TURQUOISE AND BLACK

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Un Fancy Food Fair @ the East River Bar. S 6th St. 1-7pm 6/30/08

RED and BLACK, BLUE and WHITE, RED and BLACK (BANG! BANG! BANG!)

Sent in 6/29/06 by PVP, RUC (Roving Urban Correspondent) WOODGRAIN who logged unusually high yield [of plaid sightings] today... Thanks WOODGRAIN, Keep up the good work. Here at headquarters we have been unusually busy lately burying our heads in the sand, so we are very grateful to have such a crackerjack team of roving correspondents as our eyes on the street, especially such a gifted and talented plaid seeker as WOODGRAIN, who has repeatedly demonstrated an undeniable cosmic connection to plaid. Here are her snapshots, in rapid succession:

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Original caption posted by WOODGRAIN; "NW side 7th ave and 25th st. note her cute clear handbag."Original Caption: " Sad in plaid. Even though eh had a brand new Krups ice cream machine at his feet. BLUE and WHITE. Brooklyn bound F. 6:00pmOriginal caption: " Undisclosed top secret location." (Top Secret, aye? Ok, Woodgrain, now you really peeked our interest...)

RED HOT and OVER EXPOSED

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This just in from Roving Correspondant WOODGRAIN, who poses the question, "Why are the homeless able to wear so many layers in the heat?" Outside 601 W. 26th and 11th. 6/27/08

BLUE AND WHITE

BROOKLYN bound L Train. On my way home from seeing THE PASSION PROJECT, at 3LD Arts & Technology Center (80 Greenwich Street x Rector), An insanely fantastic multimedia performance installation masterminded by Reid Farrington, starring Shelley Kay Wollert. Thurs, Fri, Sat. 8pm Trough July 19th. NOT TO MISS.

Cute, but no DOSA

LICORICE WHIPS and I at first thought YES, but ended up, saying NO to dosas, opting to hold our lunch meeting somewhere where we could sit and draw on the placemats, much to the annoyance of our somewhat incompetent but not because she was new waitress, but before sidled on down to Cafe Gitane, we snapped this capture of the dosa boy behind the counter wearing an unseasonably hot looking aqua and black flannel. Here is our collabrative placemat masterpiece:

BLACK and YESTERMORROW

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Yestermorrow Design/Build School's wood studio, as seen in the current issue (June/july 2008) READYMADE Magazine. Yestermorrow is a craft camp of sorts for adults established in 1981 located in the Mad River Valley of Central Vermont. PVP is very interested in knowing more about this place. If you are too, visit: www.yestermorrow.org or call: 888-496-5541

BLACK and WHITE, not tight

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This Capture sent in by CALL PAUL with caption, "Oversized. Brooklyn bound D train between. B-way/Lafayette & w4th." received at headquarters 6/26/08 9:40am

RED and BLACK, heading BACK

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Post Show. Outside the Bowery Ballroom. Debating the JMZ or the price of a cab back to Brooklyn. 6/26/08 1:39 am

WHITE and BLUE, Guess Who?

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JOHNNY BLUE EYES strikes a plaid pose in the glowing red light of the ATM machine alcove in the basement bar of the Bowery Ballroom before the brilliant performance of the best band by far: Heloise and the Savoir Faire. 6/25/08 10:22pm

BLACK and RED with notes of tobacco and spice.

Captured buying wine at Trader Joe's on 14th Street by SWIRLY HENRY. Sent in first thing Wednesday morning. (My Dear Craftlings, I can't make it to Craft Hole tonight because I am going to Heloise's Show at the Bowery Ballroom. I will miss you all dearly while I am screaming my head off in the front row, which, in a way is a craft.) Catch up with you all at next week's 'hole.)

POWDER BLUE and WHITE, hold mom's hand tight ('cause some weirdo might be following you and taking your picture for their blog.)

Whole Foods, Houston Street, at the peek of the post work rush. Tuesday after work. 6/24/08 6:33pm

Over the shoulder BROWN on BROWN

Subject headed Westbound on 14th Street x 1st Ave. 6/23/08 7:45am

BLUE on BLUE...TIMES TWO!!!!!

Subject headed Northbound on Bedford Ave x N 10th. 6/23/08 7:27am.

SECOND SIGHTING: Exactly 12 hours and 35 minutes later, the very same guy wearing the very same shirt was spotted heading West on Manhattan Ave on the other side of McCarren Park from the site of this morning's capture. What are the chances of this kind of coincidence? We have submitted this information to the PVP DSA (Department of Statistical Analysis) to determine the answer.

Subject headed Westbound on Manhattan Ave x Norman. 6/23/08 8:02pm.

MAD MEN, PLAID WOMAN.

Photo illustration by Olaf Blecker for The New York Times
Leading cast members of "Mad Men," from left: Christina Hendricks, January Jones, Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss (in PLAID).

“Mad Men,” the original series portraying the world of advertising on Madison Avenue set in New York in the early 1960s, premiered last summer on AMC, winning instant critical acclaim, a Peabody Award and the Golden Globe Award for best drama after being rejected for years by both HBO and Showtime. (What's up now, big guys?) Its second season begins July 27; the DVD set of the first season goes on sale July 1.

BLACK and WHITE, CATS and [NOT]DOGS.

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Sent in late friday night by CALL PAUL with caption: "Gowanus Yacht Club! It's raining!" Identity of subjects pictured remain anonymous.

GOWANUS YACHT CLUB: ****1/2 (Reviewed by Lisa Marie Rovito for Citysearch)
"This kitschy beer garden with a beach-shack feel serves up Jever in styrofoam cups and 10 kinds of dogs, including a sizzling polish sausage (made locally) and the infamous vegan Not Dog. With no fries, no frills and a completely outdoor setting, the owners of Patois and Uncle Pho have created a warm-weather antidote to some of the block's stuffier eateries. Longtime neighbors mingle with edgy newcomers, but everyone uses the same Porta-John."
323 Smith Street @ President Street. Take F or G to Carroll Street.

AT LAST...A PLAID SIGHTING IN MIDTOWN!

Captured by CALL PAUL outside Raido City Music Hall. She suggests, "Perhaps these youths are in town for tonight's concert??"
Friday, June 20th, 2008

ROSEBUD: In the bedroom.

Upon arriving at headquarters this morning, I was met at the door by the PVP, NS-IPR (Night Shift-Incoming Plaid Receiver) who was so excited she could hardly wait to show me the postings which appeared in our inbox in the wee hours of morning. The postings were sent in from ROSEBUD (our PVP, AVC (Acting Vermont Correspondent for the month of June.) who is currently stalking plaid, under-cover on the set of a movie being filmed in various locations in Northern Vermont. We always know we're gonna get something good when Rosebud writes in between the hours of 2-5 in the morning, and this time is no exception. Once again, all of us at PVP Headquarters applaud ROSEBUD for the lengths he is willing to go, sacrificing his body, his health, and occasionally his personal integrity, to capture some of the most obscure and intimate moments in Plaid Voyeurism the world has ever seen. Thank You, Rosebud, we hope you are currently sleeping well. Please call headquarters when you join the land of the living.

Original caption: Slumber Party. Essex Vermont.
Received: Friday JUne 20, 3:11am

Additional texted correspondance:

3:28am: "It's all for PVP! I wish I was in bed sleeping but here I am again in the trenches drinking shitty beer, hitting on underage chicks, laughing at their dumb jokes, smoking clove cigarettes, talking about the Sex and the City movie, pretending I care about shoes and feelings and letting them paint my toe nails and shit just for the pix..."

4:28am: "That's the life of a PVP undercover agent."

Tommy Tune by J. Peterman. Circa Fall 1997

All I said was, "nice shirt."
Show people. You know how intuitive they can be.
Somehow it wound up in my hands. (Don't now how it got there.)
He still had on a white T-shirt. I gave him something from page 56 (an earlier catalogue) in XXL.
And I had Tommy Tune's shirt. He's a friend. (Do you tell me everything?) A party.
But back to more inportant things. The shirt.
That conversation took place some time ago. Finding this particular plaid in a substantial fabric that feels like cashmere was proving elusive, even for my spies.
But it's here, finally. Tommy Tune's Shirt. Wonderful looking. Worth all the trouble. 100% heavily brushed cotton which feels like cashmere. 7-button front. Very cool over a T, or nothing. Women should have their own because if they borrow it from a man he'll never get it back. I know.
Colors: Rust, Green, or Navy.
Sizes: S, M, L, XL, XXL (Long tails, as you might imagine.)
All Tommy said was, "when you duplicate it for $89 son't tell me."
Tommy Tune Shirt (No. 525727).
Price: $79. Imported.

BLACK and WHITE, the register's not working quite right.

Tops on N6th, The line started to back up as the register was experiencing a technical hickup as we were buying the provisions for an impromptu PVP company picnic yesterday evening. The plaid girl was getting antsy. 6/17/08 7:39pm

KARGOLOGY: This is so amazing, we must be dreaming, but we're not, we're awake and this is FOR REAL!!!

Since 2003, Bella Angora, Christian Falsnaes and So:ren Berner have been carrying out a number of different projects under the common name KARGO next to their individual artistic practices, primarily in the fields of performance, installation and graffiti/public space interventions.

KARGO is an ongoing investigation of the possibilities of performance in contemporary art contexts within the frame ofcollaboration experiments. Through an open exchange of ideas and experiences, KARGO aims at an unpretentious and entertaining, but still diverse and complex, approach to different themes. Most of their projects have dealt with social/cognitive norms, patterns and structures as well as the conscious decision to question these. In the process of such investigations, KARGO is sampling music, video, public happenings, graffiti and musical-style-shows with references to philosophy, art history and contemporary culture.

The experiments and the investigative nature of the process is an important part of the KARGO performance projects.
Not to be afraid to fail, to look stupid or to reveal mistakes.

For more info, please visit: http://www.kargology.com