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Max, a Study in Purple and Green

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What happens when a 17-month old eats eggs and blueberry for breakfast.
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J.D. Salinger, R.I.P.

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JDS in 1950, photo by Lotte Jacobi

One of the most influential American writers of the 20th Century died on the 27th. The Catcher in the Rye remains one of my favorite books. I wonder if his children will reveal if there was a manuscript their father was working on all these years.
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Capitalist Pig (Prospect Heights)

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Apparently St. Joseph’s Church down the block from my studio has hired a contractor who’s not using union members to refurbish its exterior.
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Snowy Birds (Prospect Heights)

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Pierrot, Salt, Pepper

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A bunch of salt and pepper packets came with my egg and bacon on a roll. Interestingly, they were about the size of the thumbnails on my Pierrot 2.0 promo card.
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Brothers Moving & Storage (Prospect Heights)

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By the afternoon, the rain was gone and the sun returned.
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Torrential Rains (Borough Hall)

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Monday morning was full of nasty rain and wind.
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Man on Wire

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Man on Wire is a 2008 documentary of wire walker Philip Petit’s preparations for his world-famous Twin Towers stunt. On the morning of August 7, 1974, Petit made 8 crossings, lingering on the wire for over 40 minutes 1400 feet above the street without a safety net! The audacity and the depth of planning of this stunt are especially remarkable given how the Towers were destroyed 27 years later. Why did he do it? The press and police badgered him with that question, a question the Frenchman called very American. After you watch this fascinating film, you realize how irrelevant the question is.
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The Straitjacket

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My friends LuLu LoLo and Dan Evans are staging a production of The Straitjacket, a fictionalized play about Emily Dickinson in the Metropolitan Playhouse’s Another Sky program on American women writers.
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Highline (Chelsea)

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A rainy day makes for an empty Highline, except for a few couples.
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Max in the Studio

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Noon Flare (3rd Ave & 57th)

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Unbelievable CGI

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

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Hybridization of Beauty, Thanks to Photoshop

Beauty Hybrids
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Murals (Prospect Lefferts Garden)

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Max on New Year's Day (Prospect Heights)

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We tried a restraining order, but he refused.
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