Excerpts from some print articles about Remote: Time ("Sex, Drinks and Videotape," March 25, 2002) "Normally, if you want to meet someone at a bar, you have to walk over and deliver your best pickup line. But at Remote, you scope out people using video monitors hooked up to a network of cameras scattered around the room. Then you can push a button next to your monitor to let the object of your desire know that you're watching. Still interested? Pick up the phone and start chatting. If you are like me--and like lots of people I saw at Remote the two times I visited--you just might end up saying and doing all kinds of things you never dared before. It feels safe when only a camera is staring back at you. " Popular Science ("Singles Bar on Steriods," March 2002) "It's strange, but this place does make meeting people easier. 'Do you know how this works?' is a great icebreaker - even, perhaps especially, if the person is sitting right next to you." "You can also take pictures with [the cocktail consoles], which are immediately uploaded to www.remotelounge.com for later download. One night I was there, the trigger-happy crowd took 2,013 guilt-free, voyeuristic shots. " Metro ("A Lounge for the Wired Age," Feb/March, 2002) "Some people love to watch. And others love to be watched. Remote Lounge, a new theme bar on the Bowery, promises to satisfy both." The New Yorker ("Remote Lounge," February 18 & 25, 2002) "Technology and cocktails converge in public at the Remote Lounge, a high-concept chat room in the East Village." "Because there are no instructions, figuring out how to work the monitor, joystick-operated mini-camera, and telephone is half the fun. That, and catching the occasional young woman seeking the attention of other patrons by performing suggestive acts with her handset." Los Angeles Times, Sunday Times Living Section ("Cocktails and Closed-Circuit Flirting," January 13, 2002) "Perhaps if they were young, hip and single today, Manhattan's Remote Lounge is where Stanley Kubrick and Michel Foucault would go scouting for dates." Daily News, Sunday Paper, City Section ("Peep Show," November 4, 2001) "With its gray-and-orange stylized futuristic design, the interior looks like an ultra-hip NASA control room." "If you're too old to be on MTV's 'Real World' and not the type to set sail for Temptation Island, you can still fulfill your exhibitionistic fantasies - even if its just for one night" I.D. ("Reality Entertainment," November 2001) "If you can imagine Cape Canaveral as Austin Powers' favorite hair salon run by Barbarella with DJs, VJs and artists doing the shampoos, cuts and blowdrys, you'll have some idea of the club's atmosphere." BPM, Issue 29 ("I'll Be Watching You," November, 2001) "Remote Lounge will turn your genius for channel surfing into a survival skill as your ho-hum weekend becomes a technological love safari." The New York Times, Sunday Times Style Section ("Absolute Voyeurism, Spiked With Narcissism," Oct. 7, 2001) "Housed in a storefront at 327 Bowery, the Remote Lounge is perhaps the most media-intensive public setting in the city, a futuristic cocktail bar (NASA gray, traffic-cone orange) outfitted with 60 miniature cameras and twice that many video monitors, all capable of displaying whatever happens to wander in front of those cameras." Time Out New York ("Lab Experiment," October 4, 2001) "Remote may inspire you to embrace the tech revolution again. The new-media bar - which features an ironic, retro-futuristic design - is dotted with consoles, each sporting a digital camera (controlled by a joystick) and a monitor. Film yourself or watch the feed from 59 other cameras. You can also send flirty messages to other consoles, or snap a photo that will be posted on the bar’s site. Be careful: After a few drinks, you may not be ready for your close-up." Paper ("Remote," October 2001) "The singles scene meets the cyber age at this innovative Bowery bar, which boasts cocktail consoles straight out of the Jetsons." "Welcome to cruising in the Digital Age!" Next ("On the Scene," September 28, 2001) "…in a time when security and surveillance has become a real issue (and even a necessity), a place that seems poised for success is the East Village’s new bar Remote (327 Bowery near 2nd St.) where we attended a preview party last week. Its sleek, teal design is offset by clusters of multi-functioning station tables that boast mini-cameras and TV monitors that you control. You can flip channels, swivel cameras and check out a prospective date from any angle in both crisp black and white and grainy color. And it’s a place where someone will always be watching your back (and your face and butt, for that matter), while you watch theirs. Walls of TV screens abound as well as great sound by some stylin’ DJ’s." Silicon Alley Reporter ("WeDrinkInPublic.com," September 2001) "Remote promises to be a dream come true for voyeurs and exhibitionists: Sit and be watched, or let your eyeball-like camera scan the room for the next object of your affection. But to move beyond merely a high-tech flirtation funhouse, the lounge plans also to host interactive art openings and technology demonstrations." Artbyte ("Close-Up and Personal," July/August 2001) "Controlled Entropy Ventures proves getting drunk and talking to people who are not there is alive and well on the Bowery." "New York hasn't seen such a place - catering exclusively to unfettered self-expression and exhibitionism - since The Factory, circa 1963." Flyer ("Remote Control," August 2001) "Remote...offers a likely glimpse at tomorrow’s parties. The lounge environment channels internet chat rooms, a multimedia art gallery, bar, and MTV’s The Real World into a chic but comfortable setting." City Magazine ("Remote," Summer 2001) "If you're tired of seeing others on so-called reality TV, plug into Remote, where you can always cast yourself in a starring role." Flatiron Magazine (Skidoo, Summer 2001) "Have you always wanted to be part of the “real-TV” phenomenon? All of your dreams will soon come true." T3 Magazine ("The Future of Fun," 17 July 2001) "...New York's latest swanky nightclub. 'Remote' is a techno pleasure palace with 50 video cameras dotted around the bar to capture the fun and relay live pictures to close-circuit TV screens."