancers, an organization whose parties benefit both boardwalk-bound revelers (emotionally) and children with special needs (financially).
| New York’s Gone Mad Sun, 7PM @ Times Square Broadway and 45th St. New York, NY |
Watch the world premiere of season four of MAD MEN on the big screen in Manhattan’s Times Square on Broadway between 46th and 47th Streets. Arrive by 7:00pm in your swankiest 1960s attire for pre-screening costume and trivia contests.
It’s no secret that we love missed connections here at The Funky Apple, so it’s rather heartening (and frankly we feel like poop heads for not spotting this earlier) to point out artist Sophie Blackall, who turns missed connections into amazing works of art every week on her blog, Missed Connections.
You absolutely should visit her site, in fact, you should do it right now. And just in case you were wondering how or why she makes these posters, there’s a video for that, right after the break.
Do you remember the artist Jay Shells, who was placing (very much needed) subway etiquette posters on subway trains? Well, now there’s a video to go with it. Enjoy, and remember, no one likes it when you clip your nails on the train.
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One of my favorite wild NYC acts, Ninjasonik, dropped the single “Somebody Gonna Get Pregnant” and the accompanying hot mess hilarity video last year, and sent out the 12 inch vinyl single with a blank white sleeve to 60+ artists.
Tonight the results will be on display in DUMBO, at the opening of the first Ninjasonik Vinyl Sleeve Art Show. The opening reception is from 5-10pm tonight at Front Street Art Galleries, located at 111 Front Street, BK.
[And if you like the song (you know you do!), you can buy it from Amazon by clicking on our Now Listening bar below]
This gem is from photographer Lauren Colchamiro.
I have to say, this is one of my favorite NYC shots ever!
If you have any City Shots you want to share, send them to me at sarah@thefunkyapple.com – and don’t worry, they don’t necessarily have to be as perfect and professional as this one, as will be evidenced by my own pic I’ll be posting tomorrow
There is an abundance of amazing art in NYC. There are many free shows, and an impressive amount of work from the masters. Both of these can be great, but if you want both at once – to see the rare works of a truly iconic artist for free (not even a suggested donation!) – check out the Century of Picasso exhibit at the Jan Krugier Gallery.
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