Prettiest sky I’ve seen in NY to date. 
Prettiest sky I’ve seen in NY to date. 
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Just took this photo at 8:40 p.m. Gotta say, I don’t mind the rain when the resulting sky is this. Beautiful. 
Just took this photo at 8:40 p.m. Gotta say, I don’t mind the rain when the resulting sky is this. Beautiful. 
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One of my favorite photos of the day. A child watches with wide eyes as photographers snap pictures and fans react to MJ’s death.  It’s ironic don’t you think?  More photos can be found in my Flickr set. 

One of my favorite photos of the day. A child watches with wide eyes as photographers snap pictures and fans react to MJ’s death.  It’s ironic don’t you think? 

More photos can be found in my Flickr set. 

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Black or White or Pink
Black or White or Pink
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Lauren and I checked out the memorial for Michael Jackson at the Apollo Theater earlier today in Harlem. No one seemed to care that it was hotter than Hades outside.  They sang and danced and remembered the pop star at the very place he first performed with the Jackson 5 in the late 60s. “Human Nature” was playing at this very moment and everyone was softly swaying. I’ll never forget it. 
Lauren and I checked out the memorial for Michael Jackson at the Apollo Theater earlier today in Harlem. No one seemed to care that it was hotter than Hades outside.  They sang and danced and remembered the pop star at the very place he first performed with the Jackson 5 in the late 60s. “Human Nature” was playing at this very moment and everyone was softly swaying. I’ll never forget it. 
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MJ’s hip hop influences (via Conor McDonough and nahright.com and adamiss)

MJ’s hip hop influences

(via Conor McDonough and nahright.com and adamiss)

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caro: Conveniently, last night’s movie was shown at a screening room about 100 feet from the Gansevoort St. entrance to the High Line, so I went over to check out the much-hyped Renegade Cabaret performance.  (Apparently I just missed seeing Erin there.) First of all: If you have been to the High Line but only during the daytime, you have not been to the High Line.  It’s pretty by day.  It’s stunning after dark. Anyway.  The crowd was smaller than I expected, which I must say was actually sort of nice (I was anticipating a mob scene). The hostess/emcee/whatever, Patty Heffley, said that she was toying with the idea of having science lectures up there in addition to performances. And everybody’s already played up the West Side Story angle, but the setup really does feel like a theater production about old, working class New York—bright, garish porch lights up against a brick wall, a laundry-covered fire escape that could’ve been on any downtown tenement, a siren in a ball gown singing alone into a sticky summer night.  If you hadn’t read the Times story, you might take her to be some sort of enterprising exhibitionist, or perhaps just a delusional eccentric.  Or both. Were it all a play in three acts (or five), the opening line would totally have to be, “If you see the party patio lanterns lit…you’ll know something is going to go on when it gets dark.” (Photo of singer Elizabeth Soychak from last night by Flickr user npzo) Elizabeth sang so beautifully and the simple set up really did create a theatrical moment romanticizing working class life in New York. It also reminded me of a scene in Breakfast at Tiffany’s where Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly sweetly sings Moon River on her fire escape. It was a nice moment.

caro:

Conveniently, last night’s movie was shown at a screening room about 100 feet from the Gansevoort St. entrance to the High Line, so I went over to check out the much-hyped Renegade Cabaret performance.  (Apparently I just missed seeing Erin there.)

First of all: If you have been to the High Line but only during the daytime, you have not been to the High Line.  It’s pretty by day.  It’s stunning after dark.

Anyway.  The crowd was smaller than I expected, which I must say was actually sort of nice (I was anticipating a mob scene). The hostess/emcee/whatever, Patty Heffley, said that she was toying with the idea of having science lectures up there in addition to performances.

And everybody’s already played up the West Side Story angle, but the setup really does feel like a theater production about old, working class New York—bright, garish porch lights up against a brick wall, a laundry-covered fire escape that could’ve been on any downtown tenement, a siren in a ball gown singing alone into a sticky summer night.  If you hadn’t read the Times story, you might take her to be some sort of enterprising exhibitionist, or perhaps just a delusional eccentric.  Or both.

Were it all a play in three acts (or five), the opening line would totally have to be, “If you see the party patio lanterns lit…you’ll know something is going to go on when it gets dark.”

(Photo of singer Elizabeth Soychak from last night by Flickr user npzo)

Elizabeth sang so beautifully and the simple set up really did create a theatrical moment romanticizing working class life in New York. It also reminded me of a scene in Breakfast at Tiffany’s where Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly sweetly sings Moon River on her fire escape. It was a nice moment.

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Dirty Diana - Michael Jackson
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"There will never be another talent like Michael Jackson. Many people are saying what a performer, what an icon. How many Grammy’s he won. How Thriller was the biggest selling album in history. They speak about the controversy and countless other things. But the truth of the matter is he was a boy that God blessed with the most angelic voice. Just listen to an early Jackson Five album and listen to that voice. The purity, the feeling, the interpretation of the lyrics. At the age of ten, he was on par with James Brown and Aretha Franklin. But the thing he had that they could not match was the fact that he was a child. But at the same time he sang as an adult. He was the first live performer I ever saw. I got to see him at Madison Square Garden when I was eight. If not for him, I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing. He gave me joy as a child and showed me the way to go. He was music. Period. His hugeness as a star was great but before he was the King of Pop,he’d said it all. May you rest in peace sweet Michael. You gave us all you had to give."
— Lenny Kravitz (via justojusto) (via soupsoup)
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