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Michelle and I came across this during a walk through Riverside Park this past weekend…

Turns out that it’s a variation on a quote by Confucius.

For all of you out there who’ve been wondering, yes I am indeed alive and kicking! It’s been ages and ages since I last posted to Trebsworld. In some ways I’ve had alot of things going on (lots of renovation to my apartment and general “de-cluttering”), in other ways not so much (not alot of music/acting/adventure items to report). I’ve wanted to do a complete redesign and move the blog to it’s own sub-domain for some time. I’ve also been thinking very hard about switching the whole thing over to Wordpress. I like their one step theme options, as well as the fact that it’s PHP. (Writing and updating entries is a hell of alot easier… no rebuilding.) I’ve also wanted for some time to find an effective Gallery application to catalog my photos. (I’m not a fan of Flickr as a permanent solution… I want my photos stored on my servers.)

My plan is to keep things here for the time being while I work on the redesign and decide which platform to go with. (It’s easier to migrate from MT to Wordpress than vice-versa.) Perhaps if I put it out there publicly that I’m going redesign the site it’ll help motivate me to get things moving.

Better to be a work in progess than have no work at all, right?

Who says we don’t live in a land of opportunity?

It’s been really freakin’ hot lately. I know it’s probably hotter down south right about now but DAMN, enough already!

And the Lord said “Let there be cable! There shall be praise and salutations!” Tempted by the promise of more bandwidth and customer service representatives who don’t count English as a second language, I made the jump from Verizon to RCN today. My cable guy Richie just finished the inside work, and I’m typing this offline while I wait for the guy with the 30 foot ladder to come back and finish the outside hookup.

Interestingly enough while he was installing the cable I found this crucifix on the roof outside my bedroom window, covered in dirt and dust. You have to wonder at the backstory that leads to Jesus being tossed into the airshaft. I mean, who throws a cross into the alley? I now find myself in the position of not knowing what to do with the darn thing. I don’t want to keep it around the house. (Religious icons don’t appeal to me as decoration.) I don’t want to throw it away. What to do?

–**Update**–
I’m online now and the speeds are blazing compared to Verizon. So far, so good!

West 28th Street between 9th & 10th - Chelsea
Sunday, June 19th 2005

When I first moved here in the fall of 2002, I lived in International House. It’s a kind of youth hostel of sorts for students from around the world who are studying in New York. If memory serves me correctly, I lived there for about a year and a half. (It’s right around the corner from Manhattan School of Music, where I did my masters.) One of the folks that I’ve stayed in touch with over the years has been Fernanda Stein. She’s a dancer in Brazil. (Oddly enough, she recently met and hung out with my friend Dav, who was visiting Brazil for an extended Sabatical back in March. You can read about their adventures here.)

This past weekend (ok, I’m cheating… it’s actually the 29th and I’m finally getting around to posting this stuff and will be back dating all my posts…) was a reunion for all the folks who had lived at International House in the early nineties. Fernanda was one of the coordinators and asked if I’d like to collaborate on on a performance the Salon they were putting together involving alumni. She arrived in town on Tuesday, we got together on Tuesday night and bounced around some ideas, rehearsed them on Friday afternoon in the space and came up with the performance you’ll find here. (90MB)

Michelle and I went to see Ashes and Snow yesterday. It’s an awe inspiring collection of the works of Gregory Colbert.

From the New York Metro article:

“Over thirteen years and 33 expeditions (Burma, India, the waters off Tonga), Colbert has assembled what he calls “a loving exploration into the nature of animals in their natural habitat as they interact with human beings.” The people in his work include Burmese monks, trance dancers, and, of course, Colbert himself.”

(You’ll find an archived copy here.)

The show has been housed for the past month in a temporary “Nomadic Museum” constructed entirely of shipping cars (for the walls) and paper tubing (for the roof and columns) and housed at Pier 54 on the Hudson. The feeling upon entering the space is like being in a church. The center aisle is made of wooden planks, and Colbert’s photographs are suspended on either side. The spotlights shining on the photos cast beautiful shadows onto the river stones that are to the left and right of the wooden walkway.”

As to the work itself, it’s hipnotic. You walk down the aisle thinking to yourself “This is amazing… how in the world did he capture these images? He must have used Photoshop…”, only to find yourself watching a one hour film shown at the end of walkway that documents the creation of the very images you’ve just seen. “Yes, that actually is someone swimming with 3 humpbacked whales with no scuba gear. Yes, that really is a young child sitting serenely while a pack of African wild dogs circle menacingly”. The images are other-worldly. It’s an inspiring show that leaves you wanting to go out and purchase the “How the heck did he do this?” DVD, which unfortunately doesn’t seem to exist. You’re also left with a sense of how big this world of ours is, and how much you want to go out and spend time seeing more of it.

And here’s a terrific Manhattan sunset to put an end to terrfic afternoon…

While on my way home from running errands at around 7 on Sunday evening, I came across this amazing scene on 20th street looking west towards the Hudson. There was just a certain way that the light was catching on the brick that made me grab my camera and start shooting. As I was shooting, I overheard someone in a group of people walk past say “Look at the beautiful freight elevators” (Insert mocking tone here). Interestingly enough, I heard a few “wow’s” when they realized what I was really taking pictures of. On a separate note, I absolutely have to find a better way to upload pictures for viewing online. Movable Type in it’s default form absolutely sucks at this.

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