#artist: joel davidson

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Tracklist:

First Nation • Gadigal Land • Change The Date • Terror Australia • Desert Man, Desert Woman • Wind In My Head (Makarrata Version) • Uluru Statement From The Heart / Come On Down

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Masterlist 3!

Here’s the third masterlist for all of my works! If you want to check out more of my work, here’s the links for masterlist one and masterlist two Imagines marked * are smutty imagines! Imagines marked ` are requests! Imagines marked ⭐ are personal favorites!

IMAGINES

STRANGER THINGS small ~ jim hopper` dance with me ~ eddie munson ⭐ starry night ~ steve harrington* (part five) ⭐ at the hip ~ steve harrington` ⭐ triple date ~ steve harrington (part six) ⭐ the freak ~ steve harrington (part seven) ⭐ oblivious ~ eddie munson ⭐ jason doesn’t know ~ eddie munson ⭐ this is music ~ eddie munson` ⭐

SUPERNATURAL strange human feelings ~ castiel` cleaning ~ dean winchester`

HANNIBAL into fiction` sob story ~ hannibal lecter

THE BOYS obsession ~ billy butcher* ⭐ herogasm ~ soldier boy* ⭐ alone on christmas ~ billy butcher can’t get too close ~ billy butcher ⭐ change in a heartbeat ~ billy butcher ⭐ the bad room ~ homelander ⭐

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY life father ~ diego hargreeves` rescue mission ~ klaus hargreeves’ ⭐

THE LAST OF US (HBO) friendly neighbors ~ joel miller ⭐ too sweet ~ joel miller

BARRY attraction ~ barry berkman` treat him better ~ barry berkman

AMERICAN HORROR STORY late night sins ~ xavier plympton (1984)*`

VICTORIOUS lost dog ~ tori vega` junker ~ beck oliver

HEMLOCK GROVE i don’t ever wanna see you with him ~ roman godfrey ⭐

THE VAMPIRE DIARIES roses are red ~ damon salvatore` ⭐

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH captive ~ blackbeard/ed teach ⭐

PEAKY BLINDERS moved on ~ thomas shelby

FUTURE MAN winner ~ josh futturman* ⭐

GAME OF THRONES littlest lion ~ oberyn martell (part one) ⭐ freedom ~ oberyn martell (part two) ⭐

THE WITCHER destiny ~ geralt of rivia

DOCTOR WHO looks of a princess ~ eleventh doctor ⭐

BRIDGERTON by the lake ~ benedict bridgerton

THE GENTLEMEN the assistant ~ raymond smith ⭐

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN spirit of nature ~ jack sparrow`

THE MAZE RUNNER i’ll keep you safe ~ newt`

MARVEL how things are now ~ marc spector and steven grant` ⭐ kneel ~ loki* the most wonderful time ~ bucky barnes fast ~ pietro maximoff ⭐

1917 early morning ~ will schofield*`

THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT happy birthday ~ javi gutierrez ⭐

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S i need someone older ~ william afton ⭐ the ice cream girl ~ mike schmidt

SALTBURN new toy ~ felix catton ⭐ partners ~ oliver quick ⭐

THE SANTA CLAUSE santa’s sister-in-law ~ bernard the elf

8 MILE one of the guys ~ jimmy smith jr ⭐

THE FALL GUY the space cowboy and the pa ~ tom ryder

A QUIET PLACE i’d find you in any life ~ eric ⭐

GLADIATOR II betrothed ~ emperor geta ⭐

PETE DAVIDSON your gift` favoritism`

HARRY STYLES the perfect tree a star in the making` sleepy head`

MACHINE GUN KELLY baby mama` ⭐ my queen*` getting your attention*` all the mistakes` not what it looks like` can’t keep doing this*`

EMINEM may the best artist win*` too close for comfort` ⭐ when it’s wrong but it feels right` in the dressing room*` he’s acting different` we have to stop meeting like this` every inch*` let’s surprise the world` i’m sorry i let you down`

GOODGUYFITZ wake up call*`

CORPSE HUSBAND letting go` they forgot` ⭐

ASHTON IRWIN home life` cover me*`

CONAN GRAY pushing`

MATTHEW LILLARD accidental drunk confessions`

JOHNNY KNOXVILLE feeling good*`

ALEX TURNER more than a song*` ⭐

BO BURNHAM can’t handle this right now ⭐ look at me*`

KRISTEN STEWART special customer`

TARON EGERTON he already has my approval ⭐

ROBERT PATTINSON my favorite superhero

GERARD WAY good girl*`

GWILYM LEE history repeats itself`

RYAN GOSLING play date`

JOSEPH QUINN bad idea, right? ⭐

RANBOO fluffy haired gamer boy`

JACOB ELORDI height advantage`

MOTLEY CRUE she is mine ~ mick mars`

CHRIS EVANS not used to normal` ⭐

SWAGGERSOULS our next step`

JSCHLATT too far ⭐ the hotel room* ⭐

JOHNNY DEPP just for us`

TRAVIS BARKER the parent trap`

SHIPS

family reunion ~ hermione granger x draco malfoy`

HEADCANONS

showing pedro pascal fan edits ⭐ sitting on jschlatt’s lap ⭐

NSFW ALPHABET

rook (jp capellette)*` eddie munson* ⭐ billy butcher* ⭐

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Darren Criss, Rachel Zegler, Joy Woods, and More Celebrate Theatre Kids at Elsie Fest 2024

After a two year hiatus, Elsie Fest returned to New York September 8, and joy was in high supply.

Staged on the picturesque Pier 17 rooftop, the theatre-themed music festival was filled with reunions, surprising moments, and special previews of the 2024–2025 Broadway season. The beloved brainchild of Emmy winner (and star of the upcoming Broadway musical Maybe Happy Ending) Darren Criss, his influence could be felt across every inch of the festival, from performers setlists to the colorful shirts emblazoned with his face worn by many of the attendees.

Beginning at 5 pm on the temperate Sunday, the festival loomed over New York Fashion Week as the Tommy Hilfiger show was held on a Colin Jost and Pete Davidson's ferry only a few stories below. Kicking things off with Broadway Rave (a DJ dance party that spins a mixture of new theatre hits and modern classics) and Marie's Crisis-style singalongs, fans flooded onto the rooftop in order to scope out their ideal spot before the live performances began. This year's lineup of performers was a doozy; the setlist for the evening, which spun through sunset and up until the 10 pm noise curfew, was as followed:

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Darren Criss: As the festival's steward, Criss had the largest set of the night, paying tribute to his past, present, and future with a setlist that was filled to the brim with nostalgic surprises. Opening with a raucous rendition of "Teenage Dream," Criss stayed close to his Glee roots with "Cough Syrup," an onstage Warbler reunion ( featuring Telly Leung, Curt Mega, and Max Adler) where the group performed "Sincere" from The Music Man, "Arthur's Theme," and Billy Joel's "Movin Out" with his Glee costar Chord Overstreet (who summoned thrilled screams from the crowd when he came out to end Criss' set). Criss even found the time to tip his hat to his Team Starkid roots, bringing out Little Shop of Horrors star Andrew Barth Feldman and Maybe Happy Ending co-star Helen J Shen to perform "Granger Danger" from A Very Potter Musical, the college project that launched Criss into the public eye.

Speaking of Shen, Criss let fans into his present with a special preview of the upcoming Broadway musical Maybe Happy Ending, which will star Criss and Shen as two outcast robots nearing the end of their lifespan. Performing the show's title track, the duo also welcomed newcomer Dez Duron to share his Sinatra-esque ballad, "A Sentimental Person," which seems destined to become a slow-dance staple. The present portion of Criss' set also included a touching duet of "Dear Theodosia" from Hamilton between him and Hadestown star Jordan Fisher—the performance was particularly poignant since Criss became a father for the second time this past June, and Fisher has a young son at home.

Oh, and one more thing. While celebrating the music that made him during his adolescence, Criss brought out JC Chasez of *NSYNC to sing "It's Gonna Be Me" and "Bye Bye Bye" before peeling back the curtain on the future: Chasez announced his impending Frankenstein musical Playing With Fire.

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Death Becomes Her: The sheer scope of Criss's artistic family became clear upon the entrance of Julia Mattison and Noel Carey, the lyricist and composer of the upcoming Broadway musical Death Becomes Her. Mattison, who has known Criss since they were five years old, debut new lyrics for the show's song "Let’s Run Away Together."

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Hazbin Hotel: The popular animated musical series made their festival debut, with star Blake Roman (Harmony) performing the song "Poison," with Criss ducking back out to play guitar and provide background vocals.

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As the evening came to a close with a massive group sing-along of "Defying Gravity" from Wicked, a sense of community and camaraderie glimmered under the darkened sky. As these stars from theatre, film, and music came together, one thing was made clear: Once a theatre kid, always a theatre kid.

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Artist statement and link to the digital version of the commuter

Artist Statement

"As a Native New Yorker of 22 Years of age growing up in New York City many of the MTA's subway stations had always piqued both my curiosity and interest from a New Yorker perspective. From the design of various stations to the various interesting characters (people) that can be found dwelling throughout stations to stations as a photographer I hope to convey my perspective of curiosity about THE various Brooklyn and Manhattan subway stations THROUGH THE LENS OF MY CAMERA AND MY PERSPECTIVE with the help of many inspirations from Bruce Davidson’s Subway, Josh Katz's " 12 Hours Photographing NYC Subway “, Billy Joel's new york state of mind, Horace greene’s grizzly and so many more" - David Paige Lui

Link to the digital version of the commuter

https://www.canva.com/design/DAGEqH-249I/UskVmnowziaJAMQb4OzwbQ/view?utm_content=DAGEqH-249I&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=editor

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Johnny Depp Witnesses

Suit Witnesses  Christine Dabrowski - Depp’s sister  Isaac Baruch - friend and patronee  Brandon Patterson - ECB building manager Kate James - Heard’s former personal assistant  Laurel Anderson - former couple’s counselor  Dr. David Kipper - private doctor for Depp and Heard Debbie Lloyd - private nurse for Depp  Sean Bett - Depp’s security guard Keenan Wyatt - Depp’s on set audio technician  Johnny Depp - himself Ben King - Depp’s house manager  Tara Roberts - Depp’s island manager  Dr. Shannon Curry - forensic psychologist, expert  Melissa Saenz - LAPD police officer Tyler Hadden - LAPD police officer William Gatlin - LAPD police officer  Alejandro Romero - ECB desk clerk Christine Carino - former talent agent for Depp and Heard Laura Wasser - Depp’s divorce attorney  Terrence Daugherty - ACLU COO and General Counsel Edward White - Depp’s business manager Matthew McConaughey - Depp’s security guard Starling Jenkins - Depp’s personal chauffeur and security detail Travis McGivern - Depp’s security guard Jack Whigham -  Depp’s talent agent Richard Marks - Hollywood entertainment, expert Doug Bania - IP consultant, expert Erin Boerum - Heard’s private nurse Michael Spindler - forensic attorney, expert 

Rebuttal Witnesses  Walter Hamada - Warner Bros president of DC films Dr. David Kulber - Depp’s orthopedic surgeon  Richard Marks Michael Spindler Doug Bania  Morgan Night - Hicksville Trailer Park Palace owner Dr. Richard Shaw - psychiatrist, expert Jennifer Howell - Whitney Heard’s former boss Candie Davidson-Goldbronn - CHLA representative  Kate Moss - Depp’s ex-partner Dr. Shannon Curry  Johnny Depp Morgan Tremaine - ex-TMZ employee  Bryan Neumeister - forensic data, expert  Beverly Leonard - Sea-Tac employee  Dr. Richard Gilbert - orthopedic surgeon, expert  

Amber Heard Witnesses

Countersuit Witnesses  Dr. Dawn Hughes - forensic psychologist, expert Amber Heard - herself iO Tillet-Wright - former friend Rocky Pennington - former friend Joshua Drew - former friend/ex-husband of Rocky Pennington  Whitney Heard - Heard’s sister  Elizabeth Marz - former friend Melanie Inglessis - former makeup artist/former friend Kristy Sexton - former acting coach Bruce Witkin - Depp’s former friend Tracey Jacobs - Depp’s former talent agent  Joel Mandel - Depp’s former business manager Adam Waldman - Depp’s former lawyer Detective Marie Sadanaga - LAPD detective  Ron Schnell - social media analyst, expert  Michele Mulrooney - Heard’s former attorney  Tina Newman - Disney executive  Ellen Barkin - Depp’s ex-fling  Dr. Alan Blaustein - Depp’s former psychiatrist  Eric George - Heard’s former attorney  Jessica Kovacevic - Heard’s talent agent  Dr. Richard Moore Jr - orthopedic surgeon, expert  Dr. David Spiegel - psychiatrist, expert  Kathryn Arnold - Hollywood entertainment, expert

Rebuttal Witnesses Julian Ackert - forensic data analyst, expert  Dr. Dawn Hughes Amber Heard

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SOLD! These magnificent pieces have all found their perfect homes this week @thewitgallery 1. “Dancer 2” by Elena Boukingolts. Made of Bronze. 2. Atlantic Coastline Table. By artist Nir Davidson. Made of maple burr and resin. 3. “Flow” by artist Joel Danforth Curran. Folded paper collage of handmade arts papers. 4. “Squeezed” by artist Michael Alfano. Cold cast copper and steel. 5. “Starpolish” by Elisabeth Ladwig Conceptual Photography, archival digital print on 100% rag paper. 10/28. 6. “Poured” by Michael Alfano. Made of resin and steel. We are thrilled for our artists and clients! For more information and purchases, please visit our website thewitgallery.com, contact info@thewitgallery.com or DM to inquire. . . . . . #art #artofinstagram #artistsofinstagram #artwork #artist #artoftheday #artgallery #artcollector #artstudio #artcurator #artdaily #artcollective #artphotography #artforsale #artofvisuals #artstagram #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #contemporary #modern #modernart #decor #decorative #theberkshires #artwork #artworld #mixedmedia #sculpture #painting #photography #glass (at The Wit Gallery, Lenox) https://www.instagram.com/p/CS7BDs7nX5_/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Thank u for the tag @team-target ☺️

1. Name: Jes

2. Gender: F

3. Star Sign: Leo

4. Height: 4’11”

5. Time: 6:20 am

6. Birthday: July 25th

7. Favorite Band: bruh.. not me realizing I don’t have a favorite band.. I listen to a lot of solo artists. If I have to choose I’d say cage the elephant or silver sun pickups

8. Favorite Artist: Harry Styles ☀️

9. Song stuck in your head currently: Home - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

10. Last movie you watched: Big Time Adolescence which I thirst watched just for Pete Davidson 😅

11. Last Series: been rewatching How I Met Your Mother bc they took the Office off Netflix 🥲

12. Blog Age: bruh idek feels like I’ve been here forever. I wanna say at least 7 years maybe longer

13. Content: pretty girly things, funny things, sexy things, aesthetic things, nature, Harry styles, motivation and positivity, personal journaling posts, videos of me singing

14. Last Google: how to spell “adolescence” for question #10 😭 don’t judge me 😁

15. Side Blogs: I have a rarely used side blog for the show Big Brother @elissaspritespit

16. Do you get asks: used to. Y’all don’t fux with me no more and that’s okay 👌😔

17. URL Meaning: I ~am~ a peachpixiebby 😌 my friend actually calls me pixie and that is one of my most treasured nicknames bc it makes me feel precious 🥰

18. Following: 719

19. Followers: 448

20. Average sleep hours: on a work night like 5 or 6 bc I refuse to go to sleep and fast forward to the next work day 😤

21. Lucky number: 46

22. Instruments: does owning a ukulele and never learning it count? 😃 (I can play a couple of short things on the piano thanks to my dad)

23. Clothes: comfy hobo look. I like all my clothes super baggy.

24. Dream Job: imma take a page from that post we all see everywhere on the internet: I do not dream of labor ✌️😙

25. Dream Trip: I’d love to see Hawaii, Canada, Ireland, Japan, Sweden

26. Favorite Food: Soft tacos w/ guac 🤤

27. Nationality: lil white girl 🇺🇸

28. Favorite song: hard to choose just one 🥺 the ones that stand out: Black - Pearl Jam, Vienna - Billy Joel, Let Her Cry - Hootie and the Blowfish, & so many Elton John songs 💘

29. Last Book: I don’t read much. The last book I can remember finishing is Lucky by Alice Sebold

I tag: @rippedsticker @dreamgrl1998 @svblimenostalgia @babyspice @sisyphusshrugged

[notanacousticsetcal]

30 questions tag

I was tagged by @theshyspy thank you cece:)

Rules: answer 30 questions and tag 20 blogs

Name/nickname: gi

Gender: female

Star sign: leo

Height: 5 foot 5

Time: 9:43pm

Birthday: i’m not gonna answer this one for privacy reasons but im 18 years old!

Favorite bands: 5sos, one direction, paramore, the lumineers, kings of leon, the 1975, the beatles, cage the elephant, the killers, etc

Favorite solo artists: taylor swift, phoebe bridgers, harry styles, rex orange county, mac demarco

Song stuck in my head: vienna by billy joel and on my own by ross lynch lmao

Last movie: love and monsters (highly recommend)

Last show: shameless

When did I create this blog: i have absolutely no idea i cannot remember i cant even remember when i first became active i think it mustve been in quarantine but i cant remember exactly when

What do I post: fan fiction and other random life updates and 5sos related content lol

Last thing I googled: how tall is pete davidson (hes 6 foot 3 btw)

Other blogs: i can’t tell if this question is asking if i have other blogs or if there are others i know of that i like? i personally don’t run any other blogs.

Do I get asks: ive gotten 4 i think but ive only done 2 so far and there are two i need to get to so if youre one of those people dont give up on me yet

Why I chose my url: its a classic 5sos meme

Followers: i stand at about 138 at the moment and i cant really wrap my head around that love u guys so much

Following: 23 currently

Average hours of sleep: 10ish cuz i have nothing better to do at this point in my life

Lucky number: 8

Instruments: guitar

What I’m wearing: plaid pajama pants and my dads sweatshirt which is way too big on me but thats how i like it

Dream job: a film director but thats not the direction im headed school wise so itll probably stay a dream

Dream trip: anywhere and everywhere i wanna see the world baby

Nationality: i dont think american is a nationally so im basically just different flavors of white lmao irish, german, polish, etc

Favorite song: just ONE? i cant pick just one so heres a few: i know the end by phoebe bridgers, august and breathe by taylor swift, donna by the lumineers, last hope by paramore, too little too late by jojo.

Last book read: midnight sun which im halfway through because i got sidetracked and havent read it in a month but im also currently rereading percy jackson and harry potter for no reason at all but i miss being a child

Top three fictional universes: riordanverse, harry potter, avatar the last airbender (honorable mentions to narnia, alice in wonderland, star wars, neverland, and the mcu)

here i will tag some followers, dont feel pressured to do it if you arent comfortable!! @araxonedirection @babyimperfect13 @mikeycliffords

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@brucespringsteen tagged me to answer a bunch of tough questions, thxs joey Rules: Answer 10 questions, tag 10 people and make another 10 questions. 1. name one song that you feel embodies where you live Last Of The Big Time Spenders - Billy Joel (Streetlife Serenade is fitting as a whole imo) This is hard to answer. I live in Northern NH, which used to be full of factories, mills and the railroad. A very (and I mean huge) portion of those jobs went away, for one reason or another. When they yarded the rail line from Woodsville to Berlin, it costed the North Country something like 21,000 jobs alone. So. We’re not sad folks, but tough and tired. It’s hard when the state wants the North to be a tourist playground and not pay a living wage.  2. this is corny but im curious: whats a stereotypical thing about your star sign that you’re guilty of? Capricorn, sensitive and afraid of taking risks. 3. name the artists, musicians, writers, speakers, friends, people who’ve shaped your philosophy? Philosophy is something I’ve never really thought about, tbh. I know that’s weird. Only recently (past two years) have I started to really feel music in my bones. Musicians are the biggest contribute to my outlook on things, among self educating and reading. Woody & Arlo Guthrie, Billy Joel, Jackson Browne, Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Young, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Paycheck, Steve Earle, Johnny Cash, etc.  4. recall the last idea that interested you Starting a paper mill from scratch, going back to school to be mechanic/ASE cert’d.  5. if you became an urban legend in your town, what event, action, etc. started the myth? I honestly have no idea other than being an annoying wonk. 6. your favorite springsteen lyrics? Literally impossible. Song that’s speaking to me right now is: Just one kiss from you my brother and we'll ride until we fall / We’ll sleep in the fields, we'll sleep by the rivers / And in the morning we'll make a plan / Well, if you can't make it / Stay hard, stay hungry, stay alive if you can / And meet me in a dream of this hard land 7. do you have any mantras or rituals you’ve created to help you through your day? Not really. Everyday is exactly the same, and I’m in a rut. The only thing consistent is I clean the cat litter boxes every morning, and my smallest cat, Brownie, will watch me and inspect them when I’m done. 8. what’s one book you think everyone should read? why? The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson. It’s a very interesting take on self forgiveness, self love, and forgiveness and kindness to others. 9. share a meme u have saved on your phone

10. what’s an aspiration you have that might sound silly but is important to you? Be happy.  1. What band do you remember seriously liking for the first time? / 2. Do you drive a car or a truck? / 3. Does it snow where you live? If not, have you ever experienced snow? / 4. Do you have a cat or a dog? / 5. Is your current job a part of your career path? / 6. Are you happy with your current situation? / 7. Where do you plan to be next summer? / 8. Do you have a set ritual every night, as in, the order you do things once home? / 9. Do you sleep on your back or stomach? / 10. If you could have an ideal life, what would that be? I tag: @lovingrot @carnifcrous @v1doodlebug @hisbarrenlife @therearepeoplewho @rogue-coyote @foxdies​ @geddyleeofficial​ @napoleon--bonaparte​ (this is all I’ve got)

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Girl you know good & well we wanna know more!!

Haha okay! A continuation from this post!!

Please feel free to stop by my inbox! Thank you for letting me relive this day ❤️💕❣️

So I was sitting fourth row from the court and then these five boys came in but they didn’t know who should sit where and then richard took the initiative to sit first then chris. At the time I didn’t know that they were CNCO (please don’t come for me 😔)

But I knew they were somebody by the way that they dressed and came in together. Surprisingly their managers weren’t there like frfr who let them do these things alone?

So my dad and I were talking and he didn’t know who they were, just thought maybe they were the next Menudo… I realized I left my bag at the venue restaurant and I was freaking out. That meant I had to pass them in order to exit the row. 

I passed Richard then Chris and here’s how you know Chris be a fucking friendly flirt because as I’m passing him, he looks up at me and is like, “Hi mami.” 

I HAD NO IDEA WHO HE WAS AT THE TIME SO I’M INTERNALLY SCREAMING LIKE “Whose child is this?”

Again I didn’t know who I was talking to so I just waved at him and said hi back lmaoo.

I come back to the seats (I GOT MY BAG BACK BTW!!) and my dad is like “You should say hi to them now because they might not come back for half time.” But I didn’t wanna say “hi who are you?” 

So when they were doing their IG stories, I was fucking squealing to my dad about JOhn Mulaney bc he walked in with Pete Davidson and you can hear me on richard’s story like “OMFGGG ITS JOHN MULANEY” whom I dont really care for but I wasn’t aboutta fan girl over pete.

I kept peeping Richard’s phone and it lit up with CNCO updates from twitter then I was like 😱😱😱😱😱

Also their WhatsApp groupchat is a very real thing lmaoo 

I texted a friend who was a fan “bro i think im sitting next to cnco” and i seent her those pics of Chris and Joel. 

I sent her this photo so she could tell me who I’m sat with.

Then my dad was like “you really need to say something now if you want a picture.”

With any ounce of confidence i had, I was like “Are you guys CNCO?”

And they all collectively, ten eyes and five heads turn to me like “YEAH!”

I told them “you all dressed like one unit and I figured that you looked familiar” PLEASE DONT EXPOSE ME TO THEM THAT I ONLY KNEW REGGAETON LENTO AT THE TIME 😩

No one had come up to them yet so I guess they were really excited that someone recognized them. 

Then I asked for a picture and my dad took it.

SO THIS IS HOW AND WHY IM IN RICHARD’S LANE! It just happened that i talked to him the most because we sat next to each other. 

Rich and I talked about being from New York and if he misses home. Then we talked about how they were doing promo things but after the NY trip they were headed, I think, for a short vacation. We talked about basketball and this game is our first game so he high fives me. 

Then we stopped talking for a little bit but yall this man’s leg was 

P R E S S E D against mine the whole time!!!

I was like “am I dreaming this or is he really not gonna move his leg off me??”

But also I hadn’t seen my ex in five months because we were doing “long distance” so any amount of physical touch from a guy i was aboutta 🥵🥵🥵

Then half time rolls around and they all leave. When the break is over, they actualluy don’t return and my dad was like “at least you got the picture.”

bc most celebs don’t stay past half time, it’s mostly to show their faces and then bounce.

bUT OUR BOYS COME BACK Richard and Chris are drinking beer I think. So I jokingly said to richard, “Oh, you're legal?”

I SHOULD’VE KNOWN THEY WERE BUT I DIDN’T

And hes like “Yeah shortie!”

So they’re also doing their IG live at this time (I have videos I took while they were Ig-ing live but tumblrwont let me publish onto this doc) You can kind of see me in my blue shirt in some frames. 

I know word gets out that CNCO is at the game so the venue asks if they could be on the jumbotron and of course they say yes. The song they play to introduce them was reggaeton lento. CHECK OUT THIS LINK! I TOOK THIS VIDEO OF THEM!!

Im fucking laughing bc my dad kept pushing my back to get me into the frame of the jumbotron, which again you could see my blue shirt on it. 

Anyway it’s time for them to go and they leave the game a little early because they dont wanna be caught with the crowds. They’re all super nice and turn to say bye to me.

But real quick I ask richard if I could get a hug

and he says “Of course, baby.”

I REMEMBER THIS BC MY DUMB THEN BOYFRIEND HADN’T CALLED ME “BABY” WHERE I FELT LIKE IT MEANT SOMETHING.

So another man calling me baby, I’m like: damn I’ll be your baby any day of the week.

Which in all seriousness, even though he’s richardcamacho, there was a gut feeling of “this stranger (okay so hes a celeb but so what) shouldn’t have such an impact on me if I’m getting enough love from my boyfriend.”

ANYWAY we hug and I accidentally tip off his hat. 

They come behind our seats and I shake Erick’s hand which is where I told him that he had pretty eyes and he’s like “oh! thank u!!”

And that’s pretty much my story with how I met them 🥰🥰🥰

BONUS CONTENT:

I told my ex that I hugged Richard Camacho and HE BLEW UP ON ME lmaooo.

HE was like: how would you like it if I hugged a random B list celebrity? 

YA KNOW I’m at fault for hugging a fucking billion+ streamed latin artist but he can go and fuck around with six other women during our whole relationship???

AYEE

So we broke up and it started because he was jealous of Richard, which is so fucking dumb. But I’m glad it happened yk? Otherwise, I’d still be in the relationship. 

But at the time I didn’t know he was cheating until a week later I was thinking “There’s no way we broke up because you got jealous over a celebrity” and sure enough he was fucking with 6 other women. I have screenshots, pics, voicemails... the hardest part is he doesn’t think he did anything wrong. 

To his deathbed, he believes that he was a devoted and true boyfriend. 

I’m clearly still hurt and angry, healing too. But healing isn’t linear. Some days are better than others. 

When I first found out about the cheating, all I listened to were the CNCO albums and drowned myself in interviews.  I read imagines, blurbs, and fell for witty comments that y’all be posting on their photos. 

I’m truly so thankful for my CNCOwner family.

I hope we all get to meet our boys. I’d tell them how thankful I was that they went to that game and how much their music has impacted my life; for it lead me to all of you 💕💕💕

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Film Friday: 5 movie selections of the week!

One of the best forms of enjoyment is watching Films. For fans of movies! Once again, WhatsOn editors are here to make your weekend worthwhile with Film Friday, bringing you an interesting collection of the most recent movies. Enjoy the movies we've chosen for you as you make some popcorn. Tama Sarker writes 1. Lightyear The film is produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios in 2022, and the enjoyable computer-animated science fiction action-adventure movie Lightyear is released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The movie, which is the fifth overall in the franchise, is a spin-off of the Toy Story movie series. A threat to the security of the universe is encountered as Lightyear, who is playing the role of a space ranger, searches for a way back home while battling it after becoming marooned on a hostile planet with his commander and crew. It revolves around the character Buzz Lightyear, however, the movie promotes itself as a subseries of the Toy Story movies in which Lightyear is a character, as opposed to following the main franchise's roster of toy characters. https://youtu.be/BwZs3H_UN3k 2. Bodies Bodies Bodies Halina Reijn is the director of the 2022 American black comedy slasher film Bodies, Bodies, Bodies. Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Myha'la Herrold, Chase Sui Wonders, Rachel Sennott, Lee Pace, and Pete Davidson are among the actors who appear in the movie. In this new and humorous look at backstabbing, fake pals, and one party that went horribly wrong, a bunch of wealthy 20-somethings prepare a hurricane party at a distant family house. However, a party game turns fatal. It had its international premiere on March 14 at South by Southwest, and A24 released it on August 5 of that same year. https://youtu.be/cTzGKsZjBOY 3. Thirteen Lives American biographical survival film Thirteen Lives, based on the Tham Luang cave rescue, was produced and directed by Ron Howard in 2022 from a screenplay by William Nicholson. Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, Joel Edgerton, and Tom Bateman all appear in the movie. The movie plot starts In Thailand, a rescue effort is organized for a group of young boys and their soccer coach who are stranded in a network of flooding underground tunnels. United Artists Releasing's Thirteen Lives premiered in a few cinemas on July 29, 2022, and on August 5 it became available for streaming on Prime Video. Critics gave it largely favorable reviews. https://youtu.be/R068Si4eb3Y 4. Darlings From a screenplay by Parveez Sheikh, Darlings is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language black comedy-drama film that Jasmeet K. Reen co-wrote and directed in her directorial debut. It was also produced by Gauri Khan, Alia Bhatt (in her debut production), and Gaurav Verma under the banners of Red Chillies Entertainment and Eternal Sunshine Productions. It chronicles the lives of two ladies as they discover bravery and love in the face of extreme odds. The movie had the most non-English original Indian viewing hours ever in its first weekend with over 10 million. On August 5th, 2022, Netflix made it available. https://youtu.be/Dmx5KDOpqeg 5. Wedding Season Tom Dey's Indian-American romantic comedy, the film Wedding Season, is based on Shiwani Srivastava's screenplay. Suraj Sharma, Pallavi Sharda, Rizwan Manji, Veena Sood, Ari Afsar, Sean Kleier, and Manoj Sood are all featured in the movie. Two Indian-Americans who are under pressure from their immigrant parents to find husbands pretend to date in order to get through a summer full of weddings, but as they battle to strike a balance between who they are and who their parents want them to be, they find themselves falling in love. The release date of the film Wedding Season is August 4, 2022. https://youtu.be/xqqTL91J1lo Read the full article

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Street Photography: Imaging the Social Landscape

Neil Matheson’s lecture - 03.10.2018

Colin Westerbeck and Joel Sternfield define Street Photography as ‘picture of people who are going about their business unaware of the photographer’s presence … candid pictures of everyday life in the street’. (Bystander. A History of Street Photography, 1994)

When we are photographing someone, as photographer (especially in street photography) we have a certain power of representation over our subject. From not being aware, they automatically don’t have any control over what we decide to photograph. But if they do know they are being photographed, they take control and will show whatever they’ll want to communicate. Photographing someone blind, could be a way to keep “the power” over the image, after it might not be really ethical.

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, Heads, 1999-2001. André Kertész, Meudon, 1928

‘I just go and watch the people and photograph them  and try to do it so people see me … it’s a way of photographing. It’s very quick … That’s one of the reasons I think the picture succeed. None of [the subjects] is really conscious of the camera’   Robert Frank

We can also find narrative in many street photography images, often the viewer will make his own narrative when reading the image. The use of visual rhetoric will make images more interesting to look at.

Vivian Maier, Untitled,  n.d. Robert Frank, Drug store, Detroit, 1955,  from The Americans, 1958.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Author of ‘The Decisive Moment’ (Image a la sauvette) and very well-known photographer. He used to find an interesting place and wait for something to happen. His composition was always really thought through and the fact that Cartier-Bresson trained as an artist before taking on photography is visible in his work. He used to work with a 35mm camera and a wide angle lens. Cartier-Bresson had an sort of way to humanised any of his subjects.

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Hyères, France, 1932.

Subway Photographs

Many street photographers such as Walker Evans, Helen Levitt or even Bruce Davidson have tried to photograph people in the underground. This started to raised issue about consent. There was this idea of invisibility that I guess is still seek nowadays.

Walker Evans, Subway Passenger, New York, 1941. Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, Igor, 1987.

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The World Photography Organisation announces printer and publisher Gerhard Steidl as the recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to Photography 2020 at the Sony World Photography Awards

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The World Photography Organisation announces printer and publisher Gerhard Steidl as the recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to Photography 2020 at the Sony World Photography Awards

© Markus Jans Dato: 21-01-2020 13:00 CET Opprinnelig tittel på pressemeldingen: The World Photography Organisation announces printer and publisher Gerhard Steidl as the recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to Photography 2020 at the Sony World Photography Awards Kategori: , Livsstil, mote, fritid Vitenskap, teknikk Detaljhandel

​This is the first time in the Awards’ history that the Outstanding Contribution to Photography will be presented to someone other than a photographer. Steidl will be honoured at the Awards’ ceremony in London on 16 April for his work with photographers and the significant impact of his photobooks.

Established in 1968, Steidl’s publishing house launched its own photobook programme in 1996 and within a few years grew it to what is today; the largest list for contemporary photography worldwide. His remarkable catalogue of photobooks features renowned practitioners including Joel Sternfeld, Nan Goldin, Bruce Davidson, Robert Frank, Berenice Abbott, Robert Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Karl Lagerfeld and Juergen Teller, to name a few. His publications encompass the entire history of photography, from early masters to today’s leading photographers, and represent the diverse spectrum of photographic expression – from art and fashion to documentary and street photography.

ONE LOVE, ONE BOOK: STEIDL BOOK CULTURE. THE PHOTOBOOK AS MULTIPLE

To celebrate his achievements, worldphoto.org/sony-world-photography-awards-exhibition

ABOUT WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY ORGANISATION

The World Photography Organisation is a global platform for photography initiatives. Working across up to 180 countries, our aim is to raise the level of conversation around photography by celebrating the best imagery and photographers on the planet. We pride ourselves on building lasting relationships with both individual photographers as well as our industry-leading partners around the world. The World Photography Organisation hosts a year-round portfolio of events including the Sony World Photography Awards, one of the world’s leading photography competitions, and PHOTOFAIRS, leading international art fairs dedicated to photography. For more details see worldphoto.org

SONY IMAGING PRODUCTS & SOLUTIONS INC.

is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation that is responsible for its imaging products and solutions businesses, from consumer camera, solutions with a focus on broadcast- and professional-use products, to medical business.

STEIDL PUBLISHERS

Steidl is a renowned publisher of literature, non-fiction and photobooks. Among photographers, artists and experts in the art of high-quality printing, Steidl Publishers enjoys an international standing. This is partially due to Steidl’s unique structure, whereby all steps of the production process take place under one roof—from conception to image editing, from design and pre-production, to marketing and printing on Steidl’s in-house press. This approach has fostered expertise in all aspects of bookmaking as well as a large degree of flexibility. Unique to this workflow is the intimate involvement of the photographers and artists in each step of the process. Every Steidl book is distinguished by its individual design and materials. Gerhard Steidl draws on his famous passion for paper to personally chose the paper stock and book cloth for each title, and he oversees all facets of production from layout to printing—each book literally passes through his hands.

Over the years, Steidl at Düstere Strasse 4 in Göttingen has become one of the most famous printers in the international publishing community. Regardless of literature, art or fashion, Steidl’s goal is always to realize the artists’ and authors’ dreams, and to create art in book form. Steidl Publishers has always been owned, run and shaped by Gerhard Steidl. He began his career printing posters and multiples (for Joseph Beuys and Klaus Staeck among others); in 1972 the first Steidl non-fiction book was published, and in the early 1980s followed literature and selected art and photography titles. In 1996 Steidl established his own photobook program, which within only a few years grew to the largest worldwide list specialized in photography. Steidl.de

VISITOR & LISTING INFORMATION

TITLE:Sony World Photography Awards 2020

VENUE:Somerset House, London, WC2R 1LA

DATES:April 17 – May 4, 2020

OPENING TIMES:Monday – Friday, 10am-9pm / Saturday – Sunday, 10am-8pm

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Scott returns to Crazy Coqs for six re-scheduled concerts: October 7th - 9:15pm Scott and West End’s Stuart Matthew Price, team up to tell stories of their first years as parents and sing songs written for their little ones. October 8th - 7:00pm Best Up and Coming Talent Line-up: Jo Eaton-Kent, Daniele Alan-Carter, Kayleigh Atherton, Bella Bowen, Jessica Brady, Emily Carewe, Natalie Hollingworth, Megan Jobling, Alyssa Leclair, Christopher Noade, Aoife O‘Dea, Camille Rieu, India Rose, Tanya Truman and Ella Young October 8th - 9:15pm Best Up and Coming Talent Line-up: Mary-Jean Caldwell, Ailsa Davidson, Jacob Fowler, Olivia Hallett, Alice Hinde, Sadie Hurst, Emily John, Emma Kirk, Charlotte Pathe, Colby Reid, Paul Rich, Eleanor Rivers and Chelsea Smith. October 9th - 7:00pm Join Scott and SURPRISE guests. Who will show up? Buy a ticket and find out October 10th - 3:00pm The Greatest Hits - Featuring the best of the West End Line-up (artists change is subject to availability): Tim Mahendran (& Juliet); Jordan Luke Gage (& Juliet); Sarah O’ Connor (Waitress); Natalie Paris (Six); Joel Harper-Jackson (Kinky Boots); Renee Lamb (Ain’t Misbehavin’); Emma Lindars (Groundhog Day); Alex James Ellison (Writer of Fiver); Andrew Patrick-Walker (Bat out of Hell); Grace Mouat (& Juliet); Rebecca Gilliland (Wicked); Helen Woolf (Wicked); Sam Tutty (Dear Evan Hansen); Cameron Sharp (Beautiful tour) and Shaun McCourt (Blood Brothers UK Tour). October 10th - 7:00pm Mums & Dad of the West End: Line-up (artists change is subject to availability): Tasha Sheridan (School of Rock); Mark Iles (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory); Eddie Elliott (The Lion King); Charlotte Riby (Waitress); Marianne Benedict (Matilda); Helen Hobson (Come From Away); Rebecca Mckinnis (Dear Evan Hansen); Emma Williams (Half a Sixpence); Florence Andrews (Wicked); Sarah Lark (Les Miserables); Michelle Francis (Shrek); Laura Medforth (Caroline, or Change); Rachael Wooding (Pretty Women) and Malinda Parris (Mary Poppins). (at The Crazy Coqs) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQv2Qi8J1OQ/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Renzo Piano, architectural criticism and the pandemic

Renzo Piano architecture criticism, American Architects, US President Biden Building News

Renzo Piano, architectural criticism and global pandemic

Historic US Election Review of Architectural Aspects: Architectural Column by Joel Solkoff, PA, USA Jan 8, 2021

US Architecture under President Biden Part V

Joel Solkoff’s Column Vol. VI, Number 8

Auditorium by Renzo Piano, Morgan Museum and Library, New York, New York, photograph published by permission of the Morgan.

Eight years ago, visiting the auditorium of Renzo Piano’s extension and renovation of the J.P. Morgan library and Museum marked my transition from simply being a disability rights advocate to becoming an architecture critic as well. Indeed, as will become apparent, I was following in the footsteps of New Yorker critic Lewis Mumford who introduced Patrick Geddes’ urban planning teachings to US readers—principles Piano’s Morgan exemplifies. The US is in the midst of a national crisis where the pandemic rages out of control— 320,000 of our people are dead— and the current occupant of the White House has failed to provide the leadership required. The architecture, engineering, and construction community (AEC) have the ability to build the millions of units President Elect Biden’s plans will require. Architects and AEC community members generally would best prepare for Biden’s first 100 days— the metric President Franklin D. Roosevelt established in 1933 to deal with the Great Depression. Biden’s first 100 days will establish Administration plans, not only for building of housing, but for building cities to help control the pandemic. Perhaps, the lessons I learned from my intense focus on Piano’s Morgan may prove helpful.

Screenshot by me

January 6, 2021

Architecture under President Biden Part V

Joel Solkoff’s Column Vol. VII, Number 1

“A building should not stand out. It should fit in.”

Lewis Mumford, author of The Myth of the Machine

“The dresses I prefer,” said fashion designer Pierre Cardin, “are those I invent for a life that does not yet exist.”

View of the Manhattan skyline from the Queens, New York Regal Heights Nursing Home and Physical Rehabilitation Center where I am writing this column. Photo by me.

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DATELINE – Wednesday, January 6 2021. Increasingly complicated has become my flight from rural Lycoming County. (where I have lived for the past two years) to New York City, where by comparison grown ups (albeit not perfect) appear to be in charge and hospital beds are available.

After I arrived at Penn Station on the evening of December 10th, I lost my luggage. The absence of disability signs to the wheel chair accessible elevator made me unable to exit the station underground for 40 minutes.

The following morning I arrived early at the offices of Dr. Paul Russo, the surgeon who eight years earlier had saved my life by removing a cancerous tumor that had surrounded my right kidney. Then, Dr. Russo put my kidney back together. A variety of serious problems neglected by rural America’s primitive health care system kept me at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for nine days. Currently, I am living at a nursing home and physical rehabilitation center in the NYC Borough of Queens where I await surgery to remove a tumor over my left kidney.

The challenges for controlling the global pandemic require that the most vulnerable in society–the elderly, the poor, the incarerated, farmworkers and the homeless– obtain safe housing. It is a challenge that reminds of dewy-eyed optimists like the main character in Miss Congeniality–embedded here in accordance with YouTube’s licensing agreement–seem the object of ridicule.

How I became an architecture critic with a disability focus

Ten years ago, when I was writing for HME (Home Medical Equipment) News and using virtual reality to design residences for the physically disabled, Adrian Welch, co-founder of e-architect.com, asked me to write about disability rights issues as they relate to architecture. As a paraplegic, unable to walk for the past 26 years, I have something to say about the built environment that can either gain me entrance to the world or exclude me. Two years later I visited the Morgan Museum and Library a short distance from Grand Central Station. I had the good fortune of being given a tour of the Morgan by Frank Prial Jr., whose firm Beyer Blinder Bell designed the renovation of Ellis Island where my father Isadore first saw the United States as a refugee from deadly anti-Semitism in the Ukraine. Prial—whose work renovating Grand Central Station was praised by the influential architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable—served as the Morgan’s architect of record because Piano did not have an office in New York State and could not sign off on his own work. Essential to Piano’s design goals was restoration of the original library. The 19th and early 20th Century robber baron J. P. Morgan had established. his library as explicitly closed to the public. The 1906 McKim Meade and White structure housed Morgan’s personal collection of manuscripts, paintings and sculpture Morgan had stolen, bought and confiscated de facto but legally from the rest of the world, This year celebrating its fifteenth anniversary, Piano’s Morgan makes accessible to the public and especially the disabled one of the great artistic treasures of the world. Piano’s auditorium is a good example of disability access. The auditorium plays on instruments of the period Mozart et al. from the original score. Thus, the blind are given the ability to appreciate the treasure the Morgan contains.

One hundred fifteen years ago, the architecture firm of McKim Meade and White completed this personal library for JPMorgan. Morgan made his fortune as a financier for the Pittsburg, Pennsylvania firm US Steel ( just to show you just how significant is and was Pennsylvania to the economy and politics of the US).Photo in the public domain.

Morgan was a master of the corruption widely prevalent at the time. When he grew tired of smuggling art past customs, historians remind, Morgan caused Congress to change the law to make acquisitions legal. Here is a Tom Nast cartoon from the Robber Barron era.

”The Magnet,” 1911 Punch Magazine cartoon: the magnet of Morgan’s fortune pulls the world’s art treasures to New York. Published curtesy of the Morgan Library.

How Renzo Piano obtained his first New York City Commission

Renzo Piano’s first New York commission arrived at Piano’s Building Workshop office in Genoa, Italy with the hasty arrival of J.P. Morgan Director Paul Spencer Bayard. Bayard pleaded with Piano for the second time to accept the Morgan commission. Bayard was in a difficult situation. The Morgan Board of Directions had authorized an architectural commission. Major New York firms had competed. Piano had been asked to compete but he refused saying that he does not submit to competitions anymore. Then the Board refused to accept any of the plans the New York architects had presented. After considerable pleading on Bayard’s part, Piano agreed to fly to New York and look the site over.

Piano’s theme for the Morgan

Renzo Piano had never been to the Morgan Library. This is a view of the Piano’s entrance to the museum extension of the Morgan’.

Photo by Anthony Troncale provided by permission of the Morgan Library and Museum

Piano later explained that as soon as he started drawing while still on the plane he realized he had accepted the project because the act of drawing meant that he was inspired and thus engaged.

After visiting the Morgan, I returned to my home in Central Pennsylvania where I did a series of video interviews with the principals who helped make the Morgan. Here is the first of two interviews with Georgio Bianci at Piano’s offices in Paris. A friend suggested I delete this video because of atmospheric noise. In retrospect, Bianci told me that Piano frequently designed at that location oblivious to the noise. Imagine that degree of concentration.

The first source for Piano’s inspiration was the surrealist novel The Infinite Libraryby Jorge Luis Borges. Piano explained to interviewer Cynthia Davidson, a member of the editorial board of the MIT Press seriesWriting Architecture: “The infinite library is a great concept. It is a library made of infinite–not infinite—because infinite is a concept that ishumano, so it isalmostinfinite. Each room is a hexagon, and they touch each other and they go this way and that way, that way and that way and that way. So you are where you are where you were before in some way, in that mold where you see down and up. I immediately loved that idea when I came here. “Manhattan is made of schist, and if you are lucky enough not to have a river under your foot, if you cut like a knife into it you have the best place to hold and conserve a secret or a treasure against time, weather, vandals, and all that.”

Aerial view: J.P. Morgan Library and Museum construction site during demolition: photographer Moreno Maggi. Copyright © 2003 Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Conserving a treasure became one of the two co-equal themes of Piano’s master plan. Preserving the character of the neighborhood was the other. Above is the construction Piano directed applying the Borges theme to focus on the Morgan’s actual buried art treasure. The Morgan asked Piano to implement: “state of the art collection center.”Art collection center means a very large safe. Piano designed the sophisticated safe which holds the Morgan’s artistic treasures. He refers to the safe as a vault. Vaultrepeated over and over became the word Piano used most frequently to describe his creative concept. Piano architectural plan focuses on the Vault. Here is a plot summary ofThe Infinite Libraryfrom Wikipedia: “Borges’s narrator describes how his universe consists of an enormous expanse of interlocking hexagonal rooms, each of which contains the bare necessities for human survival—and four walls of bookshelves. Though the order and content of the books is random and apparently completely meaningless, the inhabitants believe that the books contain every possible ordering of just a few basic characters…. “Though the majority of the books in this universe are pure gibberish, the library also must contain, somewhere, every coherent book ever written, or that might ever be written, and every possible permutation or slightly erroneous version of every one of those books. The narrator notes that the library must contain all useful information, including predictions of the future, biographies of any person, and translations of every book in all languages. Conversely, for many of the texts some language could be devised that would make it readable with any of a vast number of different contents.” In his prime, Morgan was the wealthiest man in the United States which he remained until the day he died. Morgan spent over half his wealth on his collection. This is how Morgan’s management describes the collection: “Pierpont Morgan’s immense holdings ranged from Egyptian art to Renaissance paintings to Chinese porcelains. For his library, Morgan acquired illuminated, literary, and historical manuscripts, early printed books, and old master drawings and prints. To this core collection, he added the earliest evidence of writing as manifested in ancient seals, tablets, and papyrus fragments from Egypt and the Near East. Morgan also collected manuscripts and printed materials significant to American history.”

Piano’s second Morgan theme

The second novelist who influenced Piano’s design of the Morgan was Umberto Eco. Eco is widely known as the author of Name of the Rose. Ecco wrote: “Books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.” Piano and Ecco are friends. Piano told Cynthia Davidson about the advice he received from Eco: “Before leaving [to accept the Morgan commission], I called my friend Umberto Eco; because a long time ago, he was telling me about this funny place in the middle of Manhattan where he found a beautiful place that he was passionate about—the Morgan. …So I called him because I remembered that one day we spent an evening in a nice little restaurant in Genoa talking about this idea of exploring, going underground to look for things….So I called him to say that I was talking with the Morgan about a project. ‘Oh, that’s great, fantastic,’ he said. ‘Don’t spoil that place. It’s a great thing. Then we started to talk about this idea of the safe, of the treasure. And he said, ‘You remember that piece from Borges? Read it again.’ Then I read it again. It’s beautiful.” Piano’s seamless complex combines the old and the new. The Madison Avenue entrance leads to a spacious Atrium. From there the wheelchair lift took me on a five-foot ride straight up to the 1906 McKim Mead and White library.

Photo by Kathy Forer

There, in the old library, made vastly more pleasurable by enhanced lighting, was the following manuscript Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote in 1786, complete with a curiously endearing smudge mark. In the movie Amadeus, Salieri talks about Mozart’s first drafts being perfect as if dictated by God:

Photo by Anthony Troncale provided by permission of the Morgan Library and Museum

Eight years ago, I visited the Morgan while in New York to prepare for kidney cancer surgery. Mozart’s music helped me get through the experience. For each of us, there is something that makes it possible to transcend—to endure suffering or be lifted from the mundane. For me, on that day as I feared death, seeing Mozart’s handwritten score to the Cherubino’s aria from The Marriage of Figaro provided me with tranquility (a form of therapy if you prefer). My 2013 trip to the Morgan was my first since I had visited the collection in 1971 when I worked nearby as a writer of educational materials. I frequently snuck out of the office and the demands to rewrite and rewrite again, to visit the library and gaze at the illuminated manuscripts. I have the experience of having seen the Morgan before Piano completed his work in 2006. I remember when I was able to walk. After Piano, physical access was not an issue I paid any attention to at all.

Piano’s reaction to his own work

“’It’s a miracle, I’m telling you,’ claimed Renzo Piano, ‘nothing less than a miracle,’” writes Brian Regan, co-author of the lavishly illustrated book The Making of the Morgan, From Charles McKim to Renzo Piano. Regan continues, “We had walked, in early 2005, through the future Madison Avenue entrance and into the fully formed, but not entirely enclosed, central court. “‘Brian, think about it: Only a few years ago these were thoughts and plans, and now they’re becoming real. How can that not be a miracle?’ In wonder, he added, ‘Ever since I was a boy, I thought a building site was a miracle. I’ll die thinking that.’”

Suggestions for Rep. Marcia Fudge on how to build for the future at HUD incorporating lessons learned from Piano’s Morgan

We architecture critics have each in our own minds a model for how to design appropriately. Clearly my model is Renzo Piano’s Morgan Library and Museum. The job ahead for Secretarial nominee Fudge is to obtain quickly the best available architects and other members of the AEC community. This will require a selection process which includes: # the best talent available globally disregarding Made in America notions as far too limiting # using a more focused selection process than can be obtained through than standard competition and rating systems HUD currently employees # reliance on the ability of the architect to develop and execute a theme specific to the project at hand # require accessibility for those with physical disabilities in keeping with universal design principles One traditional mechanism for designing and solving major policy issues is a White House Conference. I suspect Biden will be establishing White House Conferences for housing as well as feeding the hungry, universal health care, etc. My initial suggestions is that Secretary Fudge request the jurors of the Pritzker Prize assist her in preparing to build not only housing units but cities to help control the pandemic. The current Pritzker jurors are: #

Photos courtesy The Pritzker Prize Meet the jurors. For detailed biographical information see: https://ift.tt/2Xn8TIg

Meanwhile, the results of yesterday’s election in Georgia will mean that Democrats will control the US senate paving the way for increased expenditures for housing for the poor and vulnerable.

My editors beckon: “All right, stop writing, Joel.”

Isabelle Lomholt and Adrian Welch, Editors at e-architect:

Joel Solkoff, New York, New York, USA

Please feel free to phone me at US 570-772-4909 or send an e-mail jsolkoff@gmail.com Copyright © 2021 by Joel Solkoff. All rights reserved.

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Take Better Portraits: Tips from Emil Cohen

Sometimes you meet people in random places. Sometimes you meet characters that need to be photographed. This Christmas season as people are gathering together we wanted to propose the idea of taking portraits of friends and family. To learn more about taking the perfect portrait we asked five of our photographer friends about their portraits and for tips on how to make yours better. 

Our first photographer is New York based Emil Cohen. I ran into Emil at American Field in Brooklyn earlier this month and knew right away I wanted to go to him for advice. I quickly introduced him to Brandon and they did a dual portrait session. Tomorrow we will see Brandon's portraits of Emil, but today it is all about Emil and his advice to you...

   Who are you. Where are you. Give us your links. I'm Emil Cohen, I'm a New York based photographer specializing in portraits and people. You can see my work at www.emildcohen.com / www.instagram.com/emilcohen and www.instagram.com/portraitsinprovincetown 

How long have you been a photographer? Is it your main job? I've been an amateur photographer my whole life. Photography has been a family interest dating back to the 19th century.  In 2011, I began the graduate program at Tufts University's School of the Museum of Fine Art and received my MFA in 2014. I mark my first day of grad school as when I became a professional photographer.

    When did you take your first portrait? I can't tell you when I took my first portrait, but I do remember the first time one of my portraits was recognized outside of my immediate world. It was August of 2009, and I had one more semester of college left. I had taken a photo with an alpaca earlier that summer and decided to enter the photo into a contest run by The Student Travel Agency, an internationally renowned company for students and young adults who want to travel the world. When they announced my name on Facebook, I "whooped!" so loudly, that I got yelled at by my superior at my internship at National Geographic. But it didn't matter because part of the winning prize was a free trip to Europe! By December, I was off on a plane and would be back for eight weeks. Photo below: 

      How have you progressed over time? What do you feel has been your most improved quality? Over time, I feel that my aesthetic has become stronger. I continue to study other photographers and artists whom I admire, but rather than mimic them, I try to incorporate what I love about their work and apply it to my own vision. My most improved quality has definitely been the working dynamic that I create with my subject. As a photographer who specializes in portraits, it's crucial to have the person who's in front of the camera trust you, the photographer. In doing so, they let their guard down which will therefore, allow me to capture a true version of themselves. Sometimes you're given days or hours, and sometimes just a few minutes, but each experience has to be unique and met with the same amount of tenacity and determination.  

     What makes for a good portrait? To me, a good portrait is an image of person or place that shows the true version of who or what they really are.. There is a fine line between a headshot and a portrait, and the difference is honesty. With a headshot, you're trying to sell yourself to a casting agent which, while it's an attractive photos of a person, might not showcase who they really are. Photographers like Peter Hujar, Irving Penn and William Klein are portrait photographers who stripped away the background and forced a viewer to gaze at the subject head on. Then you have photographers like Alec Soth, Larry Clark and Nan Goldin who create portraits of places and communities and are just as strong and evocative as the studio photographers. In the end, what all these photographers have in common is that the camera disappears in their work, leaving the viewer gazing into a window of a raw and real moment caught in time. 

    Do you prefer natural light or artificial? Why? Both! Natural light and artificial light both have their advantages. A photographer who knows their way around strobes will be able to recreate sunlight using flashes and use the strobes to create intentional dramatic lighting. The key is asking yourself how you want to light the photo before you shoot and then plan accordingly. For my studio portraits, I rely on a defused light which creates a soft and even light on my model, but when I shoot outdoors, I have to decide what time of day and what weather conditions I want to be shooting in. Will it be around dawn or sunset for the Golden Hour lighting? Or do I want a cloudy day that will act as a natural soft box? And look at other people's work that you love and figure out how they did it! Always a useful idea when trying to plan a photo. 

How important is composition and what makes for good composition? This is a tough question because it's so subjective. For me, composition is crucial to achieving the best version of the photo that you envision. A composition will include a few key thoughts such as framing, depth, leading lines, and symmetry. If you need a refresher, here's a great list published on Photography Mad. 

      Color or black and white? Both! Before I take a photo, I try to think whether or not the image will be black and white or color. Both palates have their own benefits. Photographers like Penn, Richard Avedon, Horst P Horst, Bruce Davidson, Vivian Maier and Diane Arbus, utilized black and white film to their advantage. These photographers started only having black and white film and therefore thought accordingly: creating photographs that are high in contrast, rich in detail and having the color removed, forced the viewer to gaze specifically at the subject that was being photographed. It's like the Wizard of Oz. The beginning of the film in Kansas features some truly breathtaking cinematography because they knew they were shooting in black and white and therefore, had to think in black and white while they shot it. 

Then Dorthy lands in Oz and all of a sudden, you catch your breath at all the incredible color. 

Color photography is amazing because you get to think differently. With color, you start thinking of complimentary colors, temperature, color balance etc.  I love artists like Cathy Opie, Todd Hido, Joel Sternfeld, Greg Crewdson, Jim Dow and David LeChaplle because of their eye for color and their ability to use the color as tool for composition. 

     What camera do you shoot with? Canon 5D Mark iii, Iphone 8 and a Pentax K3000 35mm

     Any final advice: Two things: 

 1. SLOW DOWN. Taking a 4x5 Large Format class was revolutionary for me because I was forced to slam the breaks on my shooting. Due to the high cost and many steps that it takes to take one image, you as a photographer can't just point and shoot. Large format photography takes time and precision which is often forgotten in a day of digital photography. I challenge any photographer to limit themselves when their out shooting a project or portrait. See how much stronger your work becomes when you allow yourself the time to breathe and think before you shoot. 

 2. DO YOUR HOMEWORK. I am of the belief that no idea is truly original anymore. However, that doesn't mean that you can't create original work, it just means understanding the conversation that already exists and how you as an artist can join in on the discussion. Do research online or the library. Whether it's Google, or Tumblr or going to a museum of photo gallery in your city, go and learn about who else is out there. Support your fellow photographers and be inspired at the work their creating.