|
Get Together for LSers at NY Photo Festival - Now Set!
|
Ok, all. A little research has been done (including work by that original bar-fly, Erica McDonald), and a small group has concluded that this would be a good place and time:
The time: 6 pm. Friday, May 16 (get there on time and it’s Happy Hour until 7 p.m.)
The place: reBar, 147 Front Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn
The dress: WEAR A SCARF!
This will be really simple. Since we don’t know how many LS people will show up, we can’t rent a room in advance. So when you get in the place, ask the maitre d’ where the Lightstalkers have gathered. If he/she looks at you like you’re already drunk, just look around for some dweebs with scarves. If you don’t find a group, look for me (old fart, glasses, gray hair, Domke reporters bag, only one with scarf – I look pretty much like the photo at right). I’ll be there until the Awards ceremony at 8. Of course it will be a cash bar.
by
Neal Jackson
at
Tue May 13 02:17:40 UTC 2008
(ed. May 21 2008)
Washington, DC,
United States
| Bookmark this
| Digg this
|
|
|
Great, guys! Thanks for setting it up.
|
|
|
Neal, I assume you will be organizing in Charlottesville also. At least, I hope so.
|
Water drinking bar-fly..I just wanna know what GAMES we can play. See, I stay sober and then I can kick butt whilst ya’ll get HAPPY
..this place is a called “a shrine to drinking”..see how my plotting begins early? Note the pool tables in the Low Rider room..
|
Yay! It looks like I will finally make one of these…see ya’ll there. Erica, you can kick my tipsy butt at pool.
|
Well, maybe Erica is not as big a barfly as I would make her out to be, but rumor has it that she is devastating at pool! Right, Erica?
And, yes, Charlie, I’ll probably get something together at LOOK3.
I guess I’m becoming the de facto cruise director, something I did not bargain for. But I believe in knitting together this fine community. If it takes booze to do so, so be it.
|
Man, bummer, I am back to Mex on Friday morn… really wish I could make it…
If anybody else has time for a brew before then, Im always game!
Paz
|
I’ll be at the VII seminars, Mustafah. The price is definitely right!
|
Neal, you can be our Captain Stubing, ranked higher than cruise director. I’m sure you’ve got a blue blazer.
|
Preston…Is that Captain Stubing a reference to “Love Boat”? It’s been a while. :) G.
|
|
|
Just trying to picture Neal in white Bermuda shorts,white knee high socks, white shoes, white top and cap, and a black D3 around his neck.Anchors away LS crew! :)
|
I just wanna promote LOVE!
(Sorry, I’m a child of the 60s)
|
I’ll try and make it. S. and I have plans but hopefully can make it there. Just watch out for Erica… she’s a shark! ;) (Can I wear an ascot instead of a scarf? Or is that too much?)
|
PRETTY PLEASE wear an ascot..and I suck at pool.
|
Dear Neal,
I am a photographer from Timor-Leste/East Timor and just arrived in New York a few weeks ago. I’m not part of the NY Photo Festival but is it possible for me to join “Get Together for LSers” on Friday?
Cheers,
Carlito
|
Absolutely..come one and all! No restrictions..
|
...Except for the scarf… or ascot. ;)
|
not possible, again…and I didnt even put my scarf away with the winter clothes. damn damn damn. someday the schedule gods will be kind to me, but they’d better hurry up before I drop dead from old age.
|
Thx Erica. I’ll bring my scarf for sure. C u all there guys.
|
Akaky, as a high-flying international photojournalist, you should know that scarves are not to be tossed in with the winter clothes, for they are made of silk. You can stop by Hermes on Madison Avenue and pick up a suitable ascot or foulard as you check out the Raghubir Singh / Dayanita Singh exhibit in the top floor gallery before you join us. Grab some Gitanes on your way over, too.
|
Gitanes are coming? I might have to go back to smoking!
|
my scarf is made out of wool, I think; does that count? It’s not like I’d show up wearing a polyester scarf, even if I could make it.
|
Mmmmmm… Gitanes and itchy wool scarves…
|
BTW, Ze’sopol, you should come to DUMBO and look around anyway. In my view this is an event for the art/craft of photography, and is not an exclusive thing, so as a photographer you ARE a part of the festival. A lot of the exhibits (maybe even all) are open and worth the trip (F train to York Street stop). But by all means come to the reBar tomorrow.
|
have fun, neal. wish i could be there but am in sichuan photographing earthquake.
|
See you fine folks this evening.
Also, I have an extra festival pass that will get you into all the exhibitions during the day. Free to the first person who asks for it!
|
It’s three hours until the get-together. I talked with the manager at reBar and he is ready. Start by going up the stairs and looking to the right for the room with the pool table. Come early to take advantage of the happy hour until 7 pm.
I saw Turu, one of our founders, this morning and he is going to try to be there (he is juggling baby duty).
Best news for all of you is that I have a wicked cold and my voice is almost gone, so you won’t have to listen to me much!
|
Just got home… Wish I’d been there to see a few familiar faces.
Tell all ya’ll.
|
t’was a lotta fun….especially the part where ed gave erica a non alcoholic alcoholic beverage :)
|
PICTURES, DAMMIT, PICTURES!!!
|
|
|
|
|
I’m on the run, but I uploaded these three hurriedly here at powerHouse arena.
Here are Emanuele and Fiore Bottazzi.
And here are Carolyn, Preston and Gregory in a standard party shot.
Others were there, as was a video camera and various flash devices, which were passed around. One corded remote, attached to my G9, also being passed around, generated this artsy shot (I don’t know who took it).
|
 more to follow
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I do believe those are some of the best NYC LS get-together shots to date…nicely done!
Who won at pool? Besides erica, of course….
A.
|
I was too busy grilling Grant for techie info about his ab-fab red carpet shots to play..in fact, i think we all talked and shot the whole time. Ed did try to slip me some alcohol in my pineapple juice though, probably in hopes of beating me at pool.
|
So much fun… and I missed it. ;(
|
Me missed party too! Shit.
Did manage to get in the Chris Morris and Nachtwey presentations though.
Another party soon NY’ers?
My birthday is on June 9th and so a little bash around then would be fun. I’ll post again on it should any of the “regulars” be interested.
|
Paul…Your birthday is it? Clever ploy to get free beers. HA! Wish we could of crossed paths at the Sunday seminar. Loved the Ladefoged and Morris presentations. G.
|
Party! Party! Party!!!!!!!!!!!
|
|
|
Not looking for freebies, just company.
Good pictures here.
|
|
|
I know I know. Looking forward.
|
|
|
I cant frickin’ believe that Leveckis was able to get Grant to surface? ?...how the f&%$K did u pull that out Ed, when I couldnt even get him to do a frickin’ projection in december?? ;))))))))))))))))....call it a hunch, but Im guessing Grant is the pretty boy with the Ricoh + rangefinder ;)))))...and to think had not the Canadian Tax service ask me for $600 in april, i’d have been with y’all…..
great pics all! :)))
Greg: :))....got ur PM…still settin’ for the trip…was planning to be there for the nyphotofestthingamajig, but am dirt dirt dirt frickin poor: it’s been a very very intense year….marina and i arent even going to look3 where im having pics shown, so u guess how tough it is ;))...soon, i promise…at least by years end….
grant: love the snaps: especially the spooky snap of Erica with flash cord and of ed with wristbands looking like jack ruby shooting oswald ;)))
ed L: :))))..
ok, running
b
|
Comrad Bobsky…Some day we’ll bump heads. :):):) Cheers, Grisha
|
|
|
|
|
Ed, in the manner of of Ed:
Erica and a friend:
Martin Parr, whom I was sitting next to but didn’t realize until he took the stage:
|
|
Get notified when someone replies to this thread:
|
 via RSS
Recommended
|
 via email
You can unsubscribe later.
|
|
|
Participants
|
Bob Black
Suspect Photog/Writer
(Dreamer- Archer-Husband-Dad)
Toronto
,
Canada
|
Keywords
|
