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On warm sunny Sundays, congeros gather in Tompkins Square Park, East Village, NYC.
As a quick remedy to all the editing and fussing over my Toy Tower videos, this video is simple and uncut, shot late in the afternoon, up on the blog before midnight.
Most of my computer time has been taken up lately editing my Toy Tower video. To make up for my lack of daily blogging, here are some guaranteed laughs.
I just finished part two of my Toy Tower Video - Eddie’s Big Wind.
A fierce wind and rain storm, Monday night after the memorial, leaves the tower dangerously leaning into the garden. This accelerates the Parks Department’s plans to tear it down. I again interview the gardeners : Joanee Freedom, Pat Russell, Graywolf and William Hohauser. And we hear from gardeners: Barbara (Improvisational poetry), Steve Jones Daughs (drums) and Tim Young (a sad witness to the final fall of the tower). Plus we hear from various neighbors who were unhappy to see it go, and John, the single angry, vocal protester on the morning of the take-down.
Graywolf tells a great story about how the tower almost came down in an ice storm in 1994, and how Eddie got his friends from Sophie’s bar to save it.
Joanee gives more garden history, and shares her theory about the storm being Eddie’s Wind.
William shares some insight into how Eddie expressed his spirituality.
And Barbara Monoian from the Musee de Monoian gallery says that Eddie was the neighborhood’s keeper of history.
A couple of neighbors expressed glee within earshot that the pile of junk was finally gone, but no one was willing to go on camera to say it.
Two guys backpacking in the cold from Redhook, Brooklyn to Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Using only a map of toxic sites to navigate their way, they follow the East River shoreline, and the Statue of Liberty…
Deadpan funny, and informative to boot.
