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April 22nd, 2008:

William Donovan on TOAST

TOAST - Tribeca Open Artist Studio Tour

Friday April 25, 5:00 to 9:00 PM
Saturday, April 26, 1:00 to 6:00 PM
Sunday, April 27, 1:00 to 6:00 PM
Monday, April 28, 1:00 to 6:00 PM

What's Mine is Yours
What’s Mine Is Yours 17″x 17″ © William Donovan

Disordered - William Donovan
Intrinsically Disordered 8.5″x 11″ © William Donovan

Baptism - William Donovan
Baptism 40 x 40 © William Donovan

Studio
515 Greenwich St. # 420
New York, New York 10013

917.623.6844

Email

DUKEDONOVAN@EARTHLINK.NET

My work is driven by personal experiences. Experiences such as Loss, Lust and Spirituality, are utilized to create drawings, paintings, and sculptures. Materials such as rubber, flocking, reflective glass, and polyurethane, conspire with intuition to create a strong graphic visual as well as shape and unveil content. – William Donovan

The TriBeCa Open Artist Studio Tour is a free, self-guided tour of approximately 100 artists’ studios throughout TriBeCa. Bringing artists and the public together, it provides an opportunity for visitors to interact with the artists and see their artwork at the source, the artist’s own studio. An artist-run organization, TOAST has led a true metropolitan “grass roots” path. It began as an ad-hoc group of artists who wanted to revive a neighborhood art walk. Now a not-for-profit organization, it is still a grass roots effort, run by the participating artists. Neighborhood businesses and supporters supplement most of the needed funds not covered by the artists’ entry fees.

A Series of Vertically Oriented Cylindrical Objects – Happy Earth Day!

Earth Day Campbell's Soup Can
Vintage Schaefer Can
Rubin's Delicatessen
Nails
Sorb-it Can
Earth Day Campbell's Soup Can
© Frank H. Jump

Happy Earth Day!

Vincenzo (my partner in life and love) has the tendency to uncover interesting ephemera while doing demolition on the apartments he renovates. Here are two bits dating back to the early 1960’s- Rubin’s Delicatessen with the GRamercy-3 telephone exchange (Gramercy Park got its name from a corruption of the Dutch “krom mesje” or crooked little knife) and the Schaefer Beer Can, which brings back fond memories of the 1969 World Series and my father watching television. I remember watching the men landing on the Moon and wondering how they had already gotten there to set up cameras.

My first Earth Day – which was THE FIRST EARTH DAY – was in April 1970. I had done a report in fifth grade about the Food of the Future: Soy. I predicted that soy burgers would one day become popular with the American public. I also predicted that the United States would be slow to convert to metric – which was supposed to occur that year. If only my prescience could have extended to future Lotto Numbers…

Read more about Campbell’s Soup’s attempt to be green.

Chicago Tribune

“For here am I floating ’round my tin-can
Far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there’s nothing I can do”

David Bowie – Space Oddity

Just In- From the Flatbush Pigeon Lady – Ocean Pkwy – Midwood, Brooklyn – Thanks Erin!

Pigeon Lady Fading Ad

Pigeon Lady Fading Ad

Pigeon Lady Fading Ad

Pigeon Lady Fading Ad
© Flatbush Pigeon

More Flatbush pigeons.

Another Holy Roller Going Up Interstate 84 Outside Matamoras PA

NEPA Holy Roller

NEPA Holy Roller
© Frank H. Jump

Yada, yada, yada.

Ma nishtana ha-laila ha-zeh mi-kol ha-leilot?
Why is this night different from all other nights?

Passing moments as these under an ample dusk moon
And under other holy rollers.

Spectral Cervidae – Pocono Deer Nocturnal Grazing – April 18, 2008

Spectral Deer

Nocturnal Deer Panorama

Pocono Deer Night

Where are the moments from here to there?

Pocono Deer Night

Pocono Deer Night Animation

Two Years Ago – April 19, 2006 – Deer Caught in the Quantum Wobble

Deer Caught in the Quantum Wobble

Deer – Cervidae

Flatbush House Fire on Glenwood Road Has Local Raccoon Up a Tree – Friday, April 18, 2008

Glenwood Raccoon
© Frank H. Jump

As I was driving home for lunch on Friday, I arrived at the end of the block just as the firetrucks had arrived on the corner of Glenwood Road and East 32nd Street. There was a distressed raccoon on the roof of the house trying to find a way off. I ran home and got my camera and ran back down to the corner. Deborah Brathwait, a resident of the building was visibly shaken, but fortunately managed to get out safely. Brathwait informed me that all other residents managed to evacuate unharmed. By now the raccoon was in the tree, which also was at risk of going in flames. A local organization, Silver Lining Outreach – that apparently helps local fire victims and the homeless, gave me their card. I’m not familiar with this org but will do some research.

Arnold Duncan, another local photographer was at the scene and we started to chat a bit. [Duncan forwarded me his link to his pics. I posted two down below with links.] According to Duncan – a longtime College Glen resident – the corner house that had burned had once belonged to the adjacent church – The Vanderveer Park United Methodist Church – which has been trying to get the former parsonage back.

Glenwood House Fire

Fire on Glenwood Road and East 32nd Street, Flatbush Junction

Glenwood House Fire

Glenwood House Fire

Glenwood House Fire

Glenwood House Fire

Glenwood House Fire

Glenwood House Fire

Glenwood House Fire

Glenwood House Fire

Glenwood House Fire

Glenwood House Fire
© Frank H. Jump

Some shots from another neighborhood photographer, Arnold Duncan.

© Arnold Duncan

Glenwood House Fire - Arnold Duncan
© Arnold Duncan

Click here for a slideshow of Duncan’s pics of the fire.

Kudos to Ladder 147, The Pride of Flatbush! For their impeccable response time and professionalism- and for putting up with questions like “Did you see where the raccoon went?”