Cafe Bucky

My wife, Susan Price, is exhibiting a few Cyanotypes at Cork Gallery, Avery Fisher Hall, in Lincoln Center (NYC). The show winds up on May 30th. Check out the PDF Press Release for more information.

Ok, for any OddTodd fans, go see the April Fools cartoon. Of course, it kind of helps to be familiar with the the back catalog.

Mep!

Golden Gate Bridge pouring rain, dark night, 2 cramped lanes above, and half a million crustaceans & mollusks below, gnawing away at the International Orange Paint on the towers. Howling wind outside. Pixies “Debaser” playing inside. Just want to get home

Oh, wait, s’not a travelogue posting. I was coming back from a Wordpress get-together in the Mission District. Even though I was just there for an hour or so (weeknight, long drive), it tied together a number of threads that have been bouncing around in the noggin :

• It’s really cool that Matt Mullenweg and cohorts have come up with a great blogging package. It’s always fun and inspiring to meet one of the lead authors, and congratulate them in person. I’m glad I made the switch from MT. It reminds me to get my butt back to FlexiPhoto.. devote a few hours here and there, and feel like I am making progress.
• Why didn’t I go to SXSW??
• … or Etech?! .. I blogged this one in 2003. Missing the conference scene.
• I want to get together with someone to do something in GarageBand.
• Gotta get out and take more photos (I haven’t done Zoom Blurs of the GG Bridge, or indeed of San Francisco, yet I pass by it very often)

The gist is that I’ve been sort of a hermit lately in Petaluma (or hermetically sealed into a 2 block radius in the Mission, zipping my commute to and fro). Reached the point where it hit me all at once: make some new contacts, and get some creative output going. Time to wake up from a long winter’s nap :-)

A real quickie post … I gotta pack and get back to California in a couple of hours. I was happy to see the very beginnings of Christo’s Gates project in Central Park this morning. These are all from my Nokia 3650 phone, so this is more about impression than quality :-)

My journeys begin and end with the Golden Gate bridge:

…but today in Central Park, we began to see something else that’s orange, and that has some “passage” significance…

One day we’re here…

… and the next day, we’re here…

… we still have nature, here in NYC…

… but there are other gateways…. each subway station a means of passage to the rest of the City …

We have our “before” …

… anticipation ….

… and after!

Got flash? zoomquilt.nikkki.net

Wow, looks like Volume 1 of Andy Warhol’s Interview: 35 Years Of Pop is a doozy. I don’t “need” anything for Christmas, but, uh, this one looks like quite the journey back into that alternate universe known as the 70’s (as well as being an important document of a sliver of New York City/Art/Pop history). Probably will get it sometime next year if my lovely wife doesn’t beat me to it :-)

Seen via Boing Boing

The sun peers through the atrium of the Cafe in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum. Just for a moment though. Long enough to appreciate, and then we’re back to an overcast day in New York. But overcast in a nice way, with a good view of joggers, bikers, and fast moving Large French Poodles.

The El Greco exhibit is a ray of sunshine. It was great to see one of the true old masters, and in such a large show.

Lest I be accused of posting nothing but endless zoom blurs …

from Queens … and a closer look …