last night s took a dump in our bathroom and it
didn't flush. this morning the turd was frozen.
a sixteen hour bus later it is so much warmer here in kas. i think the day time temps hit 20. still chilly in the evenings. now to figure out what to do tomorrow -- we are working out a plan to do a 3 day hike in two days and make it to a reasonably sized town for some sort of celebration.
two days and we're leaving goreme tomorrow. good times hiking some beautiful rock formations (fairy chimneys). cheezey tour tomorrow and then and overnight bus as far away as possible...
company party on thursday, they even served food. but it was at a bowling alley, so my hands were super nasty. at least i wiped everyone else off the lanes. the peeve is games are now 9.50$. i remember back in college we would go for the early bird special -- 2 1/2 hours for 20$, per lane. i miss the economics of scuzzy new york.
last night my local cafe had a cocktail party, that went on to a reggae lounge in the l.e.s. fun fun fun. but didn't eat enough.
i got home at 3ish, there were people still there. this mornign when i passed at 10am, the store wasn't open. i'll drop by later because i have to pickup an order of cookies.
new:
over two years and i decided to reprint an image from the phillippines.
i'd like to think i'm printing better. since i made the original i've
printed over 2000 images (albeit mostly work prints). my split filtering
skills have gotten considerably better. i've also gotten alot of time
to really investigate what the negative is all about. in another two
or three years i may print it completly different again.
more obviously, i'm definitely printing better from 5 years ago.
old:
new:
finally got an edit of oaxaca down...
[http://www.ewah.com/a/_oaxaca/]
wider edits can be found as...
wider and
everything i printed.
last evening session at icp for the year. good timing i guess,
a slew of holiday parties next week, my dad's surgery, and then off
to turkey. i'm almost all caught up which is pretty surprising.
t.a. the independent project class yet again this weekend.
a whole lot of permawashing other peoples prints, some really
great stuff in the class. everyone is pretty advanced so
it is not like showing people how to turn the enlargers
on. wow, can they churn out a slew of work.
during down time i get to make one or two prints of my own stuff. so i decided that i would make some renditions from holy weeks long ago. one from the phillippines and another from my first good friday in new york.
for the rest of the week, because i'm pretty much caught up on the eldridge st stuff, i'm going to print up new work prints from my first good friday -- 5 rolls of mediocrity to crap.
sometime right now e should be on a plane going from lax
to sydney. a week ago we never met her. but she happened
to be in nursing school from and live down the block from
k-livealittle. k-livealittle gave her a brief plan of
what to do and sent her to our care -- actually we hadn't
seen each other since k-livealittle's going away party two
years ago.so e arrived late thursday late late after a slew of delays. from friday on we tried to pack as much in as possible tag teaming site to site, meal to meal, pub to pub. she had a wonderful time, perhaps the most excited person to see new york i've ever met. every corner turned was a bubbly wow. it's very contagious. we had a good time showing her the city we love. hopefully she got an understanding into how the city looks from the inside.
so today i booked a big apple greater visit for two weekends from now. it is a great program that links up locals with tourist coming to the city. to get a different perspective on it. i've been taking people around for, ooh, seven years now. i do it only once a month or once every other month when i'm in the country. it lets me feel like traveling without leaving the city and it helps me get to know the neighborhood even better.
too bad e didn't get a chance to walk around the neighborhoods i really cover, downtown brooklyn, les and chinatown. she was only here for five days. she had a great attitude when asked why she was in new york for such amount of time. "either you go out and do it or you don't." something i believe very much in. i don't think she slept at all, but she did squeeze alot in. hopefully she'll be back to catch the rest.
spent the entire day at the rededication of the eldridge
street synagogue. the space as awe inspiring as it was
has become even more so. the eldridge street project is now
the museum at eldridge street -- makes my i d look even more
official (as soon as i send in my picture again).
it was a good day, got to see a slew of docents i have not seen in the last few months as the synagogue was going through final restoration. they were blown away by how the shul looked. actually everyone was blown away by how it looked. over the last few months i had snuck in and out of the building both as as shabbos goi and just photographing the restoration. i was blown away as well today.
it has very homey feel. most of the volunteers were afraid that the restoration would over prettify. not so much the work in progress they have came to love. but it wasn't. actually most of the volunteers were afraid that i would not finish in time because even up until september it still felt like it was in shambles.
spent a good deal of time getting to know for the first time a building that i worked in regularly over the past five years. but for the next month or so, i need to reacquaint myself all the nuisances of the building (as do all the other docents).
among the celebrations, the docents also shared memories of b and her connection to the project over her years of service as a volunteer to her daughters -- first time visitors. b has passed away two weeks ago. i had not seen her since the summer, when we were together for german ard tv talking about the synagogue -- everybody's fun grandmother and the chinese american kid representing the old and new of the neighborhood i guessed was their angle.
she would have reveled in today's events.