DIVINE COMEDY
Along with the business-as-usual proceedings in Midtown, and even in
Downtown, a sure sign of the return to normal daily rhythm was the
material by the comedians at the Comedy Cellar
(link) in the
Village, the definite high-point of the trip. With its hilariously
acknowledged bombings (in this case, a comedy term!) and superb rantings
ranging from Afghanistan to Dow Jones to racial profiling by the likes
of Chris Rock & other names I've regrettably forgotten, that side of
the spectrum is certainly coming back together.
To further twist the matter to that direction, the day I arrived in NYC
happened not only to be the birthday of Mika Häkkinen, the Finnish
winner of the US Grand Prix at the Indianapolis during the weekend, but
also of Janeane Garofalo, the v. outspoken + v. adorable NY comedian
(who has also volunteer-worked in the aftermath, and, by her own
admittance, even put a US flag on her window(!) after the attack, due
to a lost friend).
And after 26 hours of travelling, the best way to
treat jet + airport lag is undoubtedly to embark on the Industrial
club scene 'til three o'clock (the monthly occurrence of the industrial
club coincided with the previously-booked flights, and finally lead
to the decision to make the trip) and then, have full two hours' sleep
before hitting the road for a whole-day photo session, burdened with
approx. 7 kg of equiment... But at least I didn't watch all
of Conan that evening...
VISUALS OF 2001
An unprecendented amount of footage was brought back after hectic and
exhausting three-day shootings ranging from remakes to new subjects, from
Midtown South to Uptown (also a bit of Downtown).
As an addition to the last year's photo equipment info,
the replacement of the small screen of the Cassiopeia P/PC with the
large screen and the large HD of the highly portable IBM TP570 laptop
and the CF card adapter made
it possible to not only view the quality of selected shots immediately
but to also, at intervals, to transfer the images from the CF card
to the HD of the laptop. The digital photo equipment seems to have
finally reached its fruition.
The new footage will start trickling into the site shortly.
24 May 2004:
And now the photo background
notes are finally available.
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