Craig leaves for the middle east tonight and will be in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem this weekend.  I can’t stop thinking about my own trip last year.  And I can’t stop listening to Yerushalayim Shel Zahav

Finally showcasing my nail salon images at Capricious Gallery on November 5th.  Going to be an amazing group of artists that I curated into the show.

Info Below:

Nefer/Nfr

Date: Thursday, November 5th
Location: Capricious Gallery
103 Broadway, 917-438-7015
Time: 6pm-9pm

Artists: Molly Surno, Kenya Robinson, Sarah Frances Kuhn, Dave Shull, Olivia Wyatt and Shaun Kessler, Suzette Guy, and Leif Ritchey
Curated by: Molly Surno

Luiza Sa from CSS will be DJ’ing and Abby Walton will be doing free nail art at opening.

Note from the Impossible Project

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Remember how Polaroid film went out of production because it wasn’t financially viable in the era of digital point and shoots? Remember how “The Impossible Project”, a rag tag crew of Polaroid enthusiasts and former Polaroid employees, acquired the rights and means to produce Polaroid film by themselves? Remember how the project lived up to its name when it faced bankruptcy? Remember how people hoarded Polaroid Film like it was future currency?

Well if you remember any of those events and love the immediacy, unpredictably and charm of Polaroid film, this message from the The Impossible Project should make your day…

The Impossible Project inspires Polaroid to re-launch Instant Cameras

We are pleased to herewith announce a history making cooperation between Polaroid and The Impossible Project:

As we have created quite some buzz about Analog Instant Photography over the past 12 months, the Polaroid licensee – The Summit Global Group – now can’t resist any longer and announced at a press conference on October 13th in Hongkong that they will re-launch some of the most famous Polaroid Instant Cameras.

Therefore they are commissioning The Impossible Project to develop and produce a limited edition of Polaroid branded Instant Films in the middle of 2010.

The Impossible Project is proud and excited that its ambitions and all the relentless work that has already been invested are now becoming the foundation for Polaroid’s comeback as a producer of Instant Cameras.

Large-scale production and worldwide sale of The Impossible Project’s new integral film materials under its own brand will already start in the beginning of 2010 – with a brand new and astonishing black and white Instant Film and the first colour films to follow in the course of the year.

Just finished On the Road not to long ago and making me lusty for the open terrain:

“I spun around till I was dizzy; I thought I’d down as in a dream, clear off the precipice.  Oh where is the girl I love?  I thought, and looked everywhere, as I had looked everywhere in the little world below.  And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhere far across, gloomy, crazy New York throwing up its cloud of dust and brown steam.  There is something brown and holy about the East; and California is white like washlines and emptyheaded-at least that is what I thought then.”

“I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon.  I never felt sadder in my life.  LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets gd-awful cold in the winter but there’s a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets.  LA is a jungle.

“Something, someone, some spirit was pursuing all of us across the desert of life and was bound to catch us before we reached heaven.  Naturally, now that I look back on it, this is only death: death will overtake us before heaven.  The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death.  But who wants to die?”

“Everybody looked like a broken-down movie extra, a withered starlet; disenchanted stunt-men, midget auto-racers, poignant California characters with their end-of-the-continent sadness, handsome, decadent, Cassanova-ish men, puffy-eyed motel blondes,  hustlers, pimps, whores, masseurs, bellhops- a lemon lop, and how’s a man going to make a living with a gang like that?”

Craig brought this little book back from Argentina.  I love the cover tremendously

Outside my window.  Bull horns and techno is NOT a pleasant combo