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it was a beautiful weekend in the city.

unfortunately i spent the entire time underground, assisting a class. i also made about 30 work prints, from good friday in ethiopia. didn't get much sleep because mm-drc was in town and i was "obliged" to take a drink or two with the slew of ex-peacecorpers.

i am pooped.

all i wanted to do was get home and veg out in front of "now" on pbs. unfortunately, it's pledge drive time, yet again. it seems like theres is a pledge drive every months now.

i'm all for pbs asking for money, but they play the worst super nostalgic music all the time during pledge drive that drive me insane. tonight, is brit rock -- clapton and windword, it is just a small step over the remember the 50s drives.

17 more days of televison for me. and i probably have to spend the duration watching pledge drives. *oye*

two months behind

b-icp asked do you normally print up things a month or so behind because you edit better at that time. i responded, no i'm just consistantly that far behind all the time.

i finished printing up my new york palm sunday stuff a week ago. it takes me another week to scan and upload them.

so flash back to two months ago, new york.

new york is my home. so, unlike all my other holy week venues, i have the advantage of going for exactly want i am looking for. i could also plan out where the light would be at what time and work out how long or short to stay at each location. the past palm sunday i wanted a gritty feel. i wanted to make the palms the star of the shoot and have the backdrop always as the city.

reconstructing the past

over the trip to ethiopia, both my web server and back up servers crashed. over the past month, i've slowly started putting back the pieces. in addition, i got some new hardware upgrades that only put my 5 years behind the curve (instead of ten). but the end is in sight.

the major hurdle and fear that what i would lose is my email history of everything i sent and received for the past fifteen years. there not much in it for any one else, but i is a quick pointer for me back to the past. it helps me flashback.

i still need a better backup solution to solve both computers going down at the same time.

flashback: may 12, 2007

adam purple

when i was a kid there were series of purple footprints that were painted all over the city. i would wonder where they were coming from and where they were going. more so i wondered who put them there.

it wasn't until i started my eldridge street project that i discovered adam purple. in the late 70s and early 80s, adam squated in the lower east side creating a community garden on eldridge between stanton and rivington -- "the garden of eden." with his then girlfriend, "eve" of course, they created a huge garden that spanned the block. it was setup into concentric patterns surrounding a ying-yang pattern. from pictures it was quite impressive.

in 1985, the city -- guliani, city attorney general at the time -- got was fed up with these community squating projects and decided to bulldoze the gardens to put up the low income housing units that stand today. in protest, adam laid down the purple foot print that went around the city starting at the site of the garden of eden, and ending in city hall.

two years ago i finally got to guts to meet up an talk to adam purple. he showed me one of the trees in the 'l.e.s Infil' projects that was planted during the garden of eden period and allowed me to take one picture of him -- "because cameras corrupt". (new server; old ip; yippee, now to setup the rest of the server.)

slim

flying home, i looked at my seat and commented to my neighbor, "these seats must be getting thinner because i'm clearly not getting any bigger."

link

catching up on my news and i found that. i'm generally not much for posting links but in a follow-up to my blog post from last year flying to rome. maybe fewer passengers will overflow into my area while i'm flying.

combatting jetlag

there is no easy answer to combatting jetlag. sometimes methods work, sometimes they don't. i try to shock my body back into local time.

i just flew back home a few hours ago. took the #62 local bus out of the airport (twice, went in the wrong direction the first time). got a good hot shower, in all of the four weeks away, not one hotel room had a consistant shower for more than two days. and ate some chinese food.

that lasted me until about 6pm local time.

for my plan to work i have to stay up until midnight.

my last real sleep ended at 7.30am monday morning addis time. (12.30a, new york time). sure i drifted in and out of sleep (at the museum, at the airport, after the horrible movies of the first flight, at the other airport, before the horrible movies of the second flight, after those horrible movies of the second flight) but i haven't been horizontal in so long.

the plan. fix my server. over the time away both my servers crashed and i have to figure out why and what i have to rebuild. i hope to get the email up, webserver (if you are seeing this i've succeeded), spam filters and scheduled services up. sleep devrivation may win or i may have to redo everything i did.

what were the movies? the reader -- put together well, but eh; twilight -- i want my 2 hours back for that; inkheart -- i don't care what e-guydrive says brendan frasier is terrible; he's just really not into you -- with that many stars, you think it would have been something done better.