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Thursday, March 1, 2012

photo op: this is new york...

and when the POTUS and FLOTUS want to enjoy a dinner at one of our town's premier farm-to-table restaurants, we don't roll out the red carpet.

we bring the big trucks:

the big white sanitation trucks. they blocked access to a few avenues surrounding the restaurant.

funny to see and funny to think about (did they clean them?) but they look properly imposing when strolling by...

(don't mess...)

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

read a good poem: travelling

"secret spot," versailles park

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Travelling

This is the spot:—how mildly does the sun
Shine in between the fading leaves! the air
In the habitual silence of this wood
Is more than silent: and this bed of heath,
Where shall we find so sweet a resting-place?
Come!—let me see thee sink into a dream
Of quiet thoughts,—protracted till thine eye
Be calm as water when the winds are gone
And no one can tell whither.—my sweet friend!
We two have had such happy hours together
That my heart melts in me to think of it.

--William Wordsworth via poets.org

photo op: shabby chic

lafayette street, nyc

Thursday, February 23, 2012

read a good poem: what we want

i liked everything about her: the pose, the patterns...

union square, nyc.

feb 23, 2012

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and: i hope you like this poem (it took a lot of reading to find this one tonight)

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What We Want

What we want
is never simple.
We move among the things
we thought we wanted:
a face, a room, an open book
and these things bear our names--
now they want us.
But what we want appears
in dreams, wearing disguises.
We fall past,
holding out our arms
and in the morning
our arms ache.
We don't remember the dream,
but the dream remembers us.
It is there all day
as an animal is there
under the table,
as the stars are there
even in full sun.

-by Linda Pastan, via the poem hunter

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

fashion week 2012: reflection, 2

at the rachel roy show

lincoln center, nyc

Monday, February 20, 2012

fashion week 2012: on display

one of my favorite things about fashion week at lincoln center is the use of alice tully hall as a staging area. its open facade--a 3-story glass wall--effectively "pulls back" the curtain, so we can see the models wearing the collection, the artists, stylists and designers working on finishing touches before the "performance" and the cluster of lucky photographers and reporters who are assigned to capture it all.

but for me there's also an interesting interaction with street life, as shown in some of the reflections: the surrounding architecture, the pedestrians and observers, cars and cabs, "meet" the action inside in a random but dynamic way. i wanted to try to capture that energy or that idea; these were all taken before the rachel roy show. i think a few of these are better than others, but it was a fun experiment.

i hope you like them.