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NEWS
February 2010 I've donated a triptych to art auction benefit
for the victims of Haiti's devasting earthquake
which takes place on Wednesday, 2/10 at 7pm.
December 2009 At 7pm on Sunday, December 13th,
I will give a reading at one of NYC's only leather biker
cafes, Motorcycle
Federation. Organized by Madeleine Beckman, the
reading will also feature Roberta Bernstein, Jean
Monahan, and Nicole Sprinkle. More details later.
November 2009 I will have a couple of stories
published in the Brooklyn Writers Space first anthology,
The Reader. The launch party is on Thursday,
November 5th at 7pm at BookCourt, 163 Court
Street, in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
July 2009 A photograph from my collaboration
with LuLu LoLo, Pierrot 2.0, was included in an
Italian mail art exposition here.
May 2009 My short story Back Trouble is
a semi-finalist (top 27 out of 654) in Nimrod's Katherine Anne Porter
Prize for Fiction. • Photos from my Suburban
Geometries series are published on Polar Inertia's Spring 2009
(#34) issue at the end of May.
April 2009 4/8: Max's cousin Elena
Takeuchi was born at 5:24pm Tokyo Time! • My long
story The Heart Is a Lonely Drummer is a finalist
(top 30 out of 900) in Summer Literary Seminars-2009
Unified Fiction and Poetry Contest judged by Lynne
Tillman. • A photo from my Visual Haiku series
was published in Shots's Spring 2009 issue
(#103).
February 2009 My short short story South of
the Border was awarded 3rd Place in the Sonora Review's Third Annual
Short Short Contest. The judge was Aimee Bender.
January 2009 My short story Second Actis a finalist won Honorable Mention in
Cutthroat Journal's 2008 Rick DeMarinis Short
Story Competition. The story will be published in
February.
November 2008 Brooklyn Writers Space Reading at
Union Hall, Sunday, 11/9, 5-7pm. BWS.
September 2008 Final LMCC Reading at U.S.
Custom House, Thursday, 9/18, 6-8pm. RSVP is mandatory
because of security. RSVP at LMCC's site here. Map of Bowling Green
here.
August 2008 Our Baby Boy Is Due! 8/15 is the
due date of our unnamed
boy. HE'S HERE! Max
Miles Takeuchi was born on Friday, 8-22-8 at
3:33pm! See tons of pix here.
In honor of Max’s 9-month b-day, I took some
portraits of him. This is an outtake from the sweaty
shoot, shot handheld at 24mm. Note: we are not
totally nude.
Publicity stills for Lulu LoLo’s one-woman show,
38 Witnessed Her Death, I Witnessed Her
Love: The Lonely Secret of Mary Ann Zielonko
(Kitty Genovese Story), which will play at
the Fringe Festival this August.
She plays three characters to tell the story of
Kitty Genovese’s brutal murder: Winston Moseley
(the killer, left), Mary Ann Zielonko (the
lover, center) and A.M. Rosenthal, the New York
Times editor, who wrote a book on the aftermath of the
1964 murder.
This is a very beautiful stop-motion (over 35K
stills) and projection-mapping photographic
animation. Just gorgeous! The filmmaker is Xavier
Chassaing. You can read more about the creation
here.
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Tobacco Warehouse (Empire
Fulton Ferry State Park)
Drummers are usually pretty eager to show off their
chops. Case in point: an Italian drummer who calls
himself Vadrum, an alias for Andrea Valdrucci, who’s been
improvising drumkit parts to tunes you never
thought drummable. Above it’s Rossini’s William Tell (which he
corrals with mocking triplet beats), but he’s
most popular on YouTube for his renditions of
Super Mario, The Simpsons, as well as
many other pop and metal
covers. He’s also exquisitely massacred
another fine Rossini, The Barber of Seville.
The performance is pretty remarkable for 25,600 ISO
on the D700. I’m going to experiment with shooting in
broad daylight with high shutter speeds and lots of
depth of field (f16 @ 1/8000th).