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wedding pictures

December 22, 2009

here are a nice couple on their wedding day, well sort of we took these pictures as part of a promation from their upcoming show of  a section of “Forever Hold Your Peace (for now)”, will be performed at the upcoming Frenetic Fringe Festival in Houston, TX this month.

we all have a pretty good time doing  these pics. it’s all part of my philosophy of ‘meeting interesting people’ to work with. it seems Rob Davison of kinetic architecture and i are interested in some of the same performance expressions  so we have said ‘lets work together’. who knows what will come out of it.

bride & groom

Kinetic Architecture

bride & groom dancing

Kinetic Architecture

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streb

December 18, 2009

i went over to see rehearsals at streb because i really like their work but as things go i really didn’t get anything i liked except this young man learning how to work with silk. oh well

maybe someday i’ll figure out how to take a professional picture but this is all i got

abstract color image of silk acrobat

abstract color image of silk acrobat

whats really bothering me these days is Apple dropping KEY CAPS from Snow Leopard and i have to go into system preferences to find it and Adobe seems to have dropped symbols from CS 4 all pretty stupid ideas if you ask me. where did all those groovy symbols go? oh  but i still miss all the symbols in KEY CAPS

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for artists who want to know about new spaces and opportunities

December 18, 2009
chashama Studio Application – Brooklyn Army Terminal
DEADLINE : January 12, 5pm – at our office / January 11 – postmark

The chashama Studio Program at the Brooklyn Army Terminal (BAT) encompasses 89 visual artist studios in two neighboring buildings in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

We are seeking artists to join our BAT Studio community, beginning occupancy February 2010.

chashama offers low-cost, work-only studio space to eligible individual artists for a period up to one year (depending on availability of the space from the landlord), subject to renewal. Organizations are not eligible. This program does not provide living space.

Studios:
range in size from 200 to 800 square feet,
will cost no more than $1 per square foot per month.
have 8-foot high walls, with ceiling heights that range from 12 to 15 feet.
24-hour access
freight elevators during business hours

A communal environment is encouraged through proximity of the studio artists. The studios do not have individual studio doors (if an artist wishes for privacy, he/she may hang fireproof material over the studio opening.) For an image of the building and a sample studio, check out
http://www.chashama.org/_brooklyn/index.htm

Artists who are awarded a studio are expected to work in their spaces on a consistent and ongoing basis, and must be prepared to actively use their studio a minimum of 50 hours a month or they will lose it; sign-in sheets are used to record studio use. Studios may not be sublet.

Each artist provides a security deposit ($200) along with the first month’s rent upon signing the lease agreement. Studio artists are asked to participate in one (1) open house per year in which their studios are open to public visitation.

Eligibility: All applicants must be residents of the United States or have a valid visa not expiring before the end of the residency, be 18 years or older, and able to demonstrate need for a studio. Applicants may not be residents in another studio program at the same time as their chashama residency, unless agreed to by chashama.

Welding, work that requires use of fire, or work that creates an abundance of air-born particulate matter is not allowed. If your work samples are of this type of work, please describe how your future projects may differ.

Selection Process:
chashama will place artists in a studio based on the information received in the application.
A panel of arts professionals and artists will review applications and select artists based on
• Artistic merit. Quality of work.

We will then interview selected artists to determine
• Need. The need for space measured against other options available.
• Use. Potential for making the most of time in the studio.
• Personal responsibility. Personal references and ability to pay fees.

All applicants will be notified in February if they have been selected for interview. Please do not call our office for selection results.

link to pdf application: http://www.chashama.org/downloads/chashama_Studio_Application_BAT.pdf

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“for artists who want to know about new spaces and opportunities”

December 18, 2009

here is an organization looking for various artist performers they have the space you have the talent.

Applications accepted on an ongoing basis – but don’t delay, spaces fill up quickly!

Subject to availability, chashama is now offering a $50/week rental of a Sprint wireless broadband router (with $50 deposit).

The Windows Program is a hallmark public art initiative of chashama, enlivening vacant storefronts with multi-disciplinary performances and visual installations. The program offers art in unexpected public places, and aims to build a broader audience for contemporary art and performance.

This program has two points of entry: by curated rental or via Windows Awards, and a competitive award process. Rentals are by the week or month and are offered at affordable, subsidized rates. (currently between $250 – $1000 a week). Windows Awards offers free space, and marketing, technical and administrative support, and may include a small stipend. All Windows Program projects are chosen based upon feasibility, venue limitations, and artistic/experimental vision.

Though not a necessity, we have a preference for work that actively engages the passerby.

Note: It is recommended that you make site visits to these window spaces to see which space would be the best for your project before submitting an application.

266 W 37th: This window space is located on a Garment District block with heavy daytime foot traffic, and it is fully equipped with theatrical sound and lighting. If you are proposing a visual art installation, please consider this. For a complete floor plan and technical specs, please go to http://www.chashama.org/266w37/index.php.

112 W 44th: This installation/window space is within the tourist zone of Time Square, close to Bryant Park, and often has packs of theater goers passing by. It is a large space with a wide window, and a back room for costume changes or additional set pieces. Track lighting normally used for exhibits can be refocused into the space and controlled from the back room. A sound system is not currently installed, but may be in the future. For a complete floor plan, please go to http://www.chashama.org/112w44/index.php.

679 3rd Avenue: This building is at the corner of 43rd Street and 3rd Avenue with three 7×12 and two 4×12 windows on the 3rd Avenue side, and fifteen windows facing 43rd Street ranging from approximately 4×12 to 4×10. For pictures of the space and full window specs, please go to http://www.chashama.org/679third/index.php.

141 East 33rd Street @ Lexington Avenue: This venue, at the corner of Lexington Ave and 33rd Street, has 4 windows on the Lexington Ave side, and 4 windows facing 33rd Street. Three windows on each side will be available to the artist, with metal supports behind each window for hanging artwork. This venue is currently for VISUAL ART ONLY.

Timeline & Conditions:
* Artists will be rented space for 1-4 weeks, and granted space for 1-3 week residencies; please stipulate if a specific term length is necessary for your project.
* chashama will provide technical assistance in an advisory capacity only; artists must be capable of installing, teching and de-installing their own projects.
* chashama will assist artists with creating and distributing a press release.
* Participating Artists of both the Windows Award and rental programs are required to pay a fully-refundable security deposit ($75-$200 depending upon venue).
* Please visit www.chashama.org/windows.php for complete application information including the Windows Program Application Form.
* For more information, please email your questions to Programming Director, Janusz Jaworski at janusz@chashama.org.

Deadline: There is no deadline, but the sooner you submit your application, the sooner we’ll see it!

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Happy Holidays CB9M Arts and Culture Community!

December 4, 2009
Location: Broadway Housing Communities (Dorothy Day Building)
583 Riverside Drive (corner of 135th Street) ~ 7th Floor Penthouse

RSVP: LLWalton7@gmail.com

Happy Holidays CB9M Arts and Culture Community!

Below please find the Agenda for our upcoming Dec 7th meeting along with a special Invitation to join us and the entire CB9M community as we celebrate the holiday season.

Our meeting will have an arts & education focus, this month, as members from the Maysles Institute (a cinema, media production & filmmaking organization) will present and discuss their diverse, year-round educational programming opportunities for young people and adults, including a summer filmmaking program for teens between the ages of 13-17.

Open Mike & Entertainers Delight:  Please bring your favorite dish, poem, scene from a play, photograph, song, monologue, ETC…all artistic contributions are welcome…please share & exchange something creative with our community at this holiday gathering.

Thank you…looking forward to a great time!
~Linda & Diane

CB9M
ARTS & CULTURE COMMITTEE MEETING
Location: Broadway Housing Communities (Dorothy Day Building)
583 Riverside Drive (corner of 135th Street) ~ 7th Floor Penthouse

Committee Members:
Linda Walton, Diane Wilson ~ Co-Chairs
Debra Ann Byrd, Donitra Clemons, Vicky Gholson, Christa Giesecke ~ CB9M
Stephanie Berry, Magali Damas, John-Martin Green, LaQuita Henry, Michael Palma Lee-Ann Pinder ~ Public Members

AGENDA
December 7, 2009 meeting 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm  (Holiday Celebration Follows: 7:30 – 10:00 pm)
1. Call to Order
2. Attendance
3. Agenda Approval
4. Minutes Approval
5. Maysles  Institute
a. Cinema Program – Philip Maysles & Jessica Green
b. Education Programs 2010 – Vee Bravo
6.  Old Business
a. Arts & Politics – The Series ~ Stephanie Berry
b. Launching the Arts & Culture Directory ~ Darryl Hell; Co-Chairs
7.  New Business
8.  Adjourn
9.  PARTY! ~ CB9M Holiday Celebration

NEXT MEETING ~ January 11th* 2010 ~ 6:30 PM ~ BROADWAY HOUSING
583 Riverside Drive (corner of 135th Street) – 7th Floor Penthouse

*PLEASE NOTE ~ WE WILL MEET THE SECOND MONDAY IN THE MONTH OF JANUARY DUE TO THE HOLIDAYS.

DIANE AND LINDA WISH YOU AN EXCEPTIONALLY PROSPEROUS, CREATIVE AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR!

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a day of personal satisfaction

September 24, 2009

yesterday september 22, 2009 i was invited to the Broadway Salutes 2009 celebration in Duffy Square, Times Square, New York City. this ceremony was to honor the working people who make up the Broadway Theater community for their years of service. i got a 25 year pin and the chance to see my name scrolled on the Clear Channel billboard on 47th street and Broadway.

no i didn’t take pictures. it was nice just sitting there seeing my name and reflecting. i thought i did pretty good for a kid who stole postcards and displays from the theaters to put in my room, oh so many years ago. times square what a memory and oh how it’s changed over the years. but to me i see so many things as clear as day there, ghosts of new york.

one of the things i always loved about the ‘Square’ were the people or should i say characters, like the guys who sold ‘Dancing Balloon Figures’. they worked as a team, one of them standing off to the side operating a clear fishline with the other end attached to a fire hydrant or pole. he usually had a coat over his hand so you wouldn’t see him moving the fishline. the other fellow was the pitchman who gave out the packages took the money. this happened to the theater crowd as they were exiting on their way home. my friends and i would laugh about them blowing up the balloons and trying to make them dance. those were the days. i bet those balloons would be worth a pretty penny now.

one day a friend of mine, barry arnold and i were walking somewhere through the square and i was moaning about not getting anywhere in the ‘biz’ when he stopped in front of on of the many book stores on broadway and said ‘come on’ . he strolled in walking up to the theater section where he pulled from the shelves a theater directory. thumbing thought the index until he got to my name, next to my name were page numbers corresponding to the various shows i had worked on listing my title.

‘there you see’ he said ‘feel better now?’ yes i did.

we continued on to wherever it was we were headed, but that moment stayed with me through all the tough lean years. i was a somebody. i wasn’t until years later after winning a couple emmy awards for my lighting that my estranged family was proud of me, they always wanted me to get a job. i on the other hand would have wished the mom who raised me could see who i was then.

after being downsized at CBS Evening News the day after winning my second emmy i didn’t feel too good about the future, but i stuck around not knowing what else to do. at the end of my last show the title page of credits appeared showing my name. it just stayed there not moving until the copyright appeared. i was almost in tears. that’s how much they thought of me.

millions of people had the chance to see my name on the network shows i’d worked on but what was important to me ,were how the people i worked with felt towards me. but sitting in times square tuesday seeing my name i though to myself ‘you’ve come a long way baby.’

no pictures, just a silly pin and a program that will go in my mementos box along with my last Fillmore East program, some Woodstock letterhead and a few other trinkets. not much when you think about it, just some parts of my life.

and what will tomorrow bring?

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amazon jungle in B&H photo

August 28, 2009

well their at it again or should i say still.

Mary went down for a seminar yesterday and i asked her to pick up a firewire cable. same run around go to the back of the store wait in line, select the item, wait for the salesperson to print up an order form, then you take it across the store, wait in another line, see another clerk who then types the item into his computer, throws away the piece of paper you gave him, you and he wait, hopefully you have something to talk about while your item comes up from the basement, which he then scans into computer and prints out a payment statement.

now does this all seem like a waste of time and resources? it’s my personal opinion that B&H is trying to get rid of it’s ‘in person’ customers and just become the amazon of photography stores. it’s a jungle out there full of pitfalls and quicksand .

i for one have always opted for the personal touch, yes price is somewhat important but so is personal contact. i guess this comes from the artist in me, as i am not so much a photographer which captures something them moves on to the next. what is important to me is to be able to create in my images or have them express the feeling that others,my subjects create.

i work with dancers who’s art is so ethereal, gone in a puff of the moment, yet so beautiful in that moment. it’s hard to define as the perfect moment because so much work goes into it, all the class work, rehearsal, stretching and physical exertion, never mind the sweat and pain to achieve a nanosecond of form.

well i guess all this can be remembered as one stands in line after line waiting to spend your money and get on with your life. i could be reliving the ‘nutcracker’ before i get out of the store. well maybe only the first act.

hey made another store.

now if you’d like to express your opinion on this subject to B&H try here no purchase necessary.

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Dance images found

June 3, 2009

this week i’ve got a visitor the ‘little red celt‘, a model from England staying on my couch. we met last year when she and her partner came over to model for some photographers here in the states. she’s back doing the same this year after graduation. we’ve been talking about doing a shoot together this time.well she offered as payment for staying here which really isn’t needed but hey me turn down a lovely woman to shoot. so i’ve been thinking well maybe.

i showed her some found pictures i’d done with a dancer over a year ago which i hadn’t really looked at. i get busy just breeze through the contact sheets, as it were, and forget to come back. i always get something out of a session i can use. but i do get down on myself because of the low rate of return on my images. i am really hard on myself for not being perfect, sorry to say i can be that way with other people close to me also. the saving grace is i am willing to admit that and can back off.

here is a series that i found which ‘celt‘ also liked.

dancer copy

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but our favorite image was this one below. what my work is about is trying to capture the feeling of dance. it’s the same way i light performance pieces. getting my lighting to advance the story through mood or what ever means necessary. one show i remember doing a bump to white lighting and getting ohs from the audience. now that’s a light cue.

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i’ve invited my partner over here for this shoot, ‘the celt’ hasn’t met her yet but we know of each others work. we want to work with some china silk and a fan and see what happens. i love china silk ever since i saw a 100′ backdrop of red china silk the ‘peking opera’ brought over to the the metropolitan opera here in new york city may years ago.

that’s pretty much how i like to work with someone , it’s about a discovery between whom ever i am working with. them, the camera and me. heck i do have some experience doing this stuff so why not have fun along the way?

no animals will be harmed in the making of my pictures, we might have a few laughs along the way, and who knows if any art will be performed. i am very happy if someone buys my prints and hang them in their house. they have a little bit of me when they do so.

well that’s all folks for today……….

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LABA Festival

May 7, 2009

last night 5/6/09 we, mary and i, went to see a woman i had worked, gina bonati,http://www.ginabonati.com/video/, with as a model who is also a playwright at her show ‘I had a little voice’ at the LABA Festival at the 14th St Y @ first ave, nyc.

this was part of the LABAFestival.com. the festival has been running all week having opened last saturday and will run until this sunday, mothers day.

wednesdays program started with a dance piece called

The Body Project: An Intergenerational Dance Piece by Julie Gayer Kris

Working with women of all ages, Julie has been questioning the theme of the body and body image. How do we relate to our bodies? What do our bodies reveal about us? Does age or cultural background have anything to do with how we see our bodies? How do we relate to the idea that we are created in a Divine image? Julie is curious about the difference between feeling something within her body and the jolt of seeing her body in the mirror. She has been exploring exaggerating body image distortions to find the line where grotesque and beautiful blend.

Part A: The Meating

YelleB Dance Ensemble is premiering a new piece by Ella Ben-Aharon and Edo Ceder

I Had A Little Voice

A Theater piece created by Gina Bonati and Ronit Muszkatblit
The body is an expression from its beginning to its end. We are landing elements in our related worlds and demanding attention and change. This is what we do the moment we are in creation and until we stop; with or without our voice and with or without response. This is inherent in living.


just a sample of the image gina sent me, i guess to interest me, shot with her cell phone. now if i could only figure out how to use and download my images, but as mary says we aren’t of that generation.

The Perfect Human (or the 6th Obstruction)

by Yoni Oppenheim
Using Jørgen Leth’s 1967 short film The Perfect Human as a point of inspiration and departure, The Perfect Human 2009 (or the 6th Obstruction) will explore what it means to be a human with a body and soul, using the artist’s own wedding footage and material created especially for this project.

we had a great time and i especially loved ginas piece. one member of the audience said it reminded him of beckett. mary and i loved the physical use of paper as a construct and sensual part of the production. for me there was the sound of the performers voices which are always a big part of the presentation but i though they worked so well together.

i wished gina had invited me down to shoot her piece. it would have worked so well with what i do. oh well maybe next time. some of the creators talked afterwards about how they determined what to show and how they created.

mary and i went for burgers at a place in the east village the ny times gave a good write up on, ‘Back 40’ , but we were disappointed that the burgers were over cooked as were our neighbors. this was a wed night so imagine what the weekend must be like.

but a nice night even though it rained.

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