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Breezy Point...

2012-02-12T14:20:00.001-08:00

_MG_6541.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

As a child I spent a lot of time out at Breezy Point...

gone...

2012-02-12T10:07:00.001-08:00

_MG_8163.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

image of a pond gone...they put a parking lot there...I think that says it all about them...less is more..Roger killed himself because he couldn't take it anymore...of course, he was severely mentallly ill...someone who had a trust fund, his house bought for him and a montly allowance from the state and he couldn't make it...still, he had a point...a culture that has no love of nature or awareness how anyone else lives for be is a sick place to live...

Seeing the local...

2012-02-12T09:15:00.001-08:00

_MG_3802.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

Up on Facebook they like to post pictures of their memories...my memories are in the present I strive to see the local...

Hudson River Painting

2012-02-12T09:08:00.001-08:00

bt6557.jpg, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

I have always been inspired by the Hudson River painters..

Rockwood in the Fall 11.7.09

2012-02-12T08:58:00.001-08:00

Rockwood in the Fall 11.7.09, a set on Flickr.

They are gone now...Bowie, Matt, Roger, Donnie...into the big sleep....their dreams swimming with the fishes..down below in the agora people conditioned by the image of the movie...symbols of what they think they want...it's all just a guess anyway...as a student of light, word and memory I soldier on...

Green will return soon...

2012-02-11T15:51:00.001-08:00

v1791.jpg, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

Spring will be here soon...Raja gone for a year...words still flowing...the showing growing strong although I exist in the abyss of social strategy...listening to an encore booknotes debunking the myth of lincoln...how typical...america, the land of junk vision...

Picuresque Decay...

2012-02-10T09:24:00.001-08:00

_MG_8861.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

I've always liked the picruesque decay of swamps..

Leo Hopi

2012-02-10T09:17:00.001-08:00

_MG_4067.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

Leo Hopi...mad hipster of the angelic night...

Unseasonable warm...

2012-02-10T06:16:00.001-08:00

_MG_6300.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

On an unseasonably warm day I took advantage to capture the light....as the dusk sauntered in I caught this magical shot over Donnie's bench...

journey through time...

2012-02-09T05:11:00.001-08:00

bx1819.jpg, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

down in the valley they move so fast in the agora...what do they see?...outside light licks the lawn in cold splendor..

whippoorwhill in Febuary

2012-02-06T13:33:00.001-08:00

whippoorwhill in Febuary, a set on Flickr.

the weather was over fifty degrees today...I hiked the path in my shorts...down at donnie's bench I did tai chi with the sun blasting into my body...with it so comfortable I was really able to enjoy the aesthetic..

like a movie set...

2012-02-04T05:46:00.001-08:00

_MG_3939.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

downtown Chappaqua is like a movie set to me...props set up for actors frozen in time perhaps set to the soundtrack of penny lane...

the years run wild...

2012-02-03T20:59:00.001-08:00

_MG_3828.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

bukowski was right...the years run wild...the people I knew talk aboout banal things while they text on their cell phones...the raj could no longer ran so he decided to call it quits...

Learning to see...

2012-02-03T20:32:00.001-08:00

c4087.jpg, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

it's about the local...learning to see...

The last three days..

2012-02-03T20:30:00.001-08:00

ch3909.jpg, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

the last three days I have made yoga class with a different teacher....each one brings their own perspective...and each class has its own vibe...and outside the winter rages on although it has been a benevolent one..

Watchin the Videopoem Hangin..

2012-02-03T14:10:00.001-08:00

_MG_5358.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

Watchin the Videopoem Hangin'...the national on now...melancholy song...them live in Philly....as we are now in Feburary the light is stayin out longer even though time goes so fast now...roger dead for almost a year...yesterday Lew scammed me for a beer...down in the chill by the river...the world absorbed in the din of it's noise and the cult of celebrity...ahhahahh...as if they would take the time to notice...today is a sober day....as I sit in the cocoon of my room, detached from the image of myself...down in the agora is all about image, presentation, scams...and of course, the amount of paper you control with your hand...in the Videopoem the church bells are ringing now in the deep of august light...thick lush light through the green magic...

Hardscrabble In Febuary

2012-02-01T13:48:00.001-08:00

Hardscrabble In Febuary, a set on Flickr.

the aesthetic has always been important to me...I felt like it was something that I could make mine...hold on to as it were...I took pictures of this scene today so I could contrast with what came before and what is to come...it's my small way of holding in a world of chaos and indifference..

Do It Your Self Videopoem on Vimeo

2012-02-01T13:47:00.001-08:00

Do It Your Self Videopoem on Vimeo, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

This was a fun show...how time goes...two and a half years ago...into the night I move...i know for a fact these people pay no attention....I didn't think they really ever would....it's like my napkins with words twenty thirty years ago...snapshots of being only important to me..

Walking Glazier with Susie

2012-02-01T09:23:00.001-08:00

Walking Glazier with Susie, a set on Flickr.

It was nice to take a walk with Susie in Glazier...she had never been there before...it's wild what we never see even tough it is around us...the weather has been unseasnonably warm..today it's sixty...we're talking about the first of febuary...

There can be...

2012-01-28T22:51:00.001-08:00

_MG_5225.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

There can be no turning back...it was the choice made to enter into the imagination...out by the hudson beautiful sunset...I look at the town rag...it makes me want to drink...sublime beauty....outside the noise of the agora..

glazier on a warm winter's day...

2012-01-25T04:45:00.001-08:00

glazier on a warm winter's day..., a set on Flickr.

off the beaten path taking advantage of the unseasonably warm day...out there with the pbrs I saw two toxes come running to their den...

Jan. 24 Roger's birthday..

2012-01-24T06:14:00.001-08:00

snow city contrast, a set on Flickr.

Today is Roger's birthday...the first since he passed...I doin't want to get maudlin about it I just want to show some respect..he did a lot for me and I hope I never forget that...like beauty of snow over Whippoorwhill..

My hood...

2012-01-23T06:45:00.001-08:00

_MG_7472.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

My hood...and m ever changing awareness of it...

Another view...

2012-01-23T06:16:00.001-08:00

_MG_7452.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

Another view that is gone...they put a bulldozer over it..

As summer slips away, the light grows fat..

2012-01-23T05:54:00.001-08:00

As summer slips away, the light grows fat.., a set on Flickr.

Americans have no regard for their landscape...

This view is gone..

2012-01-23T05:46:00.001-08:00

_MG_7388.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

This view is gone...they bulldozed it...to me this act is metaphor for the corporate state...

politics...

2012-01-23T05:38:00.001-08:00

_MG_7393.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

Yet conservative class politics is always inflected by culture and ideology, the potent mix that Pat Buchanan brought to Richard Nixon’s attention four decades ago.

in the woods...

2012-01-23T05:18:00.001-08:00

cj1831.jpg, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

in the woods observing the light...the agora down below preoccupied with its noise to busy to observe the sublime beauty existing right next to them...

Tree Cutting with Doug 9.28.09

2012-01-21T06:13:00.001-08:00

Tree Cutting with Doug 9.28.09, a set on Flickr.

Doug in all his glory..

It is winter now...

2012-01-21T03:22:00.001-08:00

autumnBurst, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

It is winter now...a snow storm actually....the leaves from this view are gone...the lights of the town glisten through the naked forest...

Black Sabbath...

2012-01-21T03:21:00.001-08:00

qua.jpg, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

We used to listen to Black Sabbath on cassette tapes with little ear phones plugged in our here when this community center was a library...

Me

2012-01-21T03:19:00.001-08:00

_MG_3833.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

What happens to us over time?...especially those of us who journey into the night...into the realm of imagination...

Certain spots...

2012-01-20T05:21:00.001-08:00

bu1688.jpg, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

There are certain spots where the light glows magically in Manhattan...this is such a spot...at the right time you can use the light on the Hudson as a flood light...

Down by the river..

2012-01-17T04:41:00.001-08:00

_MG_3983.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

We like to hang by Rivers...

the cold mean streets...

2012-01-16T16:18:00.001-08:00

pencil, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

the cold mean streets of the bronx...

History

2012-01-16T13:03:00.001-08:00

_MG_8468.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

This is where a fort stood in the early days of Manhattan..

Juxtaposition and Contrast

2012-01-16T07:59:00.000-08:00

Hudson River Valley

2012-01-13T13:19:00.001-08:00

Hudson River Valley, a set on Flickr.

For me, views of the hudson river valley I equate with being spiritual...there's something about it that brings me to that space...death doin't have no mercy...they'e dropiong like flies...well, that's their karma..and it's the karma of all the crocodile tears...you're here now, be it..

the moon..

2012-01-12T21:43:00.001-08:00

bq1601.jpg, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

the moon glows through the woods....being there to see it...alive, alone..

star fucker star...

2012-01-12T15:49:00.001-08:00

kl891.jpg, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

light...image..

Lia

2012-01-12T06:07:00.001-08:00

by2784.jpg, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

Lia as six year old....I was watching a dylan doc the other day...he was 25 at the time and he was saying how it is important to keep creating in the moment because time is always changing everything...I lift m camera in the moment and I take that shot..around me people lost in the din of their noise preoccupied with their small time movies...in this moment here now in the qua rain falling down and since it is winter there is a full view of the town...the agora busy being alive...

Rothko

2012-01-12T05:18:00.001-08:00

_MG_4353.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

My brother taught me how to see Rothko paintings in nature...seeing, before it's too late...I was going to say you better see before it's too late but that's preaching...I don't like telling people how to see...it's usually a lie...and usually you won't live up to what you preach...

Keep It Real In the Light

2012-01-11T17:53:00.001-08:00

Keep It Real In the Light, a set on Flickr.

Keeping it real in the light...chronicling the moment..it takes time to see what changes have really occured...

walk, don't run...

2012-01-09T15:16:00.001-08:00

_MG_2694.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

walk, don't run...it was a motif in a robert stone book I read so long ago when I read to have ideas and to learn how to see the world...

that was a value then...

I'm not sure it's a value now...

but I have never stopped....and the words flow real....

in pursuit of the holy light

2012-01-06T14:27:00.001-08:00

_MG_9716.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

in pursuit of the holy light....like a mad angelic hipster moving with the moment...

A persona...

2012-01-03T11:31:00.001-08:00

_MG_9057.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

Joey created a persona for himself and authoried a life movied in which he could sta on the screens of the media...as he sat in the night drinking his forty he thoguht about the days when he hung out with a....she had been a really weird chick...at times wantintg to fuck and other times not, she coulld never make up her mind. when he once went to eat her out she made him stop because she said it would give yer a yeast infection...that was her excuse for everything...but she could be dirty too...once when she didn't want to fuck him she asked, "how about if I give you head?"...

"Ah," Joey thought to himself as he got buzzed from the forty, "back in the days when chicks would offer me head."

Little Marty Tributte at Katie Mac's

2012-01-03T06:26:00.001-08:00

Little Marty Tributte at Katie Mac's, a set on Flickr.

I like the blues...

windows, glazier, scapes

2012-01-01T15:44:00.001-08:00

windows, glazier, scapes, a set on Flickr.

it's the first day of the new year although all time has blurred for me...a new day?...when it is all the same day?...I got to watch Chris Hedges on In Depth and then a symbosium with Midge Dredter on Buckley's Man and God at Yale...I loved the fluctiation between concservative and liberal views...and the sun was shinign orange outside the window...it was 50 degrees today as I got an opportunity toi hike glazier and bike over there...this was after a yoga class...so let's see how this flash of a year will go..

Watching a chick...

2011-12-25T17:55:00.001-08:00

_MG_4021.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

I'm watching a chick on tv...she is a successful videoi journalist....Im almost envious but not quite...she has no poiani in her reporting...success has been give n her to on a silver plattrer...her voice has always been listened t...she does not know what it is like to go mad in the night...she does not kow what it'slike toi keep the jorurney intoi the imagination....

Winter Solistice 08

2011-12-25T13:18:00.001-08:00

Winter Solistice 08, a set on Flickr.

08 seems like a long time ago and yet at the same time just like yesterday...not really much has changed in the journey into the night and yet everything has changed...the weird duality of life...and the words still come and the words still ignored but it still feels so good to still type the words out brings my mind into a silent orderered space...let everyone run around in their din...sunsets in the winter the orange light slicing through thre trees still inspires me...

Winter Solistice

2011-12-21T10:07:00.000-08:00

They say it's the solistice today but it's really tomorrow...on the gregorian calendar it comes in on the 12th...I looked it up and it comes in 11:30 pm tonight so you see what I am saying?...actually you probably don't...I drifted long ago into the fog and haven't come out...but it's not so bad being in the fog...there's a healthy one right now in the qua valley and its makes me snuggily and warm and safe far away from the american terror machine...mystical in its greyness..so here it is, another year gone...

a journyey through the qua landscape

2011-12-18T07:34:00.001-08:00

a journyey through the qua landscape, a set on Flickr.

the winter solistice is in a day or so....sun licks a landscape barren in its nakedness...down by the river I drank cheapies and listened to river flow...I found it's murmur to be very loving...the pbrs drowned the bad thoghts out and helped my mind to focus on the beauty...being still in the american landscape is a revolutonary act in of itself...the people who tore downthe woods have never been down here...I see their desctruction of the hill and the wetlands as a metaphor for the horror of their culture...I drink the pbrs as to not be hung up on it...

New York rock n' roll weekend

2011-12-08T01:51:00.001-08:00

New York rock n' roll weekend, a set on Flickr.

keeping it moving into the image before it comes stale...beautiful sunset over the hudson and then patti rapping love letters then freind rock n' roll then classic john doe...

Beautiful fall day in the 'Qua...

2011-11-25T12:17:00.001-08:00

Beautiful fall day in the 'Qua..., a set on Flickr.

I got this set from a slideshow that was on my root website...it was from a post talking about using flickr to tell a story...at the time I had the notion that I could pass my self off as somekind of social media expert...nobody paid any attention and further into the darkness I traveled...but today, but chance stumbling on it I feel strength because it's all about expression..

Florida

2011-10-31T19:15:00.001-07:00

dg1552.jpg, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

I used to go to Florida often when I was kid...

me that's who...

2011-10-28T16:13:00.001-07:00

sublime Fall Light in the Qua, a set on Flickr.

me that's who....now that we are movie stars it's all about me...above the agora in the woods it was a nice moment to capture the fall light...cold has been licking at the heels of the day and the weatherman even says we're supposed to have snow tomorrow...we the speed and blur of information it's near impossible to hook someone's attention and even if you do you're never going to hold onto them...up here in the woods past stink of the death expression and the polluted thoughts of the commodified ants the light reflects in a beautiful manner...really what more could I ask for?...on the walls and ghettos of facebook people speak of famous people they have met and post the minutia of their movie set...good for them...I am content to be able experience this light and now I write about it keeping my craft of writing going...

autumn light in Westchester

2011-10-24T05:58:00.001-07:00

autumn light in Westchester, a set on Flickr.

in the hudson valley the light becomes golden and crisp as the leaves change...thoughts of ichabod crane and other images from the Hudson River School...down in the agora the commuters take the death express to the commodified world of being as we exchange lies about fame in the movie....

qua woods in autumn 2011

2011-10-23T09:48:00.001-07:00

qua woods in autumn 2011, a set on Flickr.

it's like being in the moment...sitting down on a log with a fresh 12 pack of pbrs and smokes and the rolling stones on the ipod and observing the play of light hidden behind the remaining leaves so the sraights who mingle in the agora downtown can't see you...I believe this constitutes a revolutionary act in a society that is in constant motion...to stay still and observe is to upset the paradigm...I'm not sure of the way to market this or the ways I have tired have not met with much success which in a soicety that defines identity by one's job and weath is a crime but it's one of things I do...the light comes in a magical fresh angle whciih creates the urge to capture it...this American way of being won't last forever...it's serioiusly cracked now as the occupy wall st. movement reflects the disease of this culture...I like watching booktv and the ideas presented there...not the endless discussiion of sports or celebritiy news which does nothing to make one aware of what's going on...I believe in self empowering and expressiion of the self...sometimes that self is pretty thin and the alchohoil can help numb that pain...there's nothing like getting a good buzz on...

through time...

2011-10-16T14:55:00.001-07:00

_MG_3448.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

photos are passports through time..

Life as a movie...

2011-10-12T13:36:00.001-07:00

handicap.jpg, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

Down in the qua agora I see movie sets everywhere...here's a simple one down by the bank...the aesthetic of the moment...

My backyard

2011-10-09T05:43:00.001-07:00

down the hill in the qua, a set on Flickr.

Taking pictures of my backyard while drinking pbrs and listening to get your ya's ya's...

Anti Folk Festival 2011

2011-09-28T16:16:00.001-07:00

Anti Folk Festival 2011, a set on Flickr.

Anti folk as far as I can tell is a state of mind....the acts I caught at this event, the sprinkle genies, joe bendix, and renee russo have been on their game for a long time...as I have too....earlier in the week when I was having a smoke outside where I was drinking martinis I watched the young people on the street over by st. marks place...they were all lost in their cell phones...I don't think they stand for anything or know anything accept that they are young...sure I would love to bang one of those young chicks but that might mean I would have to talk to them...this is what anti follk means to me..

Hudson River Madness

2011-09-06T07:31:00.001-07:00

_MG_3989.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

Off the beaten path looking at the picuresque light reflect off the Hudson River near Hastinigs-on-the-hudson....

Yesterday reading a book about the buffalo...

How little Americans know about anything...

I guess that's a judgement...as the years go by the less I know...this can be sometimes painful...the certainity of black and white dissolves.

We live in the time of the Jersey Shore of the imagintiion.

We live in the time of the image.

I live to see moments like this.

the decay..

2011-09-03T15:58:00.001-07:00

_MG_8861.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

I like study the decay in swamps...

in the august night

2011-08-24T18:32:00.001-07:00

_MG_3079.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

in the august night here in the qua the crickets have returned..I always find the rub of their legs such a sweet lullaby...here, in the room, alone, sound of fan and reflection of light off the wall...looking at this photo I took earlier in the day in Whippoorwhill catching the magic of the light through the thick green leaves which to the trained eye show the first hints of autumn coming...

Empty for now. Candidates are still filing in. #Southeast #Pa... on Twitpic

2011-08-22T16:40:00.000-07:00

Empty for now. Candidates are still filing in. #Southeast #Pa... on Twitpic

Publish Post

I didn't have time

2011-08-13T17:30:00.001-07:00

bike ride to whippoorwhill in august, a set on Flickr.

I didn't have time for her bullshit...I unfreinded her on facebook...another insane psycho bitch...I was more interested in the light which is magicalk this time of the year in the qua...it ddn't really matter that the other bitch had unfreinded me...the horro r of middle aged people takling about thier past was too much for me to handle..

juxtaposition of city and qua

2011-08-09T21:35:00.001-07:00

juxtaposition of city and qua, a set on Flickr.

more picuresque light in the whip...

2011-08-07T11:55:00.001-07:00

more picuresque light in the whip..., a set on Flickr.

They came...

2011-08-07T10:15:00.001-07:00

_MG_9742.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

They came and took pictures and now they're gone...the pictures were shitty with a cliche narrative...and the lies they told themselves were even shittier...

There used to be...

2011-08-07T10:12:00.001-07:00

_MG_9801.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

There used to be wetlands and woods here....they call this progress...they call a lot of things progress...

May 18, 2008

2011-08-07T10:10:00.001-07:00

lq922.jpg, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

As a student of light

2011-08-07T07:34:00.001-07:00

_MG_7648.JPG, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

As a student of light and landscape and the belief in hyperlocal i know when certain areas will magically illumiianted...

I go deeper into the yoga

2011-08-02T17:50:00.001-07:00

a3850.jpg, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

juxtaposition

2011-08-02T04:56:00.001-07:00

thickBranch.jpg, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

I like juxtaposition...I also believe in hyperlcoal and the process of seeing...

Lia being funny

2011-07-31T16:00:00.001-07:00

s2752.jpg, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

the sadies bowery ballroom

2011-07-31T15:37:00.001-07:00

the sadies bowery ballroom, a set on Flickr.

the sadies bring an unique touch to rock n' roll...combining many elements such as country, punk, surf, bluegrass they have invented an original sound...

View of the east village..

2011-07-29T16:14:00.001-07:00

jeffHood.jpg, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

The east village used to be German town...it got the term east village from a developer who was trying selll real estate...

Children of Paradise 3.7.09

2011-07-28T04:14:00.001-07:00

Children of Paradise 3.7.09, a set on Flickr.

This moment...

2011-07-26T08:31:00.001-07:00

984bl.jpg, a photo by zimbablade on Flickr.

This moment seems so far away...

Dead Rock West @ King Tut's

2011-07-25T10:40:00.001-07:00

Dead Rock West @ King Tut's, a set by g_johnston on Flickr.

study of backyard as a Monet Garden

2011-07-25T05:03:00.001-07:00

study of backyard as a Monet Garden, a set on Flickr.

studying seeing staying in place...that's revolutionary in America...being, in the admist of noise and apathy and sexual image...breath and not caring about the rushing highway or one's place on the totem pole...

Wrigley Field

2011-07-23T02:40:00.001-07:00

Wrigley Field, a set on Flickr.

Chicago Blues Fest

2011-07-23T02:07:00.001-07:00

Chicago Blues Fest, a set on Flickr.

Whippoorwhill on a hot july day

2011-07-23T00:44:00.001-07:00

Whippoorwhill on a hot july day, a set on Flickr.

Rockwood in the Fall 11.7.09

2011-07-21T10:24:00.001-07:00

Rockwood in the Fall 11.7.09, a set on Flickr.

a reminder to enjoy the warmth and to continue further into my juxtaposition of image and the Buddhist sense of how everything is impermenent...if you ain't busy being born you busy dying...got nothing left to deep to say but I love writing anyway...reaching out for the aesthetic truth admist the din...

July Swamp

2011-07-21T05:59:00.001-07:00

July Swamp, a set on Flickr.

the sadies with andre williams

2011-07-19T17:26:00.001-07:00

the sadies with andre williams, a set on Flickr.