Central Synagogue
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
Convergence Center
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Convergence Center from GammaBlog on Vimeo.
Creative Time’s year-long program Democracy in America: The National Campaign culminates in the Convergence Center: a major exhibition, participatory project space, and meeting hall mounted in New York City’s Park Avenue Armory just in time for election season.
My video includes an interview with Chitra Ganesh talking about Index of the Disappeared. The show goes from playful to thoughful, to terrifying to silly with everything scattered throughout the huge Park Avenue Armory. I enjoyed exploring the building, you have access up to the fourth floor. I shot it early Sunday afternoon before the performers and speakers were scheduled. The unknown Karaoke guy at the end was the only person with guts enough to lay it all out on the line while I was there.
643 Park Avenue at 66th Street, Manhattan
Noon to 10PM – $free
Continues through September 27
creativetime.org/programs/archive/2008/democracy/convergence.php
The main hall, viewed from the second floor Moose room. (more…)
Mother’s Day Peace Parade – NYC
Monday, May 14th, 2007
Code Pink and the Granny Peace Brigade celebrate Mother’s Day, the way it was originally celebrated by Julia Ward Howe‘s in her Mother’s Day Proclamation in 1870.
Mother’s Day for Peace: a professional reading of the proclamation.
Faces and Flag
Monday, January 2nd, 2006
Truth March
Sunday, May 4th, 2003
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| The Truth March, started out at the East Meadow in Central Park at 96th Street. Click each photo to see full size. Or go here to see all the photos. |
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| When not taking photos, I spent my time drumming. I’ve got to say that this was the most rhythmic spontaneous demo-drumming I’ve ever experienced. It’s unusual to get random folks able to listen and respond to each other as they play. It was a lot of fun, and we got people to dance, which is always a good sign when drumming. That’s Citizen One in the foreground, his hands a-blur as he beats something out on a drum made from a plastic water bottle. |
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| These colors don’t run the world. |
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| Oil, water and blood. |
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| Real Americans…Real Angry! |
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| Bike Salute for the Truth March at the Metropolitan Museum. Click the photo to see the full size panorama composed from four photos. I didn’t get to take any photos after this. When we reached 59th Street we were apparently in another police precinct and the mood grew noticeably more oppressive as we were surrounded by large numbers of cops, cop vans. I left the march when we reached 49th and Sixth Ave. |
Back From the Rally
Saturday, February 15th, 2003|
I’m back from the rally, I marched from Union Square to 69th and First and then all the way back down to the Lower East Side. The entire East Side above 42nd Street up to about 72nd Street was occupied by the protesters. This was all great, but I am so pissed all my 120 digital photos came out overexposed to the point of being almost pure white. I’m hoping it came about from some setting in the menu that I might have triggered accidentally. I don’t know, it seems to be working fine right now. Cripes!
________________________ The updated Gammablablog forecast for the peace rally now at 51st Street and First Avenue, within possible sight of the UN…. cloudy, cold and windy for the afternoon. Sounds less invigorating than it did. Still, go multi-layered, gloves and scarves are a must… I don’t know what excuse is being given for pushing the rally even farther from the UN, but it doesn’t matter where we gather. Can’t March? Find the music and dance in place. We have from 51st street up as far as we can fill, legally and in the permit. Bring an FM radio, tune it to WBAI 99.5 for rally coverage. Can’t find any music? …Sing. Have a mobile phone camera? Send your rally pictures to the BBC, from your mobile phone, dial (44) 7970 885089 Feeder Marches update.
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