I've always found Times Square to be caught in a vicious cycle of people going there because of the ads and the ads being there because of the people, but I just learned Jeremy Blake (of Beck's last album cover and Punch Drunk Love scene transitions) has an installation on the NBC gravitron in Times Square. I'm walking over tonight. Read more.

He's an interesting guy -- grew up in Washington D.C. as a child of hippies. His father was a crazy Studio 54 type who died of AIDS. Sometimes it seems like the most creative people are produced by growing up alienated from their environs... He's doing a gallery show in New York in October inspired by the diaries of Ossie Clark, a British fashion designer who dressed all our favorite rock stars until his boyfriend murdered him. What a world.