Due to the storm, the show was moved up to 3pm so every­one in atten­dance could return home safely before the Franken­storm named Sandy. Shortly after the Moon­al­ice artists returned to their hotel to buckle down before the storm, a crane col­lapsed that was across the street from the hotel. The NYFP informed the hotel man­age­ment that every­one had to be evac­u­ated as we were in harms way. With only a cou­ple hours before the storm was to arrive, every­one was ordered to pack up their things and head down to the lobby and wait for fur­ther instructions.

The Tribe was in great hands and together in groups, we walked to our new des­ti­na­tion on 7th Avenue, The Sher­a­ton. Walk­ing to the hotel was thank­fully unevent­ful, as there was more than rain falling that night. Art Direc­tor Chris Shaw was out snap­ping pic­tures of the swing­ing crane and the strong winds blew some slabs of gran­ite from the sky­scrap­ers loose. All of a sud­den pieces of mar­ble came crash­ing down, nar­rowly miss­ing him and Chuck Sperry, check out the video below — you can hear a loud crash! There was also a close call for Alexan­dra Fis­cher, how was stand­ing directly under this crane when it collapsed.

Bet­ter to play it safe and spend some time in the new digs. It took no time for the Moon­al­ice Artists to make the new hotel feel like home. Before you knew it the food, drinks, and cre­ative energy were flow­ing again! There were many adven­tures to be had, com­plete with a hotel party in John Seabury’s room!

Many heart­felt sto­ries were exchanged over meals spent together after the storm had passed, every­one was lucky to be healthy and alive. We are so grate­ful to Moon­al­ice for tak­ing such amaz­ing care of us, words can’t express the love we all felt. The Moon­al­ice poster artists wanted to share some of their expe­ri­ences with you, below are some pic­tures and video for you to enjoy! Den­nis Loren even wrote a song! Down­load the lyrics here: Wait­ing For Sandy by Den­nis Loren

Pho­tographs from Alexan­dra Fischer

Pho­tographs from Car­olyn Ferris

Pho­tographs & Video from Chris Shaw

Pho­tographs from Dave Hunter

Pho­tographs from Den­nis Loren

Pho­tographs from Gary Houston

Pho­to­graph & Video from Nick Cernak

Pho­tographs from John Mavroudis

Pho­tographs from Stan­ley Mouse

Illus­tra­tion & Words from Wes Wilson

When it came over the tele­vi­sion news we were also draw­ing with each other. When I remem­bered ear­lier notic­ing ‘a crane’ out my win­dow and across the street I jumped up to take a quick look at the one out the win­dow. Since our hotel win­dow view was from below and a dif­fer­ent angle I noticed that it was sim­i­lar — so Johnny and Lee took a look too — and lo and behold! it was the same one that was dan­gling in the wind in the tele­vi­sion news!!! Right away every­body except me took off - they had to check it out first hand — out there on the street. I thought it best to stay put since I knew that any­thing could be any­time sud­denly clang­ing down at 32 feet per sec­ond from upwards of the 80th floor above. Sev­eral hours earlier,I was star­tled awake by a loud noise. It sounded like a sub­stan­tial piece of pipe or metal had hit the pave­ment below. Con­struc­tion mate­ri­als were being blown off very high up open walled con­struc­tion sites that hadn’t been ade­quately tied down. Winds strong enough to tear off heavy can­vas tarps, bend and pry con­struc­tion cranes off their mount­ings, were also peel­ing any loose stuff off tall build­ings. These odds and ends were occa­sion­ally crash­ing into the streets and side­walks below. This made it very dan­ger­ous to be out­side. At one point a chunk of rock-like hard black mate­r­ial came down — impact­ing too close to Alex and Chris for com­fort!  I’ve saved a piece as a sou­venir.. This was why, dur­ing Sandy, even the streets out­side our upper Man­hat­tan hotel were one of the dan­ger zones. I’ve got a draw­ing that was stopped at the time the news redi­rected our atten­tion from then on.

All The Best To You All!
– Wes Wilson.