{"id":17215,"date":"2013-07-09T13:46:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T18:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=17215"},"modified":"2013-07-09T14:25:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T19:25:10","slug":"olek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2013\/07\/09\/olek\/","title":{"rendered":"~OLEK . .  THE END IS FAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BROOKLYN UPDATE &#8211; REPORTING &#038; PHOTOS BY: KATE CERIGO<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/olek-summer-2013-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/olek-summer-2013-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"olek-summer-2013---#1\" width=\"720\" height=\"538\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/olek-summer-2013-1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/olek-summer-2013-1-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nKATE was walking along the Williamsburg East River &#8216;coast&#8217; one early evening, about a week ago &#8211; when she spotted this hand-crocheted full-color primary spectrum . . . camo van.<br \/>\nactually a very large van, parked at North 7 and Kent.<br \/>\nnote, even the wheel chassis &#8211; is crocheted !!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/olek-summer-2013-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/olek-summer-2013-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"olek-summer-2013---#-2\" width=\"720\" height=\"538\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/olek-summer-2013-2.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/olek-summer-2013-2-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nshe pretty much thought right away it was: OLEK . . . <\/p>\n<p>sweet, darling DARLA, just back from London, her close friend who lives nearby . . said she had indeed seen a &#8220;woman crocheting on it the week before&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>all me and Kate could think, was . .  how much bizarre &#038; creative stuff goes on, L-I-V-E in the streets of Brooklyn, all the time !! that even Darla wouldn&#8217;t think twice about a woman crocheting a van &#8211; in bright rainbow-colored camo !!<br \/>\nhaha.<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s so Brooklyn in a nutshell, summer 2013.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/olek-summer-2013-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/olek-summer-2013-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"olek-summer-2013-#-3\" width=\"538\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/olek-summer-2013-3.jpg 538w, https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/olek-summer-2013-3-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;The End is Far&#8221; &#8211; that&#8217;s good news.<br \/>\nNAT GEO or was it HISTORY CHANNEL . . says our sun is going to explode, and take all our &#8216;hard copy&#8217; art and artifacts, architecture and h-i-s-t-o-r-y, and maybe even us   &#8211; along with it ? if we don&#8217;t find another place to park &#8211; ourselves.<br \/>\nfor sure, in 2 billion years.<\/p>\n<p>or was it <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/tv-shows\/curiosity\/topics\/curiosity-blog\/sun-almost-beautiful-friendship.htm\">DISCOVERY<\/a>, anyways . . was I imagining things or have they updated \/ as in speeded-up the no-win scenario by &#8211; 3 billion years ?<br \/>\nyikes. <\/p>\n<p>so, sure enuff:<br \/>\ngoogle . . .  OLEK and THE END IS FAR, and voila, OLEK&#8217;S most recent show  . .  pops up !! <\/p>\n<p>see: <a href=\"http:\/\/arrestedmotion.com\/2013\/03\/openings-olek-the-end-is-far-jonathan-levine\/\">OLEK &#8211; THE END IS FAR \/ ARRESTED MOTION<\/a><\/p>\n<p>see: <a href=\"http:\/\/jonathanlevinegallery.com\/?method=Exhibit.ExhibitDescriptionPast&#038;ExhibitID=6F3AD85A-B761-1E79-CD2467AF43694B2C\">OLEK &#8211; THE END IS FAR \/ JONATHAN LEVINE GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BROOKLYN UPDATE &#8211; REPORTING &#038; PHOTOS BY: KATE CERIGO KATE was walking along the Williamsburg East River &#8216;coast&#8217; one early evening, about a week ago &#8211; when she spotted this hand-crocheted full-color primary spectrum . . . camo van. actually a very large van, parked at North 7 and Kent. note, even the wheel chassis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17215"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17231,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17215\/revisions\/17231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}