Wednesday, June 27, 2012

sunset over the hudson...


...on a cool early summer day that feels much like spring.

june 26, 2012.

love and health to all...

Thursday, June 21, 2012

jungle gyms & sandboxes




a couple weeks back i spent a brilliant afternoon hanging with poppa kink and lil' naoms...

it was a splendid afternoon uptown and the three of us went and hung out in the sandbox, beside the jungle gym, dodging the spray of young little derelict neighbors using plastic shovels as catapults, launching cluster bombs of sand far and wide, with no thought of curly head humans with both single and double digit ages.

so after a night of restless sleep due to mad hot weather in this big apple concrete jungle, listening to 7am fela reminding me of authority stealing, i decided to rummage through recent snaps, a reminder that childhood is the dopest.

june 2012, just north of the g dubs with josh and naomi.

love and health to all...

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

heading home from shaolin...



...on the staten island ferry after a baseball game beside nyc harbor...

june 2012.

pops and me. big apple night in the distance. photo by pristos.

love and health to all...

Monday, June 18, 2012

feliz cumpleaƱos!




pops, happy birthday!

you're the best poppa in the world!

i love you!

love and health to all...

Friday, June 15, 2012

diamonds found in the rough...




though spring is coming to an end here in the beautiful and what always feels like home northern hemisphere, there are still a few folks round the way doing that special spring seasonal thing and getting their spring cleaning or two on...

it was glenys, who i emailed about a celebration dinner this saturday night who energetically responded with both a yes and a photograph. turns out she's got a summer of shifting and moving as her apartment gets fixed up and packing up boxes she came across this gem from timothy's bad mitzvah back in, my goodness, perhaps '97 or so...

a nice birthday gift for two born within a week of one another...

mom and pops, nyc somewhere, back in the day...

love and health to all...

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

happy birthday momma...




momma,

pops, d n i are heading to bk this afternoon to sit under an evergreen tree with you and celebrate your birthday. you'd be 63 on this beautiful brooklyn wednesday...

i know you are here, but i wish you were around everyday single day. the hardest days are when i wish that the most...

i love you, ben

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

shifting screens & changing cameras




musings on documentary, technology, communication, people, politics, human rights, social activism and even space ships...

phd theoretical explorations available often at: shiftingscreens.wordpress.com

from nyc to nz and all the spots in between, no matters which way you roll, get online and do check in now and again...

love and health to all...

Wednesday, June 06, 2012

peregrine...




...there you are. chilling, scouting, peeping, scoping from high above the hudson.

...perched in the morning, looking for movement, watching the world, the river meanders.

...too quick. one snap, you're gone, out and off, gliding in...

...new york city thermals, apartment building wind tunnels, subway grate wind whooshes that become high seas somewhere off the coast of iceland or tonga...

...bet you got cousins that side too...

love and health to all...

Monday, June 04, 2012

clouds & reflections & rivers in between.





stood on the balcony this evening and watched the hudson river flow.

good day sun. hello dusk.

stories and histories touching the banks.

close to new york harbor, nadi near the end of its journey to the sea.

afterwords and afterworlds flow with tides & currents.

clouds blowing above. prayers caught in the wind. reflections in the windows.

pastels of past glowing in the setting sun.

late night on this island between two rivers. the sweet sounds of rhye, fuel for a post...

love and health to all...

Friday, June 01, 2012

eating watermelon and selling novels on broadway...



...that's just part of a new york city summer...

The Firing of Stephen Ledberg by Allan Lenzner.

available on the corner of 112th street and at amazon.com

love and health to all...