Random Photos

So many blog posts backed up like cars at a bottleneck. Instead, here are a few photos from recent weeks.The new Barclay's Center, in BrooklynFish's Eddy's election tributeAn unknown New Yorker's political statementStreet fair, West Village, at nightThe line at the Maison Martin Margiela launch at H&MFEMA pop-up office, Jersey CityOne of many destroyed cars (a dizzying phalanx lines the far eastend of 14th Street in Manhattan)Skaters at the Rockefeller...

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Fiscal Cliff/Austerity Bomb/Phantom Crisis

There have been many excellent reports online about the alleged "fiscal cliff," which is not a cliff at all but more of a "slope," and which really merits a far better metaphor of the kind that Paul Krugman and others have devised, the "austerity" bomb. A while ago, I wrote about what was behind the push for austerity, and I urge J's Theater readers who have not already read Krugman's column today, "Fighting Fiscal Phantoms" to review it, because...

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Normalcy + iPhone Portraits

It has been two weeks since the national and local elections, and three weeks since Tropical Storm Sandy, and I feel, at least in some ways, that life is slowly returning to something approaching normalcy, even if there are still many signs that everyone and everyone around me is still recovering, to varying degrees, from the devastation and trauma the storm wrought. I cannot complain and over all feel very thankful; we made it through mostly unscathed,...

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Quote: Jonas Mekas

Still from Andy Warhol's Empire(from Behindthehype.com)Q: Earlier this year you selected films for a "Boring Masterpieces" series at Anthology [Film Archives].  A few of the 60 or so people that came for Andy Warhol's Empire, stayed for its entire running time of 8 hours and 5 minutes. You were the cameraman for Empire - what was the experience of making that film?A: It was the spring of 1964. My loft was the Film-Maker's Cooperative office:...

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Obama & Biden Win Reelection!

President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle ObamaVice President Joe Biden and Second Lady Dr. Jill Biden(Sept. 7, 2012, Portsmouth, NH (AP Photo/Jim Cole))They did it, we did it! President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden won yesterday's national contest over Republicans Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, by a margin of 303 electoral votes to 203 for the Romney-Ryan ticket! Our 44th President and his Vice President will have 4 more years to...

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A Little of This, A Little of That

Today, after a false morning alarm, which involved the electricity surging on while I was in the shower,    only to shut off not even 10 minutes later, it finally clicked back on as I was scrubbing the refrigerator clean of its foetor, and there was easily enough within its walls and those of the little cooler that became a makeshift mini-fridge to supply biochemistry experiments at every local university and college. So far, it has held....

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By Candlelight

Because that, battery-powered lanterns and flashlights are all we have right now, nearly six days and counting.(If you think you might find yourself in the path of a natural event strong enough to knock out the power, stock up!)- Posted using BlogPress from my iPh...

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Surviving Sandy

My apologies for all the errors in the post on the color "blue"! I wrote it after a long, busy teaching day, and only noted well afterwards how garbled it was. It should be less so now. There are no solid sheets of blue above us today, nor have there been for the last few days. Instead, it's been shades of gray, gray clouds, gray sky, all auguring what we're being told is the worst storm to hit this area in a year. I wasn't here last October when...

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