NYC artist’s photos of unknowing subjects raise privacy concerns
(Photo: Bebeto Matthews / AP)
To the well-known photographer who shot them with a telephoto lens, the pictures of people going about their daily lives in the building across the street constitute art.
Good news everyone. Something is probably going to happen that you may not like. Whatever it is will get announced this coming Monday.
Expectation:
Reality:
On a sunny afternoon last week, while the rest of New York’s schoolchildren were stuck indoors, 15 kids were literally rolling around in the dirt while their parents looked on approvingly….
The children, most of whom are home-schooled, are students in the Farm and Forest Home School program, a unique project of Eden Village Camp and the Jewish Farm School.
At last week’s session, the group went on a nature walk in the forest together then broke into two groups: the ones 8 and under scavenged for seeds and worms across the farm while the older group wrestled with some weeds before planting kale, chard and collard greens….
Read the rest of my story on this awesome home-school-farm program here!
Seth Meyers Confirmed to Succeed Jimmy Fallon on NBC’s ‘Late Night’
“Throughout the span of her project, Valabrega met characters she never imagined she’d speak to. In Israel, she met with settler women as dawn broke on a brisk morning to take their portraits as they picked apples. In the rolling hills of Northern Israel, she sat with one chasidic woman, arrayed in a white turban, and learned how to listen to the wind by moonlight. She sat in alleys in the Old City of Jerusalem, meeting with old Moroccan women and learning their family history, counting the wrinkles that came from roaming the desserts of the Middle East. At the Western Wall, she photographed a cane-toting woman who told her she came to pray every day for 25 straight years to beg God for children.”
Read my story in the Jewish Week here about Fede Valabrega, an Italian photographer who travels the world taking photos of Jewish, religious women
The New York Times’ favorite buzzword: ‘Hipsters’
The Times is back in Brooklyn, once again awkwardly documenting a trend that just won’t go away: Young people. Let’s look at a few of the ways the Grey Lady has described hipsters, shall we? From 2012:
The hipster haunts every city street and university town. Manifesting a nostalgia for times he never lived himself, this contemporary urban harlequin appropriates outmoded fashions (the mustache, the tiny shorts), mechanisms (fixed-gear bicycles, portable record players) and hobbies (home brewing, playing trombone). He harvests awkwardness and self-consciousness. Before he makes any choice, he has proceeded through several stages of self-scrutiny. The hipster is a scholar of social forms, a student of cool. He studies relentlessly, foraging for what has yet to be found by the mainstream.
Daft Punk & Andrew the Pizza Guy
Andrew the pizza guy talks about his experience collaborating with Daft Punk on their new album.
DON’T: Tweet about rape or stillbirth. FDR wheelchair jokes are more than okay.
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NOT asking for it.
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Six months after Sandy, Atlantic City is betting on a comeback
(Photo: Mario Tama / Getty Images, Barry Williams for NBC News)
Half a year after Hurricane Sandy flooded Atlantic City homes and washed away much of its tourism, though barely any of its actual boardwalk or attractions, “America’s Favorite Playground” is plowing millions of dollars into a revamp and upgrade it dearly hopes will lure back vacationers.
Pilot story: “High on the job”
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