Today’s watercolor experiment: One of my goals in this graffiti series is to make two-dozen paintings in portrait format and another two dozen in landscape format. In my days photographing graffiti in New York City, where I lived for more than two decades, I used the horizontal (landscape) format much more often than portrait. I have already […]
Birthdays are bittersweet. I love watching children who express utter delight at the attention and excitement on their own birthdays. I observed this with my grandson at his second birthday a few months ago. We dimmed the lights to show off the cake and its bright candles. William was focused on the cake and the […]
When I lived in New York, the city was revamping Bryant Park, the space behind the main New York Public Library building on 5th Avenue near 42nd street. The park was fenced off for a long time. The scene I recorded below in the photograph was probably early morning on a wintry Sunday. When newsstands are […]
My obsession with newsstands began with an oil painting that my Mom and I bought together. It is a wonderful piece that shows a scene, probably from the 1940s, where a man is buying a paper at a newspaper stand. I like that it inspires a nostalgic sense of time – the time of my […]
A few weeks ago (in my post, Nostalgia), I mentioned purchasing a slide scanner. I have been taking photographs for a very long time, nearly all of them on film. I was able to go back in time to 1988 and 89, though my photographs and relive some of my experiences. It was painful to see my photos […]
I mentioned the other day that I just got a slide scanner. The idea was to archive slides and old negatives and store them in digital format. I have a number of 35mm slides from childhood family vacations and birthdays. But the overwhelming bulk of my image collection is my own doing. Thus far I have […]
I just purchased a slide scanner that works with my computer. [George, thanks for the use of yours. I have to get it back to you.] I’ve been viewing film slides that I haven’t seen in decades. One of the more interesting ones is a group portrait of my brother Dave, our dog Chuckie and me, […]
Today (April 18th) is my little brother’s 59th birthday. Oy Vey! Between now and July, I am only 3 years older than Dave. Come July, I will be 4 years older. Our older brother Mike is 65. To those of you who are new to my blog, Mike is autistic, very low functioning and has […]
My wife, Joy and I just started watching Mad Men. Frankly I was a little bit leery about rehashing the 1950s and its prevailing attitudes. Drinking, smoking, antisemitism, treating women badly was the norm back then. The protagonist, Don Draper, is a mysterious, emotionally empty Madison Avenue ad agency creative director. Little by little we […]
Most of you who have read my blog within the past month or so know that Mom passed away on February 20. My posts have concentrated on the events related to Mom: her 90th birthday party; her trouble getting around the house; my return visit after she was admitted to the hospital and wasn’t doing well. […]
