Sunday, August 29, 2010

the light at this time of year....


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Originally uploaded by zimbablade
the light at this time of year is amazing....crisp lush light sloping over the earth...against the trees it made them look like angels...now with the light gone for the night the crickets chirp in lusty rythym...

There used to be a pond there..


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Originally uploaded by zimbablade
There used to be a pond there....a wetland...they chopped up the trees and dug out the pond....they are going to put a parking lot there...they call that progress....I call it pathetic...

Saturday, August 28, 2010

a privilege...


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Originally uploaded by zimbablade
it has been a privilege at times to be invited in to yoga classes to take pictures..

away from the agora...


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Originally uploaded by zimbablade
watchint ed schultz on cspan speak up for the middle class...I agree with what he says but it ain't happening....here in the qua these people doin't care a fuck about anhyone but themselves....wall street speculation good....war good....greed good...away from the agora I like to get lost in the chairoscuro of light...

Soon the leaves willl change....


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Originally uploaded by zimbablade
Soon the leaves will change...even though it's hot here in New York you can sense it....the leaves have lost their virgin crispness and there is a smell in the air...

Looking at realiity....


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Originally uploaded by zimbablade
As an artist I try to look at reality different picking out details people might not notice...

I found this...


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Originally uploaded by zimbablade
I found this lake across from Whippoorwhill Park....I never knew it was there...I've lived in this town my wholle life and I never knew it was there....it's about seeing...

Friday, August 27, 2010

To pose under the light...


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Originally uploaded by zimbablade
I was taking shots down on the Bowery when this couple up and asked me to take their picture. I said I would just as long as they moved under the light...

the light at the end of august...


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Originally uploaded by zimbablade
the light at the end of august becomes amazing....

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Tara Rosenbloom on the street...



watching the reporters watching us....putting the spin in corporate media's face...making our lives personal again from their impersonal reporting...time to write yourself into the movie...

General Petraeus' "Progress" Spin on Afghanistan: We've Heard It Before




and the war machine goes on....people in starbucks in barnes and noble reading people magazine and drinking latte and chocolate cookies and the voices on facebook say the most cleverest things I never have known so much about highschool and the dow goes up and the dow goes down and the kids do the cleverest things with those cellphones like sexting athough how is that new I don't know Christy and I made out in front of Ed Hart once while he was lecturing us we didn't care and I mean we didn't care which was an attitude which I possessed for decades until the parnoia of the corporate state just wore me down although I can still feel the poetry at times like coming off the train last night underneath the hungary moon the lusting crickets in the last blush of summer curled up underneath a cigarette in the rich aromoa of being...

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

words splash real...



words splash real...they have been the one true constant in my world as things have constantly changed and I drifted into the void of the night....I was fortunate enough to capture the thick magical light on an august day in the qua...there was also the sadness as they have begun the rape of the gorge...that to me more than anything is a testament to their callous way of being...insenstive to the rape of the land why should they care about the bombing in afghanistan or iraq?...I find it amazing that I can still feel after living through decades of plunder and rape and yes those are strong words and I mean them....since I have been fifteen I have watched the individuals of my generation be sheep....some strong...some week but all infilitrated by the american disease...the one thing I never wanted to be was my parents and one by one just about everyone adopted the man's ideology...in most respects how could they not which such an onslaught of american consumer culture...these pictures here in this moment an continuation of my expression in proustian manner as interpreted through kerouac down to me...

Monday, August 16, 2010

Worcester Pride Weekend 2008


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Originally uploaded by WCCA
This pictures brings back memories of my time in Worcester where I went to college....I did a lot of growing up there on those mean gritty streets....it's been twenty five years since those days and that particular wonderful summer I spent with Chin....in those days times seemed immorital...