tagged w/ The East Village
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Now, this is quite a scene...very confusing at first. Looking at this picture, I thought, “What is a YTIC KROY WEN?” Then I realized, it's probably someplace down on the Lower East Side in New York City. Hah...and not New Rock City, either. But the photograph is very well done, the timing is terrific, getting the cyclist in view at the right moment. And even the dirty window adds something to this composition!
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/photo-of-the-day-new-rock-city/Now, this is quite a scene...very confusing at first. Looking at this picture, I... more
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As she did for winter 2010, Mother Nature has truly outdone herself this summer, brewing up a miserable combination of heat and humidity that has enveloped not only the northeastern U.S., but much of the Northern Hemisphere as well. July was the warmest single calendar month of all time in Washington, D.C. New York City and Philadelphia experienced their second-warmest months since records began in the late 1800s, and Chicago's had an all-time record number of consecutive days with temperatures of 80 degrees or higher this year.
The summer heat wave hit New York city from Tribeca to Union Square and from the beaches to the parks, sending many city residents flocking to their neighborhood parks seeking relief. This piece contains a number of wonderful photographs of people trying to escape the scorching heat by heading to Central Park, Union Square and Tomkins Square Park. All kinds of people, and sometimes they're acting very goofy! It also includes a great slide show and two music videos, Chicago's “Saturday in the Park” and The Lovin' Spoonful's “Summer in the City.”
It's very cool, so please enjoy it!
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/photos-of-the-day-saturday-in-the-park/As she did for winter 2010, Mother Nature has truly outdone herself this summer,... more
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Now at first glance, this strikes me as a very somber, melancholy scene. The picture shows an old fellow sitting all alone there in what looks like his darkened, shabby little room in an old SRO hotel on the Bowery. But then again, maybe the man's in a peaceful kind of solitude, reminiscing about remembrances of things past as he gazes up at the sunny sky through the window. Reminds me so much of June Carter's songs, which is why these two music videos go along with this wonderful photograph so well. Yes, June Carter singing, “Keep on the Sunny Side.” Perfect.
This piece includes the remarkable high-resolution color photograph, as well as the two music videos.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/07/18/photo-of-the-day-look-on-the-sunny-side/Now at first glance, this strikes me as a very somber, melancholy scene. The picture... more
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Oh my, this is so very tragically sad...it makes one want to quickly look away, to put on a fraudulent act like we didn't really see her. Don't have time to even give her a perfunctory glance, because we're too busy figuring out where the pretty party people are going to be later on, or working hard at planning tonight's haute cuisine dining experience or engrossed in private calculations of how well our investments did today.
Looks like the old woman is in her late 70s, maybe even older. How to manage looking away, when her eyes are looking straight at us, piercing our hearts with her beseeching gaze leveled from beneath that tattered wig. Pleading for what....maybe for just a bit of warmth and tenderness. Maybe for just a bit of mutually-reciprocal recognition, after all these years.
Maybe, just maybe, we end up finding it impossible to disregard her. And then she looks back at us with a little smile. Which makes the little film that goes along with this picture so much more fitting, a heartbreaking documentary short about homelessness in the big city.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/photo-of-the-day-still-homeless-after-all-these-years/Oh my, this is so very tragically sad...it makes one want to quickly look away, to put... more
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This multi-media piece on the legacy of New York’s Lower East Side, comprised of photographs, a slide show and a documentary short, initially appears to assume the form of a parody. However, beneath the humorously droll surface of the composition, another layer reveals a more serious message. It is a genuinely sincere remembrance for the spiritual heritage of New York City and the Lower East Side before they were forever changed by the waves of rapid and often greedy gentrification, which took hold in the 1980s and quickly accelerated during the 2000s.
The energy and camaraderie of the people who over multi-generations banded together in the face of suffering and adversity is truly captivating. Over the last 100 years, the East Village/Lower East Side neighborhood has served as the first home for cultural icons who have included financial barons, political leaders and national celebrities in the performing arts.
This piece presents a number of photographs, a slide show and a documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/a-tribute-to-the-legacy-of-new-yorks-lower-east-side/This multi-media piece on the legacy of New York’s Lower East Side, comprised of... more
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"Patti Smith: Dream of Life" is a new film that’s been 12 years in the making, a work that reveals an intimate, impressionistic portrait of a woman who is still blazing her own trail through late middle age, a woman who has seen and suffered great loss and who is perhaps the only major surviving connection from New York City’s Beat generation, to the 1970s Manhattan art scene, to the birth of punk, to the present.
The film is a paean to life, resoundingly joyous and elegiac, warm and vibrantly present, a collage of moods and moments from one immensely talented woman’s richly lived time on earth. "Dream of Life" is a beautiful and occasionally haunting artistic creation, a meditation on aging and mortality, an intimate study of an unusual kind of fame and the portrait of a genuinely remarkable person.
Stunning photographs, five remarkable videos and a wonderful photo-gallery are included.
Have a look and enjoy!!"Patti Smith: Dream of Life" is a new film that’s been 12 years in the... more
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This is a remarkable pictorial documentary by the acclaimed Japanese photographer Q. Sakamaki, a reminiscence about his own early days in New York City. Upon arriving in the city in 1986, he moved to the East Village, where he was alternately charmed and horrified by what he saw. Most surprising to him was the huge number of people who were living on the sidewalks.
Before long he was drawn to Tompkins Square Park, which was then the East Village's central gathering spot, where he found a lively mix of people. There were law students, punks, poets and older, lifelong residents who could remember the days of the New Deal.
Twenty years ago this week the neighborhood was also much like a war zone as protesters clashed with police officers seeking to enforce a curfew in the park. “This [work] focuses on Tompkins Square Park as the symbol and stronghold of the anti-gentrification movement, the scene of one of the most important political and avant-garde movements in New York history,” Mr. Sakamaki explains.
The documentary is both an homage and a farewell to a lost place and lost people, displaced by rapid and often greedy gentrification.
Stunning photographs and wonderful video-slideshow of Mr. Sakamaki's pictorial documentary (with music by Nick Drake) are included.This is a remarkable pictorial documentary by the acclaimed Japanese photographer Q.... more
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"Patti Smith: An American Experience." Patti was living in New York's Chelsea Hotel with Robert Mapplethorpe, when she helped put punk-rock and the East Village punk-rock landmark CBGB on the map. The documentary "Patti Smith: Dream of Life" has just premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
Photographs and music videos are included."Patti Smith: An American Experience." Patti was living in New York's... more
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