It's been a great few days for watching the skies, both in Park Slope (above) and Manhattan (below).
I picked up a copy of Gavin Pretor-Pinney's The Cloudspotter's Guide at Powerhouse Books
yesterday to try and make sense of it all.

Last night the bandshell in Prospect Park was the venue for an soul-lifting performance. Femi Kuti (left) and his band the Positive Force (above) were here as part of the free series of shows from Celebrate Brooklyn.

A very photogenic storm passed by Brooklyn tonight. What's going on in those structures?

Last weekend the island we love served up another dose of the surreal.
Amongst the abandoned military housing, zombies prepared to shoot
the movie Isle of the Dead.

Rooftop Films will be showing Zachary Levy's documentary  Strongman in Fort Greene on Saturday. The summary: "A man strong enough to bend a penny with just his fingers, Stanless Steel reaches middle age, career disappointments and difficult personal relationships that begin to test his strengths and force him to struggle with the weaknesses around him -- including his own."

Date: Saturday, May 30th
Venue: on the roof of the Brooklyn Tech
Address: 29 Fort Greene Place (Fort Greene, Brooklyn)
Tickets: $9 to $25; doors 8 p.m.

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On Monday we visited the "grand opening" of the Festival by the Sea, billed as a "uniquely entertaining and amusing marketplace in Coney Island." Goodbye, rides and go-kart track and batting cages! Hello, mobile phones and laminated photocopies! Elegant grace note: the bin liners flapping from the roof skeleton. Imagine an undersubscribed car-boot sale held on the surface of the moon. Viva Coney!