i still haven't found what i'm looking for...(bono)
here was over there somewhere, on rivington . but i had a place to be, so i couldn't properly wait around/stalk him. i'm still smarting from the fact i ALSO missed U2's flatbed truck concert through new york city last fall (which later became the sweet video for "all becasue of you") coz i was temping. (aaargh!)
i've been admiring this great photo that's on the wall behind my desk here at this temp job of mine... it's a black and white shot of a little boy doing a back flip. of course the photographer captured him at the perfect moment--with his back in a perfect arch, about 1 foot off the ground.
i love it.
unlike the rest of the (amazing) artwork here, the photo is unidentified. this particular photo was signed by daniel hall--in a youthful cursive that suggested to me that daniel hall was the subject of the photo. the flip-per.
but i couldn't find anything online to confirm who the photographer was--i googled, i getty-ed, i corbis-ed, i icp-ed, and i moma-ed. nothing.
finally, i asked one of the higher ups here if he knew who the photographer was. (i figured he would, but i stubbornly wanted to find out on my own.)
turns out daniel hall was the photographer and he was about 9 years old when he took the photo of his friend (and it took more than one take, apparently) as part of a program, called shooting back. the program, created by and currently thriving under the direction of jim hubbard, strives to empower homeless children by teaching them photography and encouraging them to document their lives. you can see the photo of the daniel hall's "flip"--and other inspiring photos-- on the shooting back and venice arts sites.
starbucks is planning to putting "spiritual quotes" on their paper cups and some press people are trying to make it into a brew-ha-ha (i couldn't resist). i don't see how this is a big deal. unless starbucks starts making clear insulating sleeves, who's gonna read them? i 'm usually served my hot beverage with the sleeve already on, and almost never slip it off again to see "who sees what" any old way.
the new york times reminds us that eating and driving is not safe (eating, drinking, cooking and, oh yes, driving, too. by bonnie rothman morris, published: october 26, 2005) but we still love that in-n-out burger specially wraps their burgers for their customers who drive-thru and away, and gives them a placemat for their lap!
and you should see the women, less for fontaine's performance and more for the elegant norma shearer, the bratty joan crawford and the sassy rosalind russell, to name only a few. and the quips, barbs and great one liners are apt to make a wiseacre out of you.
so rivington street, a couple of blocks east of my apartment, has undergone an amazing technicolor transformation, so that it looks like haight-ashbury on even more acid. the locals were heard to be horrified, which made me belly laugh (silly kids) because the e! true hollywood story (via curbed.com) is that it's for a movie. a julie taymor production (love her) and one of the actors in the production is bono.
shooting was to start on the 18th--whilst i was whiling away in france--and since bono's role is really move of a cameo, if he was on rivington street at all, i've surely missed him by now.
dang! how much fun would my morning have been if i'd run into bono at the corner bodega?
but our little jaunt to france reaffirmed my love and admiration for the compact car. SUVs should be outlawed from every major metropolitan area, starting with new york. they're senseless, obnoxious, encourage even more careless driving and are just too damn big for this fabulous but spatially-challenged town. i abhor them.
paris has it right.
folks there can zip around in their minis and smart cars, and their motorcycles and mopeds. it's convenient and more energy efficient (including the energy expended in trying to find a damn parking space), i just don't get why those concepts have lost their vigor here.
anyway....this little compact concept car, the pivo, designed by takashi murakami, was unveiled in this year's tokyo auto show. it's a cute little thang, and i love that it's design creates no blind spots, and "super motor" creates no emissions. woo hoo. but from the description of its "special features" it sounds less like a car that you drive and more like a video game that you play. but still. pretty neat. i wouldn't be upset if i woke up to find that the pivos had taken over manhattan.
