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1. Place the trashcan against the far wall. Wad up scrap paper
and aim. Make up giganticimaginary stakes for each shot, like "With
this basket I will single-handedly halt globalwarming" or "If I
make this, bunnies everywhere will be safe and happy forever."
2. If you work in a lab with mice, cut one's head off and leave
it on your advisor's desk a la "TheGodfather."
3. Assemble differently shaped glassware and stage a soap opera.
Mr. Eppendorf is in love with
Ms. Erlenmeyer, but Ms. Pipette is a lesbian who steals Ms.
Erlenmeyer's heart. Make themfight. Then stage hot beaker-on-beaker
action.4. Soda and Mentos Geyser - Watching a jet of foamy soda
erupt from a bottle is not only fun, but
also hysterical and will impress everyone around you while
hopefully not getting them (andyourself) too messy in the process.
This also happens to be a really inexpensive homeexperiment, but
you might want to invest in several bottles of soda and a bunch of
rolls of mintsjust in case. Step one: Open the 2-liter pop bottle
(note: diet soda seems to work better and isless sticky come
clean-up time)Step two: Unroll the package of Mentos and prepare to
dumpthe entire pack in at once. Fashioning a tube out of an empty
toilet paper roll to just fit into thebottle mouth is very
helpful.Step three: Drop the mints in and back up a few paces
quickly!Step four: The geyser is quite impressive and the current
measured record is 21 feet!
4. Dry Ice Bubble
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76CNkxizQuchttp://chemistry.about.com/od/dryiceprojects/a/dryicebubble.htm
5. COLOR CHANGING
CHEMISTRY-http://www.sciencebob.com/experiments/iodine_clock_reaction.php
1. Michiyo Fukushima art class (59 Franklin St.; 646-494-2781):
$45, watercolors!!2. Rowboating in Central Park (Loeb Boathouse,
East 72nd Street and Park Drive North; 212 517-
2233)3. Go to the Guggenheim Museum (on Fridays when it's
free!); 1071 Fifth Ave at 89th St;
4/5/6 to 86th St, /free, by donation 5:45-7:45pm Sat4.
Shakespeare in the Park5. Hudson River Park6. La Cremeria (Yummy
Gelato)7. A trip to Koreatown is like a visit to Seoul without ever
leaving NYC8. Street festivals9. Pay for something entirely with
pennies.10. Get some chalk. Play hopscotch and draw. (Central
Park)11. Make a piece of origami12. Splash my feet in a fountain
(NYU fountain)13. Devote a day to SOCCER in central park14. See
classic films in Bryant Park - Sixth Ave, (between 40th and 42nd
Sts)15. New York Philharmonic: Concerts in the Parks16. Spend some
time on the waterfront - Main St, (Fulton Ferry Landing), Brooklyn
Bridge park17. Make music in Madison Square Park - 23rd St to 26th
St, (between Fifth Ave and Madison Ave)18. Lincoln Center, W 62nd
St (between Columbus and Amsterdam Aves); Various locations19.
alfresco culture at the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival - Wed
Jul 25 - Sun Aug 12; Various
times - Aug 2 show, which pairs the New York premiere of
avant-jazz trio the Bad PlussStravinsky-inspired On Sacred Ground
and the U.S. debut of minimal techno soundsmithBrandt Brauer Fricks
contemporary-music ensemble. Or catch the world premiere of
localmusical iconoclast Phil Klines dreamcitynine the next night
(Aug 3). Taking a cue from JohnCages Indeterminacy, it features 60
percussionists scattered across the plaza.
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20. 45-46 Davis St, (at Jackson Ave) - live painting by
street-art legends during the Battle of theKings in Queens
21. HUDSON RIVER FREE CONCERTS, 44th St, (at the Hudson
River)22. Explore City Island - The Bronxs City Island is just a
short public-transit trek away (take the
6 train to the end of the line and then hop on the BX29 bus to
City Island) and offers freshseafood and a salty breeze.
23. Build a house out of books in the NY public library.24. CITY
OF BONES MIDNIGHT PREMIERE (August 23)25. Manhattan Inn Piano Bar
(listen to26. Stargazing27. infiltrate the webcams of the main
apple store, soho28. Cafe Gitane, a French-Morrocan cafes. (242
Mott street). This is one of my favorite places in
the city. Dont miss their cuscus dish. Delish.29. Il Laboratorio
del Gelato (95 Orchard st.) and try out their honey lavender and
black mission fig
flavors.30. Highline. New York elevated park. I love this place.
so many shooting opportunities for Fashion
and Architecture lovers. The highline starts from 30th street
all the way to 14th. Get off at 14th;Gansevoort St; L or A/C/E to
14th St-8th Ave; C/E to 23rd St-8th Ave; M11 to WashingtonStreet;
M11, M14 to 9th Avenue M23; M34 to 10th Avenue
31. Brooklyn Heights Promenade32. brooklyn bridge33. The roof of
the international affairs building on Columbia's campus is really
pretty if you can
sneak into the building. Also nearby, riverside church's top
floor is pretty cool.34. Take the FREE staten island ferry, great
view of the city skyline.35. View from the Williamsburg Bridge -
Brooklyn Navy Yard in all its post-industrial splendor36. AFRICAN
BURIAL GROUND - 290 Broadway btwn Duane & Elk Sts; Transport
4/5 to Wall
St; admission free; memorial 9am-5pm daily, visitors center
9am-5pm Mon-Fri37. Chelsea galleries - New Yorks most concentrated
area for a gallery crawl is in Chelsea, mostly
in the 20s Streets between 10th and 11th Avenues. Check
westchelseaarts.com or Gallery Guidefor listings. All are free, no
pressure to buy. And try timing for wine-and-cheese openings
onThursday evenings.
38. Visit city hall - Park Row City Hall Park; 4, 5, 6 to
Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall, J, M, Z toChambers St
39. Visit Governors island40. New York Public Library - Fifth
Ave at 42nd St; B/D/F/M to 42nd St-Bryant Park, 7 to Fifth
Ave41. KAYAKING (free) downtown boathouse - Pier 40, near
Houston St West Village; take 1 train to
Houston St; 9am-6pm Sat & Sun42. American Museum of Natural
History - Free its last hour (4:45-5:45pm); Central Park West
at
79th St; B, C to 81st St-Museum of Natural History, 1 to 79th
St43. Museum of Modern Art; Entry is free 4-8pm on Friday. Gets
busy. 11 W 53rd St, between Fifth
& Sixth Aves, Midtown West.
