Time Out of NY

Hmm, I may well be on the freggin moon, but it is nice to go away and experience space. I'm in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, hiking with an evolutionary biologist.

Water--down the Hatch

On the training ship for the US Navy in New London, CT. This was long ago a German ship that we took as booty during WWII but is built quite soundly; German engineering stands the test of time.

I was visiting the ship with family for a WWII reunion to celebrate my dad's service in Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge and beyond.

This week's theme: SHOES--how fabulous!

So apropos for my favorite subject. Here is M on the most special day of Fulan getting her Phd at NYU. Isn't it fabulous? One month later I was so inspired to buy my very on Miso Pretty oil cloth bag at the Victoria&Albert in London on a wild weekend of shopping, art and other debauchery.

But since then the oil cloth bags have become more and more available--bought a whole bunch up in P-town last summer...

Pee Wee and Tila

Has anyone noticed that when Tila Tequilla and Pee-Wee Herman shout at people, they sound exactly the same?

Time: Infinity

Like who isn't obsessed with death?
This is taken in a crypt at the Greenwood Cemetery, Sunset Park, Brooklyn. It smells stale and earthy down there. Each October, my friend, choreographer, Martha Bowers, has a performance where she makes the entire space activated by angels.

Odd Signs

A Visit to the Frida Khalo Show at the Philadelphia Museum

Seeing the Frida show at the Philadelphia Museum was like visiting an old friend that you hadn't seen for a long time although you didn't really know why you drifted apart. Suspiciously absent from the narrative, although curated by Hayden Herrera, one of my original sources for all things Frida, were her affairs with women. I found this odd because they did mention Noguchi and Trotsky and of course those of Diego the frogs'. It was however lovely to see the beautiful Frida cross-dressing in her family photos and no one seemed to mind.

Of course I enjoyed seeing Frieda in the collection of Dolores Huerta that I saw when in Xochimillo, Mexico after a ride in the floating gardens. The paintings somehow belonged there, in their context. I couldn't help thinking what Madge has in her collection--I think the great one with the white lace around the face. I was compelled to buy that image as a scarf.

A highlight was the mini Moses mural--a cross between something you'd see in El Barrio and a head shop for it's cosmic elements. Damn, she packed a cast of Cecil B. DeMille in such a relatively small frame!

The overarching theme of intense pain made my spine curl into a spiral twist, but all was greatly assuaged by the excellent mini-mall of visual merchandising; life sized, 3-Dimensional representations of the best portraits bowled you over as if one of the baskets of bloody fruits that you just left seeing in the show hit you smack in the head—I got dizzy! Her work became one giant vanitas, and, I had to cling to life by swiping my credit card mightily with big swoops and my friend’s 10% off membership discount. He had to hold me back from buying coffee mugs with any of the more bloody depictions, but I’m sorry I did not buy the fake mustache kit!

13+1

Photo Hunt: Glass...as in Shattered

Photo Hunt Theme: High

HIGH above Washington Square Park, the view from NYU's Skirball Center reveals an urban crop circle. When they go to renovate this amazing urban gathering space, they reveal...a potter's field....How ironic for all the partying and pot smoking that has gone on here.

This Week's Photo Hunt Theme: PARTY

It's a party in motion; the Colombian chiva.
I caught this chiva in the town of Evigado just outside the wonderful city of Medillin that I got to visit one Christmas. What a terrific trip!

PhotoHunter 2/16: Free

Somewhere on 23rd Street, a hand opened, and some balloons went...
freee....

PhotoHunter Theme: Heavy

Downtown Medellin, Colombia, the main plaza is full of sculptures created by the city's native son: Bottero. I was so lucky to see so many Botero's all at once and loved being in Medellin.

This Week's Photo Hunt Theme: Narrow

Down in Jamaica, Mun, a visit to Bob Marley's house/shrine, people just want to sell anything, in
any way possible!

PhotoHunter Theme: Old-Fashioned

It's 75 year old tea brewing up just outside London in Camberwell, UK.

Photo Hunter: This week's theme: Important!

I usually try to post this every weekend, (discipline.) But because I am going away again, I'll post this important image now. Dedicated to my Burmese student-friends...

This was in a very central square in Milano when I was there in November. It's across from La Scala, the opera house and right by the what inspired the shopping mall: Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galleria_Vittorio_Emanuele_II

The Metamorphosis

Nano-fiction (must have an exact word count of 55 words, including the title)


On one of those deep night piss calls, she became startled; a large green creature had landed on the full-length bedroom mirror. Determined, photographed it-finally captured in its glory. There in the Brooklyn night, she fell back to sleep, having no idea how it left. She knew it was time for a change…

Photo-Hunter: This week's theme: skinny

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PhotoHunter: This week's theme: Delicious

This man, sitting on a random bench, in a not really there, pretend, "green-space"? (I guess), sitting on Flatbush Avenue was savoring his meat.