Friends
LuLu as Loretta (Union Square)
13.10.13 | 02:17 •
My good friend LuLu LoLo as Loretta, the Operator, a performance for Art In Odd Places, on 14th and 7th ave.
Matt in His Studio
14.09.13 | 01:49 •
Photographed some of my former studiomate Matthew Northridge’s sculptures in his studio in Sunset Park.
LuLu on Union Square
16.07.13 | 23:14 •
Had a photoshoot with my good friend LuLu LoLo who is creating a performance piece for Art in Odd Places in October.
Super Soccer Stars (Fort Greene)
26.05.13 | 22:18 •
Chinese New Year (Chinatown)
16.02.13 | 07:30 •
It’s the year of the snake, not a very auspicious one apparently though good for science and technology. At any rate, we had a lot of fun popping confetti canons, following the lions and marching bands hitting up businesses for donations, and eating dim sum at Jing Fong.
A Visit to Glen Spey
29.06.12 | 22:00 •
I took the bus up to Port Jervis to visit my friend Marcy Pesner, the legend behind Beagle & Potts Woodworking. She now owns no less than 5 vehicles, some soon to be mobile homes (including the Blue Bird school bus above), a few dogs, and lots of lumber waiting for her next project. Marcy is now working on her Buddhist practice, teaching locals the art of woodworking, building toaster lamps, and starting up a tiny house construction teaching workshop.
LuLu (Union Square)
03.08.11 | 22:45 •
Yesterday in the sweltering heat, I photographed my friend LuLu LoLo as a dandy of yesteryear who offered Union Square passerbys “a tip of his hat.” This is part of LuLu’s performance for this year’s Art in Odd Places, which will take place around 14th Street, Union Square this October 1st-10th.
Estlin and Max (Prospect Heights)
11.04.11 | 21:47 •
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Anniversary (Village)
20.03.11 | 15:40 •
This Friday, March 25 is the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the city’s worst fire which claimed the lives of 146 garment workers, primarily young immigrant women, many just teenagers. I’ve written about this before because I’ve participated in artist Ruth Sergel’s annual chalking art project, Chalk, which asks volunteers to write the names of the deceased in front of the brownstones, tenements, and other buildings where these women lived at the time of their deaths. All week long, the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition is sponsoring events commemorating the fire. An HBO movie is set to be broadcast. A parade will take place at 11am by the site of the fire on Washington and Greene, now NYU’s Brown Building. Books, lectures, union talks, and on an on. A big deal, especially at a time when unions are being mightily threatened by Republicans all across the U.S. My good friend LuLu LoLo has also been performing excerpts from her solo show, Soliloquy for a Seamstress. In her one act play, LuLu dramatizes the tragedy through the life of Sara Saracino, a young seamstress who grew up not far from LuLu’s home in East Harlem. In three scenes, she plays Sara’s mother, Sara from the time she learns of the fire breaking out to the moment she jumps, and an William Gunn Shepherd, The World reporter who broadcast news of the unfolding fire. Some photos from her performance in front of the NYU Brown Building on Saturday follow.
LuLu & Dan (East Harlem)
24.02.11 | 23:09 •
We made a family visit to LuLu LoLo and Dan Evans’ townhouse on E. 116th Street, aka East Pascale Street, named in honor of LuLu’s father, Pete Pascale. Out back is Dan’s chapel, a beautiful, spiritual place full of mementos, bells, and the fresh scent of wood. Below is a detail of one of Dan’s iconic monochrome paintings celebrating the films of Raymond Chandler. You can read more about LuLu and Dan and their art museum-like house in this NYT’s piece from last August.
LMCC Open Studios (Wall Street)
20.10.10 | 18:38 •
It was a night of beards. Sadly mine was to scruffy to compare. A few of my LMCC 2007-8 fellow residents came out for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Open Studios evening, from left to right: Mike Estabrook, Clive Murphy, and John Talbird.
Titanium Pedalers 30th Anniversary (Prineville, OR)
31.07.10 | 23:40 •
Not bad for a self-timer image! 30 years since 5 high school kids took off on bikes from Jackson Hole, WY to Jasper, Alberta, 1400 miles. Here are Jonathan Durning, Alan Durning, Andy Neuman, Mark Skinner, and me with (most of our) families.
Ranbir (Chelsea)
07.05.10 | 22:31 •
ABC No Rio Opening (L.E.S.)
21.03.10 | 22:52 •
Fellow artist, Fred Fleisher, was part of the giant 7th Biennial at ABC No Rio which opened on Friday night. Also featured were a couple of artists from my LMCC residency, Mike Estabrook and Nanna Debois Buhl.
John Talbird Reading at Jimmy's # 43 (East Village)
20.03.10 | 22:47 •
John Talbird, one of my fellow residents at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, gave a fun reading at the subterranean bar, Jimmy’s No. 43, an event sponsored by Essays and Fictions literary journal.
The Straitjacket
21.01.10 | 22:28 •
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.
LuLu's Final Bow (Astor Place)
19.08.09 | 12:24 •
38 Witnessed Her Death
13.08.09 | 23:25 •
LuLu & Dan (Robert Moss Theater)
13.08.09 | 23:24 •
LuLu as a Newsboy on 14th Street
28.07.09 | 22:41 •
Dennis Oppenheim Opening (LES)
04.06.09 | 23:26 •
38 Witnessed Her Death...
24.05.09 | 22:29 •
A Tale of Two Scabs
26.04.09 | 20:18 •
SJ Rozan Reading
25.03.09 | 23:36 •
LMCC Custom House Reading
18.09.08 | 23:32 •
Max and His New Friend Wilza
10.09.08 | 23:07 •
LMCC Open Hours
29.03.08 | 23:00 •
