Edited by author 08-09-2004 04:36 PM
PHOTOSHOW AT NYC FOTOLOG MEETUP

Join us this month for the 1st Photoshow at the NYC Fotolog Meetup. Luluvision, Danito & Apt615 [aka petitesoeur] will present a small collection of their work.

Come and support your fellow floggers and get an opportunity to enter your name in a drawing for next month’s Meet-up Photoshow.

The Magician, 118 Rivington Street
Wednesday, August 11

Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging, which of course is important, but rather what we might call the eyenology
(seeing). -Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Great apt & neighborhood. Must be mature & responsible, financially stable. Single female or gay male, non-smoker. I'm a female grad student,35, quiet & laid back. Offering & asking for common sense & consideration of other people's needs.
$800/mo+util. 1st & last, $500 security. (negotiable)
susanava@juno.com

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL START ON TIME IN OUR NEW LOCATION, THE 11TH STREET BAR. THANKS!

Hide yourselves away in the back room of the 11th Street Bar to nurse your artistic ambitions over a cold one. Synthesis Readings moves to a new home this month with fiction writers Louis Pizzitola and Derek Molitor and poets Mike Morical and Stella Padnos, reading work about the arts and artists, whatever that means.


When: Sunday, July 18, 5 pm

Where: 11th Street Bar, 510 East 11th Street, Between Avenues A & B

Subway: L to 1st Avenue, 6 to Astor Place

Phone: (212) 982-3929


Reader Bios:

Stella Padnos is a student in CCNY's Graduate Creative Writing program, where she's won the Raymond Patterson Poetry Prize and the Jack Zucker Memorial Prize in Poetry. She's worked as a caseworker in the South Bronx, a pizza delivery chick, and currently as a tutor.

Louis Pizzitola will read from his work-in-progress (untitled), a novel that reimagines the doomed triangle in Truffaut's Jules and Jim, with a story about two young men, their desire for each other and their art. The novel is set in an art school in the early 1970s. Pizzitola's first book entitled Hearst Over Hollywood explored the life of the world's first media mogul and his influence on American culture. The Pittsburg Post-Gazette called Hearst Over Hollywood one of the ten best books of 2002 and Frank Rich of the NY Times called Pizzitola's book "a terrific piece of writing." Pizzitola is a visual artist who lives in New York City. Visit his website at www.hearstoverhollywood.com

Michael Morical teaches English at Boricua College and edits research papers for Chinese graduate students. His poetry collection in progress, Gypsy Home, traces the adventures of an American expatriate in Asia who slowly makes his way back to the US. The poems tend to be concise and imagistic with undercurrents of eastern philosophy. Michael studied with Marilyn Hacker and Elaine Equi at City College. His poems have appeared in Rattapallax, The New York Quarterly, GSU Review, Electric Acorn, Common Ground Review and other magazines.

Derek Molitor is a graduate student in the creative writing program at City College, where he also teaches freshman composition. Most recently, he published a story in the New Review of Literature.

To make this reminder about my reading tonight a little more palatable, here is info about another subway photo contest:

http://straphangers.org/photoban/contest.htm

Also on this page is a link to an interesting flyer about what to do when confronted about taking pictures.

Hello all. I'm subletting my apartment from September 2004 - July 2005. It's a sweet 1BR in Astoria. Anyone who wants more info and to come to an "open house," please contact me at synthesisreading@aol.com

Thanks!!

This month, Synthesis Readings welcomes summer with poets Patricia Brody and Gillian Brown and fiction writers Erik Raschke and Ruth Fuglistaller. Please note, the Plant Bar is air conditioned. We welcome summer each in our own way. My way involves a/c and a decent margarita on the rocks.

When: Tuesday, June 15, 7:00 pm

Where: Plant Bar, 217 East Third Street

Subway: F/V to Second Avenue

Bus: The M21 on Houston has stops by several subway stations.


Reader Bios:

Erik Raschke is a graduate of City College Writing Program. He is currently finishing up his first novel "Jump Down Miles Up."

A University of Wisconsin and CUNY-CCNY alumnus, Gillian C. Brown has had her work published most recently in Poetry House, The California Poetry Quarterly, and The Yahara Journal. She has an eclectic work history (equestrian director, ASSI-certified snowboard instructor, Juilliard Jazz Studies Performance Coordinator, children's book editor...) that has been fueled by curiousity and joy, both of which show up in her work.


Ruth Fuglistaller was born and raised in Switzerland and has a background in performance and dance. Fiction has published her short story, You'll See. Pulse, a novel, received the Jerome Lowell DeJur Award in 2003. Her translation of Die Furggel, a short story by Swiss writer Meinrad Inglin, won The Malinche Prize for Literary Translation in 2004 and will be published in the next issue of Fiction. She is a mentor in PEN America's Prison Writing Program. She is a graduate student at CCNY's Creative Writing Program and will be graduating in September.


Patricia Brody, who received her 2nd Masters (1st is MSW CU,
1983) Friday June 4, from City College in English, has work coming out this Fall in The Paris Review. Other poems published in American, Canadian and Irish print and online journals including Poet Lore, Western Humanities Review, NYCBigcityLit.com, and Room of One's Own (Vancouver). She is the very appreciative recipient of 2 Academy of American Poets prizes at CCNY; semi-finalist in the 2004 Lyric Recovery Festival , and has just had a paper on turn of the century South and Central American Women poets selected for this year's ALTA conference. Also she is raising 3 children in NYC, ages 18, 13 and 9.

hey y'all

there's a formal this weekend. that's right. as in like prom. it's a benefit for an off-off broadway production company and a good time will be had by all. i'm even going to wear a bow tie, and i hope to get really silly.

Six Figures' Kappa Kappa Loren Spring Formal!
Saturday, June 12th
8pm till midnight
27 Barrow St. (between West 4th St. and 7th Ave.)
Dancing, cocktails and good times!

To rsvp - go to:
http://www.evite.com/kkefgen@sixfigures.co...palorenspringformal
or call 212-946-1737

$25 donation requested at the door

ps: does anybody have a bow tie?

photo ban info part two, from the village voice, including a contest:

http://villagevoice.com/issues/0423/haber.php


(I believe this mentions fotolog's own eshephard)

Photo Ban info part one, from the straphangers campaign:

"The MTA is now accepting comments on its proposal to ban photographs, film and video in the subway and bus system. We strongly urge you to express your views by commenting at: http://www.mta.info/nyct/rules/proposed.htm (The option for sending an e-mail to the MTA can be found at the bottom of the MTA's description of its proposals. Don't be discouraged by the MTA's confusing e-mail form.)

For information and arguments against the ban, you can visit: http://www.straphangers.org/photoban/ "

I am!

anyone up for an eat-up before the meetup?

http://www.nycforum.net
Forum Of NYC

Somebody hire the damn hypnotist already!!

Thanks for posting this! I had heard about it, but thought it was another urban legend. Too bad, I don't think we'll see it today ...

Today’s NYC Photo Op: if it is clear, Manhattan’s streets will flood with sunlight just as the Sun sets precisely on the centerline of every street.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040528.html