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On the Town: Ting Tings & Richard Prince T-Shirts

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I’ve been so busy with Sex and the City 2 that I didn’t get to share some pictures from a great Ting Tings concert a couple of weeks ago. The show was part of a series of free concerts sponsored by Microsoft’s new line of KIN “social phones.” “Social phones” sound to me like phones that get together and talk among themselves. I don’t really like talking on the phone, so I would be happy to delegate that task to a phone. It would be especially rewarding to delegate conversation to my iPhone. Then I could be all like, “Ha ha … call failed? Well, now you know how I feel when I try to use you, iPhone!”

The KIN peeps did a kind of information striptease, revealing concert details on Facebook for a week until they shared the final location a couple of hours before the show. (In my case, gorgeous blogger Jordana of Clutch 22 — who is working with the KIN people — hooked me up with tickets. For another post on the evening, read Midtown Girl.) KIN’s concept was using social media to bring people together in the real world, which reminds me of my mother yelling, “Turn off the TV and go outside and play!” Do parents still chase kids outdoors these days? Or are they so preoccupied with Second Life and online porn that they don’t care if the kids are glued to the TV?A  Personally, I was happy that I dragged myself away from Law & Order reruns for an evening because the Ting Tings put on a great performance. As a bonus, when I was uploading these pictures, I imagined the Count from Sesame Street counting Tings.

One female Ting.

One male Ting.

Two! Two Tings!

Admittedly, counting two Tings wouldn’t be much of a challenge for the Count, who has been known to handle as many as 20 honks.

I find something disturbing about the Count’s increasing excitement over the honks in that video, not to mention the nose-smashing, but to each his own.

Before the concert, my gorgeous artist friend Natasha Zupan took me to see Richard Prince’s t-shirt paintings at Salon 94 Bowery. They’ll be there till June 26, so stop by and take a look if you’re in town. I was amused to see a shirt with an image of the late actor Bob Crane on it because Crane had recently been on my mind.

Richard Prince put Bob Crane on a t-shirt painting.

I was hoping to make an outfit post out of this but someone (hello, Natasha!) didn’t send me the photo she took of me so here’s one I took of Natasha instead.

Natasha striking a pose with some graffiti.

Blogging lesson learned: Always take the outfit photo with your own camera!

Another blogging lesson: Don’t believe any hosting company that says your site might be offline for a mere hour during a server upgrade. After I was knocked offline for four hours and my programmer called to complain, the support people told us to expect 24 to 72 hours of no blog! Luckily the outage only lasted about 12 hours, but it was still far longer than I wanted or expected. Apologies to anyone who tried to visit during that time and got a big nasty error message instead.

UPDATED JUNE 30 TO ADD: Much to my amusement, the KIN has been discontinued after 48 days. I’m glad I got a good concert out of it before it went!

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  3. Haha, know what I think is funny? When Feist appeared on Sesame Street and performed “1-2-3-4” with the puppets, the Count was mysteriously missing.

    Love me some Ting Tings, though. And your friend is adorable. 😀

  4. Nice photos!!! And a lesson learned for us all. Maybe that’s why you (subconsciously decided to) cut off Natasha toes in her outfit photo! 🙂

  6. my boyfriend has so many outfit shots of me on his cameras that I have never seen. I learned my lesson to many times!

  7. I might never listen to the jaunty Hogan’s Heros March the same way again. Maybe it would be more apt with some bom chicka wah wah’s?

    Who knew that song had lyrics? Strange.

  10. I was going to say something about how it looks like fun/my music teacher loves the Ting Tings, but I think the most worthwhile comment I could make right now would be just how much I love that my anti-spam word is “tavihat”.

  13. o Ting Tings! fun night!

    I’m not so sure if parents are as enthusiastic about the out doors as they used to be. Then again, I do see a lot of kids playing baseball in the local park, so that’s a good sign, right?

  14. One, ah ah ah, Two, ah ah ah… I love the Count.
    Love the Ting Tings too and not just because they sing a song that has MY name in it… they call me Stacy and that IS my name, bee-atch!

  15. Ooh love the Ting Tings… and love how you link it to Sesame Street! Am thinking of going “hosted” soon due to something I have in the pipeline. Making me nervous now! x

  16. so true. always have your outfit pics taken with your own phone. i agree 100%. ting tings looks like it would be a fun concert.

    xxx
    t

  18. The ting tings sounds like it was a great show – I must go and see them one day!

    Too bad you didn’t get the outfit photo you wanted, but Natasha has a fabulous coat!

  21. hahha my catchphase to type in was beyotch ,i thought i might let you know, how funny ha!

    anywyas yeah i dont wear yellow at all, i think looks blah on me but this one is just perfect thank you for your comments and i only heard one song of the ting tings=)

  22. i like the ting tings! i wish i had been there to see them!

    and richard prince is a nut. i love his stuff. and i sure wish i owned some of his works, but i’m pretty sure a t-shirt is all i could afford! 🙂

    hope you have a fab weekend!

  23. Sounds like you had a great time at the concert! What fun! And yes, I have also learned the important lesson of using your own camera. Very important =)
    Glad that technology has let you back on line again!