Here is the finale of the Cartoon Network Upfronts I worked in April. An upfront is something all the tv people do every Spring to preview what is coming up for them in the next season. It's a good way to attract potential advertisers and also get some press attention for exciting new programming. On stage you can pick out Andrew WK and band, several mascots including a chicken (fake) and ram (real) that were shooting tshirts into the audience, a man wearing a backpack basketball hoop with several other boys trying to shoot baskets, a giant dog from a new show called Adventureland (manned by two guys playing said dog's legs), and a 12 year old boy who was either riding atop the giant dog or running around stage. Also, not pictured (sadly) there was a drummer called the Ice King dressed like a wizard in a cave above stage, surrounded by 400 pounds of dry ice. It was awesome.
The Brooklyn Botanical Gardens are in bloom! Their Cherry Blossoms are legendary, but every year I miss them. This year I got to see one late bloomer, but the rest of them had already wilted. But, have no fear! Their bluebonnets are now in full blossom! Who doesn't love a field of bluebonnets, I ask you?
Our friends Jack and Cindi came to visit us for a few days, and besides lucking out with "VIP" tickets to Dave Letterman on Monday, we also got to see awesome guests Evangeline Lilly, Sam Rockwell, and The Million Dollar Quartet! Ending Monday with a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge at dusk made for pretty much the best New York day any tourist or New Yorker could ask for. I could walk across that bridge a thousand times, I believe, and still discover something new every time.
The Gaga. I worked on Trudie Styler's Rainforest benefit concert last week, and everyone was gaga for Gaga. There's so many stories I could tell, but I only managed to get a couple of snaps, this one of a small snippet of fans waiting for Gaga after the show on the streets. My friend Joe and I were hanging out in the room next door to Gaga's dressing room, and as we surveyed the fans and stalkers outside, many of them started taking pictures of us! (it was dark-ish enough that they may have just hoped/assumed we were someone awesome based on the fact we were looking out the window)--we started to wave at them and they waved back, hoping Gaga would show herself.
I have no idea who this girl is but had to find a subtle way of documenting I was actually there...
Went to the Brooklyn Museum friday--they have a huge section of the museum devoted to recreating rooms from Farmhouses in Connecticut in 1789 and such things. When I rounded a corner I happened across the scariest puppets of all time, life-size with giant heads, and set up to look like they were living inside these historical rooms. I think I will have nightmares for the next week. I mean, yikes.
