Yesterday was quite a day. I had a 14 hour day at Dartmouth. When I went to bed the snow had just started to stick. It was supposed to snow all night and all day. I got up at 5 AM (after 4 hours of sleep) to give myself plenty of time to drive. […]
Lived in Woodbury. Conceived Olivia almost immediately upon moving in, conceived Ingrid and Errol here, too. All three of them were delivered in the house.
I went to the grand opening of the Soho Apple Store, the first in NYC. It was Mac Expo week at the Javits. I was on the second level and I saw Steve Jobs. I struck up a conversation with someone and he was too scared to do anything. I said, here’s how it’s done. […]
On her promise to return, I rented an apartment in Prospect Heights for Stephanie and I. We were the first white people that stayed in the neighborhood, the first cells of gentrification cancer.
From 1993 – 1996 I lived on Prospect Park West.
We took a camera package from FVA up to Dad’s house. We drove the tractor and used the hay wagon to haul the gear and actors up to the rear of the hayfield and shot the party scene. I called Margaret Snelgrove and had her be a party guest. The guy was cast as Angry […]
3 day shoot: pick up camera from FVA.
Friday Aug.10 – Sunday Aug 12
Caught in a thunderstorm on top of the Gunks with Andrea!
I’ve been working for Skip Blumberg, one of the original Video Freaks of the early ’70s when 3/4″ porta-packs first came out. He’s directing an episode of Great Performances for PBS on the world-class juggler Michael Moschen. Today was our first shoot for the opening sequence where Michael is walking around NYC juggling and wowing […]
Last night as we left, our bosses told us to expect serious security the next day. Sure enough, the next day there was a guy in a trench coat, mirrored sunglasses, with a long straight lump running from armpit to hip on one side standing alone outside. He had a photo ID pinned to his […]
We got all the feeder cable hung by block and fall in the cavernous downstairs area. That took a day. Then we went upstairs to the main floor. We set up two scaffolds, each being two sections high, and they were on wheels. While some workers were wheeling in and pulling out unending rolls […]
This was the stupidest job I ever did, until another one came along that was even more stupid. In the summer of 1990 I was working periodically way out passed the West Side Highway on the passenger ship terminal piers, 88, 90 and 92. This is where the QEII and other cruise ships dock in […]
Andrea and I moved next door and lived upstairs over a Japanese man’s art studio.
Varda and I moved to a duplex on 6th Ave over by Flatbush Ave. It had an amazing kitchen on the lower floor and huge french doors on the second.
After college, I left Karen and started living with Varda in her apartment on DeGraw Street in Carroll Gardens.
