Jandek 2nd vaudeville park show 3/26/12

i was fortunate enough to be invited back for a second picture taking fiasco at the 3/26/12 jandek show at vaudeville park. the pictures featured below depict the rehearsal, the preshow and ultimately the show itself. i very much enjoyed the experience and anticipate photographing you

Jandek: Live! march 23-26 2012

Ian Colletti is pleased to present to you at Vaudeville Park, on friday march 23, 2012, for one night only, but also again on monday, the music of JANDEK. scroll through these photographs, thumb through these pictures, and hear Jandek through my eyes.

the representative from corwood industries

     Jandek lost in music, Valerie lost in a televised dimension, like tron or something.

A brialliant consequence of L-vesptv was that Rachelle could watch

a live movie of herself projected at the back of the room. 

this is a picture of Rachelle noticing herself and being in awe. 

             

               

     Jandek notices the Vaudeville park sign is backwards. Ian ought to take care of that.

Scott and Victoria of Louis-vesptv cooking tv in the kicthen

                                           

                                           Michael and Valerie in the soup, on live television

 Ian(harp) and Michael (12 string fretless guitar)  

                   Ian Colletti, chairman of Vaudeville Park, personally asked me to take photos and then 

            had the audacity to flip me off when i got too close. 

Micheal Haffka andValerie are in the soup.

softer than satin was the light, from stars

                        Ian, ethan's levis, and some drums.

Che and Jandek

  Rachelle and Che pose like pros.

                                               

i dont know much about what justin was doing with the pliers near the PA. 

I trust him though. He is after all, a scientist.

the kids at the back of the audience, texting, contemplating.

this is ben after i told him a funny joke

i talked to Matthew Ledvina 'till he was blue in the face

victoria of louis-vesptv, wondering.

a lookback at the 3rd ave el train

Demolished in the mid 1950's, the 3rd ave el is a mere ghost in the memories of our most elderly new yorkers. In these films, the long lost 3rd Ave el is canonized as a charming rollercoaster, and it is more fitting in our imaginations as such, though from accounts of those who lived with the long lost el trains of new york, they were abrasively noisy, dangerous, and obsolete. it began in the late 1870's as part of the IRT (interboro rapid transit) and was later integrated into the subway system. its best use was for getting to the bronx. In fact, the bronx section of the 3rd ave el was in operation until the 1970's. the bronx service is what kept the 3rd ave El running past the 1930's. There were elevated lines on 6th ave, 9th ave, and even 2nd ave that were all put out of service and dismantled in the 1930's and early 40's.

(last days of 3rd ave el in bronx)

please visit  http://www.nycsubway.org/ for more information and pictures

unfinished metropolitan museum of art

How many people look up at the met as would archeologists, at clues to the buildings own history?
We may go inside and play anthropologist and dance about the egyptian wing with a toothbrush and a magnifying glass, and yet never notice obvious omissions at the buildings facade.

Featured above is Richard Morris Hunt's original rendering of the Metropolitan museum of art. 

Note that above the four Corinthian pillars there are statues designed by artist Karl Bitter, each representing Music, Painting, Architecture, and Sculpture. 

originally to be carved out of marble, a massive financial crisis swept through the nation and the state of New York issued serious cut-backs. Limsetone would have to suffice. By 1902, massive slabs of limestone were in place to be carved, but that year the money officially ran out. By 1911, renowed architectural group Mckim, Mead, and White took up the task of expanding the north and south wings of the Met, and yet plainly ignored the unfinished limestone pyramids.(maybe white would have done soemthing about it if he hadnt been murdered 3 years earlier) The Met sat until the 1970's when yet, during another economic slump, the museum underwent more expansions and still again, the unfinished limestone heaps were left alone. Did anyone notice?

Note also the points at which the met ends in this early image.

also, pay close attention to the staircase as well as street level in these pics.

Here is the met today after 110 years of expansions...  

unisphere2

unisphere2, a photo by !garrettshore! on Flickr.

unisphere, corona park queens

sad kids-1

sad kids-1, a photo by !garrettshore! on Flickr.

zephyr boat, east river oct 2011

this week in history

if it were not enough this week to celebrate the 99th anniversary of the titanic sinking,

the 146 anniversary of abraham Lincoln's assasination,

the 66th anniversary of FDRs death,

The 150th anniversary of the fall of Ft Sumter to the confederate General Beauregard,

adolph hitlers birthday (note the lack of capital letters there)

the 13th anniversary of the columbine tragedy,

the 16th anniversary of the oklahoma city bombing,

the one year anniversary of the BP oil spill,

 tax day,

weed smoking day,

and Crispin Glover's birthday,

we also must take another minute and a half out of our busy new york rat race schedules to honor the always understated hero of the union army, whose quiet ways were trumped by his relentless resolve in the face of battle, Ullyses S Grant.

april 27th would be his 189th birthday.