If you are in New York city this Friday (11/14), you can catch Alexey Sokolin’s art at Gallery Bar, through an event hosted by Smarter Green Cleaner. Also showcasing his work is Jeffrey Augustine Songco. Details below, click on image for full-size:

Come out for one night to support the start of our new non-profit organization, Smarter Greener Cleaner! As young professionals, our mission is to better the environment by promoting simple solutions in New York City. Please check out our website at www.sgcnyc.org

This major fundraising event will help us build awareness and begin accomplishing our mission.

We will also be featuring artwork from one of our talented founding members, Jeff Songco, along with the accomplished artist Alexey Sokolin.

Doors Open at 8:30 PM
Open Bar is from 9 PM to 10 PM
Cocktail Attire

Come as a pre-game event or stay and party with us at Gallery Bar!

To get on the list and guarantee entry, please RSVP by emailing smartergreenercleaner@gmail.com. A simple email including your name will work! We are capping the list at 150 attendees so be sure to RSVP!

Tickets: $20 for those who RSVP or $25 at the door

For the unintended hiatus. We should be back up and in operation within a week. Thanks for checking back.

We’ve run into some short-term technical issues, so I will be pulling in “best of” from SokolinDesign.com photography. The black border is the give-away; apologies for the disconnect.

I also want to officially welcome Seamus as the sound guru to this website. His music strongly resonates with the ideas of pause and contemplation that Urban Aesthete sees as the key to appreciating our busy world. In the longer term, we will be working on combining abstract sound and image to find new meanings.

Technical update: we have added social media bookmarking functionality in a non-intrusive way. Underneath the post is a new slug called “Share & Bookmark”. Clicking on that link will bring up a menu of Digg, Facebook, Reddit, Technorati, etc. Hope that helps!

Later on, we may even implement the fancier javascript version with a roll-over menu. Either way, thanks to AddThis for a great technology.

PS. Welcome Jordan, our language aesthete.

Urban Aesthete is officially open. The purpose of this blog is to provide a daily dose of the arts, and a window into the creative processes of various disciplines.

The backbone of content will be an exploration of aesthetics in human-built structures (the “nature” of urban life) through photography. As we build momentum, there will be additional perspectives from visual artists, musicians, writers, film makers, dancers, and anyone creative excited by the Urban Aesthete vision. We are interested in how the city inspires us, and how that inspiration turns to artwork.

The meta-concept is for both contributers and readers to discover extraordinary details in ordinary noise, potentially through interaction with each other. Collaboration, mashing, and critique are all highly encouraged. While this concept is nothing new, we believe that it is fundamentally valuable, and as good a mission statement as any.