Coney Events: 3rd Annual Coney Island Talent Show

(Courtesy of Coney Island Talent Show website)

It's going to be a spectacle of sunshine and lollipops on the boardwalk Today at 3pm see a variety of acts demonstrate their talent and preform for prizes. It's the 3rd Annual Coney Island Talent Show presented by Thirsty Girl Productions.

From Coney Island Talent Show website:

The Coney Island Talent now in its third year has proven to be an event true to Coney Island’s nature and intent. It has brought in packed crowds each years and hours of entertainment for the young and the old. We are very excited to embark on our Third Annual event and look forward to working with all the Coney Island businesses in 2012!

Join Hostess The World Famous *BOB* and the fanfare of legendary talent that has come out of Coney Island, by being a part of the Third Annual Coney Island Talent Show on the boardwalk (between 10th and 12th street) on July 28th from 3:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.

Categories for this year’s talent contest are: 

Creative kids 9-12 years old 

Creative kids 13-17 years old 

Circus Freaks and Sideshow Geeks 

Song and Dance 

Best Drag Performance 

or Celebrity Impersonator

1st Prize in each category will receive a cash prize of $250, and day passes to participating Coney Island Amusements

2nd Prize in each category will receive a cash prize of $100, and day passes to participating Coney Island Amusements

3rd Prize in each category will a cash prize of $50, and tickets to participating Coney Island Amusements.

The Best Dressed person in each category will receive a special mystery prize.

This years celebrity judges include Dick Zigun , Julie Atas Muz, Broadway Brassy, Dirty Martini and Sequoia Harrison!

3rd Annual Coney Island Talent Show

Saturday, July 28th 2012

3:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m

FREE!

On the boardwalk between 10th and 12th street

Coney Island

Coney Events: Coney Island Variety Show By Adam RealMan

(Image from the Coney Island USA website)

Adam RealMan will be presenting his Coney Island Variety Show on the Sideshows by the Seashore stage every third Wednesday of each month.

The Coney Island USA website says:

This fast paced vaudevillian romp showcases the best of New York’s variety artists. Each show promises a healthy dose of sideshow, magic, comedy, circus arts, storytelling, unusual acts and zany feats.

They will be fantastic giveaways and a few prizes from the folks at both the Schmaltz Brewing Company and Norton Records.

Featured performers for the July 18 show: Synchronized Swimmers: The Good To Go Girls, Award Winning Storyteller: Peter Aguero, Hula Hoop Sensation: Pinkie Special, Strongman: Chris Schoeck.  (Chris will attempt to break the worlds record for ripping decks of cards in half)  Also Magician and Star of the off Broadway hit "Spook Show": Cardone

Hosted by that daring duo you all know and love, Adam RealMan and Kryssy Kocktail.

 

Coney Island Variety Show!

Wednesday, July 18th

9pm

$10 In advance or at the door.

Click here to purchase tickets in advance.

Sideshows By The Seashore

1208 Surf Ave.

Coney Island, New York

Coney Vid: Bus Driver Steven St. Bernard Save Little Girl's Life

Bus driver in Coney Island saves a little from a three story fall and is being hailed a hero today.  Steven St. Bernard saw little girl dancing atop an air conditioner three stories high and ran to save her as she fell on his shoulders.

Steven St. Bernard, NYC Bus Driver Hailed A Hero

Posted by wiseuppeopletv [YouTube]

Coney Events: Circus Sideshow Open Daily

[Image from the Coney Island USA website]

The cultural arts center in Coney Island marches on with their ten-in-one circus sideshow at Sideshow By The Seashore.  Part of Coney Island USA.  They’re here, they’re real and they’re all alive!  Alive on the inside.  The freaky and amazing curiosities are performed daily and include a wide variety of zany characters; Insectavora, Serpentina, Ray Valenz, Scott Baker, Illustrated Penguin, Betty Bloomerz, Princess Pat, Baron Von Geiger, Alejandro Dubois, John Mendez, and Alfonso Cruz


Coney Island Circus Sideshow
Open Daily
1 pm to 8pm (Last ticket sold at 7pm)
TICKETS $10 for adults, $5 for kids (under 12)
Sideshow By The Seashore
1208 Surf Avenue
Brooklyn, New York

Pic-O-Day: Modern Beach Shop Signage

(Image courtesy of Sam Dow)

In this photo, by Sam Dow, the Brooklyn Beach Shop located on the Coney Island Boardwalk boasts a throwback feel with a modern attitude.  This version of a Steeplechase / Tillie funny face looks like some sort of baseball team or brewery company mascot.  It proudly stands atop of the Brooklyn Beach Shop along with the rest of the boardwalk shops that have donned on a modern look with their signage.  This is something most of the new Coney Island has become.  A shiny Zamperla influence for sure, though impressive and likable, for us anyway.

In a post last May, Amusing The Zillion commented on the new signs; "The new look for the Boardwalk includes lighted custom signs replacing much of the quirky hand-painted signage of recent decades. One of the Boardwalk’s new stores, the Brooklyn Beach Shop, is a shining example of the new Coney Island. Located between the entrance to Scream Zone and Ruby’s Bar, the glass-fronted storefront features custom brickwork and a 6-foot-tall stone Steeplechase face sculpted by Italian artist Mario Ambroselli."

The souvenir shop owned by Maya Haddad and her father Haim Haddad, sells beach gear and t-shirts.  They also own and operate the wonderful Coney Island Beach on Stillwell Avenue right behind Nathan's.

This recent photo above from Sam Dow and a friend, who call themselves photo bugs, is part of their collection of pictures taken on their annual trek to Coney Island.


[Image of The Brooklyn Beach Shop signage lit up at night taken by Amusing the Zillion is after the jump]

Joey "Jaws" Chestun Wins It Again!

  (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

For the sixth year in a row, Joey "Jaws" Chesnut from California wins the hot dog eating contest by scarfing down a total of 68 dogs in only ten minutes.  Six years ago Takeru Kobayashi of Japan also had won six consecutive years.  In that aspect Chesnut and Kobayashi are tied.

As reported by the Star Tribune - Sports; Chesnut said,"I feel good, it was a great win," Chestnut said after the contest, adding he wished he could have eaten a record number of hot dogs for the audience. "I tried my best. I'm looking forward to next year already." 

(Posted by Josh Pacheco for SportsGuru)

Sonya Thomas, known as the Black Widow, from Virginia downed 45 hot dogs - giving her the win for in the women's competition. She won the pink champion's belt and $10,000.  She said she'll be back to win again next year.

Chestnut, who will also be back next year won $10,000 and a mustard champion's belt.  Let's see if he wins eight years in a row beating Kobayashi for straight wins.

Coney Vid: Bloomberg Curses In Pun-Filled Speech

Showing his human side, even the Mayor of New York City, couldn't help emit a curse word during a corny pun-filled speech.  At the Coney Island hot dog contest weigh-in yesterday, the Mayor seemed forced to drivel a string of references to the eating contest. "Now, let me be perfectly frank, this is one of my favorite traditions. I relish it so much", smirks Bloomberg.

As reported by The Raw Story; He [Bloomberg] added later, “They’ll come to find out if Joey ‘Jaws’ Chestnut will swallow the competition and take home a sixth-straight title; if first-ever female champ Sonya Thomas can top her record of 40 H-D-Bs, to use the technical term (hot dog buns); or if one of their dogged pursuers will finally ‘ketchup’ cut the mustard and be pronounced ‘Wiener.’ No question, it’s going to be a dogfight.”

It looks like the Mayor was running out of steam for these kinds of presentations and with the pun redundancy, he couldn't contain himself.  The release did leave a more tickled Mayor to continue the remainder of the speech.

"Who Wrote This Sh*it" - New York Mayor, Michael Bloomberg ask

Posted by edrichome [YouTube]

Happy 4th Of July 2012!

Pop Bites: Cyclone Roller Coaster Turns 80

Coney Island iconic wooden roller coaster has gone over the hill more than once.  Turning a strong eighty years old this past June 26th 2012, the coaster still manages to thrill and bang around riders summer after summer. 

Heather Wiggin of the New York Daily News writes of those who brought the coaster to Coney Island; "Brothers Jack and Irving Rosenthal commissioned the legendary Vernan Keenan to design, and Harry C. Baker to construct, the preeminent wooden-tracked roller coaster. The design had to be exceptionally tight and steep because of the relatively small ground space that was available for the attraction. The construction of this masterpiece began on a historical site which was significant in the world of roller coasters -- the Cyclone graces the place which contained the world's very first roller coaster, LaMarcus A. Thompson's Switchback Railway".

The coaster became an official New York City Landmark in July 12, 1988.  Later in June 26, 1991 , on its 59th year anniversary, the coaster became an official National Historic Landmark.

After the close of Astroland, its former operator Carol Albert was supposed to continue operating the Cyclone Roller Coaster but it later went to the hands of Luna Park's Zamperla.  They are doing a wonderful job of, not only, operating the Cyclone Roller Coaster but, bringing life, in full living color, back into Coney Island as well!

(Image above courtesy of Coasterimage.com)

Giant Observation Wheel Proposed For New York City

A mega observation wheel four times higher and wider than Coney Island’s Wonder Wheel is planned for New York City.  The proposed 600 hundred foot viewing attraction would revitalize the northern end of Staten Island at the ferry terminal and create a new iconic structure for the skyline of New York City.

The Staten Island Advance reported early this week that New York’s Plaza Capital Group Management LLC plans to build the attraction over current parking lots on the north shore of Staten Island next to the ferry terminal.  The lots sit on both sides of Yankee’s minor league stadium.  In addition, other bids were proposed for the parcels with mix-use office and commercial spaces to be developed.  The bids were requests by the New York Economic Development Corporation (EDC) last year to revitalize the area at the St. George waterfront.

Spokesman for the EDC, Benjamin Branham said the agency is in negotiations with multiple respondents for the two sites.  Nothing else was mentioned due to EDC’s regulation against publicizing any information while request for bids are in the works.  Leaving some speculation as to whether or not the city will get its observation wheel

Parcels for development - Staten Island

This is not the first time that a giant observation wheel was proposed for New York.  Office Landlord Douglas Durst and Tom Fox, co-founder of New York Water Taxi, tried to bring an observation wheel to Governors Island unsuccessfully in the past.

In a recent statement, Mr. Fox said that they had once considered Staten Island, as well, for a possible site of the attraction, but felt it would be an unfeasible choice, due to that fact that the site sits five miles from the tip of Manhattan.  During bad weather, fog, or a heavy summer haze the view would be too obscure.

KC rendering of wheel distance to Manhattan southern tip - Google view

Also in 2004 backers of the London Eye planned to build s a similar wheel which would stand at 450 feet (close to the London Eye’s height) on the East River waterfront directly between Battery Park and the Brooklyn Bridge.  After a requested study done by the backers of Maddame Tassaud’s Wax Museum, the plan fizzled.

The London Eye

Though the ferry service to Staten Island hauls an estimated 2 million tourists a year, most visitors turn back immediately without exploring the Staten Island side.  Besides the commuters, most tourists take the ferry for the larger scope of the Manhattan skyline and the up-close views of the Statue of Liberty.  The area around the ferry terminal on Staten Island has been neglected and run down for decades with little or no retail or entertainment.  The proposed giant wheel and its connected amenities would spark a revitalization of the area.

Moscow

Though some Coney Island lovers would fantasize about having a new gargantuan icon erected near the boardwalk to go along with its shiny new major features, surely an observation wheel at 600 feet high fits best where the islands of the metropolitan area meet.  Of course, other Coney lovers would balk at the idea of overshadow its current iconic structures, anyway

But a perfectly situated attraction like an observation wheel at any great viewing spot in New York City would generate big business.  The London Eye at 443 feet tall has been slowly churning on the South Bank of London at the Thames River for 12 years and each year attracting 3.5 million visitors.  London’s iconic attraction wheel is operated by The Merlin EntertainmentGroup, the second largest attraction operator in the world   Only second to the Disney Company and bigger than Universal.

Photo by Ethan Prater

The fascination with mega observation wheels are reflected in its big business around the world.  Already wheels have popped up in other major cities around the globe.  Giant observation structures  are being built or have already been built in Malaysia; Manchester, England; Singapore, and Melbourne, Australia, Berlin, Dubai, Beijing, Orlando and Las Vegas.

According to the New York Times; out of the 3.5 million visitors that the London Eye and other wheels experience per year, on an average – most riders usually pay $30 dollars or more for a half hour rotation. And usually a wheel will come with other major developments at its base.  At the foot of the observation wheels in both Singapore and Melbourne, visitors walk through shops and eateries as they make their way to boarding the structure.  Unlike the London Eye which has a slow queue line that wraps around it.  But the competition for these wheels are much like the race for skyscrapers; always building higher, more luxurious, and full of boasting amenities.  

The Wiener Riesenrad, Vienna

The newer and more slick observation wheels boasts climate controlled rotating capsules and hold about 30 to 40 visitors.  Some hold events like business meetings and private parties. Others come equipped with plasma screens and even bars.  A smaller observation wheel, more like a Ferris wheel, at only 152 feet tall in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan has proposed perhaps the only indoor wheel.  The base of the structure is planned to house a bowling alley, a multiplex, a restaurant, and even a planetarium.  The Wiener Riesenrad or Giant Wheel in Vienna, which was rebuilt in 1945 after the original (1897) burnt down, boasts 15 spacious gondolas with several decked out as formal dining carriages.

Las Vegas

When it comes to wheeling and dealing, Las Vegas will not be left behind.  Along its flagrant strip, two two observation wheel attractions are to be erected and add more neon to the night skyline.  One is already being in the construction phase.  The SkyVueobservation wheel near the Mandalay Bay will rise up 500 feet when completed and stand higher than the hotel casino itself.  SkyVue’s developer Howard Bullock said, “Many others have been talking about erecting an observation wheel in Las Vegas for years, we just decided we were going to do it”.

In a fast moving technological world where only soaring higher and pushing further seems to be the only way we can seek gratification from our success and triumph.  Colossal structures that defy our natural bounds are becoming another fascination in our quest for reaching and going over the limits for our amusements.

[Observation Wheels from around the world - after the jump]

Printed Trophies For This Year's Mermaid Parade! What the?

Image courtesy of The Great Fredini

This past Saturday, June 23rd 2012, Coney Island USA's big annual cultural arts event celebrated it's 30th year of the Mermaid Parade.  This year the organization wanted to improve on the various trophies handed out to its winning marches, so they decided to pretty much printed them out. That's right, just...printed them out.  However, not on regular paper or even on ultra high quality paper.

It turns out the trophies were printed out on a 3D printer that doesn't print on paper but rather spews out layers upon layers of plastic liquid which hardens.

The 3D printing machine is called a Thing-O-matic and it's by a company called Markerbot.  In a press release by the Coney Island USA organization, a statement read: "For this year’s 30th anniversary extravaganza, Coney Island USA’s resident artistic impresario extraordinaire, Fred Kahl aka. the Great Fredini has collaborated with Brooklyn’s 3D printing powerhouse MakerBot Industries to create one of a kind 3D printed trophies celebrating each of the parade’s 11 award categories!"

The eleven trophy categories which include the Judge’s Choice, Best Sea Creature, Best Mermaid, Best Neptune, and Best Push-Pull Float, printed 'sculptures', if you will, also came in vibrant colors.  A photo album can be viewed at The Great Fredini's Cabinet of Curiosities.

As far as Markerbot, the future of desktop printing even going 3D, could be the next big thing. Most anything can be printed like a knob for your washing machine, a money clip, a lens cap, or even an iPhone case with belt clip.  Practically, anything that can be scanned or created into a 3D computer graphic.  A consumer printer price starts at about $1,200.  Imagine, the future of 3D printing could bring metal or other material custom-made objects printed in your home or office.  In fact, not a printer but a mini factory.

To see the Thing-O-Bot in action see video below.

To see the winners of the eleven trophies for this year's Mermaid Parade visit the Coney Island USA website.

Coney Goodies: Sculptures Of Iconic Coney Structures

Wonder Wheel Sculpture by Herbert Hoover

The Coney Island Summer season of 2012 is well under way.  Within the recent years the look of Coney Island has been changing.  Some call it a progression towards a new and shiny Coney Island while others miss the way it was just a few years ago.  But fortunately, what has stayed are its iconic structures that will always define Coney Island well into the 21 Century.

Wonder Wheel Sculpture by Herbert Hoover made of microlite plywood

Two of these structures and their uniqueness have been captured in beautiful microlite plywood sculpts by local artist Herbert Hoover, who loves creating cast metal jewelry and sculptures.  The Wonder Wheel replica stands at 14 inches and is about equal that in width. It boasts 16 intricate cars.  Though they are fixed, Herbert Hoover, who does go by that name (his friends call him Herb), says he may do a kinetic version of the Wonder Wheel sculpture with moving cars in the future.  Though that would surely be an engineering puzzle, he says.

Parachute Jump by Herb Hoover

Herbert has also paid homage to Coney Island's other iconic structure; the Parachute Jump.  Another wooden sculpt, which stands taller at 18 inches. He calls this not only a Coney icon but also a quintessential Brooklyn figure.

The Parachute Jump was first created for a special annual alumni dinner at Brooklyn College as a centerpiece for their event. 

Herb was later asked by the College to do more centerpieces for them.  He then constructed the Wonder Wheel sculpture along with a replica of the Manhattan Bridge.  Herbert didn't just create one of each of these magnificent pieces, but several of them that were auctioned off to benefit the college.  Thirty centerpieces were bought at an auction in a single evening.

His passion for sculpting started with replicas of edible items.  He started with a pewter saltine cracker.  Later that grew into creating sculpts and casts of more snacks and other various food items in pewter and sterling silver.  He said he has now expanded to doing custom requests, some of it food others not.

Wonder Wheel model in construction

When asked about his inspiration and how he started sculpting, Herbert told Kinetic Carnival, "My first wooden sculpture was a rocket, it was inspired by the airplane kits I made with my dad as a kid. Designing the Wonder Wheel and Parachute Jump took about a week each and building one takes about a day and a half. It was a pretty difficult process, some parts were tricky to figure out how to make and some parts were tricky to fit together - but most of it is just assembly time because the pieces are all symmetrical".

Wonder Wheel model in construction

The Wonder Wheel and the Parachute Jump sculptures have been placed on Etsy, the Ebay for art. For an additional price, Herbert can illuminate the structures with LED lighting to make it an electrifying and dazzling centerpiece for any Coney Island, Brooklyn, and New York lover.

[More images can be seen at Herbert Hoover's Flickr page.]

Coney Events: The Authorized Coney Island Tour

Guaranteeing accuracy and humor, the authorized tour of Coney Island is developed in association with founder of Coney Island USA; Dick Zigun and licensed by NYC tour guides. It's an hour walking tour of Coney Island. (expect to get sand in your shoes).  The tour starts at the Coney Island Museum on Surf Avenue and W. 12th Street and takes you through Coney Island's significant places on the weekends all year-round.  It's $25 per person.  Is this a replacement for Captain Bob?  Ask your tour guide.  By appointment only. Part of New York Tiny Tours.  Registered tour guide: Kim Rancourt.

The Authorized Coney Island Tour
Saturdays and Sundays, all year round

$25 per person.

at Coney Island USA
1208 Surf Ave.

Coney Events: A Coney Island Of The Behind

More than just an entertaining spectacle; Michael Schwartz is back with his whimsical showcase about Coney Island.  Coney Island of the Behind is a an evening full of poetry, storytelling, comedy, dance, burlesque, music and mayhem - and all about Coney Island!

from the Coney Island USA website:

Schwartz is an award winning writer, actor, director, comedian, and singer/songwriter and will be performing some of the pieces that have been wowing audiences all over New York City and that will be included in his upcoming book.

Scheduled to appear at A CONEY ISLAND OF THE BEHIND:

Michael Schwartz: poetry, storytelling, comedic characters, singing

Alfonso Cruz: burlesque dancing/comedy, singing

Robert Ross: 2011 inductee into NY Blues Hall of Fame

Pearl Quick: star of new award winning film TO BE HEARD

Aneta Brodski: star of new PBS Independent Lens film DEAF JAM

Mermaid Hawley and Bill Brovold: “The Coney Island Love Letters”

Celia Next Time: burlesque dancing/comedy

Brant Lyon: ragtime piano extraordinaire

Hank Coyote Wagner: howling harmonica

Sheridan Lee Roberts: dancing and singing

Mollye’s Muffins: the launch of scrumptious homemade Brooklyn muffin co. (never before seen recipes available at show)

Sudsy Spirits: The Freak Bar

PLUS SPECIAL SURPRISE GUESTS

Click here to buy tickets in advance.

Coney Artland Productions presents:

A Coney Island of the Behind!
Saturday, December 3, 2011
7 pm

$10 in advance or at the door.

at Coney Island USA - Sideshows By The Seashore
1208 Surf Ave.

11th Annual Coney Island Film Festival Line Up

The 11th Annual Coney Island Film Festival starts its weekend of screenings this Friday, September 23rd, 2011 and runs through Sunday, September, 25th 2011.  The screening venues will be at:

SIDESHOWS BY THE SEASHORE 1208 Surf Ave. Ground Floor and CONEY ISLAND MUSEUM 1208 Surf Ave. 2nd Floor including a special screening at The New York Aquarium's 4D Theater.

The line up for the festival include:

"The Last Immortal", a documentary film by Charles Denson kicks off the festival,  It screens at the Coney Island Museum at 1208 Surf Avenue on the 2nd floor at 7:30.

"Somebody's Hero"

The festival boasts 16 programs, full of short and feature length narratives, and documentaries.  Opening night parties on with live sideshow featuring Insectavora and Kryssy Kocktail and burlesque performances by Lefty Lucy, Creamy Stevens, and Sizzle Dizzle.  Plus variety acts and go go girls.  You can do both the party and opening night screening with the festival pass. 

"Guard Dog Global Jam"

Program 1 has; Tony Sirico from "The Sopranos" and "Somebody's Hero" about an accountant who moonlights as a superhero.  Program 2 includes a few animated films like "Guard Dog Global Jam", and "Place Stamp Here", in addition to short films exploring the lives of young adults, which include "Perspective", "DayDreams", and "Three Things".   Program 3, features the full-length "Nefertitty", which looks like some hilarious send up of the seventies underground cinema gone Tarantino!  But the titties 'nefer' ends, 'cause "Love Is Hard: A Burlesque Fairytale" screens right afterwards. 

Program 4, and Program 5 gives you a bit more serious fare of the mysterious and spooky.  An aging escape artist goes over the edge in, "Goodbye Winter", while a "Posthumous Proposal" is made when a widower attempts to suppress his grief by altering his perception of reality.  There is an awkward meeting at an "After-School Special", while a lonely "Imposter" is desperate for a woman.  In the feature film "The Super", looks like he may go over the edge with his tenants.  Program 6 seems to offer a bit of the surreal with a Psycho-Fugue Circus in "Carny", and hopelessness and paranoia set into the "Holes for Eyes".  There is also "A Fable about Beauty", some "Good Taste", and feelings that are brutally unmasked at "The Dinner Meeting".

"The Open City"

There are dolls and animated characters running around in Program 7, amidst a portrait of the city as "The Open City" makes New York artists open their eyes.  Program 8 will downright horrify you!   You'll see "Boys From Coney Island" in Program 9, which also includes a silent film, "Ode To Charlie" and celebrity Chef Ronnie leads a double life in "The Craving".  A yearly ritual brings "The Warriors" - and they'll be waiting for you in Program 10.  "Tom And Sabrina Divorce" in Program 11 as "Ma In Her Kerchief" comes to terms with death, and her daughter in law.  There's a "Hidden Star" and a "Dame Factory" along with a "First Kiss", and a "Heart Break", and a few ladies of Booby Hatch that say "Suck It!", all in Program 12! Oh, there's also a film about boners with a "Flagpole".

Light fare and music can be found in Program 13.  A music video, a "Death of a Popstar", and "Tommy's Pumpkin" screen in Program 14.  Program 15 features a "Heavy Metal Picnic", and a "Great Disaster", while a documentary film takes an in-depth look as "Long Island Uncovered", visits the chaos, trials, and tribulations in the life of musicians.  When it comes to Coney Island films you can "Take Me There" anytime.  Whether it's to "Shoot the Freak"or "Save Coney Island", "A Day In The Life of Coney Island", is more than a "Neptune Jam" beside the "IC Waters'.  Program 16 also screens "The Blue Umbrella", which looks like another Coney Island funny film by filmmakers Amanda Jencsik and Chris DePierro.

"A Day In The Life Of Coney Island"

A special screening will be held at the New York Aquarium's 4D Theater, Saturday, September 24, 2011 at 5:30 and is of free admission. Screening will be "Atlantic Crossing: A Robot's Daring Mission"

This year Coney Island's Film Festival's Saturday Night Party starts at 7pm at the New York Aquarium, which features the bands Moto Wrays and Spanking Charlene.  Also some more burlesque and sideshow performances along with a few more go go girls.  Hosted by Adam the First Real Man.  Don't miss this huge event under a huge tent.

For detailed venue locations and prices, visit the Coney Island Film Festival website.

Order your tickets before more programs are sold out!

Coney Vid: Day To Night On The Boardwalk

(Click image to enlarge)

Stephen Wilkes stood high above Coney this past summer to take a long exposure photograph of Coney Island's Luna Park and Boardwalk. This video shows the stills as the day progressed into night.

Wilkes recently spoke about the 15-hour continuous shot to Amusing the Zillion and said, “A select group of images are then digitally blended into one photograph, capturing the changing of time in a single frame.”  He also said that a time lapse video will be made.  Well here it is!

Day To Night by Stephen Wilkes



Posted by SSTrueLoveMarinus [YouTube]

Coney Events: The 9th Annual New York Burlesque Festival

Thirsty Girl Productions presents a festival of bold bravada and sparkling campiness adorned with pinches of glamour here and there and everywhere in these four days of glitter and glamour.  Entertaining nine years of burlesque, The 9th Annual New York Burlesque Festival struts their glitz September 29th through October 2nd 2011.

The stages are set to shine with the following performers:

Angie Pontani (NYC), Miss Exotic World 2011 Indigo Blue (Seattle), Imogen KellyCherry Typhoon (Japan), Gentry de Paris (France), The Stage Door Johnnies (Chicago), The World Famous Pontani Sisters (NYC), MsTickle (NYC), Besty Bottom Dollar (Victoria, BC) Obskyura (Toronto), Albert Cadabra (NYC), Gin Minsky (NYC), Little Brooklyn (NYC), Bobbie Burlesque (Hollywood), Liza Rose (Seattle), Darlinda Just Darlinda (NYC), Miss Saturn (NYC), The Cheesecake Burlesque Revue (Victoria, BC), The Dolls of Doom (Chicago), Harvest Moon (NYC), Go-Go Harder (NYC), Honey Wil de (London),Helen Pontani (NYC), The Shanghai Pearl (Seattle), Minnie Tonka (NYC), Viva La Muerte (Chicago), The Love Show (NYC), Shelly Watson (NYC), Leroi the Girl Boi (NYC), and many more! (Australia),

Thirsty Girl & Pontani Productions Present

The 9th Annual New York Burlesque Festival

Sept 29^th-October 2^nd, 2011

4 Days & Nights of Glitter and Glamour in Gotham

Featuring over 100 performers from around the Globe!

FESTIVAL DATES AND VENUES:

Thursday September 29th:

The Teaser Party

Hosted By The World Famous *BOB*

The Bell House

149 7th Street (between 2nd & 3rd),

Brooklyn

www.thebellhouseny.com

Doors: 7pm Show: 8pm

$10 advance, $15 at the door

Friday September 30^th

The Premiere Party

Hosted By Scotty the Blue Bunny

Brooklyn Bowl

61 Wythe Ave,

Brooklyn NY 11211

www.brooklynbowl.com

Doors: 8pm Show: 9pm

Cover charge: $10

Saturday October 1^st

The Saturday Spectacular

Hosted by Murray Hill

BB Kings

237 West 42nd Street, NYC

bbkingblues.com

Doors 6:00, Show 7:30

$25 advanced general admission, $30 at the door

$65 VIP advanced

Saturday Night Official NYBF After Party

Featuring DJ’s, GOGO’s & More!

11pm-1am @ Lucille’s Bar

(Next door to BB Kings and free for all Saturday ticket holders)

Sunday October 2^nd

The Golden Pastie Awards

Hosted by Miss Astrid

Highline Ballroom

431 16^th Street

NYC, 10011

www.highlineballroom.com

Doors: 7pm

Show: 8pm

$20 general Admission advanced, $25 at the door

$30 VIP, $35 at the door

GA seating is first come first serve

Sunday Night Official NYBF "All Stripped Out" After Party presented by BurlesqueBeat.com

DJs 2BTs, cocktail specials, mini-burgers and more!

11pm - 2am

POP Burger 60 9th Avenue btw. 14/15th Streets

http://www.popburger.com/

For More information & to purchase our 4-Day Pass please visit

www.thenewyorkburlesquefestival.com