this is just a quick hello and goodbye…i just have no free time
to be here with another workshop just started etc….this could be the
last workshop i do here in my New York space for any number of
reasons…in any case, and you know me by now, i will put everything i
have into this one..as i do in everything i do connected with my
work…other matters are often a disaster, but whatever i do regarding
photography, i am all in…whether it is my own work or my mentoring of
others…two different "bodies of work" but both equally important and
both with an equal piece of the "whole"
so, allow me please this brief break with our forum so that i may
focus on your colleagues who are here in my home…by the way, everyone
in my home right now is a reader of this forum…most silent non
writers, but they know all of you who write and can recite me various
incidents, paragraphs, and all kinds of things from right here…
point is, we are all having an impact on each other..yes, yes , the
power of the net etc etc etc…well, by fate, or whatever, our online
community has turned into reality so many times, from my first meeting
with Rafal in Seoul to hanging with Patricia in Detroit…and a whole
bunch of stuff going on in between at Look3 and Perpignan and just out there on the highway..you know who you are…you remember
the good times and the truly sweet reality of what it feels like to
know someone before you meet them and then take off on another whole
new side of the friendship..and, you must admit, it has turned into
real friendships…i am sure we all agree that our beleaguered world
can use every drop of good spirit we can squeeze into it..but all any
of us can do is just make your immediate environment as good a place as
you can make it…
my life set of rules for myself: set up good vibes within a 20 foot imaginary
space created around me….give everyone in that space as much room as they want….make whoever is
right next to me laugh..
this weekend upcoming will be another one of our "forum family reunions"….i hope there will be many more….in that spirit it might just be the right time for me to show just a piece of my Off for a Family Drive work at the finale fiesta this friday night..seems like maybe we should look at some of these American families i met cross country just because of our times, not because i my pictures….i will think on it….Alessandra Sanguinetti and Paul Fusco will precede the student show, but i just might stick "family drive" in there somewhere….what do you think??
after all, it will be a family night…
I enjoyed meeting you also Gina. I didn’t see you at the party either. I did go up on the roof for quite some time and really enjoyed the view and talking with Prescott and the woman who works for the NY Times (sorry, you name escapes me). The Sushi dinner was a great way to meet everyone; thanks Erica for taking care of that arrangement.
Bob and Marina–so wonderful to have a face for Bob now and Marina I recognized immediately.
Andrew S, as always it was so good to visit with you again.
DAH, thanks for the opportunity to meet all these people.
Cliff, your photos on your tacticalimages site are amazing. So glad we connected and I hope you are able to connect with my son-in-law; would love to see your capture of him and his unit.
Loved meeting all the workshop participants and having lunch with you; and mostly seeing that glow that comes with a successful completion of a workshop in the loft.
Lee
and anotn – you were right.
my negatives and books arrived from england to my home in stavanger at 8am.. only just after tor.. a good friend called hans saved my life by meeting the lorry..
what a rush.
sorry ot barge in.. will read back comments soon as i’ve slept and changed my second nappie.
ERICA,
I’m stuck in a hotel on an island off an island
at the bottom of the world on a job feeling a long way
from the place that it feels like it is all happening.
Your words are a gift.
Thank you.
Matt
Dear Patricia,
You know how much meeting you meant to me. I will definitely stay in touch and when the essays are fluffed out again I will post.
David, a boy, what a joy! I had all girls but they produced lots of sweet boys.
Lee
home……
in the middle of writing a long long long long long post….will post later today when i get home….
just send off a thank you note to david and to erica….gotta get one to partricia panos brother lance and the rest….
but, holly fuck, do i got lots to say :)))))))))))))))…
hugs and love until later today (DAVID, ERICA, CHECK YOU EMAIL)….
gotta say this too, PATRICIA YOU ARE THE MOST FULL-OF-LOVE LUMINOUS 17 YEAR OLD I KNOW :))))))))…broke my heart you were gone when marina and i went to David’s on saturday night…letter later today….GINA: hugs, aint the 1/2 of it…marina and i are totally drag-down in love with u…and i dont think ive met a more even-keeled, hilariously non-pretentious filled with light person there, and any person that can carry 4 bottles of wine AND STILL HUG AND KISS AND SMILE, is my kind of person!…
ok, gotta so myuch to write and say…with y’all by evening time with a full full report on the proceedings, impressions, all that too…
but, yea, fuck it…as i told Panos on saturday night: he and lance are 2 of the most handsome of heart-beautiful creatures i’ve ever met…and remember Panos (check your email) no fucking workshop can create what you already got in that 4 chamber heart of yours, dig what im saying>?…..
Lancew: picture on the table…abuzz with light and love inside my body…dima’s too :)))
running for the day….later later later…
b
DAVID B, congratulations to you, Mrs B, and young Tor.
DAVID B
Congrats to you and Beate! Welcome to the club….my son is now 10 and never ceases to amaze….you will have many good adventures, and make many memories.
Erica,
Amazing reportage…scribbling in the dark or no! I will email soon, still digesting my trip…
Patrica,
Thank you thank you thank you for the images…somehow, it is not at all as I imageined, and exactly like it!
Lee,
Please make sure to let me know as you get close up here. I am in and out this week, but if you get this far, Keeneland (historic horse race track) is in it’s first week of the 4 week fall meet. Weather is perfect.
PANOS
Where are you? Staying in NY for a while? Road trip back? Wake up and tell us!
Andrew B,
I am leaving Fayetteville and making my way to Tennessee and then to your area. I am going to say around the 13th or 14th. I thought the horse races were finished for the year. I am very glad to be able to see the horse races; I have never attended one. One branch of our family in Ponca, Oklahoma were racers years ago but we never seemed to get there to see it. Really looking forward to meeting you.
Lee
Lee,
Will send you email, but in case you’re traveling and miss it, Keeneland will still be running then. They only run twice a year, spring and fall, for 4 weeks each time. No racing on Sunday or Monday, so take that into account for planning if you really want to get to the races. Otherwise, the “backside” (stables, etc) is very accessable and during sessions there is something going on there 7 days a week.
Looking forward to meeting you as well!
WELCOME TOR!!!!
MATT
happy to help, I felt exactly the same when I was stuck in an airport for 2 days..
GINA
no audio, just scribbling in the dark..
ALL, it’s PRESTON, not prescott..but I think he’ll forgive the confusion..
Kibbutz
..sitting next to
David… We are having a new post
coming up within 5 minutes..
Stay tuned..
Morning y’all
PRESTON
My apologies, friend! After all you did for me–carrying me up & down the stairs & taking fabulous pics with my camera–and I STILL misnamed you in last night’s exhausted posting of pics. I know your name and can’t understand where “Prescott” came from! Please forgive.
hugs & kisses
Petunia (you can now misname ME)
P.S. Thanks, Erica, for setting the record straight!
panos here
…..ALL…
new post….
chekerooooo !!!
Want to be sure Preston sees this…
PRESTON
My apologies, friend! After all you did for me–carrying me up & down the stairs & taking fabulous pics with my camera–and I STILL misnamed you in last night’s exhausted posting of pics. I know your name and can’t understand where “Prescott” came from! Please forgive.
hugs & kisses
Petunia (you can now misname ME)
P.S. Thanks, Erica, for setting the record straight!
Erica, Panos, Patricia
Thank you your words and photos make me feel like i was there with you
5 hours old and you came to tell us on the blog. That’s family awright!!!!
Wonderful, David, the big Day has happened, but it is truly only the first one of many big Days to come. Your life has just changed forever.
Best wishes to Mom!
BOB:
with y’all by evening time with a full full report on the proceedings, impressions, all that too…
——————
Yes, facts, anecdotes, words spoken, and no freakin’ metta, or Zen Zubin or…Yeah, you know what I mean!!!
A report as tactile as that bottle in your hand on Patricia’s Pbase pix.
GET THAT BOTTLE (UNCORKED AND SPILLING!) IN YOUR REPORT…
PS: you look like a young Coluche in that pix. Audrey, Jean, Pierre-Yves, what do you think? No?
damned, Browzed myself short again, I got stuck in the other thread again, the one before, when all of you were “here”, already.
Panos, San Francisco? Is that a transit? You wouldn’t drop by in Fog city without telling me…. Yes?
Do you ever answer your phone, BTW? It’s not like I call everyday, but…..
David B, if you missed it, lots and lots of happening with this new little soul, and gift to the world.
What a freakin’ idiot, that last post above was for the new thread.
I AM STUCK, do not leave me here, take me with you everyone…To the new thread at least!!!! :-)
ALL
Hi, and sorry for being toatally away from keyboard lately. I`ve been photographing, alot. Alot of work, school, the part-time job in the photoshop ,my own business and my “mom” project is all going excelent.
And for you who don`t know me, I`m quite new to photography, and even more newer to this forum.
BOB AND PATRICIA
Thank you very much for the feedback. I`ve done some new, I have used alot of your tips and tricks. I`ll put up a new link soon.
New, and interesting things that I`m photographing now is my mother`s trial – her late husband`s kids want the house she lives in, for money. My older brother came home yesterday, after beeing away for 6 weeks, with no mail or phonecalls to us (recovering drug addict) and came home totally free from drugs, don`t know the english word for it. Haven`t seen him like this in many years.
And once again congratulations to the father of Tor Capa.
- I get really excited every time I hold a camera ;)
Alexander
aleander C
link for you.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/in_afghanistan_with_the_isaf.html