Archive for June, 2012

Sex sells @ Emmanuel Fremin gallery opening

June 29, 2012

may have been one of the hottest openings with around 500 people crowding to get in a small space. when i say hot i mean the temperature of the room.

after the crowd cleared out a bit and we weren’t pressed up against each other there was room to see the art hanging around the room

or just have a chance to converse with your fellow gallery goer.

all under the watchful eyes and smiling face of emmanuel who’s always wandering around introducing people to art and artist.

while the lovely lady Mary Nguyen has her own way of attracting people

an enjoyable evening of art and friendship had by all

well some people just want to start out cooler than others as this young lady with her bodypainter friend surrounded by sweaty togs.

exhibit B

or this fellow contemplating his LCD screen, did he get it?

to see more pictures of the opening check out the farcebook page here

my favorite pic of the night happened when we were walking from the bus to gallery on 11th avenue.  my wife against the sunset

in her sexy shoes and summer skirt woohoo

jene

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Brooklyn’s Photoville….this weekend june 28-31,2012

June 28, 2012

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Special for DART Subscribers at Photoville

By Peggy Roalf   Thursday June 28, 2012

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SPECIAL INVITATION FROM THE PHOTOVILLE TEAM


Hi Everyone,

I hope you are all having a lovely few days and gearing up for the final 4 days of PHOTOVILLE!

As many of you know we are going to try and have the PDN / Curator Party – which was rained out last week – this Thursday from 7pm – 10pm

To receive a VIP wristband – please RSVP – do reply early as capacity is limited.

PHOTOVILLE will also be open to the public during the party, and there will be a bar and food trucks on site throughout the night. [For those without the VIP bracelet, it’s a cash bar/food service].

Many many thanks and see you all Thursday we hope!

Cheers,

Sam, Dave and Laura

PHOTOVILLE

In the event that it rains, please check on Facebook, Twitter and HERE for updates.

THURSDAY, JUNE 28

4:30pm – 5:30pm Talk: Musee Magazine “The Art of Fashion Portraiture” Fashion is much more than glossy magazines and designer labels. Discover how to translate a portrait into an iconic fashion image. Presented by Andrea Blanch

FRIDAY, JUNE 29

5:00pm – 6:00pm Artist Talk: Ed Kashi “Photojournalisms: Images and Journals from Ed Kashi’s New Book” Kashi will discuss the evolution of this unique and personal project, shedding light on what it means to be balance the rigorous work of a traveling photojournalist while also raising a family.

6:30pm – 7:30pm Panel: Daylight Magazine “Photographs Not Taken” A fascinating discussion of photographers’ essays about failed attempts to make a picture. Panelists: Will Steacy, Ed Kashi, Elinor Carucci. Moderated by Taj Forer and Michael Itkoff

6:00pm – 8:00pm En Foco “Editing Your Portfolio”” A seminar filled with tips on how to build a strong, cohesive body of work, followed by a group critique. Participants are encouraged to bring a work-in-progress portfolio, some prints, their CV and artist statement. Register here: http://photoville-enfocoportfolio-629.eventbrite.com/

8:30pm United Photo Industries presents “Highlights from The Fence” A presentation of juror highlights from The Fence, UPI’s summer-long outdoor photo exhibition exploring the multi-faceted theme of ‘community.’

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SATURDAY, JUNE 30 | TALKS AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS

11:15am – 12:00pm Presentation: “Running or Ruining Your Photography Business” Van Driel speaks about the mistakes of talented photographers who ruin their businesses, only because they neglect commercial ‘rules’.

12:30pm – 1:15pm Presentation: The American Society of Media Photographers “The Future of Photography” Are we over saturating our culture with imagery or is visual imagery simply the foremost way we communicate? Presented by Gail Mooney

1:30pm – 2:30pm Panel: Rock Paper Photo “Beyond the Picture: The Art of Selling Music Photography” What does it take for music and entertainment photographers to successfully market and sell their work? Panelists: Anna Webber, Baron Wolman, Julie Grahame

2:45pm – 3:45pm Artist Talk: Wyatt Gallery “Using Your Photography to Make A Difference” Wyatt Gallery talks about his show “Tent Life: Haiti” and discusses his experience with HealHaiti.org. Discover how you can use your style of photography to make a difference.

4:00pm – 5:00pm Talk: En Foco “Foot in the Door” Getting your “Foot in the Door,” is a seminar for emerging photographers and photo-based artists looking to prepare themselves for new opportunities, and take their marketing to the next level.

5:15pm – 6:15pm Community Collaborations Community-based art is a hyphenated field in which artists collaborate with people whose lives directly inform the subject matter to express collective meaning, help participants find their voice, and build community. Panelists: Petruska Bazin Larsen (The Laundromat Project), Leah Cohen (Red Hook Justice Project), Katie Kline (ICP), Lorie Novak (NYU) and teen photographers. Presented by Lorie Novak

6:30pm – 7:30pm “Talk: The Impossible Project “Embracing the Impossible” This is the story of how a handful of passionate analog instant film enthusiasts saved the last remaining Polaroid plant and all the adversities they had to overcome.”

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SATURDAY, JUNE 30 | HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS

11:15am – 12:15pm The Impossible Project “An Introduction to Impossible Film and the Polaroid 600 Camera” This workshop is designed to explore the full potential and versatility of any Polaroid 600 series camera. Register here: http://photoville-impossible-630.eventbrite.com/

12:30pm – 1:30pm Lomography “Introduction to Lomography” The history and philosophy of Lomography. Try out a Lomography camera for yourself as we take aphotowalk around the park. Register here: http://photoville-introtolomo-630.eventbrite.com/

2:00pm – 3:00pm Lomography “Diana F+” Join us to learn the basics of the Diana F+ camera while getting some useful tips & tricks on how to get the best images. Register here: http://photoville-dianaf-630.eventbrite.com/ 

3:30pm – 4:30pm International Center of Photography “How to Make a Camera out of Anything” This workshop takes a quick look at the history, theory, and practice of pinhole photography and participants make their own camera. Presented by Liz Sales. Register here: http://photoville-icppinhole-630.eventbrite.com/

5:00pm – 6:00pm Lomography “Plastic Fantastic Workshop” From multi-lens marvels like the Actionsampler, Supersampler, Oktomat, and Pop 9, to the 170 degree-grabbing magic of the Fisheye and Fisheye2. Register here: http://photoville-plasticfantastic-630.eventbrite.com/

6:15pm – 7:15pm Orwo “Film Winding Workshop/Demonstration” Presented by George Campbell Registration not required. 

7:30pm – 8:30pm Lomography “Lomographic Lightpainting” Light up Brooklyn with color-splashed, flash-popped, light-streaked Lomographic masterpieces. Register here: http://photoville-lightpainting-630.eventbrite.com/

10:00am – 5:00pm Center for Alternative Processes “One Day Tintype Workshop” This will be an intensive one-day introduction to the tintype process that was the leading mode of photography in the 1850′s and 1860′s. Cost: $250 registration + $50 materials fee Register here: http://capworkshops.org

SATURDAY, JUNE 30 | NIGHTTIME PROJECTION
8:30pm FotoVisura presents “Women in Photography” Adriana Teresa Letorney will showcase a selection of work by emerging women photographers from the FotoVisuracommunity.

SUNDAY, JULY 1 | TALKS AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS

11:15am – 12:15pm Talk: “Copyright 2.0” Copyright 2.0 will review key provisions of the Copyright law that all photographers should know, and will challenge listeners to think about how the law and user’s behavior must be reformed to make the law more effective. Presented by Michelle Bogre

12:30pm – 1:30pm Artist Talk: Janelle Lynch “Los Jardines de Mexico” Lynch will discuss her recent work, including the work from her book “Los Jardines de Mexico.” Presented by The Camera Club of New York

2:00pm – 3:00pm Panel: “Photography as Activism” This presentation will include a brief history of activist photography, and then a panel of committed photographers will present current projects and discuss their role as advocacy journalists. Panelists TBA Presented by Michelle Bogre

3:15pm – 4:15pm Panel: The Center for Photography at Woodstock “Surface Tension” A curatorial discussion of recent exhibitions which present work by photographic artists which free the medium of its traditional documentary impulse, instead creating images which push our understanding of what a photograph could and should become via gestures of abstraction, deconstruction, and manipulation by the artists’ hand. Panelists: Ariel Shanberg (Executive Director, CPW), Akemi Hiatt (Program Associate, CPW), Michael Foley (Foley Gallery), and other panelist(s) TBA

4:30pm – 5:30pm Talk: The Impossible Project “Embracing the Impossible” This is the story of how a handful of passionate analog instant film enthusiasts saved the last remaining Polaroid plant and all the adversities they had to overcome.

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SUNDAY, JULY 1 | HANDS ON WORKSHOPS

11:15am – 12:15pm Lomography “Meet the Lovely Diana Mini” In this workshop we explore all the tricks and techniques that the Diana Mini is capable of! Register here:http://photoville-dianamini-630.eventbrite.com/

12:30pm – 1:30pm The Impossible Project “An Introduction to Impossible film and The Polaroid SX-70 Camera” Delve into the magical world of the iconic Polaroid SX-70 camera with the new Impossible Project film. Register here: http://photoville-impossible-71.eventbrite.com/

2:00pm – 3:00pm Lomography “The Legacy of the LC-A” The ultimate meet and greet to the camera that started it all: The Lomo LC-A! Register here: http://photoville-lcalegacy-71.eventbrite.com/

3:30pm – 4:30pm International Center of Photography “How to Make a Camera out of Anything” This workshop takes a quick look at the history, theory, and practice of pinhole photography and participants will make their own pinhole camera. Presented by Liz Sales Register here: http://photoville-icppinhole-71.eventbrite.com/

5:00pm – 6:00pm Lomography “La Sardina Skylines” Say hello to the 35mm sardine can camera, La Sardina! Register here: http://photoville-lasardina-71.eventbrite.com/ 

SUNDAY, JULY 1 | SPECIAL DEMONSTRATION

11:00am – 5:00pm The Center for Alternative Photography “Tintype Photo Booth” If you are looking for a portrait photograph that captures the passion of your unique, individual personality, step into our portable tintype photo booth and experience the magic of this 19th century photographic process! Cost $35 public / $30 for Penumbra Foundation members More information here: http://capworkshops.org/photoville-2012/

All photos: Peggy Roalf

NOTE: DART is a media sponsor – and a big fan – of Photoville.

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June 27, 2012

a nice morning read to begin the day, thought i’d pass this along to you

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the case of the missing umbrella & jpmorgans convictions

June 26, 2012

today is my day for rest and relaxation  maybe catching up with my life, there is always a bill or two to be paid sitting here but sometimes the desk is clear, though my mind can still be cloudy. this past weekend i worked on our XR 7 convertible putting in 3 point seat belts for the rear seat. it took all weekend for me, a fellow with a little brain, to figure out. it wasn’t as easy as i though it would be as i had done front belts in two other cars this was different.  as my dancers friends say ‘there are only so many plies in the knees.’

i caught up on some errands yesterday which included going to the bank making a deposit where my umbrella was taken by an unknowned person, now this is New York City and wouldn’t you be surprised to learn there are crooks and thieves hiding out in our banks. just ask jamie diamond about how many convictions this bank has had under his leadership. oh the us senate banking committee  forgot to ask him but you can look it up here at jpmorgan watch. now the umbrella wasn’t in one of his branches  so he’s clear of that, but mr. diamond  must have a problem hiring competent people to work for him as they all keeping getting involved in these schemes.

but i find it hard to believe none of our senators nor representatives asked questions about his banks ethics. do you think they were all in his pocket? could that be true?

you’ve just got to keep your eyes open, yet bankers have a way with them, my bank Capital One keeps changing accounts from free to fee based after awhile, and now an orange umbrella or one of their customers has something they didn’t come in with, is that called a profit or theft?

today i ordered my winnings from the contest Color it Red from o’reilly press and tried to order tickets from BAMs but i am not a member so i’ll have to wait until all the members get their pick, oh ok. i”ve aways wanted to see Einstein on the Beach since working on the production at the Met opera house years ago. We’ll be in Alaska when tickets go on sale so i am hoping i can buy something nice on line. oh well

we now have iphones, which we got the other weekend from verizon who sells the iPhones but doesn’t service them nor troubleshoot them. in the box our iphones came in there is a pamphlet Finger tips a quick start into a new world for new eyes,, or old people who wear glasses. as mary says sometimes way too much information.

i am not doing very well communicating with model type people these days. it must be me it doesn’t seem possible that everyone else is off the wall, but it could be. a fashion stylist named bunny style was looking for togs who do motion fashion photography, what ever that is? she posted her farcebook page, have they changed your email address yet on farcebook showing her fashions. there didn’t look like anything showing motion and i asked her if she wasn’t thinking emotion. she deleted my message before answering it, oh well.

it’s getting to be nap time as i was woke up early this morning from the constructions workers underneath my bedroom window this knocking out spaces for new windows for the summers renovation. it’s a long haul because i only see a few people working on the site. are they out of money already? so much for them at this rate they’ll be working on this building a lifetime before finishing the project.

but i’ll finish up now, i’ll post more pictures of my projects as i get them.

jene

 

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nothing special

June 21, 2012

cleaning my desktop of things i’ve been sent, odd little sayings.

way to go barry

yea who really gives a damn who loves whom as long as love is in your life and you’re in this world, we need as much love as possible.

jene

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2013 Manhattan Arts Grants applications & guidelines

June 20, 2012

 

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Grants for 2013 Arts Projects
– Information Sessions Announced!

Each year LMCC offers three grant programs that award over $500,000 in project grants in every artistic discipline

across Manhattan’s neighborhoods.

 

To learn more about the programs and how to apply, attend one of our free information sessions this summer.

The schedule is now available online.

 

Guidelines and Applications available online: Monday, July 2
Application Deadline: Thursday, September 13

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THE FUND & MCAF

The Fund for Creative Communities (The Fund) and Manhattan Community Arts Fund (MCAF) are community arts

programs providing grants of up to $5,000 for projects that bring high quality art projects to people and places all over

Manhattan. The grants are for Manhattan-based artists, organizations, and arts groups to share their work and engage

audiences and communities.

CREATIVE CURRICULA: Important Program Changes for 2013

Creative Curricula is an arts education program that supports teaching artists and arts organizations for in-school

partnerships with Manhattan public schools to offer K-12 arts education projects in the classroom.

Program focus and requirements have changed. Find out more by attending an information session,

required for all 2013 applicants.

LMCC’s Manhattan Arts Grants are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City

Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the Decentralization program of the

New York State Council on the Arts, and Wells Fargo.

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Karin + Raoul a morning read that is when i have one

June 20, 2012

i’ve been very busy these past few weeks planning  trips to alaska and another one to hati so i’ve not had much time nor energy to write anything. this is  a reblog from my sometimes morning read from a couple of togs Karin  and  Raoul  who’s work  i find interesting and i might learn from, if only i had a budget to work with. most of my works budgets are under $100 to below. not much to work with for sure.

maybe you’ll find their blog interesting enough to follow it yourself. i’ve always been a newton fan especially since seeing a doucmentary on PBS about his life and work, but today i can’t find the link, as Phoo would say i have a very small brain.

HELMUT NEWTON – AWKARDLY TWISTED AND STRETCHED, MANIPULATED AND RAW AND SEXY – WRITTEN by {HEIDI SHAPIRO}

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Heidi Shapiro  – Photographed by Hassan Kinley

Defeat is never a wise opening for a writer, although I begrudgingly begin from this cornered position.  If it helps, think of me as the six-foot-tall -model that I am, naked and tense and faced – as many a model has been – with the gaze of Helmut Newton’s authority, overshadowed and unable to assert myself except through his lens.

This… this is supposed to be tribute to Helmut Newton, in words.  The laughable quandary is that such icons have already surpassed this stage of reportage.  A cacophony of language – awkwardly twisted and stretched, manipulated and raw and sexy – might be the only path left to honestly travel.  Yet it would make for an odd piece indeed, and one in which you’d only see Helmut through the fetishized spaces if you knew to keep a keen eye out for him.

The fact is, tributes to Helmut Newton are already rank.  Ask any established or aspiring photographer of women to list his/her influences, and you’re bound to hear Helmut’s name gurgled out in wave after wave of husky admiration.  If you resist this urge to inquire and rely instead on your eyes, you’ll see the etched outlines of Helmut far, far more.  Newton’s must be one of the most prolifically imitated styles in photography, and glimpses of his iconography ooze from nearly every corner of the fashion industry.  The man’s mark is a meme, replicating rabidly throughout the generations of artists who have come after him and have been unable to escape the insidious weight of his influence.  When it’s not a clear case of compliment through imitation – and certainly those abound – Helmut’s presence is often still felt in his absence.  If you are not acquainted with the breadth of his work, you risk replicating it.  And when you have diligently done your homework in an attempt to seek a niche of originality, Helmut’s shadow hounds you yet, concentrated as you must be on ensuring non-Helmutian styles or ideas.  In this way, the postmodernists had it right; Newton is the unspoken absence who permeates our presence, that which is inescapably linked, if only subconsciously, to the whole symbolic system.  We can no longer extricate him from the photographic discourse even if we wanted to.

I have – unsurprisingly – mixed reactions to Newton’s work.  On the one hand, I’m unapologetically smitten with night photography and beautiful, powerful women.  And without question, I fall into the camp of the voyeur.  But what makes Newton’s photography so powerful and influential, I believe, is the repulsive tension it exudes.  Yes, yes, there was an “edginess” to his work, a pushing of boundaries into the fetishistic and erotic; all old hat by now.  And yes, he has a flare for the decadent – photography reeking of wealth and sex.  What fascinates and disturbs me is the hint of cold cruelty in some of his work.  While Helmut was drawn towards statuesque and powerful women, the lure seems less in the women themselves and more in his power over them, in his ability to manipulate their bodies to his asserted desire, to subjugate, to manage, to control.  His seems like the desire we models encounter in many a male photographer: a playing out of dominance over apparently untouchable beauties, that if you cannot have them in the real world, you can seek some satisfaction (and revenge?) by bending them to your camera’s will. If what you voyeuristically desire in a photograph is a sense of some intimate insight into a woman’s character, you will not find it in Newton. But again and again, you will find Newton himself.  His skill is largely in his ability to self-reflect.  Nothing about his work conveys any desire to produce a picture that will sate the vanity of his subject.  Newton could seemingly care less about her desires; she is a tool to manifest his vision alone.  I suspect this quality of his art is indicative both of brilliant talent and unshakable egoism.  But then, you don’t break into the highest echelons of the fashion industry without precisely those two characteristics.

Similarly, if you seek in a photograph a sense of authenticity, some real moment captured and undirected, you will not find it in Newton.  His staging is screamingly apparent, his style defined by his mise-en-scenes.  Perhaps Newton intended his conspicuous posing as caricature to the fashion industry, as critical commentary, even as satire (disposable clothes, indifferent clothes, desired clothes; disposable women, indifferent women, desired women).  But if that’s the case, it’s just as apparent that his satire-as-documentary style has secured itself as a staple of the industry, an unshakable totem.  The Newtonian fantasies of his photographs use sex as a commercial tool – and though hardly his invention, Helmut realized this marriage so successfully that I have trouble seeing any way of rescinding the associations.  From the standpoint of human psychology, I’m not even sure such a reversal is possible or desirable.  But it does have me recognizing that some element of both my praise and critique lies not in Helmut’s lack of skill, but in the recognition of his utter and unquestioned efficacy. – Heidi Shapiro

their blog has some interesting links to photographers and some new york shows. i like karin’s photography, very sensual but some women are built that way.

jene

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Sex cells and here at Emmanuel Fremin gallery it’s on or off the walls

June 14, 2012

“Sex Cells” at Emmanuel Fremin Gallery
Curated by Asli Unal

The most universal subject of art through the ages, the human nude has been a vehicle for commercialization, a symbol of freedom, and a topic of heated debate. In “Sex Cells,” eig…ht contemporary photographers explore how we direct sex appeal, both consciously and unconsciously, as a means of empowerment and manipulation. From the provocative to the grotesque, the featured artists combine familiar props and subjects in an original manner as they tackle themes of seduction, bondage, religion and bestiality. A reception on Thursday night, June 28th, kicks off the month long exhibition at the Emmanuel Fremin Gallery.


Reka Nyari’s jarring compositions juxtapose lust and disgust by pairing a beautiful model with animal carcasses. Her stark compositions present the objectified body as a target for consumption and challenge the viewer’s ability to hold two opposing emotions simultaneously. Using herself as the model, Brooklyn artist Erica Simone poses nude in public while unabashedly going about her daily routines. Simone wittily challenges the nature of the nude in art, examining the line between the mundane and the sexualized. The context tells us to interpret her as the subject of the photographs rather than the object of a sexual fantasy.

“Sex Cells” is on display from June 28th-July 28th, 2012 at the Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, Suite 508, New York, NY 10001.
Vernissage: June 28th, 6-8 p.m.

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this weeks work or play, whatever you call it

June 1, 2012

this weeks work or play, whatever you call it.

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this weeks work or play, whatever you call it

June 1, 2012

it’s exhausting and exciting creating. so exhausting setting up the studio from a living area but that’s the only way i can afford to make images with people. maybe i am going about this the wrong way but i really don’t know of another way. it’s like the rest of my life learn a trade then go about practice it. some become masters, i am considered  pretty good at what i do but don’t ask me.

all i see are the missed shots, the ones i could have done better, i must have funny eyes in order to see this way or could it be my irish heritage? but it is what it is and i do best i can, as Phoo would say ‘with a very small brain.’

i’ve been meaning to write again about apple and so many other things that course through my brain, for a small one it’s pretty active. but i just finished up on this photo shoot, editing and doing the post production that saves my ass. i can only fix the fixable nothing can save stupidity.

i contact a few people a week on model mayhem some who are looking for work some want to be’s looking for a professional photographer, makes me smile some i just shake my head at. but some are sincere so you never know what will walk through the door. this is what we start with.

semi nude beginning

not impressed? me neither but wait these’s more, i must admit michelle does have some bumps on her forehead which i softened in PS 4 as my PS 6 trial is over. i’ll probably buy 6 for some of it’s features but not today.

over the shoulder,

what i wanted to shoot  with this woman was lingerie but she didn’t have any outfits that matched other than this garter belt that i liked and i’ve none to share with her.

garter strap

so now what am i going to do? mary bought some hats weeks ago so i’d give this a try

almost a halo

thanks TJ Max but michelle brought her fur wrap which we used

rabbit fur

more fur fun

but see the spectral lens refractions, lighting problems all day but i include this image because i like michelle’s quality

i also had another new toy some satin fabric one of my  jobs was throwing out so i dragged that back to studio

white satin with nude

which reminds me of ‘Last tango in Paris’ and i’ve no idea why

waiting

now that’s a nice sandwich, as the say at the stage deli

i tried to keep things simple, well simple for me at least.  but i am pretty committed to learning to work with my white lightning strobes instead of my tungsten lighting. i should sell it , way too much space lost to stuff.

take care and good night, i’ll be gone for a week or so doing the tony’s to earn a few bucks for gas money for the guzzler. last weekend driving back from the shore a NJ trooper pulled in behind us, then along side until he was in front, just looking at the car. people do that because it’s not every day you see american history before your eyes.

1970 mercury xr7 cougar convertible.

jene

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