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Better Than Real Because It's Not.
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Since my last post here, I lost all my photos, except those on this site to a hard drive failure.
In December, I went into Manhattan with Pete and his cousin Maria, to see the store displays, and have dinner at Bice.
Pedro and Maria
That’s a lot of candy.
Then in January we went to Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum, followed by dinner at Novecento.
The most pretentious McDonald’s I’ve ever seen. The food is still McDonald’s.
None of them is real.
Finally, in February I went to see Sleepwalkers.
Edit: I forgot about the McDonald’s downtown with the piano player, which I saw once back in the 80’s, so the jury’s still out on the most pretentious McDonald’s in the city, (or that I’ve ever seen).
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May 24. NYLUG Day.
Unexpectedly, I was able to get away and into the city early.
All such trips start with the train.
A World Trade Center story.
A fenceful of commemorative plaques.
And still more plaques.
A view of The Village.
I would have thought caffeine would drag the whole thing out.
Those bastards!
They chopped off the lower half of Superman!
14th Street, Union Square.
This must be the way to NYLUG …
The penguins are going this way.
Jim opened the NYLUG meeting about Xen.
Moshe Barr spoke, …
… then Ian Pratt.
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I have been working myself to the point of breakage. I chose a most unlikely circuit-breaker. I would go photograph Christo & Jean-Claude’s The Gates at Central Park. Needless to say, I went on the very last day, very nearly at the last minute.
So, let me be the first to say, I don’t get Christo.
I do know a lot of orange fabric when I see it.
I wandered around, tense, and taking all manner of photos that I presumed wouldn’t come out very well. In fact I did lose at least one shot to a failing disc in my camera.
After I settled down, I decided to try and take the pictures less taken. I present what I hope is one of the odder collections of The Gates photographs.
Favorite line of the day "I’m so sorry my mother missed this, she was supposed to come out on the day it snowed. Oh,… she was going to accessorize!"
This woman did.
Oh, and I’ve gotten my camera back since I last posted in here.
More of teh gates in teh gallery.
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