Now: Here: This March 3, 2006

Annex

Miriam Leuchter
New York City

untitled
photograph

What Is This?

I don't want to fake you out,
Take or shake or forsake you out,
I ain't lookin' for you to feel like me,
See like me or be like me.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

--Bob Dylan

Tim Folzenlogen
Washington Heights, New York City

Self Portrait #121
oil pastel

I was thinking about Albert Einstein and Buckminister Fuller, as I have recently been reading their stuff.

What do you think?

If they were alive today, and the three of us found ourselves to be living and/or investing in, oh, say, Cincinnati, Ohio – do you think they would be interested in talking to me?

Honey, trust me on this one. They would be all over me.

I mean, come on. Look at what I'm saying, much more actually doing out there.

Do you buy into all that icon stuff? Do you see yourself as living, oh, say, a thousand steps beneath this historic icon, or that legendary figure? As if to compare yourself to them (or much more so, witness another doing this) would be sacrilege?

Take a look through The Hubble, and try to tell me that any of us, I mean Jesus to Ferko, knows shit about anything – past, present and (probably) infinitely into the future.

But yo!

I know what Al and Bucky understood. I'm way the fuck beyond those guys. Why wouldn't I be? I stand on their foundation.

They just talked about the big thing in theory. The way it should be. The way it will be. The way it must become, if this planet is to survive.

They just talked theory.

I'm building the motherfucker, as reality.

See this oil pastel?

It's as good as anything van Gogh did.

You don't think so?

Then say it, on Now: Here: This, for all time to reflect upon.

I say you can't, or at very least will not.

Not you - not anyone - regardless of credentials -once they start doing serious research.

Because, truth is, it is -using any criteria you'd like to apply.

I am the historical guy.

And I'm not one iota more important than you are.

People have to start getting used to wrapping their minds around the new reality.

Might as well start now, here, this.

Rosa Naparstek
Washington Heights, New York City

The Conversation
photograph

The Conversation:

1. Venezuela
2. Germany
3. Germany
4. Russia
5. California
6. Germany
    Russia
    New York
7. Indiana

"Something there is that
doesn't love a wall..." from
Robert Frost's Mending Wall

Laura Traverso
Washington, D.C.

hombre
drawing

Anthony Gonzalez
Washington Heights, New York City

Abe Rothschild 1920 - 2006
pen and ink drawing and Photoshop collage

Abe was a carpenter and a teacher. During World War II he served in the Army's Carpentry Corps. After an "enemy" area had been secured their job was to reassemble the rubble into a battlefield headquarters from which officers could plan future operations. He derived great joy from building things; perhaps that’s why we had such a solid connection. He was a dedicated punster, and I never met anyone who could whistle as skillfully.

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