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Shawn Mortensen is a Los Angeles based artist, photographer, & filmmaker who has been featured in i-D, Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair and Details, and has shot covers for Spin, Vibe, The Source, XXL, & The Village Voice - to name a few. In addition to photographing well-known fashion and advertising campaigns and an cclectic list of celebrities and artists, he has shown his photographs with exhibitions at New York's Whitney & Guggenheim Museums, The Getty Museum & has won an MTV Video Music Award. Mortensen has also documented his global travels in provacative photo-essays, from rare access in Chiapas, Mexico, where he captured haunting images of the Zapatista uprising, to the dancehalls & shantytowns of Kingston, Jamaica, to the unspoiled landscapes of Mongolia, as well as intesive work in Ethiopia, South Africa & Nigeria. In order to spearhead AIDS awareness, he journeyed from South Africa, to Lagos, Nigeria, where he collaborated with the REDHOT Organization on the critically acclaimed benefit recording project and documentary Red Hot + RIOT. An artist & advocate, Shawn Mortensen creates a vast range of images that evoke sensational, & sometimes startling, results. His first book It's My Life ... Or It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time was published by BAPE Galley/ Bathing Ape in 2002. Mortensen's second book, Out of Mind was published in May 2007 by Harry Abrams. He is currently at work on his third to be released in 2008. Currently, Mortensen is touring an exhibtion of imagery from Out of Mind. The show is featured at SLAMJAM in Verona, Italy until January, & will open January 14th at SLAMJAM Milano to coincide with Men's Fashion Week. December 20 - January 2o, 2008 Shawn is exhibiting Zapatista Revolution mural prints @ La Esquina Cafe in New York City's Soho / S.Lafayette in commemoration of the 14th anniversary of the Zapatista Uprising January 1st, 1994 ... ' The Shot that was heard around the world. '.


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BEST NYC Downtown Hotel


Posted by Shawn Mortensen on January 11, 2008 8:00 PM | Email


For the past MONTH - I've been living in a series of mid-town & downtown NYC Hotels ... BY FAR ... my Most Pleasant & Luxurious & Comfortable & RELAXING place to stay was ...

 

The Bowery Hotel  in Manhattan's Historic Bowery District.

 

I can't think of a BETTER Testimonial - than to say that MY CAT {'Pugsly'} - DIDN'T EVER TRY to RUN outta the room ... like he has been doing at the POSTAGE STAMP/ MORGUE/ Former Trendy Hotel = The Paramount ! ! !

 

I realise that this may sound like I'm BRAGGING, but for those of you WHO KNOW what it's like to be 'On The Run', overly=TIRED, & 'living outta a suitcase - ALL while TRYING to WORK & SURVIVE The Holiday Season - YOU Experienced Travellors should KNOW that THE BOWERY HOTEL is The Best Hotel in Downtown NYC !!!

The Staff are INCREDIBLY FRIENDLY, COOL & HELPFUL !

The Food is AMAZING & affordable & delicious !

EVERY detail of the Rooms are METICULOUSLY DESIGNED !

In other WORDs ... it's TOTALLY RAD !

IT MAKES YOU WANNA :

1) 'live outta a suit-case'

2) bring yr cat 'along for The Ride'

3) be AWAY from HOME

4) WORK HARDER so you can AFFORD TO STAY at The Bowery Hotel !!!

It's got SO MANY COOL FEATURES !!!

The patio looks ONTO one of my Favorite NYC Secret Spots ... a here-to-fore HIDDEN Historic Cemetary ... WHERE I'm SURE NOBODY is 'rolling inm their GRAVES', because the Bowery Hotel FEELS LIKE it's BEEN AROUND since the late 19th Century !!!

Like ALL Eric Goode & Sean MacPhearson Hotels ; the rooms contain - incredibly :

a) AN AFFORDABLE MINI-BAR

b) REALLY COZY beds

c) SUPER GOOD bathroom Products from ;

NYC's Legendary Bigelow's Pharmacy

{which IS ANOTHER one of My Favorite Secret Spots in Manhattan = 'cos THEY ARE SO GOOD that they've STAYED in BUSINESS for OVER 130 + years . They have THE BEST selection of Bathing, Grooming & Pharmaceutical PRODUCTS = like try BATHerapy for SORE MUSCLES !!! 1 SOAK & Presto ! Yr STOKED !!! They also have CHAIRS where you can kick-it & watch The Ladies SHOP for make-up AND they DELIVER !!! }

d) A GOOD VALUE for YOUR MONEY ! ! !

e) BIG picture WINDOWS with A VIEW & NICE LIGHT !!!

ALL THAT & The Bowery Hotel ARE Animal AND Artist FRIENDLY !!!

It's ONE OF THE GOOD THINGS about the horrible GENTRIFICATION of The Historic Bowery .

I'll WRITE MORE about this hotel LATER = so check back 'cos I gotta GO BACK to my creepy - mausoleum-like Paramount  Hotel Room & GET READY to CHECK OUT !!!

See the MAUSOLEUM below ...

RIGHT ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????!!!!!

SOOOOoooooooo = WORD to The Wise ... IF yr LOOKING for a neat & COOL place to stay in NYC ... HURRY UP & CALL The Bowery Hotel ... 'cos you'll FEEL LIKE yr LIVING in The Good Old New York City ... instead of 'The Horrible {post-Giullianni-fied} {for RICH People ONLY}  NEW New York SHITTY' ... a BIG UP to Eric Goode, Sean MacPhearson & CREW for making it NICE & building an ANCIENT looking FIREPLACE to unwind infront of with friends .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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