Nurture-Nature: A PSA For Our Changing Times
A Public Service Announcement by my little friends. Speakers on! ✅If the video doesn’t play, go to my youtube channel.
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Nurture Nature: The Snail Movie
This movie was made from a collection of videos and photographs taken over the course of months with the iPhone XS+ Max and the 11Pro Max; Camera+2 macro setting. Play with speakers on.
Continue reading →Nurture Nature: The Butterfly Movie
This was the final of the four butterflies that were successfully launched. It hesitated throughout and waited by the door as though it were reluctant to leave. Photos and videos were taken over the course of several months with iPhone XS+Max and 11Pro Max.
Continue reading →1. Life Is A Journey, But This Is A Trip: Medical Marijuana
That is not me, folks. I wouldn’t smoke cigarettes. I am on another journey in hopes of dealing with and managing ocular migraine. There are a couple of things going on so I will fill you in and perhaps you will find some information meaningful and pertinent for you or someone you know. In my quest to obliterate my migraines I have learned a good deal: they are not just headaches. They are unjust headaches which can manifest as: head pain (which, luckily I don’t deal with often and my lifelong headaches, since childhood, have diminished over the years from … Continue reading →
Need A Laugh?
Hello, all, and a happy Monday to you. I have been missing in action, I apologize! Into the second week of a photography workshop I am giving (and loving it). A friend directed me to the following Saturday Night Live segment. I think you will enjoy this. Maybe I should get an Alexa for my mother, and rename it Moishe. I just need the “uh huh, uh huh, uh huh factor, and the ability to turn down the thermostat when the heat is on—in JUNE!
Continue reading →Song In My Head Tuesday: The Band
I switched on PBS the other night and fell into some nostalgic reverie. After that I have been unable to get the song, “It Makes No Difference” out of my head. (see video at 10:42) Call it post-election-funk, or disbelief each time I read the newspaper at the state of this world. I do believe we are going through a strange period in history and I do believe that even knowing and understanding history is not changing anything in the present. So, I pack my mental bags and leave to my sci-fi fantasy world which includes: Westworld, Orphan Black, Game … Continue reading →
Thanks, I Needed That!
Sometimes ya just gotta be silly and have a good laugh. This is Jake. He’s a genius.
Continue reading →NYC Photo Journal: I Guess I’ve Been Busy: BKLYN/OHNY/Kings Theatre, East Midwood
This is me multitasking: notice how I can take a selfie of my selfies at the same time So, kids during my hiatus I have been caring for my mother’s issues, caring for my own issues, taking a lot of iPhone photos, doing a little playing: I’ve watched up to Season 5 of Game of Thrones, and everything but the final six or so episodes of Season 7 of Mad Men; I’ll be sorry to see these series end. As for movies; I loved Learning to Drive, I liked 99 Homes, saw a few plays at MTC (Manhattan Theater … Continue reading →
Song in My Head: MN Indie Group on WFUV Got Me: Hippo Campus
Suicide Saturday by Hippo Campus I heard this group of young kids from Minnesota while driving and listening to WFUV, New York’s very cool Indie-oriented station which is a member of National Public Radio. The sound just stuck with me. Everything about. These kids are going places.
Continue reading →Friday Flu-Fluff
We can all use some uplifting on this NYC flu-ridden Friday. Here’s a goodie bag that I filled during the week with things that made me smile and ponder. It’s time to dance! Love these two. Who says a big guy can’t dance? Doggie at the hair salon Peeping Tom I would like a little platypus, please. Thanks. (Surely they are part cat) I love the Christchurch seniors. Waving to New Zealand. Also wouldn’t mind living in such a happy place. And another … Have a glass of water … Continue reading →
Sign Of The Times
My past, my students. Teachers will understand, teachers of the deaf will understand better. I came across an article in today’s The New York Times. In the 1980’s I taught in a program for the deaf at The High School of Fashion Industries in Manhattan. I recognized faces in this article. Faces of former students who at that time were learning a trade along with academics. At graduation they were 21 years old. I was in my 30’s. I see at least one of my former students in a photo of the choir and the video. The woman in the … Continue reading →
Java or Microsoft? A Little Geek Levity: Battle Of the Platforms
Queens Jazz Orchestra
Recent Twitters. I covered social media for Flushing Town Hall on a rainy evening. Not to worry, the jazz was hot. (photographs/video by author) Fiesta Mojo by Dizzie Gillespie Jimmy Heath
Continue reading →1964, When All Was Fair
Welcome to the past: The fiftieth anniversary of the World’s Fair is the background for memories that I will share in a subsequent post. I was a High School student at the time, and the 1964 World’s Fair, housed in Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, was the thrill of every visitor. The fair’s theme was “Peace Through Understanding,” its icon was a 12-story steel model of the Earth called the “Unisphere,” and it ran for two six-month seasons, April 22 – October 18, 1964 and April 21 – October 17, 1965. Admission price for adults (13 and older) … Continue reading →
On Bagels and On Selling Children
I thank my friend Joyce, who was the source of the following two articles, which moved me in different ways. The first is the story of bagel making in New York City. If you are from NYC–especially Brooklyn, you’re gonna LOVE this. If you are not from NYC, you’ll get an education. This is what real bagels are all about: The boil>bake process with NYC WATER. The bagel originated in POLAND and is considered to have Jewish roots. The Wiki page on bagels is fairly good. I hope that left you sated and happy. … Continue reading →
Song Saturday: Bye, Bye Love: Farewell to Phil Everly
New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/arts/music/phil-everly-half-of-pioneer-rock-duo-dies-at-74.html?_r=0
Continue reading →Need a Good Chuckle? Like Cats?
Thanks again to my dear friend Dani. I really enjoyed this. An Engineer’s Guide to Cats
Continue reading →Sunday At The Movies: Some Cool Videos
Thank you to my dear Canadian friend, Cathy, who posted this adorable video. It’s beyond cute. Next, you’ll spend a few hours at the gym–or join one–after seeing this. The Ross Sisters-
Continue reading →Video: The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II
Thank you to my dear friend Helaine for sending this to me. This is an exquisite “morphing video” of Queen Elizabeth, The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.
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