b roll: attack of the hot tomato....

aaron sanchez @ union square greenmarket

aug 22, 2011

zipping through the park this morning, i spied aaron sanchez (with crew and all, hard not to notice) and snapped this photo for my friend z, who at some point in time, had a little thing for him. i didn't know if he was shooting a commercial, or a food network veggie segment, or a heat seeker's segment. no time to stick around--i just wanted the photo for her.

she's apparently no longer keen. but i sent word about the sighting through my little social media network and i soon found out that a colleague of mine from years ago, rafael, who runs the amazing showdown pictures, just finished wrapping the show that they were in the park shooting this b-roll for. "aaron loves new york" will debut on the spanish language channel utilisima this fall.

yay for showdown!

and: if the show gets picked up for season 2, i think i get to visit the set...

so let's look out for it, si?

snow day: before it turned to rain, and then...THUNDERSNOW

(i'm staying inside for the thundersnow.)

from my "beat": park ave and union square

oh look. we're plowing everything now, even the plazas on park ave.

(though these john deere's were probably privately hired...)

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market seen: m quan

michele quan was one of my favorite models.

michele quan, 1987 © Deborah Feingold/Corbis

and then she pursued a career as a jewelry maker (i may always wish i'd invested in a particular 18k gold ring with a cascade of yellow sapphires that she, as part of me and ro, made.)

now independent of that collaboration, she is an artist (in a broader sense). her work has a spirit that i like very much. not sure there's much more to explain, except that it gives me a lift.

so you can imagine how excited i was to see her at the union square market on my way to work.

she still has the coolest hair....

photos of michele quan at union square @ anita aguilar

market seen: only in new york

i like'em husky...

how beautiful, the delicate husks and the colors...

green and purple "revolutionary" tomatillos.

more "revolutionaries": ground husk cherry tomatoes.

oak grove plantation/ the blew family, pittstown, nj.

union square, nyc october 6, 2010.

market fresh: do you see what i see?

a man, grimacing?

ziggy?

mr. tomato head, courtesy of oak grove plantation, and the blew family, pittstown, nj.

union square, nyc october 6, 2010.

squirrel crazy/crazy squirrel

yesterday at work, in the midst of the afternoon lull, i started giggling. i couldn't help it.

my co-workers didn't say anything (this time).

i sort of wish they had because i would have explained that my maximum favorite writer (and i'd probably have to also explain the "maximum" bit) just wrote this really funny story about a squirrel. and i would have let them read it over my shoulder, or i'd have sent it to them.

it's actually not a squirrel "story," it's a lead-in to something about robby ginepri. but i love that he shared the news this way.

and then i thought of all the squirrels that have besieged, annoyed and impressed my friends, like "the scraper" at 147 bleecker. and the squirrel that frequents teresa's neighbor's roof (she flings slices of toast at him. he's clearly never going to leave).

by coincidence, today, at the union square market, the samascott orchards folks were all in a dither about some crazy squirrel that kept stealing their $7/pound italian-american chestnuts.

and then he popped up!


and he zipped and hopped boldly around, probably for the rest of the afternoon. sort of crazy and cute. but not sure how i feel about that garlic after his city squirrel nose and paws got all into it...

splashes, color

today was a dreary, wet one.

but there were a few brights spots, at the market:

all photos © anita aguilar

natural beauties

pretty eggs. lauded for their lusciousness by bill buford. pricey, too, at $10/dozen.

from the the lovingly tended araucana/americana hens of david graves, of berkshire berries.

union square greenmarket. march 21, 2009.