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The old Whitney is the Met Breuer. I believe they keep some of their newer collection there. The new Whitney is downtown in the Meatpacking, hard by the Highline.
Question for New Yorkers
Um, could someone please just fill me in on this—is the Whitney no longer the Whitney? I'm talking about the Marcel Breuer -designed building on the upper East side where successive levels jutted out over the sidewalk like inverse stairs. I obviously missed something here. When I lived in D.C. I...
Is digital vs. analog about "good enough" or is it really about having more (illusion of) control?
I'll never enjoy a camera as much as my old Stylus because if I got a good shot I was happy and if I got a bad one, I said "eh." Now, when I take a picture with a digital camera, I look at good shots and say "oh, if I had only opened it up a stop" or "oh, I could have switched over to aperture priority..."
The Revenge of Analog
Here's a book "of interest" (translation: one I haven't seen yet). Yesterday Colin Bradbury wrote: Just been reading the reviews of a book called The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter by David Sax. Fascinating look at the revival of interest in 'real' stuff like actual books, ...
Feel better soon, Mike!
More of My Idiotic Enthusing About the A6500
Blog news: I'm going to have to take a few days off for some medical treatment. It's not officially Mike-threatening (that would be the technical medical term I believe)—I'm okay—but I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to work for the next few days, if at all. I'll do my best, but it's no...
FYI, "Jessie" is filmed in California. However, the Ross's building is a real building on Central Park West and 91st St (the Ardsley). We live behind it. In fact, you can sometimes see our ugly 70s-style building behind the lovely Art-Deco Ardsley.
Baby's First Trip to #NYC
A bit ago, I posted about my trip to NYC with my youngest daughter. It was her first time, and we crammed an awful lot into the three days. It was her first time on the Amtrak. Which left really early - we got up at 4. She was a bit springier than I was. And super excited to be there. She...
I see Louis from time to time in front of B&H.
A few weeks ago, I took my son to an event in Brooklyn (vintage buses on display!) and there he was, the man himself. He smiled when he saw my Canonet GL17 GIII, so I went over to say hello. He said to my son, "oh, yeah, I know your dad. He's a real photographer."
Never have I felt like such a real photographer. Thanks, Louis.
Louis Mendes
Leaving PhotoPlus last week, I realized I was photographing none other than the famous Louis Mendes, the celebrated throwback "street corner" photographer. His profession is a holdover from another time (and, chiefly, other places). Louis, who lives in Harlem, makes his living selling spur-of-th...
Perhaps you need to read the Iliad just one more time (go back to Lattimore's peerless transation, please). The story is about anger. Specifically, Achilles's anger towards Agamemnon. He gets so angry, that his anger destroys one of the only things he loves unambiguously, his cousin Patroclus.
The gods, I thought, were more like Hepburn and Tracy nattering away in the background.
It's a pretty good story.
Open Mike: The Fate of Stories (OT)
The comedian John Mulaney has a bit in which he ridicules the emotional reticence of the Irish. “I'm Irish,” he says, “and Irish people, they don’t tell you a thing. Irish people keep it so bottled up. The plan with Irish people is, ‘I’ll keep all my emotions right here’”—he clutches the middle...
"Perfecting Sound Forever" sounds really interesting. I'm curious to know whether it addresses a question my father and I have had for years: why were so many Jews prominent in the hifi era (Sol Marantz, Sid Harman, Avery Fisher)? As a Jewish kid who built Heathkits in the 50s, my dad is sure it's not a coincidence!
Annie Dillard Sure Can Write (OT)
Children ten years old wake up and find themselves here, discover themselves to have been here all along; is this sad? They wake like sleepwalkers, in full stride; they wake like people brought back from cardiac arrest or from drowning; in medias res, surrounded by familiar people and objects, e...
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