Off Bowery

The site is up and running. Check it out.

 

http://www.offbowery.com/

 

Tornado

Yesterday my town got hit with a small tornado that did a hell of alot of damage. Me personally lost my electricity and water at 6 pm yesterday and it just turned back on at 7 pm today. There are broken down trees everywhere and its been pretty hectic. Besides that I’ve past my weekend at the beach everyday it’s been amazing, the heat is pretty ridiculous through. Anyway everything is back on and where all just chilling.

L.E.S FLICK

Fri., June 13, 2008

Captured (Ben Solomon, Dan Levin and Jenner Furst | New York | 1:30:00)

 

World Premiere!

The amazing story of Clayton Patterson, prolific photo documentarian of the turbulent Lower East Side for 30 years.

 

Venue: on the roof of the Open Road Rooftop

Address: 350 Grand Street @ Essex (Lower East Side, Manhattan)

Directions: F/J/M/Z to Essex / Delancey

Rain: In the event of rain the show will be held indoors at the same location

8:00PM: Doors open

8:30PM: Sound Fix presents live music by A.R.E. Weapons (www.myspace.com/areweapons)

9:00PM: Films

11:30PM – 1:00AM: After Party: Open Bar at Fontana’s (105 Eldridge St @ Grand) Courtesy of Radeberger beer

Tickets: $9 at the door or online at www.rooftopfilms.com

Presentedin partnership with: IFC.com, New York magazine, IndiPix, ShootingPeople, Open Road New York & New Design High School

 

20years before there was YouTube, and Macaca, Critical Mass arrestvideos, and the RNC, Clayton Patterson was capturing video that exposedthe struggle between community activists and the often abusive NYPD. Hededicated his life to documenting the final era of raw creativity andlawlessness in New York City’s Lower East Side, a neighborhood famedfor art, music and revolutionary minds. Traversing the outside edge,he’s recorded this dark and colorful society–from drag and hardcore,heroin, homelessness, to political chaos and, ultimately,gentrification.

 

Inthe LES of the late 70’s and early 80’s, it seemed that it wasimpossible to take a boring photograph. Realizing this, Patterson vowedto himself not to miss a moment, and he was a ubiquitous presence onthe streets, in bars, and at parties, shooting literally hundreds ofthousands of photographs and countless videos that captured the essenceof the era in what might have been the most thrilling neighborhood onearth. For native New Yorkers, looking at his documents is like staringthrough a window to our own past, and the drugs, piercings, mohawks,kangols and graffiti on display are, in this context, not kitschy andnostalgic. Rather, they express the rich diversity of many littlecommunities living together in a troubled little niche of the city,long ago changed beyond recognition.

What Happened?

OBP Team

Yawzer

CHOP RED SUMMERS
COME HANG OUT ON THE RED CARPET
AT THE FLEA MARKET ON CLERMONT AND LAFAYETTE IN FORT GREEN
CHILL SUNDAYS

Down and Out