Category: arts and letters

New York 911, Postscript

Have been getting a bunch of feedback on the New York 911 MoMA film.  When Bill, my photographer friend from L.A. (you’ve “met” him frequently in these web pages) forwarded it on to Roger, a photographer/poet we both know, Roger sent back these lines.  Don’t know the provenance of this verse, but here’s what came to his mind:

“It avails not, time nor place—distance avails not,
I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence,
Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt,
Just as any of you is one of a living crowd, I was one of a crowd,
Just as you are refresh’d by the gladness of the river and the bright flow, I was refresh’d,
Just as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swift current, I stood yet was hurried,
Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships and the thick-stemm’d pipes of steamboats, I look’d. “

 

 

Terry Gross’ Favorites

Terry Gross interviews are just about an institution, often the backdrop for the daily noon meal, around here, and have been that way for years. Recently, the Vulture website asked Terry to identify her favorite interviews. Her list of ten — which includes two or three of our favorites, too — are shown at the following link, with direct links to listen:

http://www.vulture.com/2017/05/fresh-air-terry-gross-best-interviews-npr.html

Bill Adds More Motion to Things

Bill sends me his first cut at a rework of a still photo I took of him and his then-wife in 1974 or 75.  This was probably at Point Vicente or somewhere south of L.A.  And, yes, the wind was actually blowing fiercely that day. Click on through to Bill’s FB page to see the thing the way it is intended to be seen, if you see no animation here.